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You have asked what, by your own admission, is a stupid question - why is reason trustworthy? Why did you do that? We all have stupid thoughts. The ke...

I don't believe you. I believe you thought it was true. You have the burden of proof. Why? Because one has the burden of proof when what one is claimi...

So do you now accept that the youtube mantra is false?

Ah yes, the old 'the one who asserts something has the burden of proof'thing - the mantra of the youtube educated. As you have asserted that the one w...

To the first bit: burden of proof is on you. Explain how time can exist and a mind can exist yet that mind not exist either in the present, past or fu...

They. Exhaust. The. Possibilities. If you think time exists, but that some minds exist that are neither present, past or future then it's you who has ...

I think there are no true contradictions. Why do you people have such difficulty grasping this? I will reject as false any contradictory proposition.

I have never argued that minds are not bodies because we can say 'I have a body'. Quote me. Remember what Russell said: "never trust a stupid man's re...

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Once more: if time exists, then an existent mind is either past, present or future. Those exhaust the possibilities. (And a plausible analysis of time...

All things are possible for God. There are lots of things I don't seem able to do. Therefore I appear not to be omnipotent, and thus appear not to be ...

I think that if a proposition is true, then it is not also false. So, just remove 'impossible' from Aristotle's description (well,you know, rewrite it...

You asked me to define change. That is a task for another day (it's a kind of thought). My point in the op was that change is more fundamental than ti...

God is a mind. And time consists of the properties of pastness, presentness and futurity. If time does not exist, then God's mind would not have any o...

No, if all things are possible, then all things are possible. When you see 'push'do you reason 'push....therefore pull'? Yes. Yes you do. And that is ...

Erm, okay. But Jesus said that with God all things are possible. Not some things. All things. That's my view of omnipotence too. And Descartes'. And i...

Pray explain his rejection of my view. Shall I do it for you? Here: "hoity toity, far be it for me to hoity toity, but McTaggart was surely toity, hoi...

Yes, Jesus and I agree about omnipotence. Jesus said "with God, all things are possible". He did not say "God can do all that is possible". So yes, I ...

I don't know what you mean. Sounds a bit buddhist.

I don't accept any contradictions. Thinking a contradiction 'can' be true is not equivelent to thinking it is actually true. How do you ever figure ou...

I do not follow you. First, I did not argue that the past (I will focus on that temporal property) is in our minds. I explicitly denied that thesis. I...

I do not reject the law of non contradiction. I think it is true. I just don't think it has to be. But I am as sure of its actual truth as anyone. Tha...

Oh really. First, it is not the usual explanation - it is contemporary theist philosophers who tend to try and understand omnipotence in terms of bein...

My second argument tells you: time is made of sensations and their absence. That is, pastness is a sensation, as is futurity, whereas presentness is t...

Don't most people think in little maxims like these? Each one is a generalization of some sort that is then promoted to the status of a universal trut...

Yes, I think so. Doesn't saying you're in love with something or someone or some appearance or whatever just mean the same as saying that you love tha...

How? If you love something, you are in love with it, surely?

What?

But Peu, what about McTaggart? The A series and the B series and the C series - don't you want to tell me about them? Peu? I think I know what I am ta...

Good point. Well made. Show your bloody working. Words mean what they mean 'contingently', not of necessity.

No, that's false. If God is Reason, then God will not be bound by the laws of Reason, for they are his laws to make or unmake as he pleases. Now, that...

No it isn't. Show your working. How the hell did you get to that conclusion?? The definition of a term is a contingent truth about it. Bachelor means ...

The OP contains two arguments. You have addressed neither. Why are you so sure I don't know what I am talking about? I take it you've read McTaggart? ...

Nonsense. Time has a beginning - see OP for details. Some things have no beginning, for some things exist with aseity. Unless this were so, we would h...

Oh, I am sure you don't care. It's just that I don't care that you don't care. I just care to point out that what you said was false and ignorant. The...

God can do both. That is, God has the ability to make a stone he cannot lift, and be unable to lift it. And God has the ability to make a stone he can...

What on earth are you on about? You think you can do anything? No you can't. You are extraordinarily limited in your powers. An omnipotent being can d...

No, it is not clear what it means. There's a big debate about it. One could interpret it to mean that God exists 'outside' of time - and that this is ...

I don't see this. Being 'omniscient' means being in possession of all knowledge - that is, to have beliefs in the truth of all justified true proposit...

But that's false, as I argued in the OP. If time exists, then an event will change in its temporal properties. So change cannot require time, but is i...

oo, yes, I see now. Truly i am blessed to be receiving such treasures from your insight bowels, and for free too. Yes, I remember now when you establi...

You are correct. Again, you excrete knowledge on me.

Address the issue. If you want a bike and don't have one but I do, are you entitled to take mine?

oo thank you, Pue, for those wisdomous words. I am learning good.

Yes, I can see that I have a lot to learn from you. Teach me more!!! Tell me, Peu, can you steal something off no one?

But the argument I have given- the second one, also outlined in my reply - seems to demonstrate that time is made of the temporal sensations of God. S...

Did you?

You can't answer a question with a question. Stop being tedious and answer the question. We both know what the answer is.

To address the OP, my proposal - as an alternative to taxation and that is also, so far as I can tell, entirely just as it violates no one's rights - ...

Er, so you think you are entitled to steal the hermit's turnips. Okaaay.