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Actually, we can absolutely claim that there was no Christian God prior to Christianity. The god may have existed, certainly, however, prior to Christ...
November 24, 2020 at 12:56
My psychiatric patients with visual hallucinations would then have "proved" a great deal of odd things exist, as they experience many things by sight ...
November 24, 2020 at 12:51
So, clearly, these guys were doing things wrong in their married or serious relationships. Restricting relationships are restricted, I get that, but t...
November 24, 2020 at 12:10
Actually, no. I am saying that utopia will never be achieved because Utopia is unachievable. The concept of utopia is different for each person, there...
November 24, 2020 at 10:00
philosophy does not need proof. Proof would constitute fact. Philosophy is truth and theory oriented, not fact based. Truth is based on perception, th...
November 20, 2020 at 13:22
Show me a field of people without strife and I will show you field of corpses. Utopia is a pipe dream. Enough drugs will get you there, until the drug...
November 20, 2020 at 12:27
I find your topic of particular interest, it is something that has drifted through my mind for the majority of my life as I do not understand people i...
November 20, 2020 at 12:24
It is exactly that which allows a discussion to bear worthwhile fruit. I will expound upon a topic from my perspective, you from yours, and, through e...
November 20, 2020 at 11:02
She made a choice to commit suicide. Moral implications of that choice are hers, not her husbands. By allowing the husband to assume the moral respons...
November 20, 2020 at 10:47
that's why you wear a mask while in the car alone. So that you can't catch Covid from yourself, as you are already closer than six feet from yourself....
November 20, 2020 at 07:28
Gotta love Yoda. He nails it. Consider the context of the quote: Luke is whining and crying about how hard it is to raise the X-wing out of the swamp....
November 19, 2020 at 12:30
We choose what is easy. Those that would pursue a right path, no matter the difficulty of said path, elicit such hatred in the rest that those seeking...
November 19, 2020 at 11:32
Well, as per our national chief medical officer, as long as you wear a mask while having sex, then it's ok to have sex during the pandemic. Which, to ...
November 19, 2020 at 09:45
You forgot to make popcorn while you watch the show. Of course humanity will consume itself, it consumes everything else and is nondiscriminatory that...
November 19, 2020 at 09:21
The problem with specifying that the judges be good at thinking about thinking is that the judges, based on their own ability and understanding of thi...
November 19, 2020 at 09:16
you could have saved space and simply blamed women for everything. Heavy stereotyping in your perspective. I have known many women, young and old, who...
November 19, 2020 at 08:43
Actually I accept the "kill yourself if you are that upset about things" perspective. Either play the game as best you can, or, check out and end the ...
November 19, 2020 at 08:24
Abstaining from procreation; as a basis for the reduction of suffering, from the perspective that that which remains unborn cannot suffer, is, when ex...
November 19, 2020 at 08:11
I hope we do not. I suspect that, should the US attempt this, we will see dramatic reprisals from countries that are interfered with, and understandab...
November 10, 2020 at 11:58
I chose to accept the version of "torture" for myself as you described. Having said that, your description of torture; having to listen to someone scr...
November 10, 2020 at 11:41
God is a transgendered Cat? Not a bad position, and I cannot refute the theory.
November 10, 2020 at 09:27
In a nutshell...Yes. "God" is whichever the beholder needs "God" to be. Is the Ocean male or female? The ocean doesn't care what you call it, and neit...
November 10, 2020 at 09:20
Consider the economy of murder: Bob kills Jim (reasons are unimportant) Jim, being dead, has minimal positive economic value anymore, once he has been...
November 10, 2020 at 08:52
Death is that which gives life value. Life has meaning because it is limited and ultimately ends. Eliminate death (if it were possible) and create a l...
November 10, 2020 at 08:23
I will not ever take the vaccine. Firstly, if one can become immune to covid 19 then I do not need the vaccine, having already had the virus. Secondly...
November 10, 2020 at 08:10
Good and Evil are a matter of perspective, neither can exist without the contrast of the other. As with light and darkness. If there is no darkness th...
November 10, 2020 at 07:07
Why not? The state kills people. The general populace are not allowed to kill each other as that specific privilege belongs solely to the state. Howev...
November 10, 2020 at 04:51
the "sin" of killing is based upon the perspective of the individual doing the killing. The bible informs us that all human life is sacred, meaning, e...
November 10, 2020 at 04:46
the wave was not destroyed, it was transformed. I cannot die ( be destroyed), not because I do not exist, but because death is not destruction but tra...
November 07, 2020 at 13:34
I have found the greatest problem with most attempt to "prove" the existence of God is that the definition of "God" is not defined, and therefore, exc...
November 07, 2020 at 13:24
"Good and Bad" actions. I assume these descriptors would be based on the perspective of society, rather than on those committing said actions? I seek ...
November 07, 2020 at 12:36
I noticed the usage in one of your earlier posts and was curious as to your parameters applied to the term. I cannot find the reference now. Regarding...
November 07, 2020 at 12:26
I stand corrected.
November 07, 2020 at 12:11
Define " Moral responsibility" please. I would like your definition as I am curious regarding what it encompasses. Thanks.
November 07, 2020 at 12:08
"disproportionately affecting" Always an interesting concept. It pre-supposes that all things should inherently be affected in equality, something I h...
November 07, 2020 at 12:02