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Why do you assume that energy (e.g. massless particles ... mental activity ...) is not material?

Maybe, but imo not as much as being either an Epicurean philosopher or a Stoic philosopher ... or even being an absurdist (Zapffe/Camus-like) philosop...

:roll: These are not the droids you are looking for.

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Thanks. Like e.g. absolute ends justify/excuses all relative means (Biblical / Quranic theodicy); "teleological suspension of the ethical" (Kierkegaar...

:smirk: Yes, (dogmatic) rationalizing is always easier than (reflective-dialectical-defeasible) reasoning ... especially for foolosophers.

No, of course not. One does not entail the other. Besides, it's more adaptive (or pragmatic) than not, to have a morality (from the Latin word mores m...

Using a more precise and specific term – "anti-supernatural" in this case – is no more limiting (imo) than using a better, perhaps the best, tool for ...

No, but I understand that "The Good" is nonbeing. I know that if she's a mortal, then she cannot "know" ...

Non sequitur. It was you, Panta, who asserted without argument that my sine qua non claims of theism, which are easily falsified (i.e. atheism), is "a...

No. Again, morals =/= laws. :roll: I don't believe in "God" ... and, because there are objective truths, I'm a moral naturalist. :up:

Except for 2008 & 2020, I've only voted for progressive alternatives to our governing corporate duopoly ... :100: :up:

@"Pantagruel"

Morals =/= laws; your question doesn't make sense.

Given the context (our two posts at the top of this page), ask a question that makes sense.

Non sequitur & category error.

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From a human perspective, non-human nature can seem "unfair and unjust" ... to some less fortuitous "human populations".

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:up: :up: ... then (a) "God" is not an objective fact that is either directly or indirectly observed. As per Plato's Euthyphro, 'morality is objective...

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:roll: Ad hominem, not an argument. Quite telling.

Addendum to To the degree you (we) are not coerced by other agents or constrained by either internal and/or external conditions, you (we) "have" free ...

We do not "deny" anyone's "experience" only observe that such "experience" does not correspond to anything outside of your head. The experiential diff...

:100: Amen!

"An illusion" is that which is not what it seems to be. "An array of choices" is, in fact, only some predictions based on inertia, biases, assumptions...

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Yes, as in freethought: thinking (inquiry) free of "tradition" in such a way that we are free for recreating (reasonably extending, or modernizing) tr...

No matter who winds up the Democrat's presidential nominee, all that matters now it seems to me is this:

Of course it is, just like your question.

Yes, but I didn't say or imply anything about "proof". I remarked on a previous nonsensical statement that 'without god, there are no objective truths...

I hope philosophy helps me to live less foolishly ...

:up: Exactly. For example, theists cannot demonstrate that their "god exists" is (except only in their minds) an objective truth.

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8July24 Day seven of the American Monarchy (7 AM) So who would you vote for (if you could / will vote in the 2024 election): (A) the old man who (usua...

I agree, that's why I said nothing about it. This statement doesn't make any sense Well, that seems to me a "fairly adolescent" – unwarranted – "premi...

Free thinking, free living. For starters, in order to flourish more than languish... Perhaps they "seem" so to a child. No more "irrational" than an a...

"Mind" is not a thing; it's merely what some very rare, complex material systems do. Stuff is just stuff and very rare bits of stuff happen to be awar...

Conspiracy thinking ain't my thing ...

Based on Abrahamic, Hindi, pantheonic Greco-Roman-Egyptian-Babylonian-Persian-Mesoamerican-Aboriginal traditions, I understand theism as consisting of...

My guess is that, barring a debilitating health event or worse, if Biden doesn't step aside this week (or next at the latest), then he will be on the ...

DNC party rules and, because he is the incumbent president, Biden (team) controls the Dems convention nominating process. Besides, even if the Dems co...

No.

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If I may – go to the source and read Ethics (Edwin Curley's translation); however, if you must read secondary literature, I recommend Spinoza by Stuar...

Well, this "atheist" certainly is "qualified to speak about what" theism "is not" – the sine qua non claims of theism¹ are demonstrably not true. from...

@"Jack Cummins" https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/914581

A post-scarcity, demarchic social system is as "fair and just" as I can imagine.