Religious/spiritual communities function like guilds. Religious/spiritual practices are intended to be taken up within the context of a religious/spir...
At a forum like this, a part (or sometimes most) of one's verbal performance is about performing for an audience, not for the poster one is replying t...
Oh, the unenlightened florist who hasn't yet learned how to chop wood and carry water again. Yesssss. I'm guilty of it too. But, in my defense, I'm aw...
Take a more down-to-earth example of a "private investigation": Recovering after an injury. You, with your particular injury, with your particular soc...
Yes, absolutely. I classify such utterances under "poetic ontology", "poetic epistemology", and other poetic suches. There's plenty of this in literat...
God is omnimax, by definition. One of the implications of this is that nothing in this universe can exist without God willing it and making it possibl...
It has been my observation that people say this when they don't want to get involved in the conversation, or when they try to present a problem as sma...
Well, you've got that smug confidence. Unfortunately, said confidence doesn't guarantee knowledge of God ... or anything else, for that matter. But it...
Science, religion, economics, art theory, etc. -- they (can) all claim to account for the meaning of life, and not merely address it, indeed. (Leaving...
It's not just in reply to your posts. It's something I've been working out for myself. Maybe someone else benefits as well. I think that in some matte...
So your "God" is indistinguishable from being a mere figment of your imagination. And since you deny any relation to religion, your "God" is a mere fi...
How do you know that?? How do you know that?? The above two premises strike me as undecidable. The premises one uses should be true, otherwise the who...
I'm trying to give a context for approaching religion, a context that tries to make sure that one's involvement with religion isn't going to become so...
No. I'm saying one has to have those things, or else getting involved with religion is going to squish one. I'm sometimes amazed by high-calibre think...
And then there is the issue of power struggles between people. We could say that notions of subjectivity and objectivity are born of, created by the p...
Actually, it is controversial. It was controversial, for example, for Descartes who believed that animals have no feelings, don't feel pain, and that ...
By having confidence in yourself, believing that you exist for a reason, that you're a worthy person, and so on. Yes, cheap self-help slogans, I know....
Insofar as someone is just repeating the claims of experts from a particular field, and is straightforward about doing so, it's not clear what the pro...
I think it comes down to why they say they believe something. On one end of the spectrum, there is the conman who, for the purposes of betraying other...
If there would be such a thing as the will of God, we would necessarily know it* and have no choice in the matter, unless he deliberately hid it from ...
Rather, what is so attractive in seeing other people as being mere numbers? Democracy is forcing people into that. Because in democracy, the only hope...
None of the monotheistic religions is in favor of (absolute) antinatalism. So someone is wrong here, you, or them. Will you argue that you have better...
It depends who the intended audience for such a case against God would be. Some (many, most?) theists will not even listen to someone who disagrees wi...
Here are some assumptions that religious people (of different religions) make and I learned them the hard way: "If a person visits a religious venue f...
But can it be said that the ordinary daily struggle for survival really is about acting in bad faith? If we accept the Theory of Evolution, and with i...
And sometimes, it's just more strategy. I think that a philosophically inclined person is in comparison to the ordinary, extroverted, socially adept p...
There are studies that show that religiosity plays a different role and has different effects if the person is living in a culture where the majority ...
God and sin. A sheer unsolvable theological problem. It's unsolvable for Abrahamists. There are more theisms than just the Abrahamic onces. Hindu (mon...
I don't think so. An example: I was once waiting in line at the grocery store. I was second in line. So I was waiting, standing still in my spot at th...
Or the person has different epistemic priorities and different epistemic standards than a philosopher. A bit of folk wisdom says "If you stand for not...
Yes, it's a claim. A claim made by relatively small, highly specialized groups of people. If one wishes to test those claims, one has to become a memb...
As with all studies, one interested in a particular field of study has to play by the rules of said field. This is true whether we're talking about th...
Why would one want to do such a study? Here I'm assuming you're talking about what is usually understood as "scientific study", and the topic are pers...
It's not clear how you can be sure that you know the truth about God. "God" is a term whose native domain are monotheistic religions which offer compe...
You said: from which I surmised that you hold that virtue can be found in metaethics, it's just that the virtue of Stoicism and Early Buddhism cannot ...
Sure, the phenomenological perspective is useless for scientific purposes. But one's own experience is all that a person has, and all that is or can b...
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