The company I work for brags about how progressive it is. It has numerous advocacy groups including a native american group, an african american group, an asian group, a women group, a latino group, an lgbt group, a disabled group, etc. Basically any minority or supposedly oppressed group you...
The radical regressive left, most exemplified by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, has been supremely damaging for the democratic party. The amount of division she has sown is really hurting the democrats for the next election.
Where did all of these super far left democrats come from? What happened to...
Its all over the news. People are freaking out. People are calling this the worst atrocity in modern history. Unbelievable over dramatization. Sure its tragic and I wish it didn't happen, but on the other hand nobody seems to care about the tens of thousands who die every day from preventable...
I'm talking about the soul from a classical theist definition, not some wishy washy abstract thing that goes beyond any kind of logic and reasoning. Say IBM builds a computer system that simulates every neuron in someone's brain.This brain, through speakers and a terminal, can communicate just...
I think libertarian free will probably doesn't exist. I'm not sure what kind of free will exists, if any, but it doesn't seem to be very significant.
I've never seen any evidence that free will exists and it seems like our actions, beliefs, likes, and dislikes are determined by our previous...
People often try to give God as an explanation of things like morality, the beginning of the universe, etc. But i don't see how God explains anything or could possibly be an explanation. Its equivalent to "magic" or "pixies" did it. Furthermore there's no reasonable way to show that God is an...
I've never understood why Christians will reject the old testament and pretend to be reasonable, even though its essential for establishing the prophecies and origins surrounding Jesus. It sets up the entire context for Jesus, and Jesus references the old testament on numerous occasions...
I've always been confused why children, particularly babies are valued so much more than adults. I can understand that parents will value their children more because that's mostly genetic and ingrained.
But I'm talking about from a general societal perspective though. It seems to me that...
What do you guys think of proposal online to let addicts die after their third overdose? I think it could have merits. If by the third time you still haven't learned, then it seems reasonable to just let them do what they want. In conjunction with more counselling and help for the first or...
Deaths from car accidents are 1.3 million and deaths from suicide are 43,000 per year. So why do we care so much about some kids being separated? Its just a fallacious appeal to emotion-- "WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! =-(". I really don't get it. The people who are so concerned aren't...
If humanity develops a sentient artifical intelligence, would Abrahamic theology be negated? It seems like to me it would: much of Abrahamic theology is based on the concept of the soul and the fact that humans and consciousness are special, and not entirely physical. I guess you would have...
I've never understood why there's this elaborate process for using three drugs to prepare for injecting potassium chloride. My question is why we don't just put a bullet in their heads--its cheaper, less painful, and faster. I mean if the goal is for inmates on death row to suffer with lethal...
Its simply not possible to prove a divine revelation to yourself. How did you determine that aliens aren't experimenting on you and trying to make you believe a fairy tale? Maybe they are trying to see what they can get humans to believe by messing with certain neurotransmitters. Or maybe its...
It doesn't seem like there's any good evidence or rational justification for the existence of a soul. Most of the things i've heard are fallacious appeals to identity, and appeals to consequences like if we don't have a soul, then we can't have free will. I've also seen no demonstration that...
So I was wondering, if you see a cop behind you and you think that their sirens are about to turn on, can you pull over before this happens and park to avoid having to deal with the police?
Is it possible for a cop to still give you a traffic ticket even though you're already parked and out of...
It seems that its probably impossible to know anything about the mind of God. Personal revelations, right off the bat, are no good because you don't have a basis to assume that:
1. Your experience was real and was from God/wasn't a hallucination.
2. You interpreted your experience correctly...
I see the moral argument as one of the weakest and most common arguments used to justify theism. There are several potent critiques that are never addressed sufficiently:
1. Presupposing a God doesn't necessarily mean the God is a moral God. The God may be neutral, evil, have characteristics of...
Its so weird to me that people would break up friendships or relationships just because that person voted for someone that they don't agree with politically. I honestly think people who would break up friendships over something like that are idiots--do you expect all of your friends to have the...
In terms of beliefs about the supernatural and God, agnosticism seems to be the most rational positions to hold compared to atheism and theism. I am the kind of agnostic where I don't know if God exists, and I don't even know how I would attempt to calculate a probability for God's existence...
All the time I see many people constantly misrepresenting trump. He does say many questionable things and lies quite a bit, just like Hillary Clinton, but a lot of people just straight up lie and mis quote him entirely. One of the first things people bring up is that Trump is a racist because he...