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... In my experience Philosophy was no existence pre-16, and rarely available post 16. For most people College is the first time they encounter it. True, it was only at degree-level over here in the UK. But things are a-changing as Ireland is putting it on the school curriculum and there's a slow m...

The grammar is perfect, except the second 'we' ought to have a capital. My apologies. You have the essence of the meaning. What makes me is a unique and complex structure of matter. Not the atoms that form the structure. Romeo and Juliet is not the Latin alphabet, but the order in which the letters...

It may be due to an education system that says, "Sit down, shut up, and believe what I tell you." And it can't help that the curricula rarely involve anything to do with deep thinking. That's not quite the problem I think. Science and maths is taught that way since there are no opinions i...

In terms of physics, yes we are all eternal. it's kinda like the cycle of water. we are just the forms of energy. energy always exists. multiverse? noun (plural multiverses) - (philosophy) The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability. - (physics) The hypothetical group of ...

No, just speaking your language so you can understand! So you are saying my cognition is lower than yours? No, you just said that. But you are correct, that is the single point of contention I had with your original, when I initially challenged you. and I quote: People without high level cognition ...

thedoc wrote:

Bill Wiltrack wrote:.
You're support is much appreciated. And don't think it will go unnoticed.

Does Bill even read the threads he posts in? or do we have another Socrates here?

NO; NO.

Everything in the Universe did not have a cause that is an a priori assumption that does not match up with reality. "The universe is infinite as is human stupidity. Although I am not too sure about the first one" Albert Einstein. What we know is that there are effect for which no known ca...

Omnipotence admits to no other agency by god. This is definitive. Actually, your allegation is a non-sequitur : it doesn't follow logically. For example, suppose you "have power" to beat your spouse...does that mean you *do* it too? Omnipotence implies, " having all power." It d...

uwot wrote:

ReliStuPhD wrote:"everything that begins to exist has a cause."

That isn't logically necessary. 'Everything that is caused to exist has a cause.' is different to 'Everything that begins to exist has a cause.' A beginning isn't a cause.

QM

When in doubt humans tend to choose unfalsifiable assumptions and take them as truth; astrology, homeopathy, god, gods, spirit, deity, the list is too long to enumerate. it ain't no thing. I don't believe this. Your own words can easily be added to your list. So where does that put you, Lev? One of...

Thus is you think thousands dying of a Tsunami is bad, then god is by definition evil. That would be true if He were the only agency at work in the universe, and that the elimination of suffering and death were the highest possible good. Neither is the essential assumption of all forms of Monotheis...

Good point. Can we say of a volcano, that it was "evil" for exploding, or of a tidal wave that it was "immoral" for having drowned a thousand people? Can we also say of gravity that it was both "wrong" to pull that suicide jumper to his death, and also "right"...

HexHammer wrote:. Then in modern times we impose our Geneve Convention upon nations to uphold a humane approach to war.

Why did this occur? Why be humane at all?

In terms of physics, yes we are all eternal. it's kinda like the cycle of water. we are just the forms of energy. energy always exists. multiverse? noun (plural multiverses) - (philosophy) The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability. - (physics) The hypothetical group of ...

Not sure you know what you are talking about. Some nations have had a very harsh and unforgiving approach to POWs, torturing and random killings has been every day business, even not taking any prisoners at all. Then in modern times we impose our Geneve Convention upon nations to uphold a humane ap...