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PopeBeanie wrote:
sunless planets is (imo) highly unlikely

Organic material can arrive via comets/meteors or some other way. Microbes are known to survive in frozen near vacuum space for a very long time. But even then, it’s still concievable that life forms in a dark sea under a big layer of ice.  Stable water (doesnt boil and doesnt freeze for…

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This is quite similar to The Ship of Theseus. For those unfamiliar with it, it is an important philosophical question about the continuity of identity. It goes something like this: That is, a ship replaces various planks and parts over its life. Eventually not a single original plank of wood or other part remains…meaning the ship is not…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
These people aren’t even literate but they are the most hospitable and happy I’ve ever seen.

Then you clearly haven’t seen a lot of indiginous people. Some of the most scariest moments of my life were while traveling in Saharan Africa, South Asia and South East Asia (not to mention Northern Canada). I’ve gone from a group of kin…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
They don’t need a bunch of philosophical mumbo jumbo.

Belle, with this incredible ability of yours to just dismiss an enormous field of study you know next to nothing about…it’s one more reason I just cannot take you seriously anymore.

Unfortunately @ belle, common sense is a cultural construction for the most part. Common sense really varies from place to place (even within a country). For example, I think it’s really common sense to wear headphones if you want to play loud annoying music while on the bus or subway…and to let people get off the elevator before trying to get…[Read more]

There are countless moral/ethical systems that give a variety of answers. There are five rather common (often repeated answers) to this question.

Virtue ethics: It may be a reasonable move. I cannot possibly sum up virtue ethics other than saying “it’s complicated”.

Utilitarian: It may be. Just work it out on a large matrix of actions and…[Read more]

One of the problems with this thought experiment is you are comparing a discrete problem with a metaphysical one. These are not comparable. We can easily measure an animal and the space of their closet Finding the existence of some strange phenomena somewhere somewhere in the universe….is currently well past our ability to test and possibly u…[Read more]

A negative positive claim does not automatically mean a positive negative claim. They are not interchangeable and they have real life applications. For example:

Someone told me there is a 12 year old who isolated a cure for all cancers in his improvised laboratory or there is some girl who can somehow breather under water. I don’t believe this s…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Apparently, this isn’t atheism, because nowadays most atheists insist that atheism isn’t a belief in the nonexistence of God, it’s simply having no belief as regards God. In other words, they haven’t given it any thought. I think that’s nuts.

Believing there is no God is one thing. It’s not entirely unreasonable one since we’ve nev…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
@davis Money

So if I bought you your flight and vacation time…you’d go to Mecca, submit to Islam and marry a muslim man?

Belle Rose wrote:
RE: Delusions

Websters dictionary:

Delusion: 1. the act of tricking or deceiving someone :the state of being deluded.

Deluded: 1.  deceived by false beliefs

So no. A delusion is not automatically a symptom of being crazy.

Cambridge dictionary:

1. belief in something that is not true:

ex. He’s under the delusion that he wi…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
It’s crossed my mind

What has stopped you?

Belle Rose wrote:
I don’t need to explain myself to you.

Then why should we take your claims seriously?

You haven’t the slightest clue what I believe so don’t tell me I’m delusional.

How on Earth can we know. YOU WON’T TELL US WHAT YOU BELIEVE. But that’s not even relevant. Any supernatural incredible claim…is a delusion without evidence. The word “God” is already enough.

here It is!!!!! Dawkins God delusion bullshit. You get angry call me mental…

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My honest answer is I DONT KNOW.

So it’s unreasonable of us to expect incredible evidence of a God…and our examples given are easily dismissed as unreasonable and cliché by you…without a detailed explanation…but you don’t know any examples of evidence we could give you that you wouldn’t dismiss as unreasonable and cliché. Uffffff. How can an…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
My original question when I posed it about God wasn’t about any specific God. It was just any sort of God. Why now are you asking me like this? I don’t understand your logic and you’re deviating from what I’m trying to explain. My honest answer is I DONT KNOW.

And this conversation has morphed into one which is clearly about t…

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I think your world view is a delusion, just as I think Islam, Hinduism, Communism, alien abductions are also delusions.  But I don’t hold them in contempt. I do hold your ducking and dodging in contempt. Something that mysteriously materialised at about the exact time you admitted your world view. Now it’s the fifth time you’ve avoided a qu…[Read more]

YOU DIDN’T ANSWER MY QUESTION. You avoided it. You explained why you accepted God. You did not tell us what kind of evidence WE (or other people who have never heard of this God) should be good enough to believe in the God of the Bible. I’ll put this as clear as possible…and be specific:

What kind of evidence should be enough for a…[Read more]