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If something serves no purpose then its not valued, or valuable. If a person serves no purpose, then is that person of no value? Are we locked into the need to be valued? what if a person had no need to be valued, would that person be free to be at peace with himself and the world around him, even ...

Are you asking that we are suffering because of Eve's sin? Yes. If a premise is true, then the conclusion is true. Your premises are Eve's existance and Eve's sin. Neither have been proven. They are your assumptions. Oh, come on. I am arguing against the Christian system of belief. Ok. You were bei...

And who did create man with animal nature? It seems to me that you have a good fortune in your life and have never been or seen people in miserable conditions. We are. We are living on Earth that is cursed by God because of their sin. We evolved from animals and have physical needs because of that....

I create this thread in order to discuss the problem of evil with Immanuel Can. Others also are welcome to participate. The discussion can be divided into three parts: 1) Origin of Evil, 2) Deception of Eve and her punishment, and 3) Natural Evil. 1) Origin of Evil: We all read the story of fall. W...

I create this thread in order to discuss the problem of evil with Immanuel Can. Others also are welcome to participate. The discussion can be divided into three parts: 1) Origin of Evil, 2) Deception of Eve and her punishment, and 3) Natural Evil. 1) Origin of Evil: We all read the story of fall. W...

Faith is a person's orientation to life, other people and the world.. Well, you are free to make up any definition you like for any word you like, but your description of faith is not what any other religious person I know means by faith and it is not how it is defined in any dictionary. Most peopl...

If yes, why did God send Mohamad? If not, why don't Christians convert to Islam? Jesus did not teach people how to interact with God. Perhaps he didn't know or there is no way to do that. I don't believe God sent Jesus nor Mohammed. They were both born of woman and developed their thinking as they ...

Raymond Tallis argues against calling everyday experience a ‘hallucination’. https://philosophynow.org/issues/149/Perception_as_a_Controlled_Hallucination The scientific philosphy of the mind is not scientific at all. It is conjecture. I know I have a mind but I have no way to way to conclude where...

He wouldn't have it any other way, would He? can't say...got no book to tell me one way or the other...might be: He's gonna burn me but good for blasphemy...*shrug* Again, that's the beauty of Deism. No Scripture. No received Word. You get to just "think up" whatever you like about Him an...

Is not the subconscious mind just the consciousness of the body, it was after all the body that created the mind, not the mind that created the body. It is not known what created the mind. Yes indeed it is known, that there are life forms without a brain that nevertheless are conscious, also organi...

Our minds don't have direct access to reality, whether there is a reality or not, therefore we are living in simulating reality. Our minds don't have direct access to reality because we can only be aware of what our brains bring to mind. A simulation could be indistinguishable from physical reality...

None would get stuck. They know that irrational numbers are never ending. You continue to provide absolutely zero information for me to be able to make an actual choice. I am still no closer to being able to decide which proposition is true. Proposition A: ℝ is countable Proposition B: ℝ is not cou...

The ones who count in discrete steps rather than trying to count in continunuosly smaller amounts. Which mathematicians are the ones "who count in discrete steps rather than trying to count in continunuosly smaller amounts"? Is it the ones saying ℝ is countable; or the ones saying ℝ is no...

Only if you are confused. But most mathematicians aren't. Which are the "non-confused" Mathematicians exactly? Is it the ones saying ℝ is countable; or the ones saying ℝ is not countable? The ones who count in discrete steps rather than trying to count in endlessly smaller amounts. You ca...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 5:18 pm

jayjacobus wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 5:13 pm Catch a tiger by the toe .........

Uhuh... so Mathematical truths are subject to arbitrary choices?!?!

Only if you are confused. But most mathematicians aren't.