Harry Hindu

How I this an arguement against anything I said? You need to rephrase.

By calling something accidental, you are implying purpose. By implying that inanimate objects, like the universe, have accidents you are projecting pu...

It seems to me that we evolved to sense the passage of time - of cause and effect - so that we may learn to predict when and where predators, prey and...

Then they shouldn't be asking what others think if they are only care about with what they think. When someone asks what someone else thinks about som...

Statements are just scribbles on a page, or sounds in the air. It seems to me that logic pre-exists statements, as it requires logic to understand tha...

Full stop. I wouldn't want to be friends with someone that cannot handle criticism. That would limit my ability to be myself around them, so I see the...

We are not within every planetary system. We are actually outside all planetary systems except one. It seems to me that we often wonder what it is lik...

I don't understand the incessant need to put labels on people and their ideas. I find the ideas or the definitions much more interesting than the labe...

Then your problem is that you are judging me based on me calling you out for your ad hominem attacks and not on posts that were not necessarily to you...

Thank you. I'll be here all week. The sooner we all get over ourselves and realize that we are much more than the identities the political parties lab...

They both play that game. The fact that you only think that one side puts on a show for their constituents just shows how much of a pawn of the politi...

They can make all the claims that they want. It's when they want to take away your rights to think differently than what they claim that crosses the l...

It's time for the birds and the bees, Kentaji. I was merely channeling her confusion in trying to answer the question of what a woman is. Of course, 1...

Right, so going back to what I said to you before, if you can't trust your senses then how do you know that you read Husserl correctly because words o...

What does it mean to investigate the experience if not to attribute some cause to the experience, or ponder why it is the way it is if there is no ext...

What if I, a biological male, identified as a transgender male (a female that identifies as being a man?)

That was my response to KBJs answer to that question.

How can we celebrate the first black woman on the Supreme Court if mo one knows what a "woman" is?

Biden was the one that made a point to nominate a black woman. How does anyone know that is what he did if "woman" cannot be defined?

I don't see why we would need to use the term, "metaphysical" here. It's just a fact that I would be a citizen of X because being a citizen of X is a ...

Then Husserlian phenomenology is concerned with the existence of experience. That is the starting point and from there it must be asked why it exists ...

Then you are not necessarily a Jew if your mother was a Jew and Judaism IS based on a belief system because now you've shown that what makes one a Jew...

So the very first human was a Jew? Wouldn't that make every human a Jew and therefore meaningless? If not then how did the first Jew become a Jew? Thi...

Doesn't this require a theory that others exist and write stuff down for you to then read later? How is that any different than trusting scientific th...

What does it mean to be a "Jew" if not performing some ritual? I was raised as a Christian and we celebrated Christmas. Now I'm an atheist. I still br...

:roll: I never said rituals are necessarily religious. I said the motivations behind the ritual is what makes it religious or not. If there is no evid...

Right. So, there is evidence that washing your hands lessens your chances of food poisoning, hence washing your hands is not religious. But there is n...

Then all Jews should be following the rituals as laid out originally in the Bible, yet many of them don't, yet still call themselves "Jews". So practi...

I should also add that if the term "religion" is as vague as you claim, then I could just as easily claim that any behavior or belief is not a religio...

Washing your hands before you eat isn't necessarily a Jewish ritual. Are you Jewish every time you wash your hands? There is evidence that washing you...

The goal in hand-shaking is to great someone, to begin a conversation and to show that you come in peace and aren't holding a weapon. There is evidenc...

Right. I think it is the motive behind the ritual that makes it religious or not. If the motive is to achieve some goal where there is no evidence tha...

Sure, our use of language attempts to divide the world into neat boxes and we often find that the world is not neatly divided into boxes, but it seems...

What do "habits" and "values" have to do with religion - as if religion has a monopoly on the use of such terms? We are not creatures of habit. If we ...

Reality doesn't care about aligning its truth to what you may or may not find interesting. I find it interesting that you believe that though. A bruta...

Unless the analytical philosophers define a proposition as a string of scribbles in it's fundamental state, then I don't know what else they could be ...

Not only that but Wayfarer seems to not realize that believing something is a way of being just as acting on those beliefs are. It still begs the ques...

I'm trying to understand and ask how you know that propositions are the content of beliefs in that you and Banno seem to suggest that beliefs are like...

Years later, we've all gone around the circle and ended up right were we started! What form does a proposition take as the content of a belief?

I think you may be confusing the ends with the means. One can care about the ends of a clean environment and social inequality but not agree with the ...

As I said, for some word to have meaning it needs to refer to something. So if the user of the word, "religion" isn't referring to anything then it wo...

Meaning is using terms to refer to things that are not words. If the word does not refer to anything that exists outside of one's own mind yet it is u...

Seems to me that one merely needs to look at processes of one's own mind for evidence of causation. Thinking is a causal process. Logic is the process...

Stability of form and structure is an illusion. It is a product of our minds' frequency relative to the frequency of what is being observed. Change is...

Actually, you're proving mine. She wasn't asked about transgender people. She was asked to define a woman. According to USA Today we can't determine t...

Wrong. It has to do with the extreme left's fetish with sex/gender and using it to make victims out of people to get votes. It also has to do with Rep...

I don't know but I do find it strange that Mrs. Jackson doesn't seem to have a problem defining "black" but does have a problem defining 'woman". Is B...

But that is what I'm trying to ask you. If consciousness/experience is all there is then are you only referring to your consciousness/experience? Wher...

Again you're simply making the case that knowledge causally precedes any use of that knowledge - that knowledge of the shortest path causes the partic...

I think we need to be careful as to not become a hammer that sees everything as a nail. I don't understand what it would mean to say that consciousnes...