No, I'm trying to show that each of the 10,000 things, whether you call them profound or trivial, come from the same place. And, if you remember, we w...
S, you ignorant slut. (Who, other than @"Bitter Crank", can tell me where that pop culture reference comes from. For double credit, who can tell me th...
Well, yes, I was joking around, but if we leave out Sonny, I meant exactly what I said. Here's what Lao Tzu said, by way of Lin Yutang: Tao is a hollo...
I've always hated this type of statement, what Stephen Jay Gould called "Non-Overlapping Magisteria," NOMA. Even though he is one of my favorite write...
No, god is not everything. Just the opposite. God is just one of the boys, like love, bratwurst, and your dog Sonny. Well, not like Sonny. We all love...
I'm willing to go along with that if you will agree that our experience of everything is just the illusion of the experience of everything. Or the exp...
I guess I don't see productivity as a major social goal. Society is not a machine, it's a community. Productivity is a means to an end, but it's not t...
This response is an example of what is called "passive aggressiveness." Not generally considered a legitimate form of argument. I don't know if it wou...
Some countries have a guaranteed minimum income, provided by the government whether or not the person works. The case has been made that it would be a...
This is an important point. Our choices are not between rational and irrational. Many things, I could make the case for most things, I could even make...
That would be true, maybe, if guessing that there is a god and experiencing god were the same thing, which they are not. You and I experience love, wa...
Yes, it sounds like what you and Rahner are talking about is the same sort of thing I am. Many philosophies have similar concepts. In some it's centra...
I always enjoy your take on these issues. I like that you're willing to lay it out so flat without blushing. I have a somewhat less revolutionary, les...
Your conclusion is not correct. I am not a follower of any specific religion nor believer in any particular god. On the other hand, I recognize that t...
The world is full of wonderful things. You will never have time to know, understand, experience, be moved by all those things. There is no need for al...
I see things a bit differently. Do you like music? Have you ever listened to a really knowledgeable, widely experienced disk jockey who could lead you...
Seems like you're saying it is inappropriate to let moderators moderate. Silly. The guys who put this forum together decided that it is necessary to k...
Well, we can leave it at that, but I don't see what the point is. You ask "Is criticism of the alt-right inconsistent?" I respond "Yes, and it's appro...
Although I haven't been participating in a while, I've tried to keep up with the discussion. I don't think this has been brought up, but if it already...
You left off "In my exprience" from the beginning of that sentence. I have experience with atheists here on the forum and elsewhere. In writing and in...
I'm not speaking for anyone. In my experience, many atheists don't see what they do when they try to win people over to their way of seeing things as ...
I'm sure a lot of atheists wouldn't like either "evangelize" or "proselytize." I believe "proselytize" can be used to apply to any belief or proposed ...
I guess it's ok to dress up as Mr. T, but it's not ok to wear blackface unless you're ok with pissing a lot of people off for no good reason. It's def...
Not to be too nit-picky, but I think "evangelize" refers specifically to spreading the Christian gospel. Atheists certainly can, and do, try to spread...
I mostly agree, but blackface is a pretty important issue to a lot of people for historical and other reasons. It's a big deal to a lot of black peopl...
From the point of view of the law, I mostly agree. But the law is permeated by discretion - who gets arrested, who gets prosecuted, who gets convicted...
Let's take as an example the Governor of Virginia. In the 80s he dressed up in blackface for a costume party. Some people demanded he resign. My thoug...
American society and its people already see things through a racial lens. You can't just wave a rhetorical wand and make that go away. The consequence...
To me, the greatest argument against time travel is that we've never seen any time travelers. By the way - best time travel movie ever - Primer. Made ...
I disagree with a lot of things you've said in this thread and others, but none more than this. Maybe, maybe, you could make this outrageous statement...
We're not getting anywhere. We both just keep repeating the same things over and over again. I think it's time to give up on this subject for now. No ...
Definition of "rude" - Offensively impolite or ill-mannered. Please describe what I said that was rude. I made no comments about @"Devans99", only the...
Not true. This is not true. Physicists say the universe is ~15 billion years old (past). They speculate on what will happen to it eventually, heat dea...
I don't understand this. First of all, you say an infinite regress is impossible. Why. Physicists speculate that the universe may be infinite in size,...
A bit of a tangent, but you can only be offended if you choose to be. An insult; a nasty comment; ugly prejudice - they can often lead to what, in the...
Lao Tzu says: Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go ...
Maybe this is true for you, but not for me and many others. I'm younger than you, 67, but I can see the end from here. I'm enjoying my life, I don't w...
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