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- Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:50 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Ask an atheist..?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27676
Re: Ask an atheist..?
None of these arguments point to god. I take it from your handle that you claim to be a student of RelSt, or are a wanna be PhD student. If you want to be taken seriously I suggest you sign up for a BA in philosophy at a decent University first. Otherwise you are just going to be a laughing stock. ...
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Ask an atheist..?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27676
Re: Ask an atheist..?
No Yes., QED arguments for god being circular, are not viable. Are you shooting yourself in the foot, or trying to shoot me in the foot? Either way arguments for God as still unviable. Where an argument is circular, yes, it is not viable. Absolutely no argument there. The arguments I offered are no...
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Christia
- Replies: 124
- Views: 31033
Re: Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Chri
There's no inherent contradiction between holding that a person can be both important and unhelpful. If we take "important" to mean "of great significance or value; likely to have a profound effect on success, survival, or well-being," Hitler is undeniably important in the conte...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:13 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Black People and Crime
- Replies: 364
- Views: 97782
Re: Black People and Crime
This is nonsensical.Arising_uk wrote:]Read Darwin's The Origin of Species. Its also not quite true about the two people as non-africans have traces of a completely different species in them, i.e. the neanderthal and apparently its due to the female line.
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:09 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Black People and Crime
- Replies: 364
- Views: 97782
Re: Black People and Crime
“While Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were continuing to stir up racial animosity in Sanford Florida, one of the worst mass shootings in Florida history was taking place in Miami. Last Friday, 14 people were shot and two men were killed during a funeral for 21-year-old Morvin Andre. A 5-year-old gir...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:04 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Please delete this
- Replies: 107
- Views: 40405
Re: Are we eternal? (Eternal Recurrence)
The reason I stopped by this thread is because of two reason. I thought the OP was about Nietzsche, and his notion of the Eternal Recurrence(ER), and because in the USA it is Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day (the film) is the best explanation of the meaning of the ER. Nietzsche was not a spiritualist, m...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:49 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Please delete this
- Replies: 107
- Views: 40405
Re: Are we eternal? (Eternal Recurrence)
If we live in a multiverse that indicates eternal inflation, does it mean we actually live over and over again the same life? Sorry if it was hard to understand or just bad grammar, english is not my main language. Greetings We are on a balloon that is inflating. Do balloons live again? I don't kno...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:41 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Christia
- Replies: 124
- Views: 31033
Re: Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Chri
This all depends on the connotations of "important", and if the Pope is characterised not only by being listened to but having the ability to listen: something Popes are historically very poor at. People listened to Ghengis Khan and Hitler too. It's not a measure that anything they say is...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:19 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: What is wise?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 32969
Re: What is wise?
There's no secret what wisdom is. Wisdom is the efficiency of knowledge. So if your knowledge is efficient: it is dependable and creates desirable effects, then it is efficient, and then it is wisdom. A king wanted to make his country even more rich. He realized that the old did not work and used r...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:17 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: What is wise?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 32969
Re: What is wise?
I have been thinking about wisdom recently and I don't think I can really grasp what it means any more, it's used for really odd things, so that it has become stretched so thin that there is no longer an actual wisdom any more. Can someone bring me back down to Earth perhaps, what the hell is it, a...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:05 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Charlie Hebdo
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10237
Re: Charlie Hebdo
The proper way to criticize Islam is to simply talk about those extremes, not to make fun of them. The point about free speech is that people express themselves in the way they find best. You can say more about a situation with a simple image and caption than a thousand wise words. Comedy is not im...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:23 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Teaching "Critical Thinking" in Education?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9333
Re: Teaching "Critical Thinking" in Education?
"These 'rules' of thinking should be on the top of curriculum from the kindergarten on. I call it the rules of "Critical Thinking". It is all about asking the right questions and insisting on answers. 1. how do you define it? 2. is your definition based on reliable observation and lo...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Knowing how versus Knowing that
- Replies: 191
- Views: 41798
Re: Knowing how versus Knowing that
Unconscious motor responses don't seem to require any higher level cognitive abilities. That is not the case with examples of excellence. Drumming and piano playing require unconscious viceral knowledge of the instruments; the score, and a deep emotional commitment to the music. People without high...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:04 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Ask an atheist..?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27676
Re: Ask an atheist..?
Each one of these arguments is flawed, and are thus not viable. Which arguments? You're speaking as if we've settled on a set of arguments. I, at least, have not mentioned any. What arguments are you talking about? I've never seen any argument for the non-existence of god. . Whilst I have seen all ...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Christia
- Replies: 124
- Views: 31033
Re: Is the Pope slamming Islam for what the Vatican and Chri
If importance is gauged by how many people pay attention to what he says, then the Pope has a good shot at being the most important person on the planet. If you gauge importance by what he says, that is a different story, you choose. This all depends on the connotations of "important", an...