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by Necromancer
Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:02 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: All history is a fable.
Replies: 5
Views: 1234

Re: All history is a fable.

It doesn't follow from science of history writing that all history is fable. How many ways are there to say that Theresa May is the prime minister of UK? As we know, there are many ways to say something, but only (very) few ways to state the facts! It seems to me that to say that all history is fabl...
by Necromancer
Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:57 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: The Determination of the Christian - The Confidence...
Replies: 29
Views: 9793

Re: The Determination of the Christian - The Confidence...

Necromancer, let me see if I got you straight. You are saying (? Please confirm aye or nay, and correct the wrong parts I attribute to your OP) that: - religious are attracted to be in Heaven, and their concern of Hell gets diminished - the atheists feel that the religious are "good" due ...
by Necromancer
Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:37 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: The Determination of the Christian - The Confidence...
Replies: 29
Views: 9793

The Determination of the Christian - The Confidence...

Allow me to write to you about the determination of the Christian. Now let's imagine that a genuine Christian wants to go to Heaven and works/lives toward such a goal. Further then, can the confidence of a Christian, the very deep feeling of "something out there", Heaven and God, be determ...
by Necromancer
Sun Oct 08, 2017 1:58 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: The friendly atheist... not everyone is a barking dog
Replies: 88
Views: 29281

Re: The friendly atheist... not everyone is a barking dog

Under the premise that Atheists, especially in Europe, hate guns and of course have no (particular) moral code, we get this: (At least for suicides) It's stated that "Approximately one-half of suicides are committed by firearm, accounting for two-thirds of all firearms deaths. [21,334 of 33,599...
by Necromancer
Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:51 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: The friendly atheist... not everyone is a barking dog
Replies: 88
Views: 29281

Re: The friendly atheist... not everyone is a barking dog

"the choice is between "religion" of wart(s) as taint of a corrupt mind and true religion (eg. Christianity/Islam/Judaism etc.)." I am not sure if I got this straight. Your meaning is lost on me. The Atheists are no better scientists, not more rational, (certainly) not more mora...
by Necromancer
Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:56 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: The friendly atheist... not everyone is a barking dog
Replies: 88
Views: 29281

Re: The friendly atheist... not everyone is a barking dog

I do not see the point of Atheism. Why are not Atheists Atheistic Humanists or Secular Humanists? To me, and more so in the future, I think, the choice is between "religion" of wart(s) as taint of a corrupt mind and true religion (eg. Christianity/Islam/Judaism etc.). The Atheists are no b...
by Necromancer
Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:49 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: On Psychiatric Diagnoses
Replies: 10
Views: 5446

Re: On Psychiatric Diagnoses

Correction: The Moral Psychology is actually in 5(?, or more) volumes edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, also found on Amazon. Published by the MIT Press.
by Necromancer
Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:51 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Language
Topic: ~ Freedom of Communication ~
Replies: 10
Views: 5304

Re: ~ Freedom of Communication ~

Threats, covert or overt! ? :shock: 8)
by Necromancer
Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:19 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: What's the most ethical thing you ever did?
Replies: 6
Views: 2597

Re: What's the most ethical thing you ever did?

Activism throughout the World! Acting out one's (good, Kantian) Ethics!
by Necromancer
Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:18 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Can you understand the logic of Universality, in terms of all of us ending in heaven?
Replies: 41
Views: 14283

Re: Can you understand the logic of Universality, in terms of all of us ending in heaven?

Can you understand the logic of Universality, in terms of all of us ending in heaven? Hell is obviously an invention of the church. Universalists Gnostic Christianity and other Universalist Abrahamic cults do not see God as a loser of the souls he calls the light of the world. The light of the worl...
by Necromancer
Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:16 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Which physics theory is hardest to believe?
Replies: 28
Views: 7700

Re: Which physics theory is hardest to believe?

The Higgs Boson is not credible, I think. That one certain mass, 125 GeV, is somehow "magically" supposed to explain all other mass... Funny! Weird! :shock: The string theory, M-theory, or any other, also seems incoherent, but more studies remain. I'm not there yet though I'm being led by ...
by Necromancer
Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:57 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: is your religion unique?
Replies: 26
Views: 8592

Re: is your religion unique?

has anybody ever created their own religion? Everybody who is religious creates their own religion. It is no coincidence that all gods think exactly the same as the people who believe in them. "Some" actually utter that their God is the same as the other people's God and yet "some&qu...
by Necromancer
Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:29 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: When will Atheists learn to accept and love Democracy?
Replies: 26
Views: 7721

Re: When will Atheists learn to accept and love Democracy?

A note on suicides in the Soviet Union and Russia by its burden of Communism and Atheism in the past: Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1992 Jul;86(1):76-8. Suicides in the former Soviet republics. Värnik A1, Wasserman D. Abstract The suicide rate in the former Soviet Union rose from 17.1 per 100,000 inhabitant...
by Necromancer
Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:12 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Does it turn you on...
Replies: 15
Views: 7554

Re: Does it turn you on...

Aren't they without Human Rights (UDHR)? That is, they do not enforce human rights as declared by UDHR? And their fledgling democracy has some distance to go until modernity... I want to have something philosophically interesting from them before "I dive in". :) However, I find Ai Weiwei w...
by Necromancer
Wed Jul 12, 2017 5:43 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Is birth prevention a form of genocide?
Replies: 7
Views: 3408

Re: Is birth prevention a form of genocide?

Clearly you're not killing individuals. Yet one group can wipe out another group from the face of the Earth. Would you regard this as genocide? (I'm on the fence about this myself) PhilX And what if a woman drops all that sperm into the toilet? And what a crime ejaculation becomes...! God, I'm worr...