"Eternity in a moment" — Beebert

"The marriage between light and darkeness" — Beebert

Not just moral prejudice or a dry-headed intellect. — Beebert

That his statement that his works are not for everyone is true is obvious when one observers your understanding of him even AFTER you have read his works — Beebert

A tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. — Shakespeare

Owen Barfield - Poetic Diction — Noble Dust

Do you find it true or o offensive? — Beebert

You are sooooo full of yourself, dude. How about you go drop a pizza and then pick it up. That'll force you to stoop a little low for a change. — Heister Eggcart

The more Agustino writes, the more a thread becomes intolerable to participate in. — Heister Eggcart

The more Agustino writes, the more a thread becomes intolerable to participate in. — Heister Eggcart

and that has already been defined. — Sapientia

As I said earlier, there can be an overlap between atheism and agnosticism. I don't wish to trouble myself too much with the finer semantic details. But some, for example, make the point, drawing upon the etymology of the terms, about a distinction between knowledge and belief. — Sapientia

You're just basically echoing my own point back to me. Yes, it should have been worded better so that it doesn't look like a confusion of what it is to be an atheist. — Sapientia

Now if someone wants to curse terrorists, or yell at a particular extremist Muslim or whatever, that is different. — 0 thru 9

The Muslim God is not the same as the Christian God. — Heister Eggcart

Every theist is an atheist seeing as belief in one God rules out belief in all others. That is, the Christian is atheistic with regard to Allah, and vice versa. — Heister Eggcart

The sun failing to rise tomorrow is not a logical proposition, dipshittus. — Heister Eggcart

offensive insinuation that I don't know what I'm talking about — Sapientia

The statement that atheists merely have disbelief proves my statement that atheists do not have any of their own structure, it is only disbelief of someone else's structure. — Lone Wolf

No, it does not. You're confusing atheism and atheists. Atheists are mostly normal guys and gals who have the normal structure and beliefs that normal people normally have. Atheism, on the other hand, by that definition, is indeed a negative position about theism. It's about destruction rather than construction. — Sapientia

As I explained before, an atheist could go only as far as claiming that there isn't good enough reason to believe that there's a god without actually denying that there's a god. — Sapientia

Atheism rejects theism, it doesn't necessarily deny the possibility of there being, or not being, a God(s). — Heister Eggcart

Dostoevsky (who was 50 percent atheist) — Beebert

William Blake — Beebert

Especially since the depth of the missunderstood Nietzsche and his thought so far surpasses that of most of the greatest Christian thinkers that it is almost laughable. — Beebert

Capitalism does lead to an increase in human rights, which is something the left does not generally want to accept. In fact, they incorrectly argue the opposite. — Hanover

Your preoccupation with the gender dysphoric and to those with sexual appetites and norms varying from your own is odd and diverts otherwise meaningful conversations. — Hanover

It just means you're dysphoric. — Hanover

Then I return to my original point! They decay into something other than capitalism. — Thorongil

but capitalism would prevent them from being so. — Thorongil

In part, yes. — Thorongil

Because capitalism supports free markets and to have a monopoly is to prohibit others from entering the market. — Thorongil

I disagree with that part about having to read a majority of a work before considering it significant. What do you think my motive is for continuing to read about Marx and Marxism? Obviously the significance of what I've read has struck me. Really, you'd have to be more of an authority on Marx than the author of the book I referred to in order make that kind of judgement about what I've been reading, and I don't think that you are. The book seeks to elucidate what was written, and quotes it frequently. I'm confident that it has already improved my understanding, and that continued reading will give me the understanding that I seek. Then I could move on to the next stage, and perhaps ultimately read the book itself. — Sapientia

But they often do so through monopoly and government subsidy. No one is saying they're communists, but they're certainly not capitalists. — Thorongil

I suspect Sartre would want to repudiate his FATHER. — unenlightened

and seems to be at least a major strand of thinking critical of the institution of the family. — unenlightened

As a competitor you're unhappy, but since we're a consumer driven society, we care only about cheaper products, which is exactly what we get — Hanover

A proof is a proof. — Thorongil

Your opinion isn't worth that much to me. It's not a competition, and I don't need to prove myself to you or to anyone. Think what you want. I know what I know. — Sapientia

I've never read the Bible either, yet funnily enough I know quite a bit about it. — Sapientia

In short, what you don't like are those companies who do distasteful things, which has nothing to do with their corporate status and nothing to do with how many competitors it might have. — Hanover

Philosophy and forums? — jorndoe

For one thing, classical theism is in jeopardy. To claim that God can be proven or believed to exist, despite not knowing his essence, becomes a nonsensical distinction if existence isn't a predicate. — Thorongil

Existentialism is the philosophy behind this, but one can also find precursors in Russell, Aldous Huxley and the like. — unenlightened

And North Korea calls itself a Democratic People's Republic. :-} — Thorongil

Which is what it is. — Thorongil

You seem to describe corporatism, not capitalism. — Thorongil

It thoroughly absorbed my attention the first time I read it, and I found the main character's exasperated protestations and observations conducive to my mood and aligning well with my general outlook on the world. — Thorongil

I find that the sort of work one does is more important than whether one works. The Bushmen are likely satisfied because they don't perceive their work to be drudgery. It's probably harder to be clinically depressed living in their society than for drones ensconced in cubicles in New York or Tokyo. — Thorongil

I don't get it. Why would a man lying on his death bed desire God when God, if it exists, created the circumstances of him being on his death bed in the first place as part of God's plan? This is what believers do - they try to separate God from the way things are, as if God can save them from the universe yet God created the universe and our limited power in it. When we starkly feel our lack of power in the face of natural events, why turn to the one being that created those circumstances in the first — Harry Hindu

They simply need power - which can come from different sources, like science discovering ways in which to prolong your life and improve your health. — Harry Hindu

Monogamy may be honored more often in the breach than in strict adherence, but that isn't what you were asking about. — Bitter Crank