. Even the apocryphal question about 'the number of angels who can dance on the point of a needle', would make better reading than what I have read here ! — fresco
What I've yet to figure out is why so many (a) religious believers, (b) idealists, and (c) continental philosophy fans are drawn to the board. — Terrapin Station
What, as an atheist, would be a quality discussion about religion? — DingoJones
You oughta see the political forums. — fishfry
This gives us Humanists topics for millions of hours of satisfying discussions. — god must be atheist
atheist humanism has no conception of why humans are in the universe in the first place. Like them or not, religions situate mankind in a story, give them a reason for being here and something to strive towards and live up to. — Wayfarer
humanism today is too often grounded in the myth that life is a chemical reaction and humans accidents of fate. It's not actually 'humanism' at all. — Wayfarer
Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait. — George Harrison
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm — Unknown
Fresco, dear, lots of us are atheists, but recognize that "religion" is 100% real, even though the gods are not. Of the 7+billion people on earth, at least 6+billion think about religion in more or less positive terms (their own, usually). "My religion is good and true; your religion is a pile of crap." Atheists take that approach, too, quite often.
Religion is a critical cultural activity, and has been for quite a long time--far longer than atheism. Longer than philosophy. Longer than agriculture.
Do you have any further questions? — Bitter Crank
A myth is that the world was created in six days, and is less than 6000 years old — god must be atheist
and how many Christians do you think actually believe that? — Wayfarer
humanism today is too often grounded in the myth that life is a chemical reaction and humans accidents of fate. It's not actually 'humanism' at all — Wayfarer
Maybe you were just joking, but here's what continental philosophy refers to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
4 minutes ago — Coben
refer to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic movement. Continental philosophy includes German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism (and its antecedents, such as the thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche), hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, French feminism, psychoanalytic theory, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and related branches of Western Marxism.[3]
"The god of a carpenter is a carpenter. The god of a cannibal is a cannibal. The god of a businessman is a businessman." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. — god must be atheist
I'd need to study philosophy for at least 40 years before the term "continental philosophy" would start to mean something
Well, full marks for honesty! — Wayfarer
Thank you, WF, but did you actually look at the quote? — god must be atheist
I think Terrapin would be happy with your description and agree, and that's why he is aghast.To me "continentalism" stays a big black matter. Impenetrable, inscrutable, and undefined. — god must be atheist
What I've yet to figure out is why so many (a) religious believers, (b) idealists, and (c) continental philosophy fans are drawn to the board. Those three categories seem to cover about 95% of the people who post here. — Terrapin Station
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