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No thrashing. :wink: Just waiting for a distinction between the two kinds of harm. Ethical harm seems to be a notion which follows from one's own pre-...

It's possible to say whatever we want. Is it helpful? Good/evil are a couple of days too old, ya know? There are way too many religious connotations a...

I would readily concur. However, ethical harm would surely be a harder thing to pin down and/or find widespread agreement upon.

Ouch. :wink: You know I'm going to want to reframe this, right? What are we referring to, as precisely as possible, by 'the ethical'? Aren't we just t...

I agree with the sentiment but would simplify our account. Perhaps it would be better to say that the inculcation/indoctrination does not 'provide' an...

Anyway, back to what underwrites to the topic. A philosophical problem... Likelihood... Statistics... Probability... I am proof positive that knowing ...

Thank God for all those that assembled Witt's otherwise broken down chains of thought into a reasonable facsimile of a philosophical work, huh?

You think all breakthroughs are existentially dependent up creativity? I would say that they are more dependent upon something to be broken. Habits of...

No need to suppose my friend. Pick yourself up a copy of the letters to Cambridge if you really want to know Wittgenstein. His personal correspondence...

I'll pass on having kids with you. You look like the crazy guy who gets all sorts of credit even though he could not get his own thoughts together. Gu...

So... with a nine, what kind of person aught I be according to the statistics? What sort of maladjustments aught I have, if I were someone whose child...

That all depends... what do you look like? :blush: Kidding. No. My kids are grown. They have kids and lives of their own.

Comes with plenty of practice I suppose. :rofl:

Seriously though... My score is a nine. The irony, I suppose, is that I know that I am loved and have always known it despite those people sometimes h...

:lol: 9 :lol: Hmmm... I thought all that shit was normal.

Belief is far more broad than belief statements about God. However, in the context of belief in God, your position seems fine to me.

:smile:

Have fun with that!

I'm not asking you if you 'do believing' whatever that's supposed to mean. I'm asking you simple questions with yes/no answers. Why not just answer? O...

Evidence is measured in terms of relevancy and adequacy/sufficiency. The evidence for Washington's existence far exceeds the evidence for God's in bot...

When you make a statement about something, do you believe that what you say is true?

You know that you understand these words, and you do not believe that you understand these words.

To answer the OP... Some ask for evidence of God's existence because some require evidence to believe that anything exists.

Nuh-uh!

So, you know that but you do not believe that?

Do you believe that?

You could have stopped at 3. Everything after 3 contradicts 3.

That's what I took it to mean. The point would be much better made by muslim women. They could have an entire issue of muslim women posing for the cam...

We're not talking about cases whether one religion bans another's representation. We're not talking about cases where atheism is banned. We're conside...

I'm reminded of an American actor, cannot remember whom, that 'dressed up' as a black man for Halloween by painting his exposed body parts. Yeah, I ca...

Here's a question... Is that lady a muslim?

Carefully considering one's own adopted moral foundation requires thinking about one's own pre-existing thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable b...

On a critical reading, there's something a bit confusing here for me though. If A does not exist until B and B is insufficient for A then A is existen...

That's a nice piece of writing. It's a bit too flowery for my disciplinary taste/preference in philosophy(critical and analytic), but the sheer aesthe...

Oh. :wink: When you put it like that, you guide our thoughts about "ethical existence" through 'the realm' of logical possibility. Perhaps "domain" is...

Progress is good, especially considering the very nuanced side issues concerning the ontology of thought/belief and reason we've been also contemplati...

Well, I think we've come to some agreement regarding the source of morals, haven't we? Morals consist of thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable ...

Ok. So, on my view all moral thought/belief is thought/belief about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour. If the converse is also true, if all thought/be...

We can agree that culture is existentially dependent upon many different individuals' thought/belief, can't we?

Individuals(some of them at least) determine what counts as the interests of the culture, no? Anyway, let's circle back to the moral thought/belief as...

Culture is certainly an entity beyond the individual. Not everything in culture is existentially dependent upon one in the same particular individual....

I'm just looking for you to set out the nuance. I do not think I understand what you're claiming. Culture is existentially dependent upon individual p...

Good. I want to circle back to the skepticism/criticism that you've levied. It's worth unpacking. Can we discuss this further?

We could always be more direct, I suppose. Do you agree that humans are capable of thinking and/or believing prior to language acquisition?

That's not a bad summary of pre linguistic thought/belief as it pertains to morals. The last statement seems to be claiming or at least has the conseq...

I'll not get into the negation. Thanks for taking the time to set it out. By not saying it? Relevance?

Let us, for the sake of novelty, momentarily set aside the notions of metaphysical and non-metaphysical. Those categories are a consequence of inadequ...

I'm not claiming that any dichotomy consists of both and is thus neither, although I would not disagree with such a claim... strictly and quite litera...

I'm certainly not sold. For that matter, I'm even less sold on the idea that the same correlations are currently being drawn between many instances of...

Violence against the religious? Maybe? Typically, aside from Columbine, violence against the religious is performed by the religious. If those prone t...