I hope that the above post has been enlightening. I think that Reverand Loki's posts have been counter-productive, in fact, increasing sympathy...
Umm... we really are two different people, you know? I've been posting on these forums for years. Anyway, here's why: Hubbard detailed his...
It looks like the only fallacy you tried to find was circularity. You're groping around in the dark, here. But my argument wasn't circular...
Heaven's Gate, the Jonestown cult... probably deserved to be oppressed.
Scientology deserves to be oppressed.
[/size][/font][/color] [/size][/color][/size][/color][/size][/color] Sure. A miracle is an act of God; not a universal, natural law....
I just had to respond to this one because it's so crazy. OlderWaterBrother's position seems to be a version of Occasionalism, a dead...
ID theorists, young-earthers, old-earthers, and creationists, in general, use what Barbara Forrest calls the "wedge-strategy" against not only...
Well, that depends on the person in question, now doesn't it? Yes, if there is a physiological basis for the numinous, that does not take away...
It only seems appropriate that God would be the judge of the soul, that is, God determines the soul's final destination. But he would obviously...
Well, both. The point is that a just God would punish Hitler and reward Buddha in the afterlife.
Well, of course hell is not a place with fire and brimstone where the devil hangs out. It seems naive to view hell, or heaven for that matter, as...
Since the 1970's, debate has raged concerning the metaphysical implications of quantum mechanics. In fact, the debate has raged so intensely that...
I'm not going to try to offer a concise definition of philosophy. You'll run into as many of those as there are philosophers. Instead, I'm just...
Well, I've read all three Critiques, and, to tell you the truth, the second is my least favourite. The categorical imperative just doesn't appeal...
"What, therefore, is time? When no one asks me, I know. When someone asks me, I don't know." Paraphrased from Saint Augustine's Confessions.
Exactly what a natural kind is is a little sketchy. I could go back Aristotle for the original definition, but most philosophers today would...
Hopefully it was agonizing and painful.
Yeah, and "Unicorns don't exist" is a true sentence with a non-existent subject. Look, the fact is, this debate was over a long time ago, you...
That's actually a very brilliant article. It seems a little much to claims that persons are natural kinds, though. I mean, I can see how human...
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