... it is likely that the mythical idea of the 'end times' has an influence on the shaping of history and how people live. — Jack Cummins

I am just concerned that what is happening now may be the point of no return. — Jack Cummins

Well, a chunk of Americans cared more about voting against a black woman. — RogueAI

As described, the first cause is uncaused - but it's not an "accident", in the traditional sense as being synonymous with "contingent". — Relativist

Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that! — Samuel Beckett, Endgame

Spinoza hedged his bets by labeling his pantheistic deity as Deus sive Natura. — Gnomon

So we must start out by asking the question 'is this world more likely a product of intelligent design or chance'? Well, we are not allowed to start out by assuming a designer with a particular character. So, [to do] the calculation we must consider how many different plans and intentiosn a designer may have. And there's the problem: there are going to be a potential infinite number. Certainly the odds of there being a designer who wished to create a world such as this are going to be everybit as long as the odds that a world such as this arose by chance. And given that the latter is a simpler thesis than the former - it doesn't assume a designer - then the chance thesis is the more reasonable one, other things being equal. — Clearbury

↪180 Proof What a Kant! — Tom Storm

If the truth shall kill them, let them die. — Immanuel Kant

The ground of a transcendental argument presupposes a given. Depending on the choice of definitions, to construct an a priori judgement in the form of a transcendental argument, but with transcendent conceptions, is always invalid, insofar as no transcendent conceptions are given, re: that, the negation of which, is impossible. — Mww

If I were to grant your point here, then, it seems like reality would have to have, assuming there are laws, an infinite regress of them—no? — Bob Ross

If it’s contingent ‘all the way down’, then how is it not chaos? — Wayfarer

Christianity is pretty irrelevant to ethics.

The view on sex and marriage expressed in the OP is pretty patriarchal. — Banno

Some other methodological Naturalists are so dogmatic that I don't waste my time dialoging with them.
— Gnomon

Funny how those same naturalists see through your bullshit and don't hesitate to call you on it.

It's not dogmatism, it's just that there is so much evidence which proves that you spew bullshit, and I happen to know somewhat about such evidence. — wonderer1

I think there is another, quite independent, way of undermining the argument from fine-tuning. — Clearbury

Thomas Nagel had this to say ... — Wayfarer

belief in gods—or in any supernatural guiding principle—is more like a preference — Tom Storm

There is no atheist worldview. — Tom Storm

It seems to me that some people need answers to certain quesions, others don't. I often wonder why that is. — Tom Storm

an alternative physicalist cosmology to the ones provided by mythologies

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — FDR, as Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, 1933

Luke Barnes refutes ... — Wayfarer

Do you think anything can be inferred from the cogito, whatsoever? Or is it entirely different from the philosophical subject, or are they one and the same and yet meaningless tautology? — Moliere

In other words, the latter [pathology] cannot be said and the former [tautology] need not be said: neither expresses a distinction that makes a[n ontological] difference. — 180 Proof

If we live in a simulation, it would also be the real world, because the simulation exists in the real world. — Hyper

The term "fake" is misleading because everything exists in a sense.

Try living in a picture of a house for a week, and get back to us.
— unenlightened

Yo mamma was so fat, her picture weighed 10 pounds. — T Clark