WISDOMfromPO-MO

I am not armed with evidence right now, but I bet if I had the time and other resources I could find a lot of evidence of horrible things done in the ...

Better for who? That made me think of this: I believe that Niall Ferguson has written that civilizations do not gradually decline--they suddenly colla...

I am not an expert on the work of Ken Wilber--I have only read "A Brief History of Everything". And I am aware that somebody who reads this is likely ...

How does it limit free speech?

It is an idea, I, of a being, B, that is, M, another moon of the Earth, and has the name, N, Luna2. It is conceivable to see the second one, B, as a c...

Another moon of the Earth named Luna2.

The Empire State Building could be a trace of something and humans lack the perspective to see the whole being that it partially constitutes. 99.99999...

If something is categorically non-existent there are no traces of it. That's not the same thing as saying humans do not have the tools to find traces ...

I am a champion of the liberal arts tradition, so, no, I don't have a problem with it. What I said about what I wasn't taught until the 6th grade didn...

I have said all along that all of them--Dennett; the ID movement; the Sexual Revolution sex-positivism disciples who want to advance their agenda unde...

What "belief" that evidentialism says must be epistemically justified caused people to respond one way or the other? The belief that homosexuality is ...

What ideology have I espoused in this discussion? Like I have been saying for many years, if kids accept as true everything that teachers tell them th...

Remember what Kenneth R. Miller shows is the real agenda of the Intelligent Design movement? If they get their way the impact won't just be students b...

I judged the idea based on its inspiration , not its "source". If there is a political struggle, like with sex education, then no matter what curricul...

Yeah, if we are talking about something concrete, like the Reverend Billy Graham, then it's oranges and oranges. But something abstract and ambiguous ...

Here is an article about the Coca-Cola professor: http://www.denverpost.com/2015/12/26/cu-nutrition-expert-accepts-550000-from-coca-cola-for-obesity-c...

Maybe I just happen to live in a good market, but as someone who is often in job seeker mode and frequently sees every job opening being advertised, I...

What about that professor in Colorado who did research--obesity research, I believe--funded by Pepsi or Coca-Cola (I forget which one) that concluded,...

What conclusion did I claim could be drawn? What did I try to compel? Again, nearly every time I see/hear discussions about "religion" the "religion" ...

My experience in public elementary and secondary school felt like indoctrination, not my experience in Sunday school and the church sanctuary. Like I ...

It is the spirit of the policy, not the letter of the policy, that matters. A policy conceived in the spirit of "Religion is bad! We must educate chil...

But doesn't evidentialism require every individual to structure/organize his life around "the evidence"? And, like I said before using a criminal inve...

Personally, I think that Ken Wilber's analysis of the stages of consciousness / moral understanding offers a lot more than I have heard from Daniel De...

Probably right. It says to me that culture structures intellectual functioning and that policing my own personal "beliefs" won't change anything at th...

I just read the description and some customer reviews at an online retailer. Again ecological instability is said to be a precursor to horrible events...

Many years ago I read Marvin Harris's Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going. Recently I read a few chapters in a book presentin...

But are religion and personal, private belief the same thing? Even if we could satisfactorily demarcate what is and is not religion--as far as I know ...

In general, all of that is reasonable. But we are talking about a specific context here: evidentialism, epistemic justification, and the assertion tha...

So, evidentialism says that one is justified in having a belief only if there is sufficient evidence and that this is of moral necessity because unjus...

I haven't seen conclusive evidence that people's personal beliefs caused things like the deaths under the dictatorship of Pol Pot. Did somebody in a l...

I have read Max Weber: A Critical Introduction, by Kieran Allen.

It reminds me of the manifest image vs. scientific image question.

Anthropology, neuroscience, political science, psychology and sociology could be used to investigate it.

cl But it is 1.) that what I would call evangelical evidentialism is trying to combat. I am inclined to think that any scientific investigation would ...

I don't know what science says. If science has investigated it, such investigations and their findings are never presented. The way that you phrase it...

Someone recently told me how often the material that a human is composed of is replaced. If I recall correctly, he said every 13 years. So a human ali...

Harry potter would exist out of the context in which we now know Harry Potter. Either: 1.) The present context would be reconstructed enough that Harr...

Here's a list: 1.) An idea: A as manifested in your mind. 2.) A physical embodiment of A outside of your mind. You ask what if it is determined that t...

I am not saying how I feel or what I think is true. I am just articulating a possibility: One theory from sociology is that deviance serves a function...

It seems to me that the reverse has also occurred: the irreligious have dragged science and rationalism into a culture war against "religion". Chris H...

A lot of interesting insights, especially where religious myth is compared to art. That explains a lot about where Christians have gone wrong. But how...

Indeed, that is the almost universally unquestioned response in the West. If we practice self-control, conservation, modesty, simplicity, etc. the sky...

Have people always been so fanatical about what "beliefs" we have or do not have? If you read enough of these debates something you might notice is th...

I thought that omnipotent means able to do all possible things; not able to do all things, period.

Use less energy.

How would I respond? I would be honest. Look at what the author says here about majoring in Anthropology: "It’s official. As of 2012, Kiplinger declar...

So beings come into existence; exist in only one way, shape, form, constitution, state, etc.; and then, while in that same way, shape, form, constitut...

And concepts exist. What about the possibility of categorically not existing? And I don't own a planet made of crumbled feta cheese with moons made of...

That tells us at what point A occurred to somebody, not at what point A came into existence.

It seems to me that if categorical non-existence is possible then everything about the world is random. That seems to go against the naturalist worldv...