Uh huh. If it is so complex, and Allah's intentions are beyond our understanding, how is it that you have come to understand? Are you not making simil...
After over 20 years of being a theist and then the next 26 years of being an atheist that interacted with theists, I have yet to meet one theist that ...
Knowing how to symbolize a concept for communication is different than knowing the concept itself. What about the fact that you can't use some foreign...
You could make the same arguments for the other religions, so you haven't yet differentiated yourself from any other religion. I used to be a theist. ...
Most other monotheistic religions say the same thing about their god and religion. Who said that it came out of nowhere randomly? How anyone can belie...
Put simply: Religion is a method for dealing with the stresses of life (no inherent meaning to life, unfairness of society, worrying about death and d...
Meaning is the relationship between cause and effect. In the case of language use, words mean what the speaker or writer intended to convey. If it wer...
Words are arbitrary. We can use any string of symbols to refer to anything. Just look at all of the different languages humans use with different stri...
Exactly. We can be wrong about who we are. I have provided evidence of this. The only way I can differentiate between man and woman is by body structu...
These two statements contradict each other. If we can pick out what it is to be a man or woman because it is objective, then how can so many people be...
Now we're getting back to those arbitrary cultural rules I was talking about before. Culturally, nephewhood could be anything. Biologically, it is onl...
Re-read my post above because I edited while you were replying. I'll add in response to to your latest post that nephewhood can be measured by either ...
Aren't we getting off topic here? I did say time and the types of things people do for each other and genetic relationships are what make your identit...
I don't see how any of this is any different from the post I responded to, so my previous post stands. Your whole post is circular. You simply state t...
This is just more nonsense. All you are talking about is our own individual preferences, not anything that can be called "manhood" or "womanhood". If ...
The amount of time and types of things you do for each other can be said to be physical quantities. I could even say that feelings are physical as wel...
And the male who claims to have "womanhood" wouldn't know what "womanhood" is to say that he has it. You are attributing special powers to transgender...
Is this not what I have been saying all along - that this is the result of a defect in the brain (physical and/or psychological)? What does it even me...
What about psychology and the impact pharmacology has on the "subjective"? This is an example of your ability to multitask. You could not drive and da...
I was pointing out another one of your inconsistencies when I asked you that question, but you didn't seem to get it. I was talking about biological r...
This is something I have argued for many times on this forum. That isn't necessary. Observe: In other words, it indicates the presence of vanilla in s...
You said that feelings are best measurement for understanding identity. What are feelings if not a kind of qualia? You are inconsistent again, and it'...
That is not at all similar to what I'm saying. If you want to address what I've been saying, then READ what I've been saying. There are cases where pe...
What does this even mean? How is what Nagel is saying not applicable to the present discussion? This is so typical of you. You disagree, but you don't...
If a man claims to feel like a woman, how does he know what being a a woman feels like, and why would they need hormone therapy to feel like a woman? ...
I never said there wasn't a distinction. I said that the distinction lies in the boundaries between cultures, not between sex/gender. I conflate sex/g...
Again, if both men and women can do something, like grow/cut hair and wear/not wear makeup, then there is no point in making a distinction of masculin...
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/man Man: An adult human male. Woman: An adult human female. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ma...
If they feel like the opposite "gender" then why do they need go about performing physical changes to validate their feeling? Why would they need to c...
That would only happen if we as a society reject reason and logic as the arbiters of truth. If we were to actually value reason over emotion as a soci...
EXCEPT when their interiority contradicts their exterior - as in when they believe that they are Jesus, an alien, or the opposite sex. Beliefs are int...
Exactly. That is why I said that we need to dispense with the labeling and engage in reasoning your way through arguments. Labeling does nothing other...
Wha-What? What other method has provided access to truth better than reason? What other method, other than reason, has provided actual answers to anyt...
This is the most ridiculous analogy I've seen. No, Banno. It's not like that at all. We aren't talking about race. Remember, for the 3rd time, I'm usi...
There was a lot more to my post, that you cherry-picked, that establishes a different theme than what you seem to have gathered from it. Nazis limited...
How is engaging in abusive behavior indicative of being able to "school", rather than be "schooled"? If you are combating abusive behavior with abusiv...
My point has always been that gender is arbitrary - as in the various ways humans expect other humans to behave, while sex isn't. So, gender is meanin...
That's because we aren't disagreeing that sex is anything more than biology. We are in disagreement whether or not gender is anything more than biolog...
And the only reason I can't agree with you is because you haven't even defined "gender" in any coherent way. I don't see a difference between wanting ...
So, you have never told someone that they were wrong, or contradicted their belief, or otherwise engaged in some debate where someone's deeply held be...
Any aspect of identity that contradicts reality - like claiming that you are actually an alien, Jesus, President Obama's secret mistress, feeling like...
Science does produce truth - when done correctly and without external influences like we had from religion in the 15th and 16th centuries, and like we...
It is interesting to contemplate these kinds of ideas. It really is a toss-up between either option simply because we don't have enough information to...
If a man can wear a dress and make-up then obviously these acts are not what it means to be a woman that transcends biology. There is no transcendenta...
It seems to me that many of those terms overlap each other. The complexity is a result of our ignorance on this topic. Occam's Razor dictates that the...
I don't understand this part of your post. People aren't their gender based on feeling or body, but by the meaning of sex or gender itself? People are...
So the debate is between two groups in the same culture having different feelings about gender. Whose feelings win out? Whose feelings are more import...
Your feelings to not determine the truth. If that were the case then the feeling Christians get means their God exists. Truth is not beholden to your ...
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