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:roll: Understood. You cannot substantiate your statements on "democracy" as I've suspected. My apologies for giving your (assumed) intellectual integ...

An old post on Jewish antisemism vs Jewish antizionism ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/544984 :mask:

Just 'cause it stands repeating ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/544984 :fire:

Only three what-ifs are "too much" for you? :sweat: If you wish to debate this issue in a more rigorous way, my friend, let's take this over to PMs. I...

I guess you didn't bother to read – or you selectively forget – this post (and an older post linked therein) in reply to you, Athena, sketching out my...

:sweat: A "PhD in computer engineering" does not make one remotely as "conversant with physics" as a world-class, theoretical physicist like Carlo Rov...

"Pseudo-science makes for bad philosophy." ~180 Proof Okay, so non-physicist Kastrup disagrees with physicist Rovelli's theoretical prediction from RQ...

When since 1789 has the USA been a "democracy" and not an oft-illiberal (minoritarian electoral college-rigged, gerrymandered-vote suppressed, nativis...

So it's not quantum physics itself that breaks down "the boundary of mind and body", as you say, but another New Age (mis)interpretation instead that ...

:roll: "God exists" is not a claim of fact about how the world is ..., ergo no burden of proof. Suppose by 2050 'strong AGI' is achieved. Suppose one ...

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

I guess you're not game. :ok:

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I've never heard a believer claim that "god" is one fact among all other facts – and neither have you. Let's dispense with "folk beliefs", which are t...

Yes, all preachers, including Christian evangelists and proselytes, are liars. :clap: The Apophatics are right!

Why are you baiting me, mate, to take up the thankless role of Advocatus diaboli? :sweat: "God exists" is not a claim of fact about how the world is ....

If by "a regressive worldview" you mean consisting of evidence-free, miraculous, death-denial stories (in contrast to secular evidence-based, dialecti...

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My friend, onus probandi applies only to positive claims of fact (about how things are) and not to claims of faith (about how "gods" are).

Why do you think believers must give an account of "the personal perceived properties of their god" to (the?) satisfaction of nonbelievers that can be...

Without any compelling grounds to doubt that any of the moon landings had happened, I believe none of them were "faked".

Ask me that question again in a couple of millennia. At any rate, religious books aren't "responsible" for what their misreaders and proselytizers, ji...

What about 'quantum physics' leads you to make these claims?

I suppose, instead, the ultimate sense of any mathematical expression is contextualizable by ordinary language (à la later Wittgenstein). Btw, thanks ...

Metaphysics is like 'crafting conceptual prescription eyeglasses' (prior to (e.g.) microscopes & telescopes) by which reality in general – in the broa...

How is this topic-question substantively different from the topic-question you had raised before? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11057/what...

:100: "Amen!" (says this raised, observant & educated ex-Catholic). :up:

Probably not. :smirk: :sweat:

My "offer" is speculative (not "fiction") and a single dish "buffet". :wink: :up: :up: Eudaimonia. We should all be as fortunate as you, Tom. :cool:

Fundamentally, as individuals we aspire to maximize our well being (which includes access to 'all possible" existential and practical options). Indefi...

Both. By far, IMO, 'the internet' – a 24/7/365, billion-fold, vidiot-delusion machine – is worse than merely 'reading' religious books today. :up:

Go troll somebody else.

I suspect that 'the internet' (e.g. social media influencers, cyber preachers, etc) is more popular in every way than either the bible or quran (or an...

Psychoceramic non sequitur.

Good point. Rather: I/we need "an atheistic value system."

IMHO, Hillary threw away the 2016 election by refusing to campaign in the white working class-dominated states she had lost to Bernie Sanders in the p...

The 2018-2020-2022-2023 trend is very blue (anti-MAGA) heading into 2024. :up:

7Nov23 Election Day Dems crushed MAGA^^ in • Ohio (reproductive rights & recreational ganja) • Kentucky (governor) • Pennsylvania (supreme court justi...

:fire: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/847478 Yes or no – the United States has been, and is currently, a constitutional republic, n...

:up: Our atavistic delusions of grandeur (à la the gambler's fallacy).

FWIW – To paraphrase J.S. Mill's quip about "conservatives" – The religious aren't necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are religious. :smirk:

:mask: True.

Bemusings ...

Being No One by Thomas Metzinger (or his much briefer, less technical summary The Ego Tunnel). Also, a more general (even entertaining) treatment of t...

@"RogueAI" @"schopenhauer1" @"BitconnectCarlos" So was this Israeli cabinet minister sacked just for what he said or rather for his extremist, Freudia...

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Yeah, given our current knowledge and best guesses on that basis, asking about the beginning of the universe makes about as much sense as asking about...

Last time I checked, "the Roman Empire" was the root of what we today call "Western Civilization" and, given the choice of "sword or the Cross" in the...

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:up: That question is too vague. Yeah, the world was better off that the Allied powers had defeated the Axis powers. No doubt the world will be better...