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She does. But sexists don't listen to Reason much, do they?
October 26, 2021 at 11:04
Imaginary people do not have minds.
October 26, 2021 at 11:03
What do you mean by a 'female' mind? Explain.
October 26, 2021 at 11:01
Brains are body parts. Christ. You people! Mind. Brain. They're not synonyms.
October 26, 2021 at 10:58
Dunning Kruger.
October 26, 2021 at 10:57
It's what any intelligent person thinks. Lots of things lack sexes. Numbers, locations, and so on. The question 'what sex is the number 3?" is confuse...
October 26, 2021 at 10:54
Because God is a mind and minds do not have sexes.
October 26, 2021 at 10:47
That's not a summary of anything I have said. God is not a man or a woman, okay? God could occupy a male or female body, just as we do. But she's not ...
October 26, 2021 at 10:46
Human beings. A lot of them are sexists. Haven't you noticed? Sexism is also a vice, yes? And God is morally perfect. So, is God going to be a sexist?...
October 26, 2021 at 10:41
Sexism.
October 26, 2021 at 10:39
God doesn't have a gender. Genders are what bodies have, not what minds have. And God is a mind. Of course, so too are we. And thus we are all genderl...
October 26, 2021 at 10:36
Stop being tedious. An omnipotent being can do anything and thus can divest herself of her omnipotence if she so pleases.
October 26, 2021 at 10:27
You can't answer a question with a question, can you?
October 26, 2021 at 10:23
And what does that mean when it's at home?
October 26, 2021 at 10:21
Like I say, a philistine.
October 26, 2021 at 10:10
There's no problem. An omnipotent being has the power to give up their omnipotence. Yes?
October 26, 2021 at 10:09
Ah, well there you go. I have. And there aren't words to describe it. Velasquez's portrait of pope innocent X is another in the same league. If you se...
October 26, 2021 at 10:02
Like I say, you're very confused. An omnipotent being can do anything. Thus an omnipotent being has the power to dispose of their omnipotence if they ...
October 26, 2021 at 10:01
You're a philistine. Or you haven't actually seen it.
October 26, 2021 at 09:53
The professor, obviously. The mona lisa is just fine
October 26, 2021 at 09:36
Well, I consider that gibberish apart from the last question. And yes, God can do that. He can do anything. I mean, even I can contradict myself. So i...
October 26, 2021 at 03:36
No it doesn't. It means he is not doing it. Once more, you are as confused as someone who thinks that as bachelors do not have wives, there is a curio...
October 26, 2021 at 03:35
Yes, there is clearly something wrong with her.
October 26, 2021 at 03:29
Can God make a shoe he can't fit in?
October 26, 2021 at 03:26
In that case it is possible - remotely possible - that you are God. Although all of God's jokes would be hilarious. So there's that.
October 26, 2021 at 02:50
Yes, I am sure that's correct about some collectors. There are, I am sure, all manner of financial schemes behind a lot of what goes on in the art mar...
October 26, 2021 at 02:49
That's good evidence you're not God: God doesn't know he's God.
October 26, 2021 at 02:41
That's a contradiction: if the art market critical consensus is what constitutively determines what is or isn't good or bad art-wise, then Van Gogh's ...
October 26, 2021 at 02:39
You're not making any sense. An omnipotent being can do anything. Wouldn't be omnipotent otherwise. That means an omnipotent being has the power to ce...
October 26, 2021 at 02:37
These are not criticisms of anything I've said, but just expressions of scorn. Try engaging with the arguments I have made. Were Van Gogh's paintings ...
October 26, 2021 at 02:32
That simply doesn't follow. Having the power to do something does not entail that one does it. Otherwise there would be a contradiction involved in su...
October 26, 2021 at 01:57
Nothing prevents him. He just doesn't. Nothing is preventing me from hurling the boiling hot cup of coffee into my own face. But I am not hurling it i...
October 26, 2021 at 01:52
I don't know what you mean. Beauty does not lie in any old beholder - not in you or me. Beauty lies in one beholder: God. The feelings by means of whi...
October 26, 2021 at 01:50
No, I mean he can do it. I think you don't understand omnipotence. Being omnipotent means being able to do anything. So, he can create a stone that is...
October 26, 2021 at 01:40
I know it - if it is true, that is - by means of ratiocination. And it means that beauty is subjective - that is, that it is made of certain feelings ...
October 26, 2021 at 01:14
Yes, it would be. If he did it, then there'd be something he couldn't do - and so he'd have given up his omnipotence. Which is something he can do. (I...
October 26, 2021 at 01:12
An attitudinal relation that an object stands in to God. Ask me another. Now try and address something I argued.
October 26, 2021 at 01:10
What problem? God can make a stone so heavy he cannot lift. There. Solved. (Not that anything needed solving).
October 26, 2021 at 01:09
Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Some people perceive to be beautiful things that are not, and some fail to perceive the beauty of things tha...
October 26, 2021 at 01:07
I do not follow your reasoning. God is all powerful, by definition. So God can do anything. He is not constrained in any way. Thus he does have free w...
October 26, 2021 at 00:48
'Western philosophy' which can be shortened to just 'philosophy' is the practice of using reason to find out what's true. (Anyone can do it, as it is ...
October 15, 2021 at 00:57
Consequentialism about morality is silly. Invariably what consequentialists do is go from this intuitively plausible premise: 'this action is right be...
September 20, 2021 at 05:57
It continues.
September 19, 2021 at 21:55
No, it is an expression of my view, which is then followed by a rational defence. That is, I explain why I think my view is correct: I think it is cor...
September 19, 2021 at 21:49
In the OP. I am a philosopher and I wrote the OP. This isn't a medical issue. It's a philosophical one. Not that many are capable of drawing this dist...
September 19, 2021 at 20:52
Well, it was stupid. It had no philosophical content. Try thinking about the op rather than asking inane questions that go nowhere.
September 19, 2021 at 20:21
What? Stop being cryptic. Do you have any kind of response to my argument?
September 19, 2021 at 10:00
yes.
September 19, 2021 at 07:40
Yes. A group of cells isn't a person. And yes, this is called clear thinking. It is bound to seem a little strange to you. Once more, try and address ...
September 18, 2021 at 03:56
What are you on about? I am talking about what is just in a community - communities of persons. A violinist, some music lovers, and someone with kidne...
September 18, 2021 at 01:05