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Indeed. Again, if we think of God as a capitalist businessman, the Abrahamic narrative and the way things are in the world (with all the pain, sufferi...

You mean like this? But not in the popular social narrative. If people who are so enthusiastically in favor of covid vaccination would have really ack...

If all you're willing or able to do is engage in politically correct watercooler talk, then what on earth are you doing at a philosophy forum??!

See, this is goodness, in every respect:

This is true goodness. True goodness. True human goodness. The role model of human goodness you are.

No, this is backwards. We start off with a definition of God, and God is, by definition, omnibenevolent. We then proceed to interpret the world in lin...

This is vague. Christians can argue that God is always good to people, and that this also means he is good to those who he condemns for eternity. Chri...

They are indices of socioeconomic success. Why should wisdom and socioeconomic success be seen as necessarily mutually exclusive?

Too few people discussing DK have read the original study, or at least the Wiki article on it. The title of the original study was: "Unskilled and Una...

If one suffers and one is in pain, one is weak. How could it be otherwise?

Buddhism isn't viable in this world. If the wiseness of a religion is to be measured by how well its adherents do socioeconomically, then Christianity...

And the best philosopher is a dead philosopher, eh?

You're lucky to have at least that. Where I live, one is on one's own. It takes one doctor to diagnose covid by symptoms, or a covid death by symptoms...

By 1. not knowing that it is true, and 2. by speaking with the intention to deceive. It's the intention to deceive that makes something a lie.

Not at all. Issues of social psychology need to be taken into account. In times of crisis, people tend to give up critical thinking. It's not clear fo...

These other options are becoming increasingly obsolete, as there is an ever greater need for covid passes, so the trend is to make vaccination somethi...

You would be far more convicing if you wouldn't behave exactly like a Trumpista. And you're just providing yet more evidence for God being a Trumpista...

When there is a social stampede, it is one's moral obligation to run with it, even if one sees that the stampede is heading toward a cliff ...

Brilliant. You hate me out of love. And I still won't defend things you merely imagine I said or defend stances you merely imagine I hold. You don't e...

Then you'd need to give up anekantavada. That anekantavada is a non-viable outlook on life, given that one who practices it will be crushed by other p...

It's no secret that the Ancient Greeks held a dim view of women. Personally, I resent the prospect of taking up the study of Platonism, only to discov...

Think in terms of surviving in the modern economy and society at large. Here, critical thinking is mostly a hindrance, and goodness (as understood in ...

Well, he didn't follow up with that there on the spot, but he elsewhere made very disparaging remarks about people (and that's putting it mildly). Do ...

And what is the place of women in all this?

Okay.

Hatred justifies everything, doesn't it.

See, you're not practicing anekantavada. Q.E.D.

Neither do I.

When you put it this way, spiritual advancement is sometimes indistinguishable from mental illness. This is cause for alarm. Remember, they sentenced ...

Oh. This seems rather mutual.

But he never walked that path himself, did he? This is crucial, because if he never did what he instructs others to do, then on the grounds of what sh...

It's amazing how light we can make of life and death ...

There's a similarity to this in Early Buddhism: In Early Buddhism, the basic prongs of the practice are sila, panna, samadhi (morality, wisdom, concen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GMZ2DEUE6c

The problem appears to be the same as with some other religious martyrs. If someone is so sure that things are exactly as they should be and that noth...

The issue was mere curiosity. Matters of life and death, given that they are matters of life and death, should be approached with the according earnes...

The question was how come some people are bothered by Platonism (their extensive critical communications on the topic being evidence of being thusly b...

That's lame then, to combine mere curiosity with matters of life and death. As it is, you appear to rest comfortably in the idea that God is a mere pa...

Yay!

Indeed, coming to terms with one's past can be a reason to read the Bible (if one was raised Christian). That would make it rather useless.

Why? To what end?

But there is more! Whence the significance of the Bible? Why the assumption that there is something powerful about the text itself? The question was, ...

Oh. A hobby, then, with no real life application?

Hatred and contempt bind people closer together than love, indeed. That is your inference, not my implication. I wasn't generalizing human nature. I'm...

Viewing him as a martyr makes sense of his trial and death sentence.

Then why bother with the God concept at all?

Indeed. But there appears to be no such causal link. Other than perhaps -- "God lets us suffer because he wants us to be happy."

This is what God loves and rewards: It's because right-wingers are doing so good in life that one should believe in God, _their_ God. They always win....

You think people change just like that, over night? Because of a pandemic? And don't forget that the fully vaccinated are still spreading the disease....

That's right. Hatred and contempt are the noblest emotions of all. Vote for Trump!