Protection of freedom of religion. You said religious ideas are not special. I described why they are, at least in the US. You can argue they should't...
Without going into detail, I disagree with your characterization of what I said. Some of the things you attribute to me I never said, didn't imply, an...
The US, in particular, was founded by people escaping from religious oppression. For that reason, protection of religion is built into the foundation ...
Hello and welcome. You express yourself well, so doubly welcome. I think you'll find that the kinds of things you refer to above do not happen here mu...
In many ways, I classify anti-religious discussions in with anti-natalism and free will/determinism. They're just so fucking tiresome. The same lame, ...
I went back and checked all my posts in this thread. All of them were reasonably civil and respectful, if harsh. I didn't say anti-religionists should...
Did you read my posts? 13 out of eighteen threads concerning religion in the past two weeks were anti-religion. None were pro-religion. If anti-religi...
I could argue about this I guess, but it's not what my post was about. As I've said, there wouldn't be any problems in this area except that the anti-...
I didn't say it was offensive. I said it was annoying and it pisses me off. So, why pick on religious intolerance 1) The main culprits in the anti-rel...
You certainly may give them a hug (after a suitable trigger warning and a check of any applicable harassment policy). If you decide not to hug them, I...
I've presented evidence in my OP. Out of eighteen posts on religion active within the last two weeks, 13 were anti-religion and five were neutral. Odd...
That misses my point a bit - anti-religionists are the sole cause of the problem their diatribes are purported to address. If they would stop, there w...
There are two features useful in editing posts that are not, as far as I know, available for private messages. 1) Preview and 2) If I move out of a th...
As Aristotle once said "facts is facts." Or was that me? I wasn't aware that you are not an atheist. I'll be more careful in the future. From now on I...
I appreciate you starting this discussion. It's well written and the argument is well presented. The issue you have raised is one that has bothered me...
I'm glad you at least thought about it. Lake Baikal is on the itinerary. You can stop and watch the radioactive gas bubbling up. The idea of long rail...
I went back and checked for the last week. During that period, there were 18 active threads that dealt with the existence of God. Based on the opening...
I thought about including you along with GCB, but I didn't want to complicate this discussion. Thanks, I couldn't have asked for a better example to s...
I haven't found that to be true. There are a lot more vocal atheists here than believers. The atheists also tend to be more rabid. Case in point - Gno...
Just for the record - I don't follow any specific religion and I don't have much in the way of religious belief. I asked whether you were a follower b...
I didn't really have any targets. I wanted to talk about the subject of introspection to clarify in my mind my own personal experiences. I wanted to h...
Let me think.....Ok, yes. But it is possible to experience the world - interior or exterior - without reasoning, without seeing it as a world of thing...
As @"Echarmion" points out - my wife and I occupy the same the same place, my house, at the same time. Three quarks occupy the same place, a proton, a...
As Elucid's comment demonstrates, the answer to your question depends on how you define "the same space." It is always good to define your terms at th...
Yes, the minute I try to put my inner experience into words, that changes everything. Of course, the same is true when I observe the dog on my front l...
Are you discussing this issue as a Christian who disagrees with Church doctrine or as a non-believer who is criticizing an irrational belief? My respo...
Thought is not introspection, it is the thing that introspection observes. Again - whatever you call it - you have redefined the terms of this discuss...
Well, introspection is self-observation of internal states. I started the thread, so it must be true. When I have been writing about introspection, th...
So, you don't deny our experience, just that what we experienced exists. Is that correct? Or is it that what we experienced isn't introspection? But t...
If realizing means labeling, that's not what I'm talking about. As I said previously - No inferring, no explaining, no understanding, no attribution, ...
So, you reject @"Coben"'s, @"Judaka"'s, and my experience of introspection. That's pretty arrogant and it shows a lack of imagination and empathy. If ...
As I wrote, introspection is observation, not interpretation, not intuition. How do I know that?....Introspection. I observe my introspection. How? Us...
Ahem. That's all I have to say about the law of attraction. I would be interested to hear what you have seen when you look into yourself while experie...
You can't understanding epistemology without psychology. Introspection is the one process that allows us to observe psychology at the source. I'll tak...
Introspection is not the same thing as intuition. Introspection, as I've said, is just observation. I've spent a lot of attention observing my interna...
This is the heart of introspection for me. It has formed my understanding of knowledge and reality. I have always thought that temperament, our built-...
Yes, I learn more about myself when I learn from others. Then again, learning more about others is also valuable in its own right. Understanding other...
When I observe the outside world with my senses, e.g. a dog sitting on my lawn, is that observation a source of knowledge or a tool for gaining knowle...
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