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The phenomenon of "self-deception" is well-known and frequent. Here's a simple example. Your friend is being beaten by her spouse. You counsel her to take the kids and leave, for her own safety. She assures you she does not need to do that. She says, "He was really, really sorry afterward. Anyway, I...

Natural law is the concept that incontrovertible laws of nature exist and should inform any of the laws written by governments and societies. These are thought to include not only the observable laws of physics and mathematics, but also laws that govern human flourishing. It is closely associated w...

So your proposed analogy is between the claim that a house lacks furniture, and the claim that moral objectivism lacks supportive evidence. Have I got that right? Indeed so. I'm curious as to how we can discern that we have a "lack" of something we admit we couldn't recognize even if it appeared. A...

IC I don't think the state glorifies him as an individual. Rather, they glorify him as a consummate expression of the collective state. Hitler was not, for example, a "great individual guy." He was the focal point and embodiment of the Third Reich aspirations shared by the entire collectivist horde...

Immanuel Can. Let's do a deal. I'll try not to be prickly, and we'll both acknowledge any mistakes that we make. Deal. Fair enough. As for the burden of proof - you said this: ''The original statement, the claim that a level of "demonstration" has not been met, was yours not mine. I assumed that yo...

An intuition is a guess or a feeling, so it's the wrong word to use here. I agree the word is not perfect, and is capable of being read that way. I did not intend that reading. But it's the best I could think of to describe the phenomenon of having an experience of something, but being in a pre-art...

clarify the nature of my post death soul, nature of the place of Hell for me to understand. I'm sorry...I can't clarify farther than God Himself does. What I can tell you is this: we have a chance now, in "the Day of Salvation" to make a good choice. I can also tell you that later we can't or won't...

Emanual, you a good guy, and a Christian. me a good guy and not a Christian. I don't know what a "good guy" is, if there is no standard of objective "goodness." don't be silly, good is objective, and we are both good fellows. you know this! I'm just pointing out that you're implying we both have an...

Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. Likewise, I'm still enjoying talking to you. indeed, i think we are both good judges of character (I'd welcome you starting a post in the "Religion" thread - i do like discussing Religous theology. so i may contribute. Amos. Job. Mark. Jonah are my favs - as...

Emanual, you a good guy, and a Christian. me a good guy and not a Christian. I don't know what a "good guy" is, if there is no standard of objective "goodness." We would then be whatever we are...good, bad, or indifferent. None of those words would have any meaning, because absent objective moralit...

Matt is silent on the young christ's knowledge of the "kingdom of god". Well, that's to be expected: Matthew is completely silent on the early years of Christ on all counts. as is Mark and John. He tells us only of the incidents of Herod and the trip to Egypt, but otherwise picks up the narrative a...

I disagree with this account. What we directly experience are features of reality, not intuitions about them. I didn't say we "experience intuitions," Pete; I said that when we encounter features of reality, we have intuitions about them. That's quite a different claim. You seem to think ontology i...

I've been wandering aimlessly in the wilderness, IC. I was looking for the light at the end of the tunnel until I realised I was in the wrong metaphor. The next thing I knew, here I was. Well, what goes around comes around, so keep your chin up, never say "die," and que sera sera . Are you still ke...

Harbal wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:54 pm

Nick_A wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:09 am

I make people in nursing homes and senior centers feel better

No doubt the sight of you is enough to stop anyone feeling sorry for themself.

Harbal! You're back.

Where did you go, lad?

per Luke, yes and no, Jesus was born, so disagrees with John"s "from the beginning was the word" mantra/theology, and did not actually exist before Theologians and Biblical scholars generally do not agree with this claim, and do not see the conflict you suggest. They do not share your conclusion th...