In most contexts I hear the word, I think of it as the mild swearword it's typically being used as. Where it's being used to describe an actual divine being or beings, I will tend to think of whatever the person using it is describing (directly or indirectly).
It's almost as if "god" is just...
There's no singular measurement to definitively determine if a person (or any other creature for that matter) is alive or dead. Heartbeat, breathing or the various definitions of brain death can be considered but none are necessarily definitive or apply equally in all cases.
We obviously work...
I think what you're missing is that this isn't a biological debate but a political one. Some people have decided (for whatever reasons) that they don't support abortion and so come up with a specific spin on selected facts to create the concept of "life begins at conception". Some of the people...
I'm trying to have a discussion about the topic you're saying you started the thread about. Why bother with the thread in the first place if you didn't actually want to discuss anything?
You didn't ask about a "cultural phenomena" though, you asked about a person. Any "cultural phenomena" element is very much a creation (and exaggeration) of the media, and is variously applied to a range of individuals, groups or properties at different times.
On the face of it, it doesn't sound unreasonable. In fact, I'd suggest it'd be stranger for the employees to engage in such a determined protest against the company but then turn up to work the next day as if nothing happened.
No offense intended, but so what?
There isn't any art that appeals to everyone, or even necessarily the majority. I'm not great fan of Swift, if only because I'm not a great fan of her style of music in general (I'm not at all in her core demographic anyway, like you I suspect). I'm not going...
Well yes, if you completely redefine a word to fit your predetermined conclusion, you can make anything true from a particular "perspective".
If (theistic) believers considered such events in the manner you describe though (which isn't necessarily the case for all anyway), they wouldn't be...
Sure, but that doesn't mean the kind of consequences and difficulties that can cause the legal processes are unique or unaccounted for.
I know some of Trump's rabid supporters (and I'm not saying that is necessarily you) want to spin the idea that he is somehow uniquely unable to get a fair...
Sure, that's why I said "As much as possible". Trump isn't the first ever famous criminal defendant though and certainly isn't the first defendant to have characteristics that could lead a lot of prospective jurors to be biased, for or against them.
The system is never going to be perfect, even...
As much as is possible, and pretty much as fair as any other jury trial I expect. Jurors are always going to be influenced by factors irrelevant to the case regarding defendants and/or witnesses, if only subconsciously. That's why there are processes to vet prospective jurors to reduce that...
I always find it a little odd when people talk about their reasons for being atheist, as if it is an active decision that is consciously considered and decided on. I'm an atheist because I don't believe in any gods. While I've given consideration (briefly) to some specific proposed gods, I make...
It seems you really want to believe that. :wink:
I don't think it's legitimate to treat "God" and "Science" as comparable equivalents though. Neither of them "say" anything because they're both abstract concepts, and both can certainly be (ab)used by people to try to give undue authority to...
The fantasy characters in your head can say anything you want them to.
I don't think any real theist would say what you suggested and that anyone in that situation, theist or atheist, would say the same kind of things, depending on their actual individual circumstances.
I find it a little...
I doubt that was their intent. I don't think anyone would have predicted the sequence of events that actually followed the October 7th terror attack and expect the aim was just more of the same violence and kidnapping to try to force Israel in to releasing Palestinian prisoners and push back...
So you just decided you were going to believe in free will "with no doubt in your mind"? It's not an inevitable rational conclusion based on logic and evidence? I don't see how you could have it both ways - your fundamental beliefs can only be either implicit logical conclusions or a conscious...