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I don't get it, and would want to ask questions in order to have a better sense of where Vidal was coming from. It seems to me to be a matter disposit...

Yeah, it is usually more rhetorically effective script, than thought through position.

I tend to go with a more "in your face" approach, in the (admittedly slim) hope of getting the presuppositionalist to question his presuppositions. A ...

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Sure, I place positive or negative values on things routinely, but I also recognize that the way I do so is idiosyncratic aspect of the way I am and n...

I don't see any more reason to think that there is an objective fact of the matter as to the desireability of existence, than there is an objective fa...

I've never had a bad trip, but I did trip one time with someone who did, and it can be a very bad situation. The bad trip this guy had was very much a...

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Simply asserting that conceiving of a universal is not the outcome of a physical process is unpersuasive in light of understanding things like this: h...

Not exactly. "Not a thing" isn't equivalent to non-physical. For example, a process doesn't need to be a thing, in order to be physical. You can elect...

From my perspective, "thing" seems like a strange category to try to put time into. So I'm not really seeing a problem with not describing time as a t...

Because most of the light we see reflected by our bodies is reflected off surfaces like skin, hair, etc. The enormous complexity of what goes on in ou...

It's a useful description for a lot of people. I'm not sure there is much I could do about it not being a useful description for you.

:up: It seems to me that there is awfully good evidence from entheogens that some capacity for 'spiritual experience' tends to be a physical character...

Ah ok. I'm not familiar with past discussions you two have had regarding belief systems. It sounds like an interesting topic for discussion.

Not to speak for Christoffer, but suppose we do use your word "guidance" and understand it as guidance from one social primate to another? What would ...

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Is this something that you think you can demonstrate?

Do you think that views like those of Eagleton and Hart are typical of theists? For example, do you think the typical US Evangelical Trump fan, or Ira...

The point was that the following statement of yours is false. Physics describes time as one of the dimensions of space-time. Furthermore, it is not me...

I know some physicists as well. This guy owes me a beer I never collected, for troubleshooting some problems in a Bose-Einstein condensate experiment ...

I suspect you would have a hard time finding physicists who agree with that assertion. In any case, do you have an argument for the claim?

Just doing my part. :wink:

Why do you think so?

Yeah, I much prefer my beliefs being based in evidence. Can you point out any good evidence for a mind existing sans an information processing substra...

I don't know what you mean by "the starting point". Sounds grossly simplistic. Anyway, I realize you are stuck in monkey minded face saving mode, desp...

See, this is just you making stuff up again. I didn't say anything about the philosophical basis of your comment. I pointed out that your lack of expe...

Okay, so Nietzsche asserts silly things, and you believe him? Why do you think this argument from authority might be interesting? I suggest it would b...

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You just jump to conclusions right and left without really knowing what you are talking about. One of the reasons I am much more of an authority than ...

Can you say what company? Sounds kind of creepy to me.

Feel free to explain why any sort of answer would be of any relevance, to your lack of insight into the thinking of theists and atheists. Better yet, ...

That doesn't mean that it's not a silly basis for thinking oneself to have insight, into the perspectives of diverse people, by comparison with making...

That's not an interesting topic and besides the point.

Nah, it's just that I've dealt with a lot of bullshit artists before, and you are declaring yourself to be one.

It looks to me like you are happily making up stories about figments of your imagination. That doesn't sound like something, which anyone with the exp...

From my perspective, anthropomorphizing physicalism, as something that can be "strict" seems weird. Perhaps it is because I come from a more science b...

I would think that only parts of the universe with some sort of 'brain' and sensory organs could experience the universe. The following might help con...

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The expelling of the gas.

Under the notion that a fish experiences the universe through the water it swims in. You seem to place great significance on the idea of somehow exper...

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It seems worth questioning that last sentence. Why might it very well be God? But then there is the question of what you mean by "God" as well. Do you...

A discussion of recent research: https://fortune.com/2023/05/02/stanford-researchers-scoured-every-reputable-study-link-between-video-games-gun-violen...

Do you think no one had any idea of how things would go on the moon, before people went to the moon? Is there mostly an issue here, of you not knowing...

You are selling yourself too short. You have brought up plenty of good points.

Sounds like a grandiose rationalization for being scientifically uneducated to me.

Okay, it would have been better if I had said, "shouldn't be taken as supporting idealism in a broad sense or radical sense. Still, what are your thou...

I hold a somewhat similar view, however I'd say there is a lack of nuance to the following: I wouldn't use the adjective "radical", but there certainl...

I think it suggests that Thompson thinks that the matters he brings up shouldn't be taken as supporting idealism. This is more of a stretch, but perha...