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  1. Yazata

    The debate is on

    The New York Times seems to have adopted a new line:
  2. Yazata

    Will there be a one world government controlling the population of people one day ?

    Maybe someday in the distant future. Perhaps imposed on humanity by AI. I don't think that many of us would like one-world-government very much because it would be authoritarian by its very nature. There's just too much diversity in the world, too much fundamental difference of opinion, to...
  3. Yazata

    Harris over Biden

    Biden might not die, but instead be gradually incapacitated as his senility grows worse. In which case he might kind of retreat into his bunker and rarely appear in public, never giving press conferences or anything interactive like that. In that case, I expect him to be protected by his circle...
  4. Yazata

    I like Trump now

    I've always "liked Trump" and have been voting for him since the 2016 primaries. More accurately, I kind of dislike Trump's personality and the hyperbolic way he presents himself. But I've always liked his agenda, which was better than all his Republican primary opponents in 2016 and better...
  5. Yazata

    The debate is on

    Not a good night for Biden. He needed to display strength and competence, but much of the time he appeared confused, weak and a little lost. It's very telling that Politico's headlines are Democrats consider the unthinkable: It’s time for Biden to go Dems freak out over Biden’s debate...
  6. Yazata

    Do you believe all psychic powers are real?

    While I agree that it depends on what we mean by "psychic powers", I think that generally speaking my answer is No.
  7. Yazata

    Who hear thinks..........

    It's hard to answer intelligently without giving reasons and without additional discussion of each one. Yes. No. Orbits, not rotates. Earth rotates around its axis. See what I mean about discussion? Yes. No. No.
  8. Yazata

    What is your Belief? A statistic for RF

    Where would that leave Buddhism, particularly the early Buddhism of the Pali canon? It's arguably a revealed religion, since the Buddha revealed the path that he taught in his many discourses. But the Buddha is in no way an intermediary. He taught very explicitly that seekers shouldn't accept...
  9. Yazata

    Haley to Biden crossovers welcome

    :) From the perspective of a R primary election voter, the failing in Haley's campaign, and probably in her personally, was that she never gave voters like me any positive reason to vote for her. What was her agenda? What kind of policies did she favor? Her one tangible policy point was her...
  10. Yazata

    I won't eat snails!

    Eeewww! neither will I Even the idea is gross
  11. Yazata

    some thoughts on creationism

    Yes, the 'God' of Natural Theology does seem to reduce what is ostensibly a religious deity to whatever the unknown answers are to a set of metaphysical questions. It isn't clear why a metaphysical function like 'first cause' would be a suitable object of religious worship. That's an argument...
  12. Yazata

    Why should a Christian even look into Islam as a Possible true Faith?

    I'm an agnostic and follow no formal religion. That said, I prefer Christianity over Islam for cultural reasons I needn't get into here. But I do think that Islam is superior theologically to Christianity in how it better preserves monotheism and the unity of the Godhead. Islam avoids all that...
  13. Yazata

    some thoughts on creationism

    Yes, it probably does depend on what preconceptions one is already attaching to the phrase "some being like God". The way I look at it is like this: There are fundamental metaphysical questions, such as what mathematics and logic are, why the physical universe seemingly conforms to them, what...
  14. Yazata

    Haley to Biden crossovers welcome

    Probably because a disproportionate number of them are D's who voted in the R primaries in open (or openish) primary states in hopes of contesting Trump's nomination. The thing is, few of them would have voted for Haley in the general election anyway. (It's like how lots of D's voted for McCain...
  15. Yazata

    Why does Donald Trump hold such power over the Republican Party?

    Donald Trump doesn't exactly hold power over the Republican party. What's actually happening is that the majority of Republican voters agree with him and his agenda. His 2016 run exposed the fact that most Republicans favored his moderate social conservatism and his America first policies. They...
  16. Yazata

    Is science interested in finding God ?

    There are a whole host of fundamental assumptions upon which much (all?) of science is based. Logic and mathematics obviously. The existence of the kind of natural order that physicists love so much, their "laws of nature". Scientists typically accept these kind of things as givens and doesn't...
  17. Yazata

    Is science interested in finding God ?

    Depends on how one defines 'God', I guess. Science seems to have little or no interest in finding the kind of personalized deities that one finds in the 'Abrahamic' religions and in theistic forms of Hinduism. But science does seem to be pursuing what we might call an Ultimate Explanation for...
  18. Yazata

    The circular reasoning of Evolution and billions of years believers.

    "Evolution" just means change over time. It's hard to argue against that. Most of the objections seem to be to the idea of explaining observed features of reality by long-term changes occurring, rather than by intentional creation events, and (especially) by the assumption that those were all...
  19. Yazata

    Mike Johnson, a staunch Louisiana conservative, is elected House Speaker

    He's from Shreveport! I used to live right outside Shreveport in Bossier City. So I'm inclined to like the guy just for that. As a Republican voter I'm happy that they have found a speaker. I'd never heard of Johnson but he looks pretty good to me, perhaps better than McCarthy. The fact that...
  20. Yazata

    (Unofficial) Beliefs questionnaire for RF

    Hard to put it in a single word. I adhere very much to what is termed 'analytical' philosophy. A style of philosophizing more than a set of doctrines. I'm something of a naturalist, although not so much a materialist. (As I conceive it, nature includes mathematical and logical relationships...
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