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It's exactly 'transcendental'.

Your question analogizes a "relationship" so ... what's good for the goose. Try to eat abstract "fruit" instead of a concrete apple. :roll:

In my experience, Astro, this is backwards: it's the fact that all extant arguments for the existence of "God" (i.e. theism is true) are "made of stra...

Process and metric (e.g. walking and distance-duration). Or apples and fruit ...

This absurd sh*t again? – Okay :roll: Lobotomize every newborn (or in vitro if technically possible), which effectively removes the moral prohibition ...

Correct. (All too often "idealists" make this mistake.) Yeah, that's the point I try to make in this post .

Yeah, abstractions ... It's a figure of speech which charitably concedes that 'the physical' may not be – speculatively – the complete "story" (certai...

Most of my life, even before nearly a decade of "experimenting with" (abusing?) psychotropics and entheogens (and years of flashbacks which have follo...

A selfie from L2 :grin: :up: https://www.space.com/webb-telescope-space-selfie-nircam

Thus, they are physical. (not just "non-physical"). "Thoughts" also physically conditionally cause bodily movements, so how can they do so and not be,...

Even in principle there aren't any such "entities". Yeah, methodological (instead of "metaphysical") physicalism ... It's a "problem" of your own maki...

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Weak deflections. :yawn:

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"Teleology" is method of invalid "inference" consisting of ex post facto rationalizing (e.g. F. Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Peirce, Popper ...). ...

Lost me. :roll:

Of course you don't because you're reading an aside out of context which I made in reply to another aside made in reply to earlier comments in the con...

Sorry, I don't see the "psychoanalytic" relevance to my post of your (non-philosophical) "projection".

I don't see the relevance to my post.

Moreso, I think: religion seems to me more like early childhood (nursery, fairytales, kindergarden) and science like late adolescence (sex, cars, juni...

Okay. Thought I alternatively "rationalized" "this human ability" without any essentialism (as per Zapffe, Camus, Cioran, et al) ... A speculation on ...

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Yeah, and like that Biblical-alchemist Sir Isaac Newton (an even greater genius!), it just goes to show how scientific-mathematical reasoning has to b...

Not at all – "science and philosophy" make more explicit by empirical and conceptual reasoning, respectively, that it is "absurd" to claim to know wha...

Is "God" free to commit suicide? Can "God" cease being "God"? The fact of randomness (e.g. vacuum fluctations) precludes – negates – "theism", no?

A more precise consideration of "Pascal's Wager" itself: 1. if G, if bG, then "heaven"; if G, if ~bG, then "hell"; ergo bG (theism) 2. if ~G, if bG, t...

There isn't any factual information or evidence (contra Christian dogma used to frame (force) the "Wager") which establishes any g/G or "afterlife" wh...

No. A candidate from a pool of 'well-qualified black women' is preferred by an old white man who, by the way, owes his presidency in no insignificant ...

:chin: Such as unknown unknowns which necessarily encompass "knowns":

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Welcome to the sandbox. :up: Suppose Human nature's personal need for 'meaning and purpose' only proves writ small Blind nature's impersonal lack of '...

I think I suss out what you mean but this sentence makes no sense to me. To begin with, evolution neither has a "telos" nor is an "intentional agent" ...

Both are random – using physical analogues, IME, the latter is ephemeral (e.g. fluctuations) and the former perdurant (e.g. vacuum). Also: :roll:

I don't object to the gist of the argument presented, I just find that particular objection – "who created the creator?" – weak for implicitly concedi...

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This is true only if "x creates" presupposes that "x" is already "in existence" and ontically separate from "y". Causa sui – "x creates x" – merely de...

Same for me (in the 1970s & '82). :nerd:

AFAIK, there are "straight lines" only in the abstract Euclidean space. However, the shortest path between any two points is a geodesic ... The circum...

IMO "God" is an anxiety (like death), not an entity. Re: negative theology (which inspires my own decades-old position ). Do we scare you? :sweat:

Again, I prefer irreligious freethinker (à la Epicurus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Spinoza, Hume, Russell, Dewey, Zapffe, Camus ... et al) re: Tetrapharmak...

Doublas Trumbull d. 2022 If we can imagine it, maybe ...? (pre-CGI s/fx maestro!) 1968 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSeuixhdsz4 1968 https://m.youtub...

I prefer "Bible-thumpers" (or holy mouthbreathers). :up: Almost analogous to my once-upon-a-time preference for The Nazarene contra The Christ. "The D...

I love e.g. Lucretius and Shakespeare or Laozi and Beckett too much to be a positivist. :wink:

That :lol: is a "LOL" emoticon. – tears from laughing at your post, G. This :cry: is crying. :rofl:

Circumnavigation. There is no edge ("limit") to a sphere.

I suppose the irony of that remark is lost on you. Of course not, since no one is "entitled" to that job by "birth right". Besides, for at least the l...

Fuck him. In the short term, the p-o-s is probably 'good for business' ...

Unbounded spaces e.g. Earth's surface, etc.

Here's an old 4 pp. thread which might interest you.