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Why "a year"? It's quite evident everyday, all day, even on this thread. You believe Bank/Tax Fraudster & Criminal Defendent-1 has a snowball's chance...

Why don't you talk to nonbelievers who are literate in a religion or several religions and / or theology? They're not hard to find. :roll:

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:up: Apologies for not reading the thread and perhaps repeating what's already been said. As far as Im concerned, "the reason for believing in the exi...

As an anti-supernaturalist I can agree with your assumption without inconsistency.

Yes, Hoffman rather than Kastrup. Sorry, I often mix-up antirealists. Anyway, I thought Rovelli's comments on "the subject" "ideas" "relations" "noume...

vs Rovelli on Kastrup ... https://youtu.be/jCeKUmurlas?si=bOYdU8dFsPmB0z2W

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" @"baker" @"Wayfarer" Yes, religions tend to perpetuate and promote 'communities' of magical thinkers who talk to – placate...

@"Vera Mont" – Your patience with Athena is remarkable. I try to resolve facts in dispute but I'm quickly exasperated since discussion and argument on...

Yeah, but calling out stupid does.

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I frequently use the advanced search function for relevant keywords. Almost all topics have been raised a few times before so I usually find I've cont...

I haven't read much of this thread. Context?

A little Friday psychedelia ... goo goo g'joob! :party: https://youtu.be/AuCei9uVVd4?si=8Dx3kHsV67zL6lc8 "I Am the Walrus" (4:33) Magical Mystery Tour...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/853053

I feel similiar. I'd never think of myself as a 'philosopher'; rather, at most, just a lifelong freethinker. :death: :flower:

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:cool: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/567313 Good luck & welcome to TPF.

Older people with impaired memories nonetheless seem to retain (much of) their 'wisdom'. I suspect higher metacognitive functions such as 'wisdom' or ...

:up: GE Moore's "open question" is besides the point for actual moral agency. The bases of my position on ethical naturalism is summarized in the old ...

:up: :up: According to the wiki linked below, Germany ranks 14th and the United States ranks 30th :yikes: on "The Democracy Index (2022)". https://en....

Don't look for answers in philosophy to satisfy – silence – your questions (which amounts to dogma) but rather seek questions from which you can proce...

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Like @"Tom Storm" suggests, I understand atheism to denote lack of theism (i.e. lack of one, some or all god-beliefs). Theists also lack god-belief bu...

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And how does it "appear to undermine" "objectivity"? With objective findings. Your argument(?), sir, is as self-refuting as a 'positivist' argument. :...

This brain rot is virulent in Britain, Germany, Hungary, Turkey & Poland too. :eyes: No, we can't. We have to out-vote them (and continue to out-breed...

Well, if you believe the findings of quantum physics are not subject-invariant (i.e. objective), then you, my good man, certainly have not even unders...

Not at all, sir: what is simulated – the natural world, 'subject-invariant' reality – is approximately known with respect to the scope precision and f...

And yet 'reincarnation' is a central tenet – pure hearsay for most :sparkle: :pray: – of most, if not all, traditions of Buddhist practice.

Those "implications" are nothing more than second-order interpretations of first-order models. You're merely referring to "the nature" of the simulati...

CBT, which I assume you're familiar with, is in large part derived from both Socratic methods and Hellenistic philosophies such as Stoicism & Epicurea...

:up: (Of course, most Buddhists I've ever encountered ignore those teachings ...)

That's like saying an asexual person is simply someone denies the existence of sex. :roll: Can you name a mystical / supernatural religion that is eit...

Do you think this "incapacity" is (1) either (a) cognitive disability, (b) an acquired, incorrigible habit, (c) combination or (d) something else? (2)...

I'm not following your "shoveling" example. Compatibilism makes the most sense to me: an agent's free willing (i.e. volition) is manifest within const...

:up: :up: Really? FWIW, my understanding is that "the nature of the wavefunction" is a mathematical artifact of the set ups of QM experiments. Philoso...

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:cool: :up: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/853027

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Here's an old post from a thread "Stupidity" wherein I collect a number of my own attempts at defining & clarifying what being stupid means ... https:...

What? :chin: :up: Y'know, sir, a minimum of intellectual integrity requires that you criticize Daniel Dennett by quoting those of his own words and ar...

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:up: :up: Our models (i.e. deterministic developmental – linear & nonlinear dynamical – mathematical systems) for describing and explaining aspects of...

So many ad hoc assertions, and not a single valid argument or refutation. :yawn:

Metaphysics proposes statements about 'reality in the most general sense'. Propositions are truthbearer statements with possible truth-makers; otherwi...

Of course. "Mind-dependent reality" doesn't make sense except to idealists / antirealists (who tend to obey poison warning labels, not carry lightning...

Apparently, you cannot refute (my) theological claim so instead, sir, you merely parrot a pedestrian folk belief (i.e. idolatry) like a typical "New A...

:roll: "God exists" is not a claim of fact about how the world is ..., ergo no burden of proof.