Aupmanyav<<I don't believe in God": An atheist would say that only in reply to a theist who says "I believe in existence of God / Allah."<<>>
That's shows the big complaint I have with atheists who talk like that to theists. Saying "I don't believe in God" makes the theist believe that the...
"Thief"" I can speak with certainty, you will be infected, your resistance is futile, but hopefully your resistance will kick in and you will survive<<>>
My resistance? What am I resisting? I have no idea of anything you could be talking about, saying I'm resisting something. If I don't know...
Evangelicalhumanist,<<>>That probably needs a little clarification, as I doubt everybody will get it.<<
When I say we deny transcendance, what I mean is that we believe that we are part of the All, and the All is part of us.<<
You've lost me already. Let's go back to "deny transcendence". I...
Atheists say they don't believe in any gods. I ask them "Were Zeus and Thor nonexistent gods that you don't believe in?" They say "yes". Then I say "What about the people who worshiped the sun? What about those who worshiped the earth?". They thought the sun had to be intelligent to move...
Polymath257<<I don't need to lack belief in any particular deity to lack beliefs in deities.
Do you believe that Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe in a deity? If so what deity do you believe that they believe in? Can you describe it?
Polymath257<<i don't have to actively disbelieve to...
I can't conjure up any concept of anything labeled "God" (or "Allah"). But most atheists say "I don't believe in God". What are they saying they don't believe in? I certainly don't know. I also don't know of any god that Christians, Jews and Muslims believe in.
I look up "atheist" in the...
When you're tempted to say "I don't know", watch out. There are lots of meaningless sequences of words spoken and written that end with a question mark -- sequences that sound or look like real questions but are meaningless. One common example is "Who created the universe?" Another is "Why is...
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Thief<<and you are saying?....cause and effect are NOT universal?<<>>
"Universal" is only a word you can speak and write, it doesn't refer to anything you can think of.
Thief<<in the smaller scheme of things....that part of you left over after your last breath>>
So you're using "spirit" to refer to a dead person, right?
Thief<<I believe the body was formed to form spirit>>
You believe the body was formed to form a dead body? What sense does that make...
PearlSeeker<<<No. There is contingent existence and there is existence par excellence or super-existence (boundless - "Ein-Sof"). Like infinity - it's not a number but it contains all numbers.<<>>
There is nothing labeled "infinity", no matter how many times we say there is. The only numbers...
PruePhillip>>>I refer to the 'why' as a metaphysical question... Whatever created
the universe, by definition, lay outside the universe. And ultimately, this suggests
consciousness to me.<<<
Is metaphysics anything but poetic jabber? Does "Whatever created
the universe", "outside the...
<<night912>><<When you can no longer defend your argument in a rational way and end up resorting to repeating something over and over, it won't make a failed argument to miraculously become a successful one.
<<night912>><<Here, I'll show it again.
<<night912>><<So, according to you, you do...