Re: Christianity
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 6:07 pm
What people claim they stand for, compared to what they're prepared to stand for.
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Can you do "Christianity" / "Christianity - Immanuel Can"?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 6:07 pm What people claim they stand for, compared to what they're prepared to stand for.
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I can't recollect very well but I vaguely recall there being a well-known philosopher who once said that he was better for not having read what anyone else wrote.
Alexis Jacobi wrote:----copious amounts of waffle for atto to bother with----
I see you are one of the cowards on the forum that refused to commit to discuss the errors that I pointed out in your statements, preferring instead to snip the bits you feel comfortable with, and then spew copious amounts of waffle at me.attofishpi wrote:Here are the critiques I answered in full, all you now need to do Jacobi is address them...ALL
OK EDIT:- RE Above...I just gave one of your posts to me a bit more than a speed read - ok LOL.Jacobi wrote:[He always speaks this directly. I've got used to it]."It is unlikely that you will make much progress in comminicating with Attofishpi. Are you nuts?!? Why are you even trying, sucker?"
Note that I did make it pretty plain that offering my comments would not turn out well. But in defense of my own effort I think I did a nice job.attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:08 am No matter. I've got better things to do for now than even speed read it.
I don't think E.T. could spell well, either. I will relay your message through the ethers ....Whoever the PM coward is, someone should point out how to spell “communicating”...
I'm sorry Jacobi - just having a coffee and a read on my TV about what you posted. I do get my back up rather easily, in recent years since the forum has brought in many atheists that lack the intelligence of the academic atheists (many of whom have left the forum) - those guys I could get along with...these days I'm jaded and vexed!Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:07 amNote that I did make it pretty plain that offering my comments would not turn out well. But in defense of my own effort I think I did a nice job.attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:08 am No matter. I've got better things to do for now than even speed read it.
Now, I am also curious in what I perceive as *close-mindedness*. The refusal to even hear critique. I do not so much mean about your response, but more about the way that people often 'refuse to hear' what rubs them the wrong way. I am interested impersonally in these issues. Not personally.
Hold on ... Incoming ...
I have just been told how exceedingly wonderful I am! OK, I knew that but heck the affirmation is also nice.
I don't think E.T. could spell well, either. I will relay your message through the ethers ....Whoever the PM coward is, someone should point out how to spell “communicating”...
Forgive my ignorance but what makes an academic atheist different from one who sees no reason, logically or historically, to believe in a higher being? What I don't get is how the word or meaning of "academic" conjoins to atheist or atheism which is simply a response to a lack of evidence which in itself is not absolute proof that such an entity doesn't exist.attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:18 am I'm sorry Jacobi - just having a coffee and a read on my TV about what you posted. I do get my back up rather easily, in recent years since the forum has brought in many atheists that lack the intelligence of the academic atheists (many of whom have left the forum) - those guys I could get along with...these days I'm jaded and vexed!
Simply put. The dumb atheists are a pain in the arse to deal with, for one thing they immediately consider themselves more intelligent than theists, and even more importantly from my position (one claiming to have knowledge that God does exist), they think I am fucking stupid and fail to have an open mind to other considerations of WHAT\HOW scientifically a God could plausibly exist...ya know beyond thinking of a man floating in space with a big white beard that spoke everything into existence.Dubious wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:39 amForgive my ignorance but what makes an academic atheist different from one who sees no reason, logically or historically, to believe in a higher being? What I don't get is how the word or meaning of "academic" conjoins to atheist or atheism which is simply a response to a lack of evidence which in itself is not absolute proof that such an entity doesn't exist.attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:18 am I'm sorry Jacobi - just having a coffee and a read on my TV about what you posted. I do get my back up rather easily, in recent years since the forum has brought in many atheists that lack the intelligence of the academic atheists (many of whom have left the forum) - those guys I could get along with...these days I'm jaded and vexed!
