No, it would have been better to have never told the congregation at all, and just go through the movements, no beliefs attached. But it doesn't...
She started the hostility. I don't understand why she didn't tell her parents and the rest of her family beforehand that she did not want to be...
In private. Obviously. I got confirmed. Didn't really want to, but I did it anyway out of respect for my family. And the problem isn't with...
No, I am not telling her to "shut up and fall back in line." She can believe anything she wants to. I'm saying that she should pay lip service...
I don't mean to tell you how to run your life, but it seems to me that your priorities are a little backwards. You see, to me, being a smart-ass...
No. Absolutely not.
There isn't. That's my point. Nothing that can be known meets the criteria for being called "substance." If it can't be known, then it's of no...
Yeah, pretty much.
Absolutely not, although idealism is one way you can go. It's the way Berkeley went, but it just so happens to be the wrong way. Philosophers...
To say that substance is matter is slightly inaccurate, since substance isn't necessarily material. It could be, for example, psychical as...
But we're talking about creation. Before creation there was nothing to end because nothing had yet begun. I think your statement should read,...
Not necessarily, because God would be the start of everything; nothingness can't have a start. And philosophers from Spinoza to Hegel have argued...
Not quite. As far as I know, the first phenomenalist was Locke, who said that substance is something he "knows not what." So why can't we know...
Why don't we start we phenomenalist role call too? Here. Anyone else?
Before I start, I think that there probably is not a God, but in philosophy "probably" doesn't cut it if you want to have knowledge. So, while...
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