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In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
T-minus 75 days. :mask: "I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate." ~DJT, Putin's Runni...
August 20, 2020 at 11:00
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/JrTPOkAMlVs I would. Stop. Because ... There will always be, because There will always be, for two There will always Inside you can f...
August 20, 2020 at 10:03
In: Reality As An Illusion  — view comment
Evasion and deflection make you look foolish. Spinoza (my guy!) took down Descartes' philosophical arguments (e.g. MBP) over three centuries ago for w...
August 20, 2020 at 05:33
In: Reality As An Illusion  — view comment
Maybe he did, maybe he hallucinated or merely thought he did. No one has "asserted" that he didn't, only that Descartes was mistaken, even begged ques...
August 19, 2020 at 23:49
In: How do you know!?!  — view comment
:smirk:
August 19, 2020 at 20:24
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
:up:
August 19, 2020 at 20:21
In: Reality As An Illusion  — view comment
:up:
August 19, 2020 at 20:17
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Mere doxa - sophistry aka "bullshit" (H. Frankfurt) - of course, I/we knew that; I just wanted you to admit you're just gassing. Again. Most likely th...
August 19, 2020 at 19:47
In: Reality As An Illusion  — view comment
What existential, factual or formal grounds did Descartes have to "doubt everything"? re: "paper doubts" ... (emphasis is mine) If you're not acquaint...
August 19, 2020 at 19:35
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
@"Frank Apisa" The mods have already closed your latest thread "To the people who assert 'there are no gods'" before I could reply to the OP so I'm po...
August 19, 2020 at 18:34
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
Never heard that one. :lol: :pray:
August 19, 2020 at 17:26
In: How do you know!?!  — view comment
Your gibberish sails right over my head again, Frank.
August 19, 2020 at 12:50
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
:up:
August 19, 2020 at 04:02
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
I referred to kenoma (emptiness) and purposefully not "pleroma" (fullness) - besides, the latter refers only to a 'platonic heaven' of all forms (à la...
August 19, 2020 at 02:24
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
Right. As I recall, this apologetic "mystery" didn't begin to make sense to me until I stumbled upon a copy of Abbot's Flatland in a Public Library wh...
August 19, 2020 at 00:11
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:sparkle:
August 18, 2020 at 14:18
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/qagOblqhBhk "Acknowledgement" (7:43) - John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
August 18, 2020 at 14:16
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
You're a self-confessed "special snowflake", sir. (re: option (D)) There's "nothing" (as you say) of philosophical interest left to discuss with you n...
August 18, 2020 at 13:50
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
Amen, amen! Welcome to TPF
August 18, 2020 at 13:30
In: Reality As An Illusion  — view comment
:up: Agreed. Also very much like Ernst Cassirer's neo-kantian "symbol theory". Or Zapffe's / Camus' confrontation-divorce-mismatch of our minds with t...
August 18, 2020 at 06:32
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:rofl:
August 17, 2020 at 21:46
In: How do you know!?!  — view comment
Well stated. Bears repeating (reposting) on every thread. Why "should" it? Any answer to the second question will always beg the first question. To wi...
August 17, 2020 at 21:41
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
:lol: You haven't identified anything. And "settled science" only identifies the unexplained - whether yet to be explained or only explanable in princ...
August 17, 2020 at 20:56
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:victory: :smirk: :ok: Of course he did; of course you are. Take your meds, lil troll. :wink: Yeah, I do love philosophizing. Thanks for acknowledging...
August 17, 2020 at 20:47
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rQvJgTQ9U "Helpless" (3:33) - Neil Young Déjà Vu, CSNY(1970)
August 17, 2020 at 20:21
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:rofl: (D) it is. Thanks for "flailing" around with me, Frank. My work is done here.
August 17, 2020 at 15:48
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
"Explain events"? With a woo-of-the-gaps "hypothesis"? Mysteries (aka "woo" "g/G did it" etc) only begs questions and doesn't answer them. To my mind ...
