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I'm not clear on what you mean by "anti-theism", DJ, especially when you say it doesn't entail atheism. What are the grounds, or reasons, a "theist" w...
April 19, 2020 at 07:54
Well, our disagreements remain.
April 19, 2020 at 06:04
True. Same (re: Georgia).
April 19, 2020 at 06:00
Thanks for that! I miss Slavoj; going to conjure-up some of his latest, pandemic-related "talks" on youtube. :wink:
April 19, 2020 at 01:44
I previously addressed your objection finding it unphilosophical. Do you disagree with my reply? Do tell.
April 19, 2020 at 01:41
???
April 19, 2020 at 01:30
Hegelian-Lacanian Stalinist as political handicapper of neoliberal American electoral schizo-politics! :clap: :rofl:
April 19, 2020 at 01:27
:cool:
April 19, 2020 at 01:05
Neither polytheism nor pantheism, as I understand them, are anti-theistic; rather, they are thematic variations on theism. At most, they're anti-MONOt...
April 19, 2020 at 00:49
It's the difference between Type and Token, or set and member ... concept and referent ... epistemic "ANTI" and ontic "A". The latter belongs to the f...
April 19, 2020 at 00:13
Doesn't see how if you've read on past the last semi-colon. :eyes:
April 18, 2020 at 23:38
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things." ~TLP 1.1 Facts are relations (distances). Events are relations (intervals). Facts are events (spa...
April 18, 2020 at 23:31
:roll: :monkey: As I've previously pointed out here to you, Fool, mixing ontological apples with epistemological oranges loses the coherent plot: (my)...
April 18, 2020 at 23:08
Lost me completely.
April 18, 2020 at 22:23
:death: :flower: After life. Well, there is no 'walking' after legs stop moving. And no 'symphony' after the orchestra stops playing and disbands. And...
April 18, 2020 at 21:48
You're mistaken. E.g. (JCI) monotheists are atheists with respect to "other gods" (e.g. Olympian Pantheon, Nordic Sagas, Hindu Vedas, Indigenous triba...
April 18, 2020 at 20:54
Speaking for myself as an anti-theist, I'm agnostic (and even ignostic) with respect to 'non-theistic concepts of divinity' because they're either ins...
April 18, 2020 at 09:23
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April 18, 2020 at 08:41
Not addressed to me, I know, but ... Assuming, for discussion's sake, a non-supernaturalistic / non-theological (i.e. wholly secular) agency-centered,...
April 17, 2020 at 04:48
Perhaps nothing is the sufficient reason for (i.e. nothing prevents the coming-to-be, continuing-to-be or ceasing-to-be of) something ... :sparkle: :f...
April 17, 2020 at 03:54
Well ... if personal conduct (e.g. murder, torture/rape, betrayal) or systemic practices (e.g. peonage/slavery, capital punishment, tyranny/terrorism)...
April 16, 2020 at 17:10
ANY. BODY. BUT. tRump. :mask: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937573/-Republicans-Endorse-Biden Biden-Klobuchar 2020 ...?
April 16, 2020 at 07:22
Well, then, Arendt's "evil" distinction from bad doesn't make much of a practical difference to me.
April 16, 2020 at 07:00
... isn't, as I recall, any less "absolute". Some immanent fat to chew on though. :chin:
April 16, 2020 at 04:51
Doesn't "evil" denote failure to obey, serve or worship some g/G? And, therefore, is a religious, not ethical, value? (Nietzsche) So that "natural evi...
April 16, 2020 at 00:42
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April 16, 2020 at 00:29
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April 15, 2020 at 00:06
march-april readings • Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood • The Dream Universe, David Lindley • The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph • God, Exis...
April 14, 2020 at 15:53
HRC isn't the Dems' nominee this year. Besides, "pretty good odds" compared to other incumbents facing reelection (i.e. referendums on their first (& ...
April 14, 2020 at 07:28
addendum: *MAGA 2020* M_ake A_ssmonkey G_o A_way *VOTE* (AGAINST pandemic & depression ... 'treason' (re: Ukraine, etc), corruption (re: Kremlin-Oliga...
April 14, 2020 at 06:49
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April 14, 2020 at 06:22
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April 14, 2020 at 06:19
"As Marx put it: 'We should not be afraid to learn from intelligent conservatives.' Conservatives - not reactionaries! Reactionaries always offer a so...
April 12, 2020 at 21:29
:cool: Thanks!
April 12, 2020 at 21:12
:broken: :mask: :point:
April 12, 2020 at 19:14
See wiki re: (e.g.) pandeism, gnosticism, animism, acosmism, etc. :fire: It's not in most cases. Only when there is a truth-claim about g/G at issue (...
April 12, 2020 at 06:12
Only if g/G is undefined as I point out in previous posts. Theism (as I understand it's sine qua non attributions) defines g/G with claims (1) there i...
April 12, 2020 at 01:35
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April 12, 2020 at 00:41
Agreed, but qualified (from an old post): I think this because 'theism' is defined - definite - insofar as it's a 'conception of divinity' that consis...
April 11, 2020 at 23:15
I've read all of Houellebecq's novels (and some essays) in English except The Map and the Territory which is on one of my shelves or stacked piles. He...
April 11, 2020 at 15:41
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April 11, 2020 at 12:48
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April 10, 2020 at 22:40
:monkey: :rofl:
April 10, 2020 at 22:33
Which "people"? Certainly not weak/implicit/negative "atheists". Your argumentum ad populum & hasty generalization are fallacies, y'know. :roll: (Oh, ...
April 10, 2020 at 19:03
Stop projecting ... :lol:
April 10, 2020 at 18:39
:roll: So you can't DEFINE "descriptor" in terms of how it DIFFERS from how "definition" is DEFINED (either commonly or technically) ... ok. No wonder...
April 10, 2020 at 12:33
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April 10, 2020 at 01:08
If you can, define "descriptor" - particularly how it differs from "definition" - without being, as you say, "misleading".
April 09, 2020 at 21:37
Non sequitur, anecdote & truism. :yawn:
April 09, 2020 at 20:26
How do you know this? Maybe via BMI-mediated CNS-to-CNS connection with sufficiently high (& fast) bandwidth ...
April 09, 2020 at 20:10