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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How do Atheists negotiate right and wrong? |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 08 Sep 2014, 2:09 pm
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,916
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| Understanding morality and living morally are difficult tasks for everyone, not just atheists. Virtually everyone has the following resources to navigate moral difficulties: the ability to reason, the ability to empathize, the sense of compassion, and various regulatory principles derived from commo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Jesus Christ is Lord! |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2014, 10:46 pm
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Replies: 208
Views: 16,794
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| Yes, people on WP have actually told me that science has proven GOD does not exist. :) How tragic that science does this to people - to make them develop false conclusions. I even showed the wikipage for the concept of cosmological "fine-tuning" which is used by religious philosophers in debates as... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Jesus Christ is Lord! |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2014, 6:04 pm
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Replies: 208
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| Reading the rest of the thread, I see wp is typical of the world wide web in that it feels Biblical Christianity and Young Earth Creationism are the only beliefs that are intolerable. [...]Science only discredits creation and young earth if you view it from a pre-conceived evolutionary, cosomologic... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Case for math antirealism |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2014, 5:12 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,367
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| Well, shoot. I hope that book gets reissued sometime! Currently it seems that it's only available for a few hundred dollars. I do, however, have in my wish-list a much less expensive book called A Subject With No Object , by Burgess and Rosen. Here's the summary: Numbers and other mathematical objec... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Case for math antirealism |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2014, 4:57 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,367
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| Also, I suggest the work of Hartry Field who published a book that showed that all science can be done without math, but that math is a useful tool, so that mathematics is a reliable process whose physical applications are all true, even though its own statements are false. For Field, a statement l... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The best way to cope with autism |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2014, 6:23 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,918
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| I am 100% certain that Islam is the right religion of God and that the solution to all of our problems is in the Quran. sounds like a sales pitch That is your arrogance speaking. I am only conveying my way of coping with things and the results. I said you can take it or leave it. The atheists alway... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Longest a failed romance has #$%ed you up? |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2014, 5:30 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,660
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| A former co-worker gave me a formula: Take the amount of time you've been involved with someone, halve it, and that's how long it takes to emotionally recover from a failed romance. In my experience, that's been completely false! Example 1: A woman I was involved with briefly, at age 22 - off-and-on... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Agnostic Looking For A Good Debate On Religion. |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2014, 6:34 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,808
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| Ex-Catholic. I've gone back and forth on the view that the existence of a god is demonstrably improbable. These days I think merely that belief in the existence of a god cannot be rationally supported. I also think that it demonstrably "does not matter" whether a god exists, at least not to beings i... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Pain, uncertainty |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2014, 4:06 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 829
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| "I'm never teaching again." - Me, after each of the three semesters I've taught Since getting my MA in 2012, I've taught a few courses at the community college, as an adjunct - the only sort of professorship anyone can realistically aspire toward these days. (There are thousands of highly qualified ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Atheism apologist Dawkins: Down Syndrome abortions are moral |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2014, 4:29 pm
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Replies: 103
Views: 9,270
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| Dawkins's own response to this may be of interest. [Edit: My post-count is too low to post links. You'll have to find it yourself. The article is on Dawkins's own site; it's called "Abortion & Down Syndrome: An Apology for Letting Slip the Dogs of Twitterwar".] If we take him at his word, his po... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian minister who gets reality |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2014, 11:52 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 735
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| Cool, but the fact that his message - Intellectual Honesty 101, basically - is necessary, or even remotely controversial, is a testament to how massively screwed up things are. Sure, but ... his ideas are philosophical, and by nature are absent of evidence: -"prejudice is wrong", -"misogyny is wrong... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Does love exist? Or is it all made up rubbish? |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 6:54 am
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Replies: 67
Views: 6,593
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| It seems to be a far more difficult question than people give it credit for. There are different kinds of love, appropriate to different kinds of relationship: that between friends, between parent and child, between individual and humanity; self-love; romantic love; love for experiences or inanimate... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: My story |
| MJPIndy |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 2:48 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 624
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| Hello, This is a bit lengthy, so thanks in advance for reading; no worries if you'd rather not slog through all this: Rather than start from my childhood, I'll start somewhere more recent. 2008 was a difficult and important year for me. I took on my first "real" job out of college, doing filing and ... |
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