Different from if it's someone else's finger? Sure. And that doesn't conflict with my disagreement with harming anyone. Sure, but it's still a cause o...
Nothing "supernatural" about it. It's an obvious consequence of accepted natural events. For details, I refer you to my explanation of natural-selecti...
Of course. Quite so. I'd said: But, until the cut heals, it hurts if you disturb it. And, if the cut gets infected, due to neglect, then you might get...
I'd like to further clarify my suggestion about how reincarnation is consistent with Skepticism. At the stage of body-shutdown that I called "stage 1)...
We're making progress. In particular, which part of my explanation didn't you understand? Which statement or conclusion didn't seem supported? Michael...
Well, I carefully, and at length, explained how natural selection works. A brute fact is a fact that is posited without an explanation, typically with...
But aren't you the one who is disparaging gays, when you say that they're criticizably unnatural if they're the result of an accident? I described a v...
I just meant that the points of view are mutually exclusive. From what I remember of what Eliminative Physicalists say, it's canonical that the valid ...
But yes, admittedly you and all the other life-forms have much in common, and, of course, are identical at core, ...are all brothers, to say the least...
You're positing some metaphysical substance called "Consciousness", which is some kind of a container, which contains experience. Do you see the round...
Not unless it's intended that way. Look, one thing for sure is that gay-ness isn't hereditary. That isn't rocket-science. If it were hereditary, then,...
Yes, in view of what CasKev posted, maybe my explanation wasn't the best one. Maybe a better explanation is that it's just a "transcription-error", to...
That's a good explanation. Admittedly the environmental explanation wasn't really that good (It was just the best that I could suggest) . Your explana...
Evolution 101: . This is one big reply to several posters: . Alright, I came here to discuss metaphysics. I didn’t come here to explain and advocate n...
Nonsense. I've repeatedly criticized Scientificism (Science-Worship) at these forums. Commendations to you for not being a Science-Worshipper. But not...
Yes, natural selection, while selecting remarkably well for attributes that increase reproductive success (actually reproduction, successful child-rea...
I liked the idea of Skepticism being a tautology, because tautologies are completely undeniable. But now I must admit that I can't say that Skepticism...
I’d said: . . Thanatos says: . . …unless it doesn’t require anything. . . Thanatos needs to not reply to posts, discussions or topics that he hasn’t r...
If anyone thinks that reincarnation requires souls, then I'll remind you that millennia of Buddhists didn't and don't think so. As I've said in a prev...
But what's wrong with that? If the world could be explained essentially without saying anything (much less assuming anything), then wouldn't that be e...
Yes, we were all taught in early school-grades that science has all the answers. Yes, the religious denominations found in our society teach their own...
My most recent post here was very brief, because that was all there was time for, right then. . Of course some things that I said in it call for a bit...
Reincarnation needn't require an indestructible soul, or a parallel universe of souls. Though reincarnation isn't part of, or necessary to,. Skepticis...
Promise? Than thank you for that too. My previous replies are sufficient, and there's no need or reason for me to continue answering the same repeated...
My topic was the origin, cause or reason for the fact that your life occurred at all. Your topic was developmental influences during your current life...
Yes, you addressed something different from what I clearly stated that I was referring to. Before your most recent reply, I had already clarified that...
No. I was referring to origin, cause or reason for the fact of your life itself, not about events and causes during your life which have influenced it...
General comment to topic: Of course the determination of whether you believe that there is or might be reincarnation is a matter of asking yourself th...
I won't say that your post doesn't contain any information. It says that you can't explain what you said can be explained. My post was long because I ...
Thanatos says: . . Instead of name-calling a post that you don’t like, pejoratively characterizing it, and thereby violating forum guidelines, it woul...
I have to admit that I wouldn't be able to explain or account for such a thing. If this physical universe is what its simplest, neatest, most parsimon...
I don't know for certain. It sounds as if he's saying what most people believe, and that, like most people, he's taking this physical world's local ac...
I don't understand. You said: But w1 is just a word for the world in which obtains S1. And S1 is just a word for how it is in w1. They're the same thi...
That's just what makes that possibilitty-world the possibility-world that it is. But the fact that those two possibility-worlds have different states ...
My answer to the question was certainly a tautology, in view of what "actual" means to me. But of course the asking of a question implies saying, "I d...
I'd said: Translation: "I can't explain why there is the metaphysically-promary, fundamentally-existent material reality that I believe in." Yes, expl...
,. Yes, you could explicitly define "the actual world" as "this particular possibility-world." In fact, how I mean "actual" when I say that this world...
Question: Why is there something instead of nothing? Answer: If there were nothing, you'd still be complaining. Of course that isn't an answer, and th...
I'd said: You asked: Yes. You're referring to the 2nd part of the question. Someone had, in fact, asked that same question, in bot of its parts, in on...
Yes. As the Physicalist means "something", there isn't something; there's nothing. But I don't think it would make sense to call the life-experience p...
I’d said: . . You reply: . . Yes, though I guess someone could propose a metaphysics that conflicts with physical observations. ., . Though it seems t...
?Jake Tarragon . I noticed your other posting, at a another topic. I don’t know which was posted first, but this was the first one that I saw, and so ...
...along with everything else that could conceivably exixt. So Reality doesn't consist of this multiverse, if it's just one of infinitely-many possibi...
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