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Perhaps the same way that some Christians say that theirs is not a religion, but the truth.

But how can you tell whether you have the correct knowledge of them?

Honey, they are perfectly okay with you burning in hell for all eternity. They don't care what you think of them.

I started reading it, but it seemed too alien to me to continue. The way he describes Christians is nothing like what I've come to know Christians.

I have a hard time understanding the basic premise. The idea that there was once some kind of "golden era" or "an enchanted time" when people took rel...

The idea that one can fight evil, and yet remain pure, untouched by it is extremely appealing. https://i.quotev.com/img/q/u/12/06/17/legoo.jpg

Did God ever live? What studies did Weber base such assessments on?

But they do have that Darwinistic, Nietzschean Übermensch power of presence to them. But then again, maybe we're the ones making that power of their p...

How about asking them? I don't think the New Atheists "rob the world" of magic. I feel the same way about them as I do about religion. Both are dogmat...

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In some Dharmic religions, it is believed that in order for conception to occur, the will of the prospective father, the will of the prospective mothe...

How can virtue be found in metaethics? Ancient systems like Early Buddhism are examples of virtue epistemology: they start with the premise that in or...

Are you then suggesting that Nietzsche didn't properly comprehend those higher concepts? ( ;) )

It's not like the Christians care how they stand in your book.

How did you come to know about God? Did God contact you? Have you read books on the topic of God?

This doesn't seem to be how people usually think and act, though. "Do unto others before they do unto you" and "He who casts the first stone is innoce...

Can we find some passages that directly speak about this?

What is the source of your thoughts about God?

I think they are similar to the way language allows one to sometimes say "I'm wearing brown shoes", and other times to say "I'm wearing black shoes". ...

This is what the study of folk psychology addresses: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/folkpsych-theory/

Nah. We study linguistics and the meaning and role of idioms.

What are some examples of that? Would encouraging others not to drink and drive (so that they don't run you over) be an example of your approach to mo...

You needn't apologize to me. Some resources on the first noble truth: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca1/index.html and Life Isn'...

If I'm understanding you and correctly, you both come from the perspective that morality has to do with the way we treat others and is motivated by ca...

Is the fact that we can conceive of the insufficiency of life as it is usually lived evidence that there is "more to life"? How come we can be dissati...

Reflection/self-examination/philosophy are not necessarily mutually exclusive with "living life". Although I can think of some ways of attempting to r...

And how is their pessimism (philosophical or plain) helping them in that poverty? Exactly, which just goes to show that philosophical pessimism is via...

So you start a thread to show that antinatalism is compatible with something that you consider to be, well, a figment of imagination. If you'd be writ...

So an academic is, essentially, a failed politician?

Where do you get such optimism? Because even though your assessment of the human situation is rather dark, it rests on the assumption that humans are ...

Then the sort of idealistic self-sacrificing love that you speak of in the OP is unavailable to humans.

In Turkish culture they have a standard expression one can say if one is asked "Where are you going?" but one is angry or doesn't like the asker, so o...

How far apart are the points, and how do you determine what a relevant interval is?

Lewis' trilemma is a variation of Credo quia absurdum. Then maybe you should return the disfavor ...

He's welcome to demonstrate that "how adaptive they are for prosocially coexisting" doesn't amount to "going with the crowd" or "as the wind blows". F...

So let's contrast this with a couple of statements from another thread: , what say you?

Who is "we"? For a person who is low in the hierarchy chain, nothing changes, whether those at the top are a religious elite, or a scientific elite.

Let's not sound like a cheap self-help book ...

Those things are a potential blemish on the face of "romantic love". A face, if it indeed should be so wonderful as you say, should be completely free...

I don't understand what this means. What is a "negative world-to-mind fit"?

The problem with idealistic ideologies like yours is that they are an all-or-nothing, now-or-never kind of deal. Anything that is less than the perfec...

Some passages from Wiki on natural law: How do you think a Stoic would reply to this? So the issue at hand seems to be the legitimacy/authority of the...

This is quite a leap. It's not clear how the above follows. Such a reduction as you mention above can simply be avoided by conceptualizing "romantic l...

People who indulge in romantic delusion are still engaging in it for the benefit they assume it has or will have for themselves. The whole point of ro...

Duh. Of course one can be poor and pessimistic. Many people are. But in that case, it's that pessmism that is keeping (and possibly, making) one poor.

Wiki has actually been a pretty good source for quite some time now, no need to eschew it anymore (as there was in the olden days).

How do you do that? Can you give some examples? - - - I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly ... but what you're saying seems to describe a p...

Surely you mean that morality derives from respect for _specific_ others, and not for just anyone. Those specific others being usually one's parents, ...

It's a point on which I'd like to see where you stand, because it's not clear where you stand on the issue of intention.

The whole point of inventing stories that illustrate moral dilemmas is to use them as a cue for analyzing problems of morality, or to get a person to ...