Sivad

"You're partisan hacks who twist facts until they cohere to a pre-existing viewpoint. All whilst hiding behind the seemingly respectable label of acad...

Most of them are. Most people are more interested in advancing their agendas than honestly exploring the issues. Reality is complex and often murky, s...

Nation-states are arbitrary, universal ideals that promote the greater good are a a much more rationally and ethically sound basis for political commi...

It's necessary.

Whatever, I've tried to explain and you seem to just want to argue nonsense. Maybe you can get away with it on this board but people who know what the...

I'm not really sure what you're arguing? I'm just pointing out that metaphysically necessary existence and brute existence are mutually exclusive, tha...

Now you're just playing semantics and muddying the waters with irrelevant concepts. In this context reason simply means explanation. That could includ...

You're confusing reason and cause, they're not the same.

Something being its own sufficient reason is no less coherent than a brute fact, neither make very much sense and it would be biased to accept one and...

Most people aren't addicts, or do you have some numbers to dispute that? I just don't think we should base social policy on protecting of a small mino...

Where in the hell do you get that from? I've used coke many times throughout the years and I've never become addicted. I'll do it for a day or two if ...

How does the content agree with what you said? Brute facts have no reason, necessary beings are their own reason, there's no equivalence. One has suff...

So there's nothing on Trump, he's clean. So then what's the rumpus?

It explains itself, it's self-explanatory, that's the principle of sufficient reason - for every fact F, there must be a sufficient reason why F is th...

So the way you see it something must exist but anything will do? Could have been a pickle, could have been a particle, anything from a mite to a unisi...

Swinburne is a careful, competent thinker, he doesn't make any obvious mistakes. You can only dispute his conclusions by disputing his premises, and h...

Swinburne takes God as a brute fact, so it's not irrational, but the claim that necessary existence logically reduces to brute fact is just facile thi...

"Nuh-uh", really?

Necessary beings aren't brute facts. I think of necessary existence as an infinite chain of explanations, there's the reason, then there's a deeper re...

What we need is heavy direct investment by government in infrastructure and green tech R&D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r1IPsldbBg Here's an idea...

Manamana...mm.mmmm.mm.mm.mm

That's? not right, beliefs can be based on evidence or not. Aside from fideists, most religious believers base their beliefs on various lines of evide...

That sort of expediency comes at a price and it's effectiveness is questionable to begin with. Also in context of the bigger picture it's just bad str...

I don't get any more worked up over that than I do over the 15,000 or so murders that happen every day in the world. Do you just walk around perpetual...

I've followed most of the major conflicts fairly closely and it's clear to me that there's dishonesty and delusion on both sides of these issues. Clim...

Science is a method and the body of knowledge established by that method. As far as I can see there is no opposition to science as such, the disputes ...

The reason dictators suppress talk is because that's how revolutions get started. Sometimes active resistance is necesary, but the only way a resistan...

[ Yeah, in a lot of cases active opposition isn't required, we just need to reduce support for bad policies or bad actors and talking sense to people ...

It's clear from your post that you're? not exactly up on the subject and yet apparently you hold some strong opinions on it and that's? not promising ...

Classic.

Then you just don't know what your talking about. I think we're done here.

That's what I figured.

So you're denying that there are millions of atheistic Buddhists and liberal Christians that don't believe in God? There are tens of thousands of athe...

What about it? Anyway you look at it there's a mystery to it.

That's not really necessary if we're being reasonable, most people have some kind of spiritual life, only a tiny minority are complete nihilists.

What more did I say?

So you don't believe myth and religion have any impact on the psyche? You don't believe people have transformative religious experiences?

The actual existence of the deity, but I take your point. The myth by itself has transformative power so it's real enough, and that's pretty much the ...

Millions of Buddhists fit in that category, there are the many academics and philosophers(Sam Harris, J.L. Schellenberg, Stuart Kaffman) doing work in...

Those experiences rarely occur spontaneously, you have enter into the mystery, you have to psychologically commit. And what's interesting about that i...

There are plenty of spiritual atheists, maybe they're not seeking God in name but they are seeking higher axiological and soteriological truths so in ...

You've never heard of strong emergence? Some common examples of strong emergence would be consciousness, entanglement, and even the properties of wate...

When things combine to make more than the sum of their parts.

Good save.

Most people would just apologize and move on but you're doubling down, so your issues seem to go beyond a general ignorance of the history of life. Go...

Where are you getting that from?

Are you serious?

Good one.

There's a difference between money and wealth. Wealth is the real tangible resource, money is just an abstraction. Putting a dollar value on the world...

I get that it's not the way we like to think of ourselves but we are the kind of people who would crucify the son of God, and in a Jungian sense we do...