Harry Hindu

It seems like you got it backwards. Hate speech doesn't incite hatred, it stems from hatred. Hate is first and hate speech is an effect of one's hatre...

Uh huh.... :-d

What would another explanatory framework look like if reason and logic aren't the only one's to get at the truth? Then you don't know philosophy. Phil...

Correction. My post suggest that transwomen are men that think that they are women. What is the difference between a transwoman and a man who thinks h...

First of all, you need to school yourself in the difference between delusions and hallucinations. All knowledge is essential to self-understanding, an...

Then why are you referring to me as, "you", and refering to your post as, "my"? It seems like you don't even understand yourself. Dumb, dumb, stupid-d...

This is all based on a complete misunderstanding of what science is and does. Science doesn't impose extra assumptions on the evidence. It simply expl...

:-} I never said "I" was an illusion. You're going on about something I never said, and decided to ignore 99% of my post, where I asked you a question...

Is Calling A Trans Woman A Man (Or Vice Versa) A Form Of Violence? Is telling a schizophrenic their hallucinations aren't real a form of violence? Is ...

Even if it were an illusion, it would still be something that exists. A mirage is the effect of real processes that are explained in a consistent way....

What do you mean by, "observe"? How does a mind observe a mind? What keeps us from observing other minds?

No one is denying the existence of minds. What is being denied is your explanation of what mind is and how it comes to be. If the laws of nature are m...

If God is omnipotent, he can just change the laws, and the new system of laws would be the new logical system. Does God make judgements? If so, then d...

Let me say again, that I used to be a believer AND I have asked these questions to more believers than I can count because they are my family, most of...

According to your own "black swan argument" there could still be a tooth fairy even though you know the parent took the tooth. Ever since we started t...

Cherry-picking my post doesn't help your argument. When you decide to respond to my whole post, we can continue.

If there is anything that is obvious, it is that the existence of god is not obvious. The Bible even states "truly, you are a god who hides himself". ...

Sheesh! Don't you read before posting nonsense like this? The evidence is the religious people's answers and reactions (angrily, hostile, scared) to q...

The difference is the only evidence for God's existence are the words of human beings that have an emotional stake in their belief being true. Why don...

Of course it is. How do you expect us to learn language if we weren't rational? In order to learn a language, you need to have senses and a brain to i...

This is typical theist nonsense. Did you not read my posts where I explained how I arrived at science providing the best answers? It wasn't without qu...

So it is rebellious to think logically and consistently? It does seem that way considering that most people don't seem to think that way. I haven't sp...

I wasn't being dismissive. I was providing a scientific explanation for religious beliefs. Being dismissive would be to ignore the fact that anyone ha...

I was a theist, and my family are theists, so I know I'm not misrepresenting them because I've asked them and many others. What is egotistical is to c...

It is you that is being too dismissive because you don't understand my background and my experiences. I used to be a believer. I was raised by a relig...

Every time that it mentions the word, "delusion", it is implying that the belief is false. That is what a delusion is - a false belief.

First, I didn't say it, Wikipedia did. Second, I didn't bold that particular line, so it doesn't even come into play. Third, and finally, if a delusio...

A delusion is NOT a belief that isn't in agreement with the current knowledge and culture. Here is a list of symptoms from Wikipedia. I've bolded the ...

I find it very strange to say that you aren't making decisions, when YOUR subconscious is making decisions. I think we do make conscious decisions as ...

If you don't have omniscience, then what do you have if not beliefs, or models of the way things are, (which according to your own definition of belie...

Words require consistent definitions that are agreed upon by those within the social dynamic. This is why the social dynamic is fouled up, because the...

Knowledge is a model too. When we find that our knowledge was wrong, did we really possess knowledge or was it only a belief? Many psychologists view ...

14 pages of discussion and no one has defined belief or knowledge. How can anyone even continue this discussion in any meaningful way when neither has...

You're confusing religion with science. If you really don't know the difference, then there's no point in continuing a conversation with you.

Did you read my reply? I explain the problem with the OP there so I cannot help it unless you tell me what part you don't understand.

The mind is a form of working memory. Working memory includes the aspect of attention, or a central executive - the thing that wanders around the mind...

I voted other. Numbers are real, and establish causal relationships, and exist in space and time. Numbers exist as little scribbles or sounds that ref...

I would like to know of any other system of explanation that doesn't do the same thing: to claim that everything is composed of some thing, or is made...

Something happening over and over again isn't the cause of it happening again. There is another cause that leads us to experience some effect. If that...

Perfect. Then we agree that what makes us feel good and what is true can be two distinctly different things, and to try and contradict or question som...

What I hope and what the truth is are two different things. It seems that many people on this forum can distinguish between the two. Which one were we...

Not me. I want the truth - always. My feelings are secondary to the truth.

I don't know what New Atheism is and how it is different from just atheism. Is what I've been arguing "New" atheism, or just atheism? I don't know of ...

You're forgetting that the "other random person" was a little girl, not a big scary dude. If it were me, I wouldn't react that way. I may be confused ...

Watch this video. This video was done in Brazil, which has the largest number of Catholics in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUD4cuTQn2E T...

Let's pick some astrological terms then: http://www.crawfordperspectives.com/astro_gloss.html Take your pick. Looking at those terms, is seems to me t...

And what about the 72 year old Muslim, or Hindu, who has studied their religion their whole life and disagrees with what your word, "God" refers to? Y...

So, they know what the terms mean, which is to say that what they refer to, but the things that they refer to aren't real, wouldn't you agree? So, aga...

A contradiction. If it's not real knowledge, then how can you say that they know better than others?

That didn't answer my question about what age we will be when ressurrected. Why wouldn't it be different, if our bodies are still the same, just ressu...