Sivad

I don't understand that? The world doesn't seem physical to you?

I agree, his agenda is just petty self-aggrandizement, beyond that he's rudderless.

That actually makes a lot of sense, good point! :D

The main reason I suspect is that it appears to be physical. It's not much of a stretch to think that it appears that way because it is that way.

Maybe, but the rest of them are just as brazen, the only real difference is that Trump isn't protected by the establishment. Hillary Clinton ran a mas...

Not to justify it, but what's the difference between Trump colluding with the Russians and virtually every other politician in DC colluding with trans...

Some context for the the current state of affairs - The Harvard Boys Do Russia Post-Soviet Russia, Made in the U.S.A.

What are the assumptions behind it? As far as I can tell physicalism is the assumption, there don't seem to be any underlying assumptions supporting i...

It's sensible to talk about religion in terms of human evolution and psychology. I don't think it's possible to really understand religion without con...

Since most people are religious the inquiry does have a religious dimension. But even for atheists ethical considerations are important because withou...

Sharia isn't merely a set of religious practices, it's a legal code that specifies offenses and punishments. It's not only Muslims, a large percentage...

Why doesn't that support the claim and how is Muslim jurisprudence not theocracy?

I don't either really, but take Evangelicals for instance, it's pretty clear that a good many of them want something close to theocracy if not theocra...

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But most of those five hundred million don't support secularism, they would institute theocracy if they had their way. Most religious people want theo...

I always took it for more of an exploration of the possibilities and an exercise in rigor and honesty rather than a search for truth.

I'm not saying it doesn't have problems but it does seem like the most simple and straightforward explanation on offer.

I agree that it's compatible but the main objection to ideas like occasionalism or ontological idealism is that they over-explain things and that phys...

Evidence is just anything that can be used to support a proposition. The quality of the evidence is determined by how well it supports the proposition...

Or because they believe it will hurt them in the next election. Trump has a lot of support on the right.

There's likely some truth in that. Trump is an incompetent blunderer who probably had no idea that the Western establishment has been working for deca...

What's wrong with that? Trump was upfront about his views on Russia, he said all along that he considered the Russians to be natural allies in the fig...

Only if we take evidence to mean absolute incontrovertible proof. People like to say "no evidence" but that's really just rhetoric, there's plenty of ...

The core of Jesus' teaching is metanoia.

I don't think I could ever really believe in miracles or the literal truth or infallibility of scripture, but I could maybe see myself at some point a...

I think a more interesting question is how much value would we place on our lives and the lives of others if we knew all the facts. I think if we knew...

But is there really an absence of evidence? There is some evidence for the supernatural. Granted that the evidence is open to interpretation, but does...

Are views like panpsychism or neutral monism compatible with naturalism?

What's your definition of natural? Is it equivalent to physicalism or is just that there is no design or purpose in nature?

And don't forget Clarke's three laws: 1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. Wh...

There's the old line that reality isn't just stranger than we imagine but stranger than we can imagine and I have little doubt that there are still ma...

Time Travel Farmer (Youtube)

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Super advanced intelligences might inhabit virtual worlds with more than three dimensions where the virtual structures of time and space are very diff...

Does the GR allow for actions that nobody would ever want done to them but are necessary for some greater good?

'Deep time' and 'big history' are good ones. Sure, we have the concepts but we can't even begin to grasp reality at those scales. Another would be the...

I think both truth and happiness are products of transpersonal development -- expanding and evolving beyond the limited identity of the personal self ...

Man is a social animal in the sense that we don't want to be in perpetual war with each other(bellum omnium contra omnes)so we have to come to terms, ...

Anything from monarchy to anarchy can be justified under natural rights. Aristotle argued for natural slavery. Concepts like natural rights and object...

Before we began regulating bad behavior the robber barons made killing off immoral behavior, so the market definitely does not naturally expunge such ...

The way I've always understood it is that it's the denial of economic liberty(the freedom to contract, to produce and to trade, and the right to prope...