Spoken just like someone who responds too quickly to posts without thinking things through and who wants to argue for the sake of arguing. You've move...
I'm trying to look at the issue objectively. I see bad/evil and good/right as part of the same coin - how events either inhibit our promote our goals....
I already gave the answer as to what is evil/bad right/good on the first page of this forum. It was ignored, so it is no surprise that this thread has...
"Evil" would be the product of intent. Bad not necessarily. For instance, someone trying to kill you is evil. Cancer trying to kill you is just "bad"....
Everyone - black, white, or whatever - have been called names, offensive names, racial slurs, etc. Therefore everyone has skin in this game and has th...
"Anarchic society" is an oxymoron. There is no such thing as a "leader" in an anarchy. If a leader rises, then it is no longer an anarchy, but some fo...
Your questions show that you have already turned dualist. These are questions a dualist would ask. They stem form the faulty premise of dualism. What ...
It's real easy to make that claim anonomously here on these forums. Like I said, if that is how you really feel, put your money where your mouth is an...
No, but you are cherry-picking. You are the one that said you can only make statements of belief. If you can't back it up then calling people names is...
Right. So aboutness would be some state of affairs (the relationship between words and what they refer to) and in talking about aboutness you would be...
Again, there is a distinction between words about some idea and words about some state-of-affairs. Statements of what Star Wars is about is about idea...
But it isn't about the igneous rock if the igneous rock isn't polka-dotted. You'd be referring to the igneous rock in your head, not the one outside o...
You said: I said: Do you agree that beliefs can be wrong? If so, AND you can't statement something that isn't a belief (in other words, statements are...
When beliefs/statements are wrong then they necessarily can't be about some state of affairs. When beliefs/statements are right they necessarily are a...
So then every statement of yours in every one of your posts isn't about some state-of-affairs - like "You can't state something that isn't a belief."?...
Hmmm. So you can't make a distinction between a belief and some actual state-of-affairs? So, "Donald Trump is the President of the United States" is a...
Yet we have comedians pushing the envelope of what is acceptable to say. We have new words with new meanings, and even old words with new meanings (ta...
No. Go back and read my post. Is the person mistaken that they have a belief? Whether the belief is right or wrong is a different question. False beli...
Simple. "I was daydreaming that I was flying" is an objective statement about the state of some mind. "Daydreaming that you are flying is a waste of t...
Value statements are subjective. All other statements are objective. Moral statements are subjective. Talk about how morals evolved is objective. Mind...
Uhh.. The NAACP is a black organization calling themselves "Colored People". Obviously not all blacks think that it is an improper descriptive term. T...
Go tell that to the NAACP. Are you black? If not, then why are you speaking for all of them (making a generalization), as if they ALL would be offende...
No, it isn't. You're making things more complicated and not even getting at anything I have said. I am talking about the self. You are talking about a...
When did I ever shrug my shoulders and say "there's no big deal"? Now you're just putting words in my mouth, creating a straw-man where there is none....
No. Didn't I say animals were conscious and that self-awareness comes in degrees that is the result of brain structure? For you, consciousness is eith...
No. It is impossible to have a meaningful conversation when I keep refering to avideo that you and Apo refuse to watch. You are ignoring the previous ...
Sure. I've never denied any of that. What I have denied is that you become self-aware, or conscious, after leraning language. That is what OP was aski...
I dont see how that follows. The rest of your post doesn't reject anything I've said. I have already talked about discoveries that have changed the wa...
Wrong. That isn't what I said. Every time I used the string of symbols, "what is already there" in this thread, I was saying that we use language to r...
What is telling is that in your entire post you never quote him saying that he discovered that he was seperate and different from others. He says that...
Would a person from the 19 century be able to orient and perform in our digital society? This has nothing to do with self awareness. It is more to do ...
"Being bothered by having to manage something" is a limitation of humans, not gods. Gods don't make mistakes. Natural selection does. What we observe ...
God could not have created time just like God could not have created itself. It is something that is eternal. Time is just a measurement of change. If...
Language doesn't make us self aware. It allows us to express what is already there. It allows us to express ourselves in greater detail and with bette...
Your analogy doesn't work. It would be more like the painter used certain colors, then erased everything, put more colors, erased everything again, pu...
If I was the only person to exist, I would still have self-awareness because I can make the distinction between environment and my body, just like eve...
I'm using my phone to reply, so sometimes the autocomplete doesn't work right. I also argued that sharks could be god's reason for creation, or maybe ...
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