I didn't believe the thread was ableist, it wasn't saying "people who have a disease are evil", it was just using a metaphor comparing sin to a diseas...
it "sells" and appeals to emotions over logic — IvoryBlackBishop Of course. Logic is a fine facility for some kinds of problems, but entirely unsuited...
Fair enough, are you asserting that it's totally 'subjective', or that there aren't better or worse ways of making art, or that art relate to certain ...
If you mean "rituals", fair enough. As far as "faith", that's another term that often never gets consistently defined, but if you mean people having s...
I agree, my argument is just that it's a modern example of people acting or thinking in quasi-"religious" way. As far as theological or philosophical ...
Or as far as modern example, "scientism" is probably the most popular. (This isn't "science" itself nor conflatable with "atheism", but rather blind f...
Tricky subject, but I assume you mean the Justices aren't held to be "infallible" or have a "god-appointed status", akin to a medieval pope or monarch...
The finer details of what? To be able to say that religions have been and are useful then there should be some proof of that, what good has religion d...
For example, if your argument against "religion" as a whole is that it's a tool of "control" or imposition of a specific "morality" on people, that ma...
That's presuming that all business operate in a certain way or on a very specific business model in pure abstraction, in practice I don't see that as ...
This is turning into more of an anti-religion rant and less of a discussion about the finer details, so I think I'll bow out for not. Based on what yo...
I've heard of Rawls, I'm not sure how he compares. Interestingly, the "philosophy" behind etiquette (e.x. Emily Post) has some similarities to Confuci...
I'd assume that credible business do provide some measure of financial accountability, so again I don't see what this has to do with "church" or "reli...
Confucianism is dated, however I've found that some of the principles are reoccurring, such as in more modern treatise on civilization, or even etique...
Every business has to make a profit, so if this is just a discussion about greed or using religion as a money-making tool, I'd prefer not to go there....
?frank If it could be tested in principle then it could be true or false. Those who say string theory is not even wrong are claiming, whether rightly ...
AS a business model, if nothing else, how do you think that 'formal' religion will stand up to the Information Age and social media. "Church attendanc...
Sorry, I didn't see this thread before I started one. I didn't think that thread should've been deleted, it was pretty obvious that it was just a meta...
Hard to say, being "in love" is more akin to a state of mind or consciousness, while "love" is an abstraction which various philosophers have written ...
Do I have a perfect scientific or mathematical formula for what everyone should do in every situation? No. But yes, I do believe asserting some absolu...
I agree with this, I don't see video games as an industry any 'different' in that regard than other forms of media and entertainment (e.x. 1990s Madon...
Well, as far as the legal systems of any 1st world nations go, humans can and do judge good and bad, so it's your word against theirs, unless you clai...
Nope. You’re still not getting it. Humans are not the center of the universe as you might think. Basically you're asserting that putting humans at the...
Fair enough then, so "to the Nazis", putting Jews in gas chambers was "good", who's to say there was anything wrong in that perception? So based on yo...
To us self-centered humans, there is relative good and bad. What is "wrong" with being self centered. I understand that, but that's just a matter of c...
Okay. The one absolute is that there are no other absolutes than this self-referring statement. Why? But you said it's about perception, so then blowi...
You completely misunderstood me. Also, to say there are no absolutes is an absolute is like saying the fictional unicorn is an actual unicorn. No I be...
Am I the only one on this forum with self-awareness? It seems that everyone here feels they are guiltless good people. I try to be good to the best of...
Who's to say what is good? I'm not sure that's the best interpretation of that story, but that's a separate topic entirely. I was planning on reading ...
Tough to say, I think it depends on the context; something which is pure "pornography' with no meaningful context is different than tasteful depiction...
There's facts, and then there's how to use facts, source of the facts being damned, at least as far as partisan politics go. Sadly most discussions ab...
If I had to pick, I'd argue mathematics, which is what all theories, scientific or otherwise are presumably constructed from to begin with, Bacon's me...
It seems to me that very few people have a serious vested interest in critically studying or examining such a thing to begin with, as opposed to mindl...
Scientism is nonsense, and it's anti-intellectual, based primarily on archaic, 19th century science and scientific axioms, taught and regurgitated at ...
Or as another example, some people say that one was taught about hell in order to 'get them to behave'. However, one may have also been taught that it...
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