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We don't choose to be born but, once we are, we learn how to live. If we were never born, we would never learn anything.

A right is an entitlement, privilege or bithright. We all have rights that are unequal but basic rights cannot be denied.

A duty is an obligation or responsibility. We all have duties by belonging to groups of people.

We are free. We however only can affect reality when our bodies are in undecided states. Otherwise, our bodies behave according to the laws of nature. We are chained to our physical boies and become unchained when we die because physical needs no longer exist when we are dead. So, we will no longer...

I am going to attempt to explain what this with clarity but need to begin in steps that hopefully involve others willing to participate and 'agree' (or 'disagree') to some minimal facts regarding the description of the phenomena. All "conscious" experience involves the following: (1) A ph...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 2:17 pm

So from what original point did sentience arise? How did non-living, non-sentient gas-in-space manage to turn into living, sentient beings?

It has been suggested that sentient comes from embodied spirits. If so, sentient comes from spirits while bodies come from nature.

The carbon atoms of coal and diamonds are identical; they do not change into anything. There are many molecular configurations of carbon atoms called allotropes, including, diamonds, graphite, amorphous Carbon, fullerenes, lonsdaleite, glassy carbon, carbon nanofoam, linear acetylenic carbon (carby...

If that means something to you, fine. It does not mean anything to me and Chemistry is one of my major interests in life. There is not a single attribute of any chemical element that can be identified as, "information," in any normal sense of that word. Atoms, like all entities, have spec...

"Instructions?" Atoms make choices? What do they do with these instructions. Are atoms born with little books, "how to be a good atom?" What are you talking about? I think you are reifying a whole lot of metaphors. I know that sounds like a criticism, but its not meant that way....

Not sure what your point here is. Is that what you mean by morality? If so, what do you mean by, "right," and, "wrong." Right and wrong for what to whom? The article is not about morality, itself. It is only about morality as taught and believed by those forms of Christianity de...

Take a deep breath and I'll try to help you. [If you don't like, "mainline," we don't have to label them at all.] Though I've thoroughly explained it already, I mean all those Christian denominations and teachings that agree on the following doctrines: The Creation: That God Create and su...

The problem is the made up concept, "informationally-based sustance," is totally meaningless. The word, "information," does not identify any kind of thing or substance. It can mean either, "knowledge," (as in epistemology) or, "data" (as stored or transmitted...

... it is not unreasonable or illogical to think of all of the phenomenal features of what we call "reality" ... as being founded upon an "informationally- based substance" ... _______ The problem is the made up concept, "informationally-based sustance," is totally mea...

If you could read you would know the second paragraph said, " It is only the mainstream Protestant view of morality that will be examined here. " That doesn't explain why you included people like Finney: would you call him "mainline"? :shock: Usually, "mainline" Protes...

We seem to construe the meaning of "context" here differently. From my end, it revolves around any particular assessment of God and religion in discussions that revolve in turn around these factors: 1] a demonstrable proof of the existence of your God or religious/spiritual path 2] addres...

The part that revolves around, among other things, religion being the "opiate of the people". True. But in a discussions that interest me, we need a context. For those who believe this, let them define it. Then bring the definition down to Earth and explore the existential implications of...