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Cockroaches and viruses are non human. Are they sacred? I also said that it is an anthropomorphic projection of a human mind onto the universe. I gave...
June 02, 2019 at 13:44
It means that you can create amalgams of previous experiences or ideas. All new ideas consist of previous experiences. A purple polka dotted people ea...
June 01, 2019 at 14:37
If I wasn't interested, I wouldn't be wasting my time asking the question. I've been on internet forums for about 15 years and I have found that all r...
June 01, 2019 at 12:36
How can I find error in your claims if you don't answer my questions? You error would be in avoiding my questions. They should be questions you should...
June 01, 2019 at 12:34
How do you distinguish between fallacious religious beliefs and non-fallacious religious beliefs? Is there more evidence for your religious beliefs th...
June 01, 2019 at 02:22
Because you are incapable of answering my questions with coherent answers, it seems to me that you have a feigned understanding of your own claims.
June 01, 2019 at 01:37
I dont see the bleakness in the above quote. As opposed to the fact that life is actually absurd, which is why I asked why life is absurd. Is it actua...
June 01, 2019 at 00:53
I asked why life is absurd. It seems to me that youre saying its simply a way of thinking. How is something that is successful, bleak?
May 31, 2019 at 23:13
A narrative can be bleak. Which narrative? How is life absurd?
May 31, 2019 at 22:23
What does this even mean? What exactly are you saying that is absurd?
May 31, 2019 at 21:13
How so? Wouldnt it be dependent on how one defined, "successful" or what entails "success"?
May 31, 2019 at 21:09
Which is what I said earlier: Good luck. One man's revolutionary is another man's terrorist.
May 31, 2019 at 14:38
And how do you subject politicians to legal restrictions when it is the politicians that define the legal restrictions?
May 31, 2019 at 13:59
Are you saying all behaviors are instinctual, and that free will is an illusion and really just another instinctual response to our perceptions?
May 31, 2019 at 13:55
You and others aren't getting anywhere because "consciousness" hasn't been clearly defined. Do rocks and balls have memories that they can recall? Can...
May 31, 2019 at 13:04
Around and around we go. Again I ask, what is "spiritual"? How is this any different than the Christian belief that God is everywhere and in everythin...
May 31, 2019 at 12:24
Sure. Occams razor and I'm not using these poorly defined and loaded terms, like "spirituality", "sacred" and "divine". I asked for "spirituality" to ...
May 31, 2019 at 00:14
One man's "failed" politician is another man's "successful" politician. That is politics. So maybe we should eliminate politicians and representation ...
May 30, 2019 at 22:08
That's how a representational democracy govt. works. You choose someone to handle the budget. If you don't like how they handled the budget, vote for ...
May 30, 2019 at 20:32
What would you expect from a generation who grew up watching scripted shows labeled "reality" shows? Wikipedia: Post-truth politics (also called post-...
May 30, 2019 at 12:25
Strange how you singled me out for "projecting to the general what applies only to the particular", when everyone in this thread would be doing the sa...
May 30, 2019 at 11:52
I was a Christian the first half of my life and then I became an atheist. The only thing that I lost was my belief in a god. What is "spirituality" - ...
May 30, 2019 at 05:10
Meaning is the relationship between cause and effect. Meaning is everywhere, possibly the fabric of reality itself. If nothing had meaning then there ...
May 29, 2019 at 23:48
So the only way to make a circle is by putting two semi-circles together? If I can make a circle without using two semi-circles as parts, then doesnt ...
May 29, 2019 at 18:04
Then the "parts" aren't part of the whole, but something else entirely. A semi-circle is not part of a circle. It is a different shape entirely.
May 29, 2019 at 16:05
What do you mean consider it in a "positive light"? If you are asking for me to assume the idea for a moment and contemplate the implications of such ...
May 29, 2019 at 15:41
How is it that you are aware of other minds if not by the same way you are aware of everything else in the world - via the senses? If the world is an ...
May 29, 2019 at 12:50
:roll: Word salad. If "we" are all of the same mind - meaning there is only one mind, then solipsism. Cultures and species would be part of the illusi...
May 29, 2019 at 12:32
If the world isnt real then what does that say for the other humans that are part of it? This is the typical anti-realism nonsense that doesnt admit t...
May 29, 2019 at 01:05
Probably because you're using the wrong keyword, "non-validity". Google "invalid reasoning", and that should help. Invalidity is a property of reasoni...
May 27, 2019 at 16:57
If words didn't have some degree of objectivity then we would always be talking past each other. We would never communicate at all. How could we lie t...
May 27, 2019 at 15:50
Then why do you believe that the arguments about 'evidence for God' are futile? Why would you not believe that the arguments about the 'evidence for G...
May 26, 2019 at 20:22
Which is no different than saying there is no evidence.
May 26, 2019 at 17:29
Im not asking you to chase words. I'm asking you to be consistent. You arent. Any infinite regress is one of your own making. I'm basically asking you...
May 26, 2019 at 16:25
Dont you need evidence that the debate on evidence it futile? What reasons do you have to say that the debate is futile and wouldnt you be using your ...
May 26, 2019 at 13:33
No, delusions are irrational beliefs, not behaviors.
May 26, 2019 at 13:26
You said that it is a process or a bridge that connects potentiality and actuality, so how can you then say that it has no real existence? How is it t...
May 26, 2019 at 03:55
You're forgetting that the words are used to trigger concepts in other minds via communication. The concept of existence exists as something non-verba...
May 25, 2019 at 22:13
What is the difference between intention, volition, and while we're at it, goal? The will is what is what I would call a process - similar to a centra...
May 25, 2019 at 21:53
I didnt simply say, "not true". I also backed it up with examples. You're the one making assertions with anything to back it up. You originally asked ...
May 25, 2019 at 20:11
Why would we talk about evidence differently only in the case of God? Why is evidence for your existence different than the evidence for God? This ano...
May 25, 2019 at 15:07
Not true. Many athletes take ownership when they fail and give glory to God when they succeed. And if we didn't take ownership when we fail, then how ...
May 25, 2019 at 14:45
If it is incoherent, then how are we using words in the first place rather just putting scribbles on a screen? If it is incoherent, are we necessarily...
May 25, 2019 at 14:37
It seems to me that explaining the will is part of the battle in explaining consciousness. Can there be consciousness without will? https://www.ncbi.n...
May 25, 2019 at 14:35
No. The above quote is what Witt meant when he used the phrase, "language on holiday". You are taking his phrase and reusing it in a way that is incoh...
May 25, 2019 at 14:24
That is assuming that you know what knowing really is.
May 25, 2019 at 00:50
You said it yourself. They are phenomena. What is phenomena? Knowing a lot about something entails knowing what they really are. If you don't know wha...
May 24, 2019 at 23:47
it's a simple question. If "mind" is an irrelevant term given your thesis, then I'm asking you to explain the use of the terms you are are using (and ...
May 24, 2019 at 19:37
What is a Rorty, James, Dewey, Sellars, Quine, Kuhn, Wittgenstein, Derrida, or Heidegger? I'm focusing on your use of language here. Are words just sc...
May 24, 2019 at 18:58
Congratulations! You've wiped away subjectivity and the subject in one swift stroke and redefined "minds" as "objects". What is a Wittgenstein and wha...
May 24, 2019 at 18:25