T_Clark

This from the Tao Te Ching, Verse 38, Stephen Mitchell translation:

I was talking specifically about the word "metaphysics." It's a subject that is important to me. I'm interested in metaphysics and want to talk about ...

I would add identity, ego, psyche, and perhaps heart to your list. For me, these words are synonyms, although many would disagree. Some of that disagr...

You find philosophical approaches which parallel Taoist principles in many places, including western philosophies. Kant's noumena are a good example. ...

I like the idea of baseball. It's philosophical - the rules are so arbitrary and arcane that it teaches us viscerally about the structure of human tho...

This is a great discussion. I don't have strong feelings either way. Not to go on a tangent, but one thing bothered me. This from the article you link...

If you drink enough beer, the quality of the hot dogs doesn't matter. If you eat enough hot dogs, the quality of the beer doesn't matter. Since we're ...

Thank you. You're right about metaphysics being overburdened. Most discussions end up spending most of their time arguing about what the word means ra...

Yes. The opportunity to tune up my intellect is the most important thing about the forum for me.

The correct, pre-House of Tudor spelling is "misunderstound."

Hey, don't complain to me. Talk to Henry VIII. (See my previous post.) Something else beyond Harry and slavery you can blame on the monarchy.

I am a proud member of The Philosophy Forum. I stand by the principle that bad philosophy recognizes no national borders.

Thanks for the thumbs up. There isn't any controversy. It is well known that people in the UK and their colonies spell certain words wrong. It is a li...

Normally, I would post this in the Feature Requests thread, but I decided these suggestions are important enough that they should be posted in the Sho...

Great post. Am I wrong, you seem to be participating more in the actual discussions here on the forum rather than just thinking up new ways to torture...

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In my experience, people want and expect different things from their friends than they do from their romantic partners and different things from their...

I feel strongly about my points because I am angered by the level of disrespect that religious beliefs are shown here on the forum. As I tried to show...

But once I've read it I'll be able to toss off an authoritative "Didn't impress me" during conversations about detective novels.

I think I'll try Hammett.

I read "The Little Sister" and I did like it better. Less wordy and less psychological. Less chess. But still overwritten and over-complex for my tast...

I just rewatched that scene with Marlowe trying to fake his cat out about Coury Brand Cat Food. It reminded me why I like the movie so much. About 4 m...

If my recent experience with you is representative, your response to posts you don't like is to question the motives and good will of those you disagr...

Good question and I agree. I was responding to claims that "theism can be the basis for a bad act by a good person." Of course it's much more complex ...

I'm not "leaving it out." It's not relevant. Another reason it's irrelevant.

My children are in their 30s and early 40s. They are what is important in my ife. I have no grandchildren and probably won't. I want them to have safe...

Are you saying that theists as a group do more bad things than atheists? I'm skeptical. Can you provide any evidence for that? Individual instances of...

If atheists and theists are both naturally equally good people, and if, in addition to that natural proclivity, theists can be corrupted by their reli...

It seems to me humanity has entered a new technological phase which I think will be more far reaching than the industrial revolution. More or less sud...

In order for this to be true, one of two things must also be true. 1) Atheists must do bad less than religious people do. I see no evidence of this. 2...

I like beer, but, sad to say, as I've gotten older it does a number on my stomach. Lite beer doesn't. Mostly I drink wine, but certain things call for...

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Different people interpret it in different ways, which is not unusual.

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Call it what you will, but it is part of what it means to be a theist.

That's one of my favorite scenes, but you're right, Arnold's role would be a disappointment to his fans.

Good posts. If people would just follow your advice, I would shut up. Or maybe not.

I don't find that a convincing argument. As I've said many times before, I think religious feeling ultimately comes from personal experience of God. A...

I agree. Although to be fair, many of the arguments we have on the forum are futile. I respond with intensity because of the self-righteous intellectu...

Atheist groups: American Atheists Freedom From Religion Foundation Atheists United Atheist Alliance International Wikipedia list - https://en.wikipedi...

One war I'm not sure about is the conquest of southern Europe by the Ottoman Empire. The Empire was certainly strongly religious, but I'm not sure if ...

I think up until the 19th century at least, you couldn't really separate the the state from the church. I'm not claiming that religious institutions w...

I didn't say that. What I said is that people gonna war. Religion doesn't seem to make it any better, but it doesn't make it any worse. If you want to...

Well, I was talking about religious wars, but we can talk about this broader subject. What are the worst human rights violations in the 20th and 21st ...

No thanks. I disagree.

I see that as a pretext like the whole religious war thing. As if atheists aren't just as capable of genocide, massacre, and total war as religious be...

I wasn't thinking about science in particular. Ciceronianus said this: I think it's reasonable to apply something similar to the atheistic worldview.

So... It seems you are acknowledging that it's primarily a political conflict rather than an intellectual one.

It doesn't have to be, but the aggressive type I am talking about, and that we often see here on the forum, usually is. This is absurd. I appreciate t...

Your OP is very coy. Oh...why would anyone object to the things that atheists say about religion. It ignores the fact that our culture, and this forum...