Why is my argument "pitiful", "lame", and "dumbass"? Justify your statement, if you can that is — Agent Smith
I'm curious, what's your argument for/against monotheism? — Agent Smith
Angelo Cannata provided clear, plausible, documented evidence that your interpretation of the change from polytheism to monotheism is not correct. Your response? "That's just opinion." Then you went on with your half-baked theory that, coincidentally, just happens to work well with your knee-jerk atheism. — T Clark
Do you still wish to endorse religion? — Agent Smith
T Clark, since you seem to have gone through Angelo Cannata's link, mind sharing your insights on the matter. — Agent Smith
I endorse arguments based on knowledge and reason rather than prejudice. — T Clark
answers — T Clark
I endorse arguments based on knowledge and reason rather than prejudice.
— T Clark
That's setting the bar too high in my opinion and your "website" will get fewer, even though high quality, hits if you catch my drift. Also you'll miss out on what a fresh pair of eyes can provide in terms of novel insights into a problem, old and new. Just a thought, that's all. — Agent Smith
Just to make sure I've got this right. Requiring arguments based on knowledge and reason rather than prejudice is setting the bar too high. Is that correct? Your directness is refreshing. I can't think of anything else of value to add in response — T Clark
Just to make sure I've got this right. Requiring arguments based on knowledge and reason rather than prejudice is setting the bar too high. Is that correct? Your directness is refreshing. I can't think of anything else of value to add in response
— T Clark
Beware of adopting principles which when applied to yourself will only get you an F-. — Agent Smith
I sometimes do [fail] — T Clark
I sometimes do [fail]
— T Clark
That's all that matters, no? — Agent Smith
Creativity? Irrationalism? — Agent Smith
Is Taoism (one of your pet subjects) reason(able)? — Agent Smith
As I said, if I fail, criticize me for my failure, as I am criticizing you for yours — T Clark
Are you proposing these as standards by which philosophical arguments should be judged? — T Clark
Here, for example: https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/21944/
You can just put on Google something like "from politheism to monotheism" and you will find hundreds of studies that show the complexity of the transition, according to the specific context of each single religion. — Angelo Cannata
I rank/rate creativity highly, right up there with reason & knowledge. The reason it seems to have dropped out of philosophical discourse is because we're still in the early stages. Nevertheless parallel processing has been/is/will be done with amazing results. There should be another branch of philosophy specifically developed to beautify philosophy. Compare an automobile from the 1890s to one in 2022. — Agent Smith
I think subjects as well as arguments can be reasonable as well as unreasonable. For an atheist (is it me or is there unusual much activity abouts gods?) theism is unreasonable. Close to madness even. Is madness reasonable? — EugeneW
There's not a problem with it but you demonstrated a naturalist theory of religion and I was saying that it implies anaturalism even if you only use members of naturalism (e.g. it's not sufficient an explanation to say "the reason people thought zeus existed was to explain thunder" because it requires elements outside naturalism to substantiate it which it usually declares gods as being of the mind which isn't sufficient to explain the proposition as said). — Shwah
I don't think it's possible to ontologically negate/debunk anything (because we don't have epistemic certainty). — Shwah
I had a thought that I think we both can agree is a good one. I plan to avoid discussions with you in the future. — T Clark
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem! — Stalin
The interesting thing, however, is that there is still room to posit forces of unknown origin — creativesoul
I was thinking more along the lines of quantum entanglement(spooky action at a distance). — creativesoul
It helps to understand a so-called ‘theist’ by asking what they mean by ‘god’ or whatever term they pick. — I like sushi
‘Let there be light’ and so ‘light’ becomes — I like sushi
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