I think religion provides comfort and solace. It supports people to manage the fear of uncertainty, death and the often brutal realities of life. For ...
If I read you correctly then we probably have nothing further to talk about. You are not saying any of this is about what's true, it's merely evidence...
You are trying to prove Christianity is true by citing religious experince as evidence. You are aware, I suspect, that as far as Islam in concerned, C...
I think disposition has much to do with it. I'm not a fan of owning too many things. I feel better with less. Just sold my car. I am now working thoug...
How so? We can meet people who have had direct experiences (during prayer) of Mohammad and Allah. Are they true too? I have met people who have had ex...
From our perspective, yes. What objective basis have you identified that allows us to determine which is valid and which is not? And the point, to go ...
Tell that to the millions who used faith and notions of goodness to justify their projects. You're almost there. Keep thinking this through. People us...
Sometimes it can, but certainly not always. Sounds like the observation of William T Craig rather than that of an urbane Jewish man. And in fairness, ...
You have accidentally quoted @"Michael" as me. I am not asking what is time, I was specifically interested in @"Joshs" comment about phenomenology and...
Can you say some more in simple terms about what this might be? Do you mean that time is also an aspect of consciousness and therefore located in our ...
Many people have come to this conclusion. But 'suffering' wouldn't make sense if we didn't also experience contentment. So for me, whether life is pre...
Welcome. I'm here because I never privileged philosophy in my life. Wanting to find out what I may have missed. I am not a philosopher, nor do I have ...
Yes. Oh, the owner died in the 1950's. It was just a big house near where I lived back then, attached to a school. I used to walk past it a lot and so...
This house, once owned by a Catholic gambling czar and alleged petty-criminal here in Melbourne, was always referred to as a wedding cake. Decades ago...
They don't. No one knows how many people actually leave notes - probably around a quarter. I have only ever seen a couple of notes. People do it in fi...
I am trained in suicide intervention and have often been a first responder. The model used around the world is fairly straight forward and involves so...
I think it's a pretty vague idea. One person's 'hard' is another's sociopathy. What criterion of value do you measure 'hard' against? I think the sent...
Depends on the church. My criticism of the characters in monotheism are closer to literary criticism. I dislike Mr Casaubon almost as much as I dislik...
No, the difference is that I accept that the mass murder by drowning of men, women and children is wrong. There's really nothing you can't justify usi...
Straw man. But I would say that I (and most members here, probably you too) are morally superior to the Old Testament god (at least the character as w...
Socialism is a much broader project that just this. It's also about public ownership, democratic control and social justice. In short, the active part...
No idea what a pagan atheist might be. I was just expressing an obvious absurdity about the usual claims of monotheism's perfect deity. Conveying 'tru...
:up: Which of course doesn't say anything about whether it is true or not. A Sikh colleague says the same thing. There are vegans and techno pagans sa...
To me this story doesn't make sense. You are simply speculating on why god doesn't intervene. You cannot demonstrate this is the reason. Remember that...
Let's face it, this God is a sloppy worker and doesn't pay attention. Hence we now have thousands of Christian sects, some mutually hateful towards ea...
I don't beleive we are in a simulation, but this is my reaction to your points. Why would or should they? Why should we? The model may be perfectly co...
Fair enough. How do you respond to those who might argue that the Bible is allegorical and that it contains a 'broader truth' about Yahweh, who does n...
Well I can't find anything much to criticize in this. Certain things attract us. But it does seem to be the expression of a preference - one predicate...
Not that I recall. But was the assumption warranted? Was it not simply a stage of culture? Obviously there are some nostalgic, romantic projects that ...
How might we demonstrate this? My intuition is that the organizing principles organisms employ to survive build purpose and meaning. We seek comfort a...
Atheists do not always conclude there are no gods. I am an atheist. My position, like that of many other contemporary atheists, is that I have encount...
Interesting. Aust and US are more similar that I would have guessed. I remember having critical thinking taught to me in around 1983. It was also call...
Isn't purpose contingent on culture and language - an indication of worldviews and values and how we like to privilege our time? I've generally held t...
Ha! No, I'd say it is more a reasonable response to what you asked - Consensus? Which big players? I wish I had had more rote learning and less discur...
Not sure it is a movement as such and I haven't made a survey of this, but it seems to be an emerging view here in some of the posts and orientations ...
1) yes I was going to make the same point and 2) clever bugger. Thank goodness. Do you think the emerging romantics who want to go back to the Greeks ...
That's for sure. I could even say that one of the most nuanced philosophical thinkers of the 20th century (Heidegger) seemed to find the Nazi narrativ...
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