My TV hasn't worked for some years now, but I am planning to fix it soon and perhaps you can recommend a show for me? My brother says, "Alaska: the fi...
All remains valid in terms of the athiest, the arguement is reasonable and sound. In terms of agnostic, if the option is for or against the agnostic i...
Happy to leave it there, I'm not sure how we progress from here other than for me to get a better understanding from you on what your agnosticism is? ...
Okay, that's an interesting one, if you are an agnostic, when we arrived at the "fact" which showed it was "not known", why didn't you agree? Surely t...
Yes for sure, we need to be very careful or will will jump to conclusions. Okay, so we have taken a backward step again, or i misunderstand you becaus...
The statement now appears to be mostly correct because no conclusion was drawn, a god, many gods is irrelevant. All of it in bold is correct, is it no...
Okay, so let's imagine something else for a moment. Let's say we want to drive a car to London. Now, we agree London is the place to get to, we draw a...
We didn't play a game, although I was trying to lighten it up a bit as I felt bad, I will be more serious, sorry. You read the example, you saw there ...
Is "must" affirmative or subjective? If I say to someone, "you can do this if you like", or say, "you must do this". Is it affirmative? The reason it ...
A small digression here, for fun. I remember being told by my tutor when studying hypnosis, "Who do you imagine is harder to hypnotise, clever people ...
Correct, "don't know" is established, so let's call that "Fact". Because the fact is neutral. Believers / Non believers are in possession of no greate...
I'm just trying to say, as clearly and concisely as I can, we agree the answer is "not known". If we reason further and say anything more, we are assu...
Do you imagine the 0.01% interest is what your bank is making on the what was your money, but is now their money? Like I said, give them a call and as...
What is interesting here, is my point about taking either position, "believer" kind and caring and "non believer" aggressive, is sort of being proved....
True, same as the rest of us. Already, in a slightly clever way making a presumption that "creator exists" Sort of true as the statement is a little w...
I do see that. The point is, to make any assertion to "does exist", "doesn't exist" is wrong, in error. We don't know, that was the point. It is unkno...
That's the right starting point. We don't know. Those of the faith "don't know" and those without faith "don't know". In general, those with faith see...
When looking too far forward seems too much, shorten your sights. You don't need to create a life plan all in one go, that's not how it has to work. Y...
The fact is "we don't know". That's the point being made, albeit a rather strong point. Is it better in light of "not knowing" to deny it or have fait...
Now, having made the assumption, and therefore incorporated the error, what influence has that error had on the people you know, the way you have chos...
The word IF already suggests were a not sure of the ground below us. In the example, we established the ground as "knowing nothing". Reason is a ladde...
As you saw, we didn't positively assert anything, because we already identified the flaw if we did so. There is not positive assertion of "a creator d...
Where is the burden? I appreciate there is investment in "no creator" after all, it makes life a lot easier, but that's not the point - that's a distr...
If you re-read the statement, you will see we were very careful not to "guess". We used reason to arrive at a conclusion of "we couldn't prove a creat...
Then defend your position sir, because from where I'm looking it looks like your up to your waste in quicksand... and sinking (in a playful manner of ...
You have to remember than I'm no different to you and do not have all the answers, I'm just working it through. We are not far from anything, and we a...
You are looking at this back to front. We cannot prove there is a creator, only to prove if there isn't one. Of which, we have not been able to do. If...
A scientist who begins his experiment has to establish the "ground" first before he can start his tests. The best scientists are the ones who start fr...
Last one I promise, I just had to share this. It's not mine, I take no credit: There was a man who died and was being taken to heaven by angels. The a...
This is the problem for sure. We are not really creators in life, we are discovers. We are rediscovering what we always knew. A famous chap once said,...
You're replies and humility touched me, thank you, as I said, I know no better than anyone else. I'm really simple that's all. There is a time to be s...
Sorry, I was drawing the similarity of "efficiency" with my mafia example, in an attempt to simplify it. Apologies if you read my comment quite so lit...
Yes that's very true. I did mention that early on that money is a call on "products and services", or a claim on the future economy (same difference I...
I appreciate it doesn't make sense, but it doesn't change the fact. I would test it, phone up your bank and ask them. If you owed the money in your ba...
The sysem of money is a closed loop. The more you print the more you devalue it, until, like early germany, you need a wheelborrow of money to buy a l...
Very true, but lets not forget all the weapons we need to make to. That helps the economy big time. Tanks, bullets, uniforms, food, fuel, missles, aer...
I totally agree. I'm been thinking the same this morning. These people Plato, etc. all lived in a time very different to ours. With different problems...
You are not trying, more effort is needed. What is learning? Do you learn when you get things right, or when you get them wrong? Learn like a child. O...
To be honest, you could google search this one to get the answer. War boosts an economy like nothing else. Read a little history and you will see very...
Yes we do appear to have different definitions of wealth/assets. You see, anyone with wealth has one objective, to hold on to that wealth for as long ...
Yes, it was detached from the Gold Standard in the 70s (when "I promise to pay the bearer x pounds in gold") meant you could walk into a bank and ask ...
No problem, you're very welcome. I found a good book on wealth called, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", I think I had the 2nd book (Rich Dad Poor Dad 2). It was ...
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