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by Skip
Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:58 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.
Replies: 34
Views: 3564

Re: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.

I myself sometimes say "God" to refer to the absolute. So, it's just another polite word for the g-word. Okay. But why not just say God, if you believe in one? 'God' is not a euphemism but is a personal name. If somebody totally believes the ground of being is a person,then if I want to t...
by Skip
Mon Dec 27, 2021 7:25 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.
Replies: 34
Views: 3564

Re: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.

Belinda wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:56 am I myself sometimes say "God" to refer to the absolute.
So, it's just another polite word for the g-word. Okay. But why not just say God, if you believe in one?
by Skip
Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:17 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Philosophical discussion
Replies: 90
Views: 6043

Re: Philosophical discussion

If we take the word 'philosophy' here to mean having a 'love-of-wisdom', which means that if one is a True 'philosopher', then they just want to learn more or 'become wiser'. Wisdom is a lot more than learning or knowledge. It is a result experience, observation, reflection, understanding and patie...
by Skip
Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:08 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Did Jesus resurrect in Heaven or in Hell?
Replies: 25
Views: 2834

Re: Did Jesus resurrect in Heaven or in Hell?

Did Jesus resurrect in Heaven or in Hell? The way I read it, in a dark crypt on Earth. Then he made a speech, then he ascended. If heaven is ^ and hell is v from here, I guess he must have gone to heaven. Scriptures, as they often do, give both options as true. Book, chapter, verse? The Bible does ...
by Skip
Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:53 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.
Replies: 34
Views: 3564

Re: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.

There is only the Absolute. No word can define the absolute, or every word defines it. That means nothing. And when the word WHAT is pondered, a name usually comes to mind Your mind, possibly. WHAT is not that a big a deal to most people: they just think of things. Inanimate objects, maybe landscap...
by Skip
Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:35 am
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Are our Governments and Drug Cartels the same entities?
Replies: 4
Views: 880

Re: Are our Governments and Drug Cartels the same entities?

Are our Governments and Drug Cartels the same entities? Which is your government? Which is mine? Those two are very probably not the same entity. Drug cartels are certainly a response to something some governments have done, and they have certainly grown powerful at the expense of government. Other...
by Skip
Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:47 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.
Replies: 34
Views: 3564

Re: God is Absolute Truth that can Never not be.

God is just another word for Absolute. Why would you need another word for absolute, and why would that word be a particular name? The absolute is the ultimate truth. There is no "the absolute". It's an adjective, not a noun. The adjective can describe many things, including truth (inaccu...
by Skip
Mon Sep 27, 2021 4:48 am
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Corona, Controversies and Careers
Replies: 71
Views: 8968

Re: Corona, Controversies and Careers

RCSaunders wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:02 am Good grief! You are comparing the words of two lunatics (government vs. social media) to decide which is better?
No; I am comparing their track records.
There is plenty of evidence.
So I keep being told by people who then fail or refuse to present any.
by Skip
Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:34 am
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Corona, Controversies and Careers
Replies: 71
Views: 8968

Re: Corona, Controversies and Careers

Why would anyone believe anything any government agency said? If you compared the correct and incorrect information coming from government agencies to the correct and incorrect information coming from internet conspiracy theorists, the proportion of correct to incorrect might persuade you that one ...
by Skip
Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:38 am
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Beyond a reasonable doubt
Replies: 10
Views: 2232

Re: Beyond a reasonable doubt

Is there a way to prove what is beyond a reasonable doubt? Sure. The operative word is "reasonable". This simply means that the preponderance of evidence favours one conclusion. Legal evidence comes in several grades of credibility: recorded (which has been strongest but is cast in some d...
by Skip
Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:30 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction
Replies: 75
Views: 9203

Re: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction

[You stand accused of six counts of first degree murder. Prove you didn't commit those crimes.] :? :? :? I'm not seeing the relevance. Of course not. Avoiding relevance is your long suit. A person could answer: I wasn't there, Nobody claims to have seen you anywhere else. I don't have access to a W...
by Skip
Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:51 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction
Replies: 75
Views: 9203

Re: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction

[ he doesn't suddenly become a whole new concept.] Actually, it does. Are you unfamiliar with the convention of distinguishing the two with a capital? Add a capital, call it a convention and that changes everything - by nullifying all the other cultures and their religions. That works exactly as lo...
by Skip
Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:03 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction
Replies: 75
Views: 9203

Re: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction

What I'm suggesting is that the term "God" is analytically, "Supreme Being". A god is a god is a god, whether you capitalize it or not. Just because other cultures had the consideration to give their gods names and the Roman Empire dropped the Hebrew name of their adopted god wh...
by Skip
Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:56 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction
Replies: 75
Views: 9203

Re: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction

[How do you know? Because analytically, the term "God" doesn't even correspond to either or those definitions, and empirically, such things do not exist. So their probability is considerably lower than an analytically-relevant or empirically plausible definitions. [/quote] Well, you must ...
by Skip
Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:10 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction
Replies: 75
Views: 9203

Re: God as an Impersonal Force is a Contradiction

The claim, "God is a rainbow unicorn" and "God is a flying teapot" have very, very low chances of being right. How do you know? If you are quite certain that this is true, that just makes yet another subset that has the same chance of being right or wrong as the others. (+/- 0) ...