Michael Ossipoff

. Aside from the fact that I didn't say that it "exists" (whatever that would mean), let me comment on the following: . . What? Some of the complex sy...

Quite right. Many parents are emotionally &/or morally unqualified to be responsible for children. Parenting should be a privilege for those who are q...

I’m posting this as a reply to Cabbage Farmer, not because there’s any longer a reason to try to communicate with him, but only because, as a matter o...

Exactly. Michael Ossipoff

I'd like to correct some wording that didn't say what I meant: Of course, I assume, a Roomba is designed to avoid going over the edge of a stair-step ...

Of course there's something to what you say. There was a Twilight-Zone episode in which a criminal died, and found himself in a place where he could h...

Correction: At the end of my post before the most recent one, I mean to say that there isn't a possible omnipotence like the advocates of the Argument...

Sorry, but I've added this edit-addition to my post before this one, and I want to add it here in a separate post too, in case you've already read the...

If he freely, unnecessarily and wantonly writes such a story, in which the fate of everyone (except maybe a few brutal criminals) is bad, then it can'...

. How’s that for a compelling and irrefutable argument ! . Re-assertion of a criticized claim, used as a supposed answer to a refutation or criticism ...

Yes, when there's also no proof or convincing evidence to the contrary. Yes, that's what Sapientia doesn't seem to get at all, because Sapientia is us...

Yes, and, in particular, a social issue and an image issue. There are a lot of people, some of them here, who need to perceive themselves as the scien...

. You’re confusing “different from” with “in conflict with”. . If you want to claim that faith that there’s God is in conflict with reason, then you’d...

Incorrect. If it's not in conflict with established fact, or in conflict with reason, then it's reasonable. The matter of God, or the matter of the na...

Oops! Sorry if I misinterpreted you. ...and I evidently did. I thought that you were trying to shore-up the Atheist problem-of-evil argument, by argui...

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Here's a better answer: Good--Admitting that you don't know what you're criticizing or disbelieving is the first step to some kind of progress. The ne...

...because you firmly and unshakably believe that God is omnipotent. By the way, your use of the word "creation" is unnecessarily and unrealistically ...

For one thing, why the issue? The science of Theist-ology? There are plenty of Theists who'll be most glad to talk to you....like the promotional ones...

I suspect that it's just that some people like the sound of the word "Atheist", and want to have that self-designation while dodging the burden-of-pro...

Yes, the notion of omnipotence is simplistic and anthropomorphic. Michael Ossipoff

It seems to me that sincere but unreasonable pessimism can be helped by talking to the person. I don't claim that that actually happens. My pessimism ...

I didn't say that no utterance can be guaranteed to be true. I said only that no one's utterances can all be guaranteed to be true. . Of course, from ...

Part 2 of 2: So, as I use the term, “a metaphysics” it refers to an account of what describably is. . . Are you sure that all of that was in one sente...

Part 1 of 2: Somehow I didn’t notice this reply, and thought that I’d made the last post to this thread. So that’s why this reply is a month late. . I...

First, thank you for clarifying that… . “It's really more that the universe is indifferent - you can go with the grain or against the grain, the unive...

That's why I just finished saying this: Michael Ossipoff

As for biological explanations, maybe I should repeat what I recently said about that: Michael Ossipoff

NDEs weren't in the popular culture or the popular mind before the publication of Raymond Moody's Life after Life. So NDE in popular culture doesn't e...

I didn’t find your posting till just now. I’m replying immediately after finding it. . When replying, one should click on the right-angle-bent arrow i...

Now that's funny, because, according to Merriam-Webster and Houghton-Mifflin, to assert is to state or declare positively. In any case, in the stateme...

What does "AP" stand for? Michael Ossipoff

. Of course. Anyone gets to assert anything. It used to be commonly asserted that the Earth is flat. . Didn’t someone say that, in the evolution vs an...

The ideology explanation doesn't hold up, because people of vastly, entirely, different ideologies, religions, and philosophies have reported basicall...

Sometimes I like to number some statements or topics. ------------------------------------------- 1. NDEs are valid. NDEs are unusual instances of ret...

I've heard of it, but I don't recommend psychedelics, pot, opioids, barbituates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, amphetamines, alcohol, or tobacco. I favor ...

. Then that’s what you mean by “entertainment”, when you decry your need for entertainment, and to constantly keep yourself entertained. . You say tha...

. How very fair of you to evaluate the validity of other people’s perceptions, experiences, feelings and impressions before making your assertion abou...

Then it's a whole other ballgame. It's no longer the feelings and experiences, it's words about them. Words and description aren't direct experience. ...

They do. And that includes impressions and feelings (until they're the subject of narrative, concept, commentary, assertion, argument or evaluation). ...

Is that supposed to have something to do with what I said? All I spoke about was assertions. No one here would say that you should believe what you do...

Sure, but I was talking about someone speaking with absolute authority about Reality itself, Ultimate Reality. But yes, of course it's true that exper...

Oh sure--I was in my '20s during the psychedelic mid-'60s. The Tibetan Book of the Dead was popular then. I don't doubt that it might have some validi...

Yes, I get the feeling that that's true of a lot of people at this forum. A lot of people don't want the Materialist label, but nevertheless want to b...

. Well it’s probably misleading, because there’s a sense in which we find ourselves in our situations that aren’t entirely of our own making. In fact,...

. None of us here have died (and remember it). . . Of course you never experience the time when your body has completely shut-down. Only your survivor...

Exactly.

I've already said this, but, as for why we're in this situation, it's because of us ourselves. My metaphysical explanation is that you were born into ...

. It’s just in the nature of reply, that I mention your statements that I’m replying to. My criticisms of your positions sound like personal criticism...

:D No one's saying what you should or shouldn't go with, given what you've seen or haven't seen. I was just commenting about assertion. ...and a presu...