T_Clark

When you get around to posting on religious subjects, I'm always pleased. I find your insights helpful.

I've never thought any religious belief sounded any more "preposterous" than quantum mechanics. If you're in the mood for some pointless argument, the...

Given your sometimes harsh treatment of religious believers, I appreciated all your posts in this thread. Without backing off your strong opinions, yo...

You keep saying you're a theist and yet you treat religious people with smug contempt.

Yes...well...hmm...This explains a lot.

Mods don't usually get involved just because someone is being a dick.

And it looks to me that's not a real sandwich.

You're just lazy. And you're also.... Well, let's just leave it at that.

Did you notice that the sandwich man is a soldier in the Salvation Army?

Yeah, @"javi2541997" and @"god must be atheist", why should Eugen have to put together a coherent, understandable post? Why should he have to define h...

I've read that if you spread marbles and chicken bones around your house, it will keep killer rabbits away.

I think perhaps It's the marbles and chicken bones.

I don't know what this means, but I think I probably disagree with it. I do agree with @"Jamal" that this does, in fact, appear to be your ruling.

I was making the distinction between conscious, language mediated, rational thinking and intuitive thinking which does not use words and generally wor...

No. I don't accept any of this. We've had lots of discussions of justified true belief here before.

I agree with this with one clarification. The level of mental effort I put into something should be consistent with the uncertainty of my source of in...

I'm not sure what it means, but it sounds like something I would disagree with.

I think you may be right, but I take people at their word about how they experience knowing things.

Yes, you should just do that. As Fezzik the giant said to Wesley in the Princess Bride, I want you to feel that you're doing well.

I wonder if we're talking about the same thing, just using different words. What you are describing seems consistent with what I'm saying.

This is how I see it too. What I was presenting were my understandings of what many others believe. I think very little of what we think and do is wha...

When you get down to it, what you're talking about is intuition, at least that's what I call it. There are quite a few people, including here on the f...

I didn't say it wasn't true, I said it wasn't knowledge. The question here isn't whether it is knowledge to you, but whether it is knowledge to others...

That makes sense, I guess, but, with the way things continue to go in Ukraine, it seems they may need it again.

My JTB post was tongue-in-cheek. I think anyone who thinks that JTB is an accurate description of knowledge has never paid attention to how knowing so...

Which window do they throw all the military guys out of?

Not at all. We'll look at two conditions. 1) I do not have faith that @"Hanover" is telling the truth so, I have no justification, either philosophica...

"Ring of truth?" That sounds like faith to me. You're thinking of religion, not philosophy.

Then let's look at this post a bit and apply the JTB standard. Let's forget about T and B for now. Are we justified in believing Hanover's story? Has ...

Again, my responsibilities only apply when there haven't been any posts in the Shoutbox for 24 hours. My stupid, pointless, untrue, and trivial posts ...

As I have noted previously, I have already been appointed The Voice of the Spirit of Philosophy here on the forum. Perhaps you missed that. Keeping th...

I take my responsibility to the Shoutbox very seriously. I have one rule - If no one has posted within 24 hours, post something, no matter how stupid,...

I mean in terms of flavor or texture.

If I want to burn out my sinuses, I just eat a small spoonful of Chinese mustard. I usually do it unintentionally while eating Chinese food.

Then do you know the difference between rye bread without caraway seeds and wheat bread?

Keeping in mind that in order to be knowledge, it has to be justified true belief. A lot of what's in the Shoutbox isn't true and lot of what is true ...

Your response made me go back and check. Most rye bread has caraway seeds, which I misidentified as fennel. Caraway adds an anisey, licoricey flavor t...

All the rye bread I ever get has fennel seeds in it. I don't know if I would recognize the difference between wheat and rye bread without that.

Sorry, I didn't mean to ignore your responses. I just don't have any more to add. You and I just see things differently.

Thanks again.

This is great! I'm even more excited. Which, yes, is even more pitiful.

I was just reading that many babies who grew up to be attorneys were fed that. It was one of the recommendations in Dr. Spock's "Baby and Child Care."...

I remember when you were a baby. You ate mostly Gerber Pureed Haggis and had a splash of scotch in your formula.

I used this on another web site and it worked well there too. I'm so excited. Which, yes, is pretty pitiful.

My elder son is 37, back in school, and getting good grades. He says when he was in high school he didn't give a shit.

Google "the problem of evil." That's what they call it.

Good, thoughtful post. This is true for me too. This is fine, although you and I often classify different things as "superstitions & faiths." My daugh...

We don't normally accept the results of actual observations here on the forum. All our truths have to be deduced from a priori knowledge.

Keep in mind I'm much younger than you are. Why, you were already walking, talking, and wetting your bed before I was even born.

I'm with @"praxis" on this. I think this is an overstatement. I'm sure it's a common attitude among those on the liberal/socialist side, but it's a bi...