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  1. Vorkosigan

    Is it possible to talk with an atheist?

    By defining god as "the creator of everything with a beginning", you are assuming everything with a beginning MUST have a creator. Why?
  2. Vorkosigan

    Abortion

    To my view, based on my understanding of nature, there is a basic right than any conscious being should have, which is the maximization of its wellbeing (or minimization of its suffering). This is my base for morality. So the question for me is: can they suffer? I don’t know if this has been...
  3. Vorkosigan

    When science goes gibberish; what does it indicate?

    Things will make sense to me if I can somehow connect them to my experience. Some areas of science are beyond my experience so I’m not surprised when a scientific model makes no sense (e.g., quantum mechanics). If the model works (evidence), I accept it until a better one comes up. Some seem to...
  4. Vorkosigan

    Is Putin a Dictator?

    I agree 100%! I hope one day the UN or some other international organization will enforce that fairly. As an additional note, the USA has about 1000 military bases worldwide (outside its territory), and NATO has been expanding consistently (for dubious reasons) since its formation. Now put...
  5. Vorkosigan

    Is Putin a Dictator?

    In the west, the media and other corporations own the politicians and choose which politicians to make look good (or even participate in debates). Is that democracy? NATO wasn’t supposed to grow as it has. What would USA do if Russia had a security agreement with Mexico, Canada and Cuba so they...
  6. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    Yes, it does bring some light, thank you for the clarification. My bias is that I can’t automatically think of a religion without a god. And if a religion says there is a god (creator of the universe), then it’s making a claim about the nature of the universe. In fact this god is the foundation...
  7. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    semantics again, boring
  8. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    It was a question, not an assertion. For example: If you have 1000 claims mutually incompatible, at best only one of them can be true, and the probability of any of them to be true is 1 in 1000. That's all I meant to say.
  9. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    You just gave two example of (one) Arithmetic.
  10. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    Yes, but science has a method to actually confirm if they are wrong. This allows knowledge to move forward.
  11. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    I appreciate your patience to explain this, and I apologize for my ignorance and if I offended you. What word should I use to refer to the kind of religion I was talking about?
  12. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    You may be right about my conception of religions. I think if some religions wouldn’t make claims about the natural world or try to influence public policy, I wouldn’t even know religions exist.
  13. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    But religions make claims about the universe not just communities.
  14. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    Maybe my English is not very good, what I mean with “cosmos” is the universe, reality, everything. Its nature cannot depend on anyone’s opinion.( If you keep looking for semantic issues this will get really boring)
  15. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    There must be one truth (period).
  16. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    No is not equivalent to that. The nature of the cosmos doesn’t depend on any of our opinions. I value diversity of ideas, not diversity of truth.
  17. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    If you can find good using your intellect, why do you need religion? Just use your intellect and be good!
  18. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    With this logic you can prove anything to be true. If you can believe it, then is true.
  19. Vorkosigan

    Is Putin a Dictator?

    What has Putin done that some USA administration hasn’t? I don’t particularly like Putin, but I hate double standards.
  20. Vorkosigan

    Is one religion better than the other.. and if so....

    Considering the number of religions that exist and have existed along history, isn’t it reasonable to think they are most likely all wrong?
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