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1 On the contrary, these positions are as distinct as "two trees" and "two branches on one tree". Ah hominems already? Well, even if not, your histori...

All besides the point with respect to your opening post. I responded to that and not "whether or not god/aliens exist". Belief (or lack thereof). For ...

Given those definitions, I don't see them as inconsistent or one as "better" than the other, but complementary instead. "Without god" belief. "Without...

:up: I strive to do so. 'Epicurean freethinking pragmatist' perhaps describes my philosophical modus vivendi best. Daily doses of blues & jazz and on/...

I made no such "denial". In the context of the exchange with @"Tom Storm", I was sharing my experience as a mirror-image of his. Object to what I actu...

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Which "this" do you disagree with?

You live in more 'civilized' parts than i do. Religious belief is the aesthetics of custom around these parts (US southeast). No matter how fashionabl...

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Seem to me like "serious consequences for being wrong" (i.e. out-of-the-ordinary high stakes) are also grounds for doubting (i.e. reassessing beliefs ...

I think you misunderstand what I wrote. I find that people doubt too easily, they are overly suspicious rather than genuinely skeptical. Doubt – skeps...

"Is god dead?" translation: Is disbelief in or that there is (a) g/G defeasibly warranted? Yes. Is death god? :death: :flower:

:up: I say "I'm confident" instead of "I'm certain" since the latter only applies to deductive proofs. I'm either "fairly confident" or "very confiden...

We sapiosexuals desire an intellect's body and will love you for nothing less.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-za64oHPgQ&feature=youtu.be "Roadhouse Blues" (5:36) Stoned Immaculate, 2000 The Doors-John Lee Hooker studio mix https...

"A cold girl'll kill you In a darkened room" (d. July 3, 1971, Paris?) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=40_xOrTX_sA L.A. Woman, 1971 (48:24) The Doors

OTD 50 years ago ... JDM 1943-1971 "I'll tell you this No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8Gw...

I've recommended SEP to you a few times. I often check on topics there before I go to wiki to read the same; whichever seems clearer and uses less jar...

Not worth my time. Have a good one.

"In it's naive form" ... a strawman. Proves nothing except you're woefully misinformed about materialism.

Wiki, huh? :roll:

In the history of religion, pan-theism seems the corollary to animism, not pan-deism. As for "human-nature partnership", I don't think "personhood" is...

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They invented philosophy, so probably. No. At most, pandeism + ethical & scientific naturalisms.

I wonder if Tillich's 'ground of being' (i.e. 'ultimate concern') was influenced by Collingwood's 'absolute presuppositions' ...

Not really. The distinction you make here makes no actual difference because frequencies of "blinking" are mathematically – not "figuratively" – synon...

:up: Sláinte. Thank goober it's Friday!

Please don't. 3017 needs better meds not another chance to humiliate himself even more than s/he usually does posting to public threads. Self-fellatin...

My exact point (more or less).

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"Prove that materialism contradicts itself" ... if, of course, "you can".

:roll: Wtf. Okay. But we can "weigh and measure" what the idea of materialism (e.g. material, or matter) refers to? What materialism refers to (like e...

So ... gravity waves, for instance, are not literally "waves" (because the vacuum of spacetime is "no fluid substance to wave in")? :brow:

Clarify what you mean by "just as idea".

You contradict yourself. Bodies are material which you imply is "just an idea" but now claim your body is "more than just an idea". I agree with you a...

If you're right, Oliver, that your body is "just an idea", then your good health will last indefinitely without ever eating and drinking again, right?...

Why are you asking that? The question's premise doesn't follow from anything I've stated or implied.

That's so confused I'm :yawn: I'm asking: why you confuse thoughts (faces-in-clouds) with mind (sky)? Thoughts subsist (in) existing minds.

Thoughts are like faces-in-clouds, mind is like sky; why are you confusing the sky with faces-in-clouds?

What's wrong with as a working definition for existence? This implies that 'whatever exists' is a fact – a contingent entity causally related to other...

The transcendental number pi is encoded in and manifest (instantiated) by every non-abstract, or concrete, circular object which makes it an uncountab...

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:cool: But if I was R, my brain would have said instead: "Fine. But M is buying." :up: :100:

:clap: As Yogi Berra would say "It's déjà vu all over again." IIRC Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan lead me to Terrence Mckenna's The Invisible La...

Pathetically, it was only my "bark" that scared off that "vicious" little girl. :smirk:

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