There are sides to the post-truth (Colbert said it's almost two words, a weak word with a hyphen) world: Political, journalistic and public. All sides...
Progressive liberals can move towards the center they are able to contextualize and relativize their beliefs into the spirit of the law. Social conser...
Social conservatives are foundational, tied to certain basic beliefs which they cannot change and still remain socially conservative...family values, ...
On one level If the world is what appears, then its appearance is prior to being. The objects of our experience must be differentiated one from anothe...
Perhaps there are no parts, just wholes. If each part itself is a whole, then perhaps we are talking about a classification issue. The discussion beco...
"Do what I want you to, I'll do what I want to you". It even rhymes. I believe this describes any preference one may have when it comes to how people ...
Yes privacy is a concern but I understand they are trying to make anonymous systems (I read that Goldman Sack has such a system). Since everyone on th...
Given the exponential growth of corporations, it may be that they will supercede governments (corporatism is a old idea, it might also serve as a mode...
. If Then prior to mind no truth. It seems to me that some things could be otherwise but others must always be as the are. The facts of the matter don...
I think Fredric Jameson is correct in saying we are in last stages of capitalism. He suggests that we consider possible Utopias as models. I think he ...
Hi jkop. The wager counts if the belief in G is a true/troth belief, if it is a mechanical wager done without any purity of intent, then it fails and ...
Thanks about the hermits. Well in the case of the last election here in the states, 279 votes were all that counted, HRC received 2.8 million more pop...
I don't deny that people pay lip service to the idea of God,however his presence is literally all over the place in USA, and what pertains to belief i...
It's a strange situation. The atheist can find no rational basis in the belief in a god, and the believer accepts faith as a gift. The theist position...
I have told you that the concept of "God" in the wager, applies to any "God" that one believe in, and that the majority of people believe in a Good Go...
Hey, good to hear from you and thank you for your addition. It's funny how life works out. I moved to Florida about 16 years ago, good job offer and m...
Ok, maybe come at this a little differently. Suppose you have a choice between, two cups of tea (I know you probably hate tea) one cup comes with a po...
Kant arrives at his categorical imperative in his Groundwork by regressively tracing back normative sentiments to figure out what the presumed synthet...
I think that some sort of combination of deontological base system along with a consequent system is pragmatic. I think consequentialism is more suita...
The only truth for certain is that scores upon scores of innocent people are dying, and people are being totally dislocated to places where they are n...
Yes, I don't quite agree with Doxastic Voluntarism view that people elect their own beliefs, I think we tend to play roles, (husband, wife, teacher, s...
Sorry I don't recall the thread, but it sounds interesting. I don't doubt that our thoughts are shared. We all speak a language, and we have access to...
This is the viewpoint of the person considering the conjecture. No, I don't believe War is about truth. It is about the immorality of man with man, it...
I think the person who has to make a deathbed conversion, takes everything into consideration, their life as a whole with its joys and sadness. The ut...
He thought that God's existence is outside the universe, that we can't know him as he is, only as he is revealed. But regarding his power, he said tha...
Yes, reason and rationality are important but they are important in their own way, just like love and art. Part of what I tried to post as an aside ap...
If there is a god I don't think he can be encompassed by the terms "rational or irrational". Was God being rational when he asked for Abraham to sacri...
I am an agnostic, which I have also mentioned a couple of times in this thread, hence the interest....so what do you say when the priest comes around ...
I've tried to answer your questions, please allow me to ask you a question. Do you accept that this argument is existential and not logically based, t...
Actually Agustino brought up the practicality, which may or may not be effective on atheists but I think there is a good chance to knock some agnostic...
Logical arguments are not the only type of argument, value judgements can also be valid, but not on the same terms as logical arguments, because there...
I don't think it matters, you believe in what you understand, what you have been taught about God, if it is wrong then it is wrong, but if it is even ...
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