I can understand that. What I find ignorant to the point of stupid, be it atheist or theist, are the "proof" demanders where any such requirement becomes an impossibility. Atheists and theists measure the probability of god's existence, or some kind of creating force, in different ways as fits their perspectives on the world. We are all DNA derivatives but the memes by which people think can be very different leading to completely opposing views of which this site is merely a microcosm.attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:45 amSimply put. The dumb atheists are a pain in the arse to deal with, for one thing they immediately consider themselves more intelligent than theists, and even more importantly from my position (one claiming to have knowledge that God does exist), they think I am fucking stupid and fail to have an open mind to other considerations of WHAT\HOW scientifically a God could plausibly exist...ya know beyond thinking of a man floating in space with a big white beard that spoke everything into existence.
Well, so far so good, at least for now!attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:45 amNot that you would be concerned, but I have you in the intelligent atheist camp.
''God'' is just another word for ''Knowledge'', it's really that simple. And without knowledge, there's just simple existence without a description, in other words, there's just a blank mysterious nothingness existing, which is impossible as something absolutely does exist, even though it cannot be known what exists, except as imagined, in this CONCEPTION... (the forming or devising of a plan or idea)attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:45 am
Simply put. The dumb atheists are a pain in the arse to deal with, for one thing they immediately consider themselves more intelligent than theists, and even more importantly from my position (one claiming to have knowledge that God does exist), they think I am fucking stupid and fail to have an open mind to other considerations of WHAT\HOW scientifically a God could plausibly exist...ya know beyond thinking of a man floating in space with a big white beard that spoke everything into existence.
Not that you would be concerned, but I have you in the intelligent atheist camp.
That's my job.
Well, as per the 3 most likely conceptions I've come to consider pertaining to this "God" (Simulation or Divine Reality thread) - the point 2. Is that God could be a form of Artificial Intelligence.Dubious wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 7:46 amI can understand that. What I find ignorant to the point of stupid, be it atheist or theist, are the "proof" demanders where any such requirement becomes an impossibility. Atheists and theists measure the probability of god's existence, or some kind of creating force, in different ways as fits their perspectives on the world. We are all DNA derivatives but the memes by which people think can be very different leading to completely opposing views of which this site is merely a microcosm.attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:45 amSimply put. The dumb atheists are a pain in the arse to deal with, for one thing they immediately consider themselves more intelligent than theists, and even more importantly from my position (one claiming to have knowledge that God does exist), they think I am fucking stupid and fail to have an open mind to other considerations of WHAT\HOW scientifically a God could plausibly exist...ya know beyond thinking of a man floating in space with a big white beard that spoke everything into existence.Well, so far so good, at least for now!attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:45 amNot that you would be concerned, but I have you in the intelligent atheist camp.
What I'm thoroughly atheistic about is the usual rendering of god in purely biblical terms as if we can't think of god in any other way or give it an endorsement completely separate from its Hebraic representations...but that's a separate subject where god becomes a metaphysical abstraction though never wholly removed from physics.
A ridiculous statement Jacobi, note the word exclusively as your failing here. Do I need to explain Y? (** You actually sound like IC from the word 'exclusively' onwards, pure idiocy from an 'intellectual')Alexis Jacobi wrote:You begin with a substantial error, Atto. A misunderstanding (a bad understanding). In our culture, like it or not, to be an *intellectual* is to be involved with and informed by the ideas of others. And one gets those ideas exclusively through reading. There is no way around this. It is simply a fact.
You assume myself and Harbal don’t have what U consider an intellectual background, probably because we take the piss out of the likes of you that come across arrogant, continually making extreme statements, as if Harbal has read nothing and I have ZERO comprehension of Christianity and Philosophy. (such sweeping statements = flawed logic).Alexis Jacobi wrote:Your first mistake is that you believe that because I notice that you do not have *intellectual background* (and that Harbal certainly does not) that you take this to mean that I believe you unintelligent. But intelligence is a separate category from that of being intellectually informed and conversant.
Anyone that has read the Bible, the Gita etc etc.. SHOULD care, if they are of an intelligence worth_Y of considering themselves an INTELLECTUAL.Alexis Jacobi wrote:You could simply be involved in hallucinations. So, no one cares what an internal voice has said to you, and no one should care.