BlueBanana

Apparently by theism you refer to something else than theism, and by philosophy of religion you refer to something else than philosophical thinking of...

1) That's a straw man, I'm not claiming my mind is immune to what happens to my brain or that it's state is the same thing as it's capability to funcr...

Is that really your proof? *slow clap*

That's rather debatable.

Yes. I'm working on a graph that shows the relationship between morality and some other factors. I'm using paint and intend to represent my theories a...

I completely agree with all this. I do think christianity as a centralized religion is the biggest individual force behind it, but that might just be ...

Well that's just the matter of deining the terms. Buddhists believe that the parts of the soul become new souls after death, not that a specific perso...

Does christianity really contradict reincarnation though? If reincarnation is thought of as a phenomenon involving the metaphysics of mind and taken a...

Yes, but that would mean you chose to go to Hell. Hell isn't a physical place but rather a state of being (at least according to some), the state of m...

What counts as a belief? If one believes in a single, omnipotent god but calls them by a different name, does he believe in the God? What if one belie...

We can't know the length of an object is regular either.

Just theoretically, there might be an event where the action of fulfilling the justice is a part of the circumstances itself, and thus making one acti...

The real question is why this needed a thread of its own.

Thoughts aren't "I" - "I" is what's conscious of those thoughts. How many drops of paint are needed for a picture to exist? None, only the canvas is e...

Well, maybe I'm more of agnostic on the issue but it's a realistic possibility. Obviously matter and consciousness do interact and we can make conclus...

Your question is unclear. I do believe the local events and our lives and behaviour might be related to larger movements in the universe, but I don't ...

Hello, I'm a fruit of an uncommon colouring. I attempt to speak real (UK) English but often find myself an unwilling victim of the consequences of exp...

apologies for such a short reply, but the argument seems to rely on a specific interpretation of the solution to the Sorites paradox. This is probably...

Fulfilment of justice is different from justice.

Lemme rephrase that: you agree that they're not necessarily mentally ill by any real, official, accepted standards and the accepted meaning of the wor...

This relies on the premise that fulfilment of justice can't be unjust.

No, that handful of people scammed millions of people wasting their life working for them to gain even minimal upgrade in their standard of living.

It's also different than your claim that they don't have self-consciousness, so your premise that "Humans use language because --- we have self-consci...

This is false not proven to be true, multiple other animals are believed to have consciousness. Is this a metaphor? If not, it's false. If yes, I don'...

You proved neither that miracles are real nor that fantasy isn't.

Back to the subject: What actual basis is there to ban the guns or limit them? Can the issue be discussed before we discuss the necessity of laws, soc...

Very well, you may expect pages upon pages of content on the society of ants in my back yard. With winter approaching, the events are about to turn mo...

What about low effort rule?

I don't have a particularly strong opinion on the matter because I don't live in USA and it isn't the center of the world. Speaking of which, it's not...

Irrelevant, the difference is still only between the objects perceived.

You're perceiving the rock, you're experiencing the perception in the form of pain. You can't experience a physical object, only its consequences.

That's a difference between the trees, not between seeing the trees.

I won't. Actually I could argue against either one of those points. When perceiving a virtual reality, we'd perceive a physical image and get an exter...

To perceive a tree and to be conscious of a tree are different things. We perceive either a real or mental tree, but what we are conscious of is the p...

Aside from the option of the world not having been created, I think I can accept (1) except for the definition of consciousness. Imo the issue is sole...

First of all, I didn't call your arguments BS. I called a premise of a premise you hadn't claimed to be BS, and drew from it the conclusion that you y...

I agree, but meanwhile it's just as true as your 2nd premise. It's just straight out BS. You need another premise prior to it, which is that unknown p...

If the creator doesn't consiously plan the decision of creation, the scenario isn't comparable to human consciously planning a creation. All animals c...

Argh, sniped. Why is working with plan and purpose the line that divides the probability to 50/50? We could just consider unconscious creator, conscio...

We could divide it by any other line just as well. What, besides your racial egoism, leads to the conclusion that mankind is that line? It's just as j...

Which premises lead to the claim 1? You don't even mention the humans' consciousness' level or that of the beings with a lower one after that.

Yes, it is. But it can't be derived from any. The premise is false.

That can be derived from none of your premises.

Using it as reference does not exclude the levels of consciousness below it.

Why?

If only true things can evoke emotions, the story can evoke emotions because its existence is true.

The existence of the story is true.

The tabula rasa is not nothing, it's something. In this context, a physical object does not occupy nothing: it occupies space, which in itself is some...

Well, I think we can agree that the situation in question is very much related to the reasons of sexuality being such a taboo in our culture, which is...

And that doesn't make it immoral or wrong. That just means our culture's view on sexuality is very much twisted by christianity's sick view on sexuali...