August 17, 2020 at 15:16
In: Reality As An Illusion  — view comment
:death: :flower: (emphasis is mine) :up: vide Epicurus, Sextus Empiricus ... Spinoza ... Peirce, Zapffe, Merleau-Ponty, Clément Rosset ... (emphasis i...
August 17, 2020 at 14:58
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Ah, good! I stand corrected, Frank. So if not (C), leaving (A), (B) or (D), then which is closest to your position?
August 17, 2020 at 14:20
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
:100: How do you know this? Or it just an 'article of faith'?
August 17, 2020 at 13:39
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Now there you go, sir - finally confessing to (C) wasn't so hard after all, was it? And 'good for the soul' too. :sweat: Why ASSume that, Frank, when ...
August 17, 2020 at 13:22
In: An Honorable Death.  — view comment
Yes. Living with and for honor - whether or not one is 'honored' - until the very end. Dying.
August 17, 2020 at 05:10
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up: So ... that narrows down the options to just these two: :sweat:
August 17, 2020 at 04:53
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Not a Deadhead (by a loooong-shot), but "Fire on the Mountain" always moves me ... the way Marley's "Natural Mystic" moves me deeply. Like disparate v...
August 16, 2020 at 14:13
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Help me to understand how you understand the veracity of your own claims. Choose ONE of the following that you agree with most: (A) My agnosticism is ...
August 16, 2020 at 14:01
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
You haven't answered the specific, straight-forward, question I've asked: If you had, Frank, then it would be CLEAR to all of us what makes 'your agno...
August 16, 2020 at 12:03
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/9v1TqDm8u0c "Danger Zone" - (2:25) Sung by Ray Charles, 1961 Lyrics by Percy Mayfield, 1961 :death: :flower: https://youtu.be/dw9rQ_q...
August 16, 2020 at 09:19
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
? https://youtu.be/a5FjvWWsH-c "Ne me quitte pas" (3:45) Sung by Nina Simone (1965) Lyrics by Jacques Brel (1959) ... not a love song but "a hymn to t...
August 16, 2020 at 08:38
In: Ontology, metaphysics. Sciences? Of what, exactly?  — view comment
Traditional metaphysics also includes a third question: what gods exist - theology. :chin: Why not - even more precisely than "discussion about" - rea...
August 16, 2020 at 01:35
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
August 16, 2020 at 01:07
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
I do not claim, or imply, that "you not knowing something" is true or false; rather I'm asking HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUR CLAIMS - about what you say y...
August 15, 2020 at 21:35
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Belated happy birthday, Frank. Maybe, maybe not. :sweat: It's not cool to pick on "childish" folks (except here on TPF), but ... drop that babytalk, p...
August 15, 2020 at 19:59
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
More glossolalia. Take your meds, Kanye.
August 15, 2020 at 11:43
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Through a glass darkly ... 1. Ethics: Epicurus, Benedict Spinoza, Philippa Foot 2. Metaphysics: Ray Brassier 3. Epistemology: David Deutsch, Nassim Ni...
August 15, 2020 at 02:01
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
August 14, 2020 at 15:05
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
"He's a f$#@ing moron!" ~Rex Tillerson https://youtu.be/KsLaAbzVb9E "Unprecedented" - The Lincoln Project Biden-Harris 2020 :mask:
August 14, 2020 at 14:55
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
August 14, 2020 at 14:04
In: Make your own philosopher tier list  — view comment
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August 14, 2020 at 13:25
In: Give Me a Plausible Theory For How An Afterlife Might Exist  — view comment
Pedantic quibble: After life Before life Before the beginning Outside of everywhere North of the North Pole Etc. Nonsense terms and phrases. Interroga...
August 14, 2020 at 13:03
In: Can Life Have Meaning Without Afterlife?  — view comment
"Properly" or not, we can't examine anything once we're no longer alive. Whether or not there is afterlife, we can assume anything about life's meanin...
August 14, 2020 at 12:39
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