Ok then, so you have a methodology which you believe to be qualified, and therefore aren't in the market for an alternative. Yes, this process has bee...
I said "because it's in the Bible type argument". Your logical points 1-12 are built upon the assumption that logic is relevant to subjects the scale ...
Human being tend to move in herds. It seems the most valid role for a philosopher is to serve as a kind of court jester who continually tests and chal...
The problem with professional intellectuals is that they get paid. Imagine you are 52 years old, too established in your career to turn back, and tryi...
Perhaps it's helpful to add that it's entirely possible to discuss nuclear weapons in a manner which would be familiar to philosophers. Nuclear weapon...
This thread was inspired by discussion among the mods in the banning thread regarding which posters were producing low quality content. I'm happy to l...
If your house catches on fire while you're writing your next philosophy post, which would be more rational? Continuing to write? Or dealing with the f...
Good question, thanks. The definition of philosophy which I offered above is perhaps a good place to start. "The application of disciplined thought to...
Ok, so I'm probably creating more problems than I'm solving by being mysterious. Not all experiments are well conceived. So here it is then... Profess...
Yes, it's my definition, not "the" definition, agreed. Yes, human welfare can be enhanced through abstract theories as you suggest, but in order for t...
Ok, we might research why I have the gun in my mouth, and why my fellow philosophers generally don't wish to discuss the gun, and what such a lack of ...
I apologize for being somewhat mysterious. I'm attempting, however ineptly, to lure readers in to thinking this through for themselves to some degree....
It could perhaps be a serious conversation if you wished to challenge your own faith in reason in the same manner you asked the Christian author to do...
If you should conclude and publicly state that you sincerely feel that reason is irrelevant to God questions, I would be happy to present alternatives...
Your argument is based upon the assumption that human reason is qualified to generate meaningful useful statements about gods. But you offer no proof....
This is a subject for another thread but briefly, for what it's worth, I don't accept science culture as a whole as being expert at reason. Science cu...
Perhaps we could try this? Math is real, but it doesn't exist. I think space is like that. We can define space as existing only by demolishing the def...
Agreed. I don't claim to be inventing anything new. You would understand the cultural references better than I do. Imho, a solution to the confusion i...
Bravo! Ridding the world of political gangsters will likely remain a centuries long process. For Russia, the weakness seems to be the economy. Althoug...
Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ah good, then you should be able to tell us how much a cubic mile of space weighs. But you can't, because space has no weight or mass, thus defying ou...
Here's another example of mapping human scale concepts on to infinite scale speculation, a very common theme which seems to infect god topics from top...
Current settled science shows that the vast majority of reality at every scale is space, a phenomena which not be neatly filed in either the "exists" ...
Forget about the God part for a bit, and focus on the existence part. Instead of tying to prove or disprove any gods, try to prove or disprove that th...
The first step towards resolving that perceived conflict would seem to be the hardest, finding people who actually want a resolution. Philosophy forum...
Truth can not be contained in any philosophy, because the truth is what's real, and any philosophy any one might come up with is merely a collection o...
But somehow I magically know it is built upon unexamined unproven premises. What's happening now is that you realize you don't know how to prevail on ...
Or by imagining that our reasoning powers are relevant to everything everywhere. Such imaginings seem a willful denial of easily proven facts like how...
Good post Gnomon, Here's an example which may help to illustrate. It's a useful convention to say that the sun rises and sets, because from our limite...
I'm hardly a physics major, but from documentaries I've watched it sounds like time may be a more complex phenomena than merely a sequence of events. ...
Ok then, perhaps someone would like to prove that the rules of human reason are binding upon subjects the scale of gods. You see, the thing is, philos...
I'm admittedly not keeping up with the intricate logic trains being assembled here, so perhaps this is a useless question, but anyway... Does this ent...
Have you, could you, ask him to put your truth claim in his own words? What is he hearing you claim? If you can clarify what exactly it is that he's c...
No, I hadn't, thanks for sharing Wayfarer. Augustine takes those selling false explanations to task in a quite articulate manner. I can admire his rhe...
Ok, here ya go. I've spent 20 years on atheist and philosophy forums (which are mostly atheist). Getting atheists to doubt the qualifications of human...
Ok, maybe we'll do that. Could be a plan. Until then, you might keep in mind that nobody is forcing you to focus on "metaphysical baggage" that you do...
Discussion of Christianity on philosophy forums seems hopelessly inept. To read a philosophy forum, one would get the impression that Jesus never ment...
A great example, thanks for that. So we are building a collection of phenomena which everyone agrees are real, but which do not meet the definition of...
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