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    answers about morality?

    To the OP. List every exception to "murder is wrong" in a infinite multiverse / or situation of D K Lewis' modal realism. IMO if "murder is sometimes justified" is true (eg Dr Who murders a dalek) then there is an infinite set of such cases in modal realism. Universe 1, universe 2, universe 3...
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    Other Than "The Bible Tells Me So," Your Single Best Argument for Creationism

    1 Yes that's correct. 2 I suppose so, unless God is "outside of the argument" somehow. I think maybe God could create a "block of eternity" ex nihlo, which is a change from nothing, but which itself is unchanging. I am reminded of that "flatland" idea. The apparent temporality of the fossil...
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    Atheism and the Evolution of Religious Faith

    In islam there is something like the survival of the fittest. The "straight path" is fitting, appropriate, and those on it avoid evil (harmful things) and thus survive.
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    Atheism and the Evolution of Religious Faith

    Theres an animated map showing the history of faiths here. History of Religion
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    Religion Alone

    For me "religion" is a form of bind, bond or link to the universe / to being. So in that sense we are all religious, otherwise we are dead.
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    Fixed or Relative Ethics & Morals?

    Morals have to be fairly fixed, because the basic human nervous system is fixed. Heart = mind. “In the body is a morsel of flesh which, if it be sound, all the body is sound and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. This part of the body is the heart.” Hadith 6:The Sound Heart
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    Explain your religion

    I am Muslim, we have "taqwa" which means "protection, safeguarding". Normally tranlated as piety or 'God - consciousness'. It involves staying away from all kinds of harm and evil, and from all kinds of calamity, through faith in God who can benefit or harm, via practice of the religion. In the...
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    Muslim Prayers

    I am Muslim and personally wouldn't be talking loudly. Even if its not a official rule of the prayer room there are implicit codes of conduct. A Muslim ought to be the best example. I don't like too much noise anywhere. In my local mosque yesterday there was fairly loud chatter. A said a prayer...
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    Some Mormon missionaries tried to talk to me.

    I asked them about epistemology, they said pray and I'd get an answer, mainly in terms of a feeling. Interesting to hear a different angle. Not analytic philosophy, and unapologetic about it too.
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    Origin of Quran

    The first creation of Allah (swt) is thought by some to be the pen. I have a differeing translation of this hadith at home, where white its pearl and seconds IIRC is moments, but here goes: According to Ibn Abbass, in a hadith narrated by Al-Tabarani, the Prophet[PBUH] said: "Allah created...
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    Salat

    With regards to salah I am hanafi, but largely because I live next to a hanafi mosque, but also I like to emulate the hanafi elders as I am liking their attitude. So my choice comes that way, and I rely on the ulema to organise the congregation correctly. I am no one to delve into salah hadith...
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    A question comparing views on charity

    In islam actions are by intentions, charity must be to please God or it misses the mark. Also all good deeds are charity, even a smile, or even feeding yourself. Charity is called "sadaqa" which comes from the root sidq meaning truth. I view this as life enhancing, because truth about reality is...
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    What to make of reality

    The problem with reasoning "its made of x" is you can then reasonably ask "what is x made of?". Ad infinitum. Hence reductionism is bound to fail if youre asking for ultimate reality. Therefore, we have holism I suppose which it the opposite, where we have experience, and that is fundamental...
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    Lying Culture and the Role of Traditional Religions

    If there we no lies, then the liar paradox would vanish.
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    Internal Philosophy vs. External observation

    "We have knowledge of gravity, therefore we should scrap all sacred institutions" is an incomplete argument.
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    Is There a Cure for Metaphysical Dogma?

    If there is a cure, then it exists.
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    Solve the Riddle of Compatibilism, Win Big Prize

    I destructure the history of freedom, as Heidegger might have, as argue it comes from the etymological "priya" meaning beloved. Free acts are loved ones, involving oxytocin, they're stress free. Say a free marriage in the olden days, it would be one where people love the choice. Rather than a...
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    Other Than "The Bible Tells Me So," Your Single Best Argument for Creationism

    . Ok for a philosophic argument, non evolved complexity is a sign of creation. Ill say that temporal flow and the phenomenal "living present" ( occurring within the presentism of A series time) is a product of people having memory and expectation; ...whereas the noumenal world has the...
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    Is There a Cure for Metaphysical Dogma?

    I believe I exist and an in a world. That.s is pretty plain, and that language makes sense too. Those beliefs are at the more certain end of the spectrum.
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    Martin Luther King’s Dreams of Christianity

    Is there a proof of deity? What about comparative intuition? All else being equal, in a situation of logical agnosticism (logic and science cant decide), then use your intuition. Forget all presuppositions. Which intuition is stronger "God exists" or "lack of belief is epistemically...
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