First of all, this is posted in the philosophy of religion section. Seems appropriate to me. And while Agustino and Heister Eggcart are a bit pugnacio...
I'm not refuting your opinions, I am denying they are relevant to an examination of present-day Islam. Are you joking? If my memory is correct, the Bo...
Movies: Groundhog Day - As good a metaphor for spiritual growth as anything I've seen. Funny and finally very moving. "I'm not the God, I'm a god. Far...
I'm not asking you to defend Islam. I'm just saying your argument about Mohammad is a weak argument, a non sequitur, and a bit self-serving. I changed...
Seems like you and I agree on a lot and disagree on some. I'll tackle my "category error" here. Personification, or anthropomorphism if you like, is o...
The fact is, this world does not belong to them. It never has. I doubt it will. I'm glad it doesn't. It will be good for the Christians to learn a bit...
I have argued something similar on another post, although I don't think the "transcendent" necessarily means "god," at least as Christianity and Islam...
I agree. Related to the concentration of power and wealth is the corporatization of the world economy. Maybe the rise of corporations caused the conce...
Sigh? That's a cogent argument? Furthermore, I disagree. The behavior of priests is much more a measure of the health and value of a religion than wha...
Either you are interpreting the charts wrong or I don't understand what you are trying to say. The first two charts show that the US's share of worldw...
I look at the charts you provided and they show a fairly constant decrease in the US's share of world GDP since 1950. Other Western countries also sho...
You missed my point. In the previous post and this one, you made a statement about my lack of understanding without addressing the content of my state...
You certainly seem to be afraid of something. So, let me see if I understand, I'm wrong not because you can provide any argument against my position, ...
I have no opinion about Muhammad's character. He died 1,400 years ago. It's not relevant to what we are discussing. Thousands, tens of thousands, of C...
Money - military - politics - religion - movies - art - literature; most of these have nothing to do with ideas, at least not the kind of ideas we're ...
My goodness, you have an amazingly inflated opinion of how much what we say here matters. In what way are you "on the front lines?" The fact that you,...
Economic factors will have a much bigger impact on how things go in the future than religion. It's happening now. As poor countries become wealthier, ...
Here are the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, edited by me to be shorter. Hey, rickyK95 and buddies, I agree with Galuchat - t...
My favorite poet is Robert Frost, not least because he is also the most philosophical poet I know. Favorite poem - The Black Cottage. Favorite verse: ...
Which brings us back to what I think is the big idea here - is the experience of god something fundamentally different from our experiences of anythin...
It is my understanding that there is a hardwired capacity for learning language built into human nature. The structures and grammars of all the human ...
Are the words of God as expressed in the Christian Bible evidence for the existence of God and the truth of Christian doctrine? Are they not evidence ...
As has been demonstrated throughout this thread, there are those of us who don't think everything is grounded the way you say. I like your use of "tum...
I agree, but the fact that everyone might not experience whatever it is we're talking about or experiences it differently isn't evidence that it doesn...
I think pizza and blue are good substitutes in this context. It doesn't have anything to do with "status." You have not made a case that our perceptio...
There is a common human experience. I've had it, many others have had it. Apparently you have not, or at least you aren't aware of it. Or maybe you us...
In the sense you've written, how is our experience of god any different from any other experience? Just change "god" to "blue" or "pizza." Are you say...
Almost from the beginning, babies like looking at faces. Studies show that infants as young as 2 or 3 months start to make judgments about agency and ...
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and al...
I was feeling sympathetic toward your discussion. Although your vision of god is not mine, it seemed like we might have something in common. Then I re...
Here is the worm in the middle of your rotten apple. I can't think of any reason, at least any reason you've presented, why this might be true. Yeah, ...
I'm not an evolutionary biologist or physicist, so I may step off a cliff here. I've read a lot about evolution and I believe that humans are genetica...
The relativist position, at least the one I'm partial to, is not that truth or facts are dependent on our opinion. They're based on a consensus of obs...
There are those of us who don't agree, at least not in any absolute way. Facts are human. Stories we tell ourselves. When you say you are a realist, d...
The activity of eating is not harmful in and of itself. You don't think there is danger in excess thinking? I know from personal experience there is. ...
First of all "what is reality?" is a question of metaphysics. It doesn't have an answer. It only has different ways of looking at things that are more...
You seem to be explaining why I made the choice I made or why I should have made it, but I don't see how that is relevant as to whether what I did was...
I don't hate this formulation, but I think it's a bit cute. It avoids the main issue with verbal sleight of hand. The scope of nihilism, as normally d...
Nothing in reality is immune from relativism unless you assume the existence of objective reality, which I don't. I think the concept of objective rea...
I've been going through a bunch of posts which ask what firm base relativists nail their facts to. I have my answer ready, but you've beaten me to the...
Rude. Unnecessary. Insulting. I don't really agree with TimeLine about the subject we're discussing, but she definitely is not quibbling, obfuscating,...
Please clarify. Are you saying my decision to eat shrimp rather than pizza is not a choice? That only "rational choices" are really choices? How many ...
Would you question what I mean if I say "eat to much" or "drink too much?" People who eat to much tend to get obese, which has health consequences. Pe...
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