180 Proof

I'm very modest: I imagine that earlier today I purchased tomorrow night's sole winning lottery ticket. :wink:

:up: :point: Pandeism – Pandeus, sive Naturans – is my speculative jam.

I don't know. :chin: I think "purpose (in itself)" corresponds to Spinoza's conatus: everything necessarily persists in its being. "It comes from" nat...

I agree. To say anything determinate either way about an indeterminate, or generic, "God" is illogical (i.e. nonsense). However, no observable evidenc...

:clap: Another vapid apologist ranting his non sequitur strawmen. That's all you got, lil' meshuggeneh. Pathetic. Ah yeah, now isn't that just a retur...

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Non serviam – I refuse to "follow" any superstitious "commandments" (re: Plato's Euthyphro, etc) seeing as "following" them did not prevent the Nakba ...

I'd respond "Okay". Stories and fables exist, but not "YHWH" (except as one of the main characters). All that comes to mind at the moment is Paul Till...

Here's a "rational" example of "how to prove a negative" from a 2020 thread Belief in Nothing ... I think this proves we can prove a negative. We can ...

Addendum to this discussion of only a month ago https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/894404 If that is so, then Deus, sive natura – Spino...

The latter follows from the former. Like the principle of explosion: any nonsense follows from contradictions. :pray: "Zion" re: Joshua (Jericho) to N...

So what? All Abrahamic sects are the same superstitious nonsense (especially the literalist – e.g. jihadi & ultra-zionist – delusions). Of course you ...

Yeah, we're the ones who do what's right for exigent reasons to do right for its own sake; we're not craven like most of "the explicitly religious" wh...

Okay. Take care and be well.

Some "core beliefs" which I try to live by: Do no harm as in: What we find harmful, I try not to do to anyone'. Have courage as in: I expect the worst...

False. Some obvious examples – "We know objectively" that no individual was born before her parents were born. "We know objectively" that we are natur...

"The red pill" really shows that there is no red pill ... just as "there is no spoon", "the matrix" means there is no matrix. ~ Agent 180 Proof :cool:...

And as usual, BC, you don't have a substantial or factual point, only another vapid non sequitur. :roll: On the contrary, whenever in recent decades "...

This is only datum, not "knowledge" (i.e. a historical and/or scientific explanation), that is more-than-subjective insofar as (a) you can actually ea...

Gaza (Intifada) = Warsaw Ghetto (Uprising) ... https://youtu.be/oyvOlllV_NI?si=aVf6iKEarHOnpY3C "Never Again" unless we do it to the goyim! :shade:

:roll: (e.g.) Start counting ...

And therefore it's imaginary at best (i.e. not a true "claim") or self-refuting at worst.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/901112

How do you know that "all of my sensory perceptions, thoughts, emotions, etc. are subjective"? If your claim is merely subjective, then it's only a be...

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Including your merely "subjective" claim that "we can't ..." :roll:

No. If that is all they are, then they are not objective (i.e. subject/pov-invariant, language-invariant, gauge-invariant AND fallibilistic).

And yet non sequiturs even if true, dude, because Criminal Defendant-1 is conspicuously guilty AF. :victory: :lol:

:100: :100: And moral cretins like @"BitconnectCarlos" are pathetically incorrigible with respect to (our) critique of historical oppressions. Why do ...

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Re: the Pauline "Christ" myth (i.e. conspiracy theory) conjured together by committee in Nicea during the 4th century CE reign of Constantine the Grea...

The answer depends on the argument. I find the OP's argument is illogical (unpersuasive).

Easily. Simply put – Deism posits a separate X & Y: 'the uncreated creator deity' and its 'created world(s)/universe(s)' in which the latter is tempor...

Mostly, I think, we are deflating – deemphasizing – rather than "discarding the aesthetic/metaphysical". Intellectual desire. It doesn't matter except...

:100: Typical tactic of the oppressor (and their apologists) to blame the oppressed for mirroring their oppression. Yeah, if only the jackboot was on ...

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Suppose there was no "origin"? Suppose, as Spinoza reasons, existence is eternal (and merely reconfigures itself every tens of billions years (à la Ep...

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Any surveys of polling trends (with explicit margins of error) which sample only Likely Voters in 7 swing states (decided by 3 or less points in 2020)...

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"Evolution happened naturally ..." :monkey: :up:

The Nazi ethnostate had oppressed its neighbors. Hamas terrorizes Israel the ethnostate oppressor of Gaza, West Bank, etc. (At least since 1967) IDF +...

And "personal preference and culture" are grounded in – are expressions of – being natural creatures inseparable from non-human nature, no?

Okay, and your philosophical question is ...

. Okay. You have not provided sufficient philosophical grounds for (or any persuasive examples of) "its usefulness" to ethics (i.e. moral reasoning).

Of course not. Why assume morality requires any "foundation" at all? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/885373 Ditto. :up:

IMO, there is no "evil" where there aren't any actual intentionally helpless casualties.

Oppressors forfeit their descendants' lives because the oppressed have nothing to lose but their chains. Lex talonis, bitch. :death: :fire:

The hungry ghost of Nebuchadnezzar The Great (Azazel) has yet to cross the Jordan River again. :fire: Unironically, however, you zionists are wanna-be...

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