Of course. Accidentally trip on a hole in the lawn that you didn't know about. Now you know not to step there, without having been told it in any lang...
No. But university PhD physicist specialists in QM have said that QM lays to rest the notion of an objectively-existent physical world. Michael Ossipo...
. In my previous reply, I told why I don’t think logic has that problem. It just comes down to a consistency-requirement. Need it be proved that there...
By what is meant by "facts", there can be no such thing as mutually-contradictory or inconsistent facts. Just by what our words mean, no proposition c...
. No, I didn’t say that. Re-read the dictionary definitions that I posted. . . Repeat it all you want, but I’ve been talking about Materialism. It has...
. I certainly don’t forbid you from doing so. In fact, I encourage you, and anyone else, to reply. That should be the spirit of forum-posts. …accordin...
I’d posted the following Merriam-Webster definitions. (Merriam-Webster is the premier dictionary in the U.S.) . ”Materialism: . A theory that matter i...
When I first answered that question, in a recent post to this thread, I assumed that your "supernatural" translates to "nonphysical". But "supernatura...
I didn't ask you to respond. In particular, I didn't ask you to respond to the statements in my post. But yes, I did ask a question. I asked: That's a...
Correct, with the understanding that you're talking about the describable realm of metaphysics.. Good question. Yes. But what if you didn't believe in...
The notion that the physical world is all that there is, posits a big, blatant brute-fact: I've often and amply discussed that brute-fact, and an alte...
First two premises that we all agree on: . 1. We find ourselves in the experience of a life in which we’re physical animals in a physical universe. . ...
Your answer, your explanation for why there's something instead of nothing is one of the most popular explanations. But it has a few problems that I'l...
Of course. But I was referring to aggressive Atheists, who are mostly Materialists. Merriam-Webster gives a good definition. Of course. Tegmark's MUH,...
...and that was in 1848. So where's the change? We can't change the world. Only the few people (the "1%") who own it can change it. Of course now they...
Just to clarify, though we've been talking about aggressive-Atheists, no one here is criticizing Atheists per se, just for being Atheists. As I've bee...
When I said that I won’t reply again to aggressive-Atheists about their issue, I didn’t say that I wouldn’t comment on the their peculiar issue itself...
. Translation: It’s a question that S. can’t answer :D . Though S. believes in the “objective” existence of a physical universe that is the fundamenta...
We've been over that before. No one asked you to search for anything. Aggressive Atheists rely heavily on namecalling. In fact, as we all know, such b...
. That’s why I asked. A glance at the passage that you quoted will show that it was a question, not an assumption or statement. . . As I’ve explained ...
. Sure, if you have faith that the Earth is flat, then science can show that you’re wrong. . I was referring to religious faith in general. . If your ...
Suit yourself. I prefer to say "Materialism", because someone once objected to me that "Physicalism" is the name of a philosophy-of-mind position, not...
I didn't say I could disprove Materialism. I merely said that it is or has and needs a brute-fact. ...and that a brute-fact is unnecessary in the desc...
So you want me to study and go through all possible Theisms for you, to show you that there's one that you can't refute. I realize the difficult situa...
If they, by their own language and word-use, express beliefs about God, I call it Theism. If they express beliefs that they call Theism, then I call i...
”Odd though, because people with Harry's other Fundamentalist beliefs and tendencies would typically have a lot to say about describing and defining t...
I take your word for that, and accept the situation as you describe it: To the best of your knowledge, all the Theisms that you know of are ones for w...
Then Harry is an asserter and claimer about Humpalumps, making him more like the usual Literalist than like anyone that I agree with...who aren't clai...
. I’ll assume that you’re referring to people who claim and argue about the existence of God. . Theists who believe as I do don’t make claims in those...
. Harry wants me to promote a religion here. Sorry, Harry. No. . (…but my comments about my impressions, beliefs, and reasons for them, are available ...
First two premises that we all agree on: . 1. We find ourselves in the experience of a life in which we’re physical animals in a physical universe. . ...
Yes. Admittedly, people don't like giving up assumptions. I've finally caught onto the desirability of saving some of my posts in Word. So I'll just f...
I then said: "What a strange thing to say. Is this an Atheist defining God for us? Admittedly praxis has concepts about God. No doubt praxis's God is ...
Materialism's gaping hole is its brute-fact, and Materialists inability to define the "objective reality", "objective existence" and "actuality" that ...
What a strange thing to say. Is this an Atheist defining God for us? Admittedly praxis has concepts about God. No doubt praxis's God is a concept. But...
. No one denies that the chair is physical, and that this entire physical universe is physical. Your discovery that your chair is made of atoms doesn’...
. All I’m saying is that Materialism is based on (or is) an unverifiable, unfalsifiable and unnecessary brute-fact. . That isn’t hyperbolic or a rant....
Quite possibly it seems like that to you. But that's because you don't know what science is. Of course there are assumptions, and they're usually know...
It goes without saying that there's no reason why you should believe what you don't know of reason to believe. No one here would criticize you for tha...
No, science isn't faith-based. Science-Worship is faith-based. ..the faith-based belief that Science explains, applies to, and covers all. And the met...
in case it seems as if I was contradicting myself: The only requirement for an experience-story is that it be consistent, because there are no inconsi...
I don't know where you got that. I didn't express wondering about whether we were born for a good purpose. And I didn't complain. It would be ridiculo...
Antinatalists have a valid point when they ask what was the point of a couple bringing us into this world. They did so either because of physical desi...
And isn't that the whole point for aggressive Atheists? Abuse is the purpose, not the result, of their evangelistic Atheist zeal. Some people have a n...
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