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  1. TheTrendyCynic

    Atheism is not a default position

    If you don't rely on it, it has no impact on your position and is thus utterly immaterial to you---I apologize, I assumed you were belabouring the point for a reason. You should apologize for asserting your opponent's arguments were invalid because they may or may not have been based on...
  2. TheTrendyCynic

    Atheism is not a default position

    ... then do not rely on them in a debate. Duh. Well now you're just being a [REDACTED], and you should apologize. Ugh, you've even made me edit a mean-spirited "Duh" into the paragraph above---hardly the intellectual-ninja ideal to which I aspire. Anyways, can we get back on topic? As in...
  3. TheTrendyCynic

    Atheism is not a default position

    Atheism most certainly is a "default" position---at least, to the extent that the following are default positions: A-"firebreathing-dragons-are-real"-ism A-"there's-an-invisible-leprechaun-on-my-shoulder"-ism A-"I'm-a-robot"-ism To claim that atheism is not the default state, you have only two...
  4. TheTrendyCynic

    Religious tolerance vs acceptance

    Nonsense. If you are a religious person, then you believe your religion to be true -- more than that, you know it to be true. You also know the beliefs of other religions to be false. If you know something to be wrong, then why respect it? I'm not saying to disrespect the people, but certainly...
  5. TheTrendyCynic

    Exalting God's Morality

    I'm sorry, it appears I missed this thread in the shuffle -- hopefully you all haven't lost interest yet :) I can pull out the consciousness argument by recognizing it as a self-evident axiom. Not a single person in this thread is denying the self-evident truth of consciousness: There are...
  6. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    Alright, I'm back. The source of my confusion was a Wikipedia article on Objectivist epistemology that implied the first axiom ("Existence") only applied to the physical world, and not to existents of consciousness (thoughts, memories, emotions, etc); naturally, that would have invalidated...
  7. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    I'm glad you haven't responded yet, No*s -- it turns out I'm quite a bit wrong in my last post, which I learned after re-reading a few sections of 'Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology' to clarify a few things. I have also discovered that you are completely correct in insisting that the...
  8. TheTrendyCynic

    Exalting God's Morality

    So he is not subject to logic? Logic is the method of non-contradictory identification. To invalidate logic, you must either assert that non-contradiction doesn't apply, or identification doesn't apply. If you do that, then I cannot be wrong about anything I say regarding God -- because being...
  9. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    No*s, the problem here is that you are reading more into what I am saying than what is actually there. I am not ham-stringing your ability to argue my point, I am showing how your arguments are irrelevant to the point I am trying to make. Perhaps I went about it in the wrong way; I should have...
  10. TheTrendyCynic

    Exalting God's Morality

    Now we're entering that realm of anti-logic; he is not constrained by anything at all, right? This is an absolute statement? In that sense, God has no identity. Identity is, solely and entirely, a constraint -- identity constrains some entity to what it is, and prevents it from being...
  11. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    Note the topic of this thread -- I am not discussing the whole of Objectivist epistemology; that would be akin to starting a thread entitled 'Atheism' and going from there. It's a big topic, and it needs to be looked at in bite-sized pieces. As such, I'm going to keep dragging the line of...
  12. TheTrendyCynic

    Exalting God's Morality

    Okay, but that brings us to a new problem -- the fact that your God is neither good nor evil. I allow that you may not have intended to accept the consequence that God is neither good nor evil -- it's not my intention to trap you; feel free to return to my summary of your position and...
  13. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    It may interest you to know that I have a Bachelors degree in physics, so I am intimately familiar with quantum mechanics and all of its implications. The interesting thing about QM is that we cannot directly observe it; we only learn what we know of a photon's identity by its...
  14. TheTrendyCynic

    Evidentialism

    I've summarized in greater detail the axiomatic concepts of Objectivism in another thread. No*s, I've also responded to your post there -- this thread is primarily about Evidentialism, not about Objectivism, after all.
  15. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    Firstly, let me start by saying that No*s responded to the above information written in a decidedly different form (and I actually reworded some of it based on his points). I do recognize that addressing the rebuttal to an argument after I've rephrased the argument based on the meat of that...
  16. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    The Source of Objectivist Logic From those three irreducable and inarguable primaries, all of logic springs. Based on these objective truths, the logical arguments arising from them are, themselves, objectively true. To illustrate, here are some objectively true facts that...
  17. TheTrendyCynic

    Objectivism: Three Objective Truths

    This is an expansion and continuation of the discussion I began in the Evidentialism thread, and addresses the response to that post made by No*s. It shouldn't be necessary to read those posts if you haven't already; I believe I've adequately summarized them here. OBJECTIVIST...
  18. TheTrendyCynic

    Exalting God's Morality

    You are right and you are wrong as words have no meaning aosypayp97yapiwdh.... Discuss objectivist epistemology with me here, if you wish. You're navigating through a fog of hazy definitions; I'm not saying that your logic is faulty, just that the means you chose to express your point were...
  19. TheTrendyCynic

    Evidentialism

    No*s, I'm about to head to bed, so I'll address the points you made tomorrow. Some things just can't wait, though... You lost, long ago, any privelage to request debate from me on a silver platter -- especially in a tone that self-glorifies you as some philosophical Grand Poobah. Get someone...
  20. TheTrendyCynic

    Exalting God's Morality

    You see my confusion. Is God moral or isn't he? If he is moral, and this term 'moral' does not mean the only morality of which we are aware, then what do you mean? Please describe, explicitly, what you mean by this statement. Regardless of how you know something, you are still knowing something...
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