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  1. RestlessSoul

    If We All Became Atheists?

    Yes, we're all familiar with the dishonest practice of selecting a handful of verses out of context, in order to discredit an entire religion. It's calculated to mislead, and it's intellectually lazy.
  2. RestlessSoul

    If We All Became Atheists?

    Killing in the name of religion generally requires men to ignore the dogma and doctrines, since love, mercy, compassion and justice are core values in most of the world’s religions. Not sure why you only see the bad in religion, but never the good? Is that because, more generally, you see the...
  3. RestlessSoul

    I am done with Trump discussions

    Be sure to do that.
  4. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    It seems most improbable to me that a universe governed by precise and immutable law, manifesting in such intricately glorious kaleidoscopes of form, came to be without an underlying creative intelligence. So magnificent a symphony simply has to have a composer.
  5. RestlessSoul

    The Most Frightening Thing (for me)...

    The strength or weakness of any democracy lies with the electorate.
  6. RestlessSoul

    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    No, that doesn’t sound like wisdom at all, and of course you know it doesn’t, which rather proves my point. Presumably you have lived long enough to acquire a little wisdom, and even exercise it from time to time. Even if only enough to recognise how scarce a commodity it is.
  7. RestlessSoul

    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    Yes, the evaluation of wisdom is entirely subjective, that's the point. Since we experience life subjectively, we have no trouble recognising subjective phenomena. It's objectivity we struggle with, since no objective paradigm is available to us experientially. Truth and knowledge are, at least...
  8. RestlessSoul

    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    The ability to use one’s knowledge and experience to make good judgments.
  9. RestlessSoul

    I don't have friends, unless you count.

    *weird
  10. RestlessSoul

    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    Knowledge and truth are both, imo, more difficult to define, and to identify, than is wisdom.
  11. RestlessSoul

    How do people stay sane and happy in a world of misery?

    I don’t really watch the news, precisely because doing so is not good for my mental health. I do keep abreast of the news, by reading one or two trusted papers and journals, but I avoid the relentless wall to wall horror show on TV news; and I deleted AppleNews from my phone, to avoid doom...
  12. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Laws can’t be properties. Either they arise from those properties which entities exhibit when interacting with each other, or they determine the nature of those interactions. If, as you said above, the laws of physics are the basis of causality and cannot themselves be caused, then the laws of...
  13. RestlessSoul

    Mysteries Are There For The Taking

    Look straight ahead. What’s there? If you see it as it is You will never err. - Bassui Tokusho
  14. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    So the laws themselves are fundamental? Since the laws of physics are mostly mathematical formulae, does this mean that the physical world is governed by an ideal realm of underlying, perfect abstraction, as suggested by Plato (and Roger Penrose)?
  15. RestlessSoul

    Mysteries Are There For The Taking

    And others, I’m sure, value your life as much as you value theirs. People need you, and that’s no small thing.
  16. RestlessSoul

    Mysteries Are There For The Taking

    We’re here to love each other, I think.
  17. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    That’s not a less loaded way of asking the same question, it’s a completely different question. What I am questioning is, Why are there regularities in nature for us to observe? The statement “as long as there are things, there will be a way things work” is meaningless. It assumes that nature...
  18. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    The simple explanation still prompts the question, Why is nature (seemingly) governed by laws?
  19. RestlessSoul

    2024.10.09 - Trump Has Edge in Top Battleground States

    Sometimes, for sure…
  20. RestlessSoul

    2024.10.09 - Trump Has Edge in Top Battleground States

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