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This is WAY too sweeping a statement. There are a trillion times a trillion different human situations, and it's not possible to summarize the whole t...

Claiming that life is bad, life is bad, life is bad etc etc is not rational. Nor is it accurate. Life is a mix of good and bad, and the rational act i...

Please stop clogging threads with this kind of junk. Thank you.

I already agreed with this. And, as usual, you completely ignored that if Saddam (or his sons) were still in power today they would most likely be eng...

Your ego agendas are becoming tiresome. Please stop trying to turn every thread in to a food fight. Thank you.

I don't fight it, I just don't accept your premise that this is so. I do accept that some degree of suffering is inevitable and that this is regrettab...

I agree that's interesting. But it's not rational to focus on that question INSTEAD of taking concrete practical action to relieve suffering. Consider...

No offense, but there's plenty to do, so please try not to peddle bad advice to troubled folks. Whether the OP wishes to do anything is another matter...

This seems the most concise summary of the situation, refreshingly free of big words too. This description does however contain a serious error. It's ...

Wise words.

Have you considered that this experience may not be philosophical in nature, but biological?

We shouldn't be requesting or expecting proof until such time as human reason is proven relevant to and binding upon the question at hand.

Yes. And so what is the rational response to this place of ignorance (on questions of such enormous scale as gods) that we find ourselves in?

Ok, fair enough. But why would a species who can travel the galaxy be interested in primitive pond scum such as ourselves? However, future humans woul...

Sorry, I know this won't help, and I apologize for that, but, um... It's literally not possible to be a failure at age 38. You aren't an old man being...

Um, here's a place to start. Please consider junking this pointless hobby. Here's wishing you well!

Ok, I'll give that one a go. :-) Saddam invaded two neighboring countries resulting in the deaths of over a million people, not to mention decades of ...

How about this? Instead of using the God debate as a proxy for our emotional male ego head butting agendas, we could be intellectually honest and just...

Agreed.

Ok, sure. No mass or weight, no shape or form, no color or taste, invisible etc. That is, not complying with our usual definition of "exists". Nor doe...

I would agree that the debate has value in teaching us how ignorant we are. Well, in teaching those who are actually doing philosophy, and not just ar...

Oh dear, sorry, can't vote for that one. Seems much more likely to me that nobody has the question right, let alone any answer. The question posed by ...

It seems wise to keep in mind that human logic is a very very very very small thing in comparison to a god, which is typically proposed to be the most...

Sorry, my bad, you said who you were in the very first post. I got confused and thought you were a new person entering the thread. Thanks for setting ...

Who are you referring to by "us"? What's your tribe?

Every country does it wrong over and over and over again until they finally die or succeed. Thomas Jefferson declared that "all men are created equal"...

We would never do that in America. Except every day for our entire history. Other than that, NEVER! :-)

Well, to be fair, large numbers of both Iraqis and Iranians have put their lives on the line repeatedly in demonstrating against governments willing t...

Lebanon offers the rest of us an important lesson. If I understand correctly, the recent tragic super explosion was caused by highly explosive materia...

When one finds oneself between two imperfect choices all one can do is choose the lesser of two evils. The solution to the endless situation is to mak...

Of no particular harm if one's goal is debating, which is probably usually the case here. Going endlessly round and round on guess work claims that ca...

What interests me is that the wisdom shared in the Adam and Eve story is credibly claimed to be of high quality. It depends of course on how one inter...

Your application has been approved. :-)

Your body feels their fear is what I meant. Their fear generates hormones and other chemicals which you then consume. I'm not referring to empathy, bu...

You are a very nice person! But that's all the payment I can deliver to you now considering how little detail you went in to regarding my deep thinkin...

My point is not that the scale of religious claims makes them more credible. It is instead that the scale of your claims makes them less credible. How...

Is it? I type on the forum to persuade myself I am a deep thinker. That's my story about myself that I am telling myself. You come along and support m...

As does the fear they experienced, the chemicals pumped in to them by industrial farming and so on. Not trying to lecture you about what you eat, but ...

Well, it's surely true that many people take the stories literally, as a form of science. Why bother objecting? And, if we're going to object, we migh...

Every something is overwhelmingly nothing. Trying to draw a boundary line between something and nothing gets pretty iffy.

A key problem on philosophy forums is that religion is a kind of art, whereas philosophers tend to want to treat it as a form of science. As example, ...

That you won't find a job upon graduation. If you are borrowing money to fund your education, this could become a significant problem for decades to c...

"Aliens" may be future human archaeologists, not so alien after all. Intelligent creatures from other dimensions of our local reality another possibil...

If you know, does any aspect of Buddhism continue further down that road to also teach the limits of understanding?

I was gonna disagree, but then I started reading the thread...

I actually had a dream yesterday afternoon where I was Ted Bundy and someone was asking me to explain my behavior. I told them that the next time they...

Given that we don't have proof of a single human being ever having visited death and returned to file a report, all theories about death seem best gre...

Your question would seem to assume that boundaries are real. What if they are instead only convenient conceptual inventions of the human mind?

You have perhaps just put your finger on why the God question is so eternally confounding. Our minds naturally try to conceive of God as a thing, and ...

In everyday life niceness is typically defined by the degree to which we support whatever story someone has about themselves.