creativesoul

Are you seriously arguing in Trump's defense regarding charges of being one who demonstrates sociopathic thought, belief, and behaviour?

One problem with Trump is his elitist mentality.

When you're one of the guys, in the club, and/or part of the group... it need not be publicly pronounced. Members believe it regardless, often as a re...

Of course I hope you got the point about the claims against fundamentalism. If all certainty counts, then it is itself untenable, because by virtue of...

The OP is about atheism, but more specifically it is about a better 'kind' than militant and/or "new atheism". The author asked about better reasoning...

Indeed. Atheism was the topic. I was setting out my own agnostic version.

You agree so much with dummies. :zip: The character though... mean spirited. Freedom must be moderated. It is when two people's freedom collide that e...

Some folk would like to be free enough to kill you. I say encroach...

Not all certainty is to be avoided. One is always certain about some stuff. Otherwise, they are mad.

How strongly do you believe that?

You sure about that? :brow:

I meant "we", as in... humans. Not sure what counts - on your view - as being a case thereof... Does having strong conviction in certain core tenets/b...

We determine what's good. It's not all that complicated. We determine how best to treat one another. In such conversations it all(one's actual moral/e...

Spiritual depth is determined solely by and directly upon one's belief in the spiritual or that the spiritual. Spirit, on my view, is best put in term...

Goodwill towards all. Always be helpful.

A better atheist, on my view, has broadened the scope of their critical thinking beyond connecting good to religion. There is no need for the God of A...

While there may be little solid ground upon which to base a belief in God, it does not always follow that a belief in God is not good or necessary for...

Why I Am Not A Christian Bertrand Russell Logical possibility alone does not warrant belief in and/or that 'X' exists and/or is true. Queerly enough, ...

Close, but no cigar. The brain does not construct perceptual objects. The brain's all by itself inside the skull with neither tools nor materials. Sen...

Rubbish. Thought experiments are not dependable methods of verification/falsification. And... This directly conflicts with the bit you wrote about all...

I would be interested in arguing in the negative; against what I take the above to mean - on it's face. Some philosophical theories are falsifiable/ve...

But it is such an important topic.

It had to be a dream, because it was not actually happening. It ought be.

Indeed. Some renditions of King are empty of all meaningful content.

Taking another at their word requires understanding what they mean. He talked about the devaluation of another based upon their race or their color of...

Indeed. I agree. You did not. I was writing about what you said. I was not offering a report of what you said. Sounds good as long as we talk about th...

My fault for not offering enough context... Willful ignorance?

Ignorance of white privilege does not make one racist.

In my own personal recent history, I've witnessed a group of co-workers stand up as a united front - arm in arm - against exactly that kind of unwarra...

Willful ignorance.

Check out The Innocence Project...

Sigh... 'White Privilege' I will not deny the importance of focusing upon deep seated institutional racism. There is much knowledge capable of being g...

Thinking of trees includes trees. Trees are not in our heads. If part of thoughts are not in our heads, then it makes no sense whatsoever to say that ...

Now, I've got work to do. My life depends on it. Put forth a creature and something for it to become conscious of. Then, figure out exactly what that ...

All this talk about unconscious as compared/contrasted to conscious is very unhelpful. It adds nothing but unnecessary confusion to our understanding....

We agree upon less, I think, than you seem to think/believe. There is no syntax for the thermostat either. Syntax is existentially dependent upon pre-...

:yawn:

:smile: Thanks for the nicety.

I've set out my own view. You've invoked the "conscious/unconscious" dichotomy(problem). I've already explained how to dissolve it(how it's not a prob...

The invocation of "unconscious" is unhelpful. Being conscious of the trees involves drawing correlations between the trees and other things. That take...

Indeed.

Consciousness = the ability to form, have, and/or hold thought/belief and all that that entails. The complexity level of the consciousness is proporti...

And yet that's not a problem on my view. That's part of the point I've been painstakingly making here. When we're discussing consciousness, the discou...

:blush: Pardon my lack of social etiquette Basko. I haven't even addressed the OP directly, although if anything I've said is worth anything at all, h...

Always upholding precedent - because it happened - will lead to repeating mistakes.

As you should.

Not when the lines are clear.

I've written more than enough... I want to read. Your concerns have yet to have been expressed here. Care to?

Meaningful language use is adequate enough evidence to warrant thinking/believing that that user/individual is conscious. With that I agree. However, ...

Some meaning is prior to the ability to sign, speak, write, and/or otherwise utter a common language. Some pre-linguistic meaning is shared between di...