I thought about what you asked and said.
Perhaps you'll think about what I said. Of course when one's defending a position, one tends to think in terms only of winning the debate. On this occasion, perhaps you might like to wonder if what I said is accurate, and if not, why not.
That's how I...
My problem with Trump is that he's a raving narcissist, a routine and habitual liar deceiver bully and bulls*** expert, who also happens to be found guilty of rape by a jury, and who lives in memory as the most ignorant, chaotic, arbitrary and self-servingly corrupt president I can recall, a man...
The first problem ─ though I admit it took me a while to recognize it ─ is that God has no definition appropriate to a real being. That's to say, if we found a real suspect, there's no objective test that would determine whether this was God or not. Instead, God is defined in imaginary terms...
I believe in the creeps (having had the experience), but the creeps is a response in humans to particular situations which at some relevant point in our evolution threatened particular danger, almost certainly connected with human or animal enemies in the night. It implies that there are...
I'm naturally apprehensive about the process of my dying ─ there are better and worse ends to life ─ but I have no fear of being dead.
As Ecclesiastes 9:4-6 puts it:
He who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For the living know that they will...
Other way round. If mind is not produced by the (purely material) functions of the brain THEN you need to imagine a total category distinction between human thought &c and the brain without which there is no human thought,. As it stands, clearly thought / mind/ sensory input processing /...
I've always used the pronoun [him] when referring to God, the square brackets indicating that the biological sex implied by the pronoun is not to be taken too seriously. It's no less suitable in this post, where I'm speaking from within the story.
The problem is this. On the one hand, God is...
I think that the world would be a better place if people behaved towards each other with decency, respect, inclusion and common sense.
It doesn't really matter what they do or don't believe.
The central feature of the life of any living thing, humans included, is to live long enough to reproduce.
The interesting thing with humans is that with the development of the contraceptive pill in the 70s, reproduction for women has become optional, and feminism, while not opposing...