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In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up: :100:
August 04, 2020 at 16:47
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Idiocy does love company!
August 03, 2020 at 23:32
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
wtf :lol:
August 03, 2020 at 21:09
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up: Incoherent gibberish. 'Transcends existence' denotes (1) separate from existence, (2) non-existence or does not exist; if 'necessarily transcends...
August 03, 2020 at 20:07
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Coward. Run along now ...
August 03, 2020 at 19:33
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
By all means, Prof. Apisa, provide correction - show me the syllogistic error of ways. "Do it. YOU CANNOT DO IT." :sweat: Now now you can't expect res...
August 03, 2020 at 19:27
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
p1. I have reason to suspect that whatever necessariily transcends existence is impossible to exist. p2. I have reason to suspect a god necessarily tr...
August 03, 2020 at 18:56
In: Is space/vacuum a substance?  — view comment
:up:
August 02, 2020 at 22:46
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
Philosophy (in the "as a way of life" sense ~Hadot) is, in my understanding and practice, much like addiction recovery - it's not the using addict but...
August 02, 2020 at 20:57
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
Of course you're entitled to your misreading of me and of Camus. :up:
August 01, 2020 at 21:22
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Trolls need meds too.
August 01, 2020 at 21:21
In: Is space/vacuum a substance?  — view comment
:clap: You do TPF, Peirce, Hartle-Hawking/Rovelli, et al proud, apo!
August 01, 2020 at 08:51
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Gibberish. Take your meds.
August 01, 2020 at 03:07
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
I am the ... :vomit:
August 01, 2020 at 00:01
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Fortunately, the US Constitution states clearly that a presidential (& vice-presidential) term ends after four years and so, without an election, he'l...
July 31, 2020 at 13:05
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Explain how an ultimate "issue" makes an existential difference one way or another to proximate beings like us. I'm persuaded by Camus that such "exis...
July 31, 2020 at 12:29
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
"The only ism that has justified itself is pessimism." ~George Orwell :mask: :shade: A co-founder of the (usually) tRump-sympathizing Federalist Socie...
July 31, 2020 at 11:44
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
"Evidence?" Okay. :roll: Btw, read the post again. My 'answer' was/is neither - because "the question is invalid" (i.e. "origins" is a question for sc...
July 31, 2020 at 07:57
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Neither. It's a pseudo-question (lacks specificity, parameters, etc for determining what would count as correct answers) for starters. And philosophy ...
July 31, 2020 at 07:25
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
"Petty stuff" like these ad hominems.
July 30, 2020 at 15:31
In: Is anyone here a moral objectivist?  — view comment
Consider the account linked below and point out its shortcomings:
July 30, 2020 at 15:26
In: Stoicism in the modern world  — view comment
:up:
July 30, 2020 at 15:20
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Oh you're right about Frank's idiosyncratic 'definition'; but who cares? Words (concepts) belong to conventions of usage with long histories - they do...
July 30, 2020 at 15:17
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Well if you are as intelligent as you think you are, then you will agree that 'if A = B and B = C, then A = C', right? :sweat: So: If Frank Apisa's g/...
July 30, 2020 at 13:22
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Well, in that case, here's a hanging softball: Given, Frank, that you do not know whether or not "any gods" exist, which "gods" do you believe in (tru...
July 30, 2020 at 12:13
In: Is anyone here a moral objectivist?  — view comment
I had the same reaction as boethius as I mentioned on my first post (page 1). It's not damning - I'm aware that, in the main, moral objectivism's prov...
July 30, 2020 at 07:14
In: Stoicism in the modern world  — view comment
:up:
July 30, 2020 at 00:57
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
The best contemporary science - (neo-darwinian) Natural Selection, General Relativity & Quantum Field Theory - is the overwhelmingly preponderant body...
July 30, 2020 at 00:34
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Apparently, "it can't be answered" By You; many many, however, have answered the g/G-question intelligently either way, some even have conclusively (i...
July 29, 2020 at 15:09
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up: "I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies." I'd say science seeks "the creator" by studying "creation" (e.g. ... Hypa...
July 29, 2020 at 14:08
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Well, cutting to the chase, if there is (at least one) theistic g/G (i.e. "revealed supernatural agency") then ALL of our sciences are invalidated and...
July 29, 2020 at 13:19
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
:fire:
July 28, 2020 at 19:51
In: Stoicism in the modern world  — view comment
Kids today use fire instead of "cool" ... which evokes Stoics' "pneuma" and also a certain "weilder of the Flame of Anor". :wink:
July 28, 2020 at 18:30
In: Stoicism in the modern world  — view comment
:fire:
July 28, 2020 at 18:01
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
"Trolling"in your case for sure. I got what you're "getting at" - take all the rope you need.
July 28, 2020 at 17:41
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
No. Sisyphus is happy in the end (Camus), ennobled, perhaps, by sacrilegious - absurdist - spite. That absurd 'grace' has yet to be achieved by (my) s...
July 28, 2020 at 06:20
In: Aliens!  — view comment
:lol:
July 28, 2020 at 05:58
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
Indeed. From satisfied swine to 'sad Socrates' at the speed of one stray, recurring, thought ... cursed (fuck'd)! :death: :flower:
July 28, 2020 at 05:53
In: Is anyone here a moral objectivist?  — view comment
@OP - Yes. A précis on (an) 'objective (i.e. subject/pov-invariant) morality': https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/355166 So as a metaet...
July 28, 2020 at 00:29
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
C'mon @"Frank Apisa" show your "evidence or arguments" to him/her like you showed me. :razz:
July 27, 2020 at 21:47
In: The Ethics of Optimism  — view comment
We will be safe. (optimist) We will not be safe. (pessimist) We are safe - until we are not. (realist absurdist) Okay; not a fan of "optimists" (i.e. ...
July 27, 2020 at 17:33
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:rofl:
July 27, 2020 at 17:18
In: Most Fundamental Branch of Philosophy  — view comment
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July 27, 2020 at 04:14
In: Mathematics as a way to verify metaphysical ideas?  — view comment
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July 27, 2020 at 01:42
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:lol:
July 26, 2020 at 22:00
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Projection on this forum, Frank, is pathetic. In these many months you've not so much as scuffed one of my arguments while I've blown down your infant...
July 26, 2020 at 21:09
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
If you haven't yet, this Cioran documentary is well worth an hour or so of your dying ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=10s&v=78y06QkpnC8 :death: :flo...
July 26, 2020 at 19:47
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Well, you're definitely not one of them, ... so I'm still waiting. :victory: :smirk:
July 26, 2020 at 19:44
In: Collecting God arguments  — view comment
:up:
July 26, 2020 at 17:21
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
So then your dismissal of the explanatory relevance of . likewise is nothing but "smoke and mirrors" too. Okay. Just checking. Like a broken record yo...
July 26, 2020 at 17:08
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