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May 4th, 2013, 9:36 am
Knives? I will continue to have access to a gun in situations where I feel a need as long as I live in a society where: 1. Doctors get shot to death in their office: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/doctor-shot-newport-beach-identified.html 2. Doctors are shot to death in church: http:/...
May 4th, 2013, 12:00 am
Stephen Hawking's arrogance is matched only by his ignorance... He is himself an example of a person whose very existence is the end-result of a wellspring of philosophical, moral and community thought that has granted him the unique privilege of surviving an otherwise lethal disease. That he has fa...
May 3rd, 2013, 11:44 pm
People should be allowed to own guns. There needs to be however a process implemented for ALL gun purchases ( not only the commercial sale as I believe is the present state :- where person- to-person transactions do not require a background check) that both verifies the purchaser's "moral integ...
February 19th, 2013, 1:33 pm
"It is written that God forbids knowledge of good and evil, and despises it as neither hot nor cold, so He spat it out. And likely he designs it so that those people who seek knowledge of good and evil, are offered only choices between evil and evil."...Irrelevant to this amusing discussion
February 18th, 2013, 6:10 pm
Absent mental illness, can anyone prove that my choice between doing/acting for the "good" rather than for "evil" is always predetermined? What is the relevance of the observation that there is EEG activity prior to conscious awareness? That does not detract from the viability of...
February 18th, 2013, 2:07 pm
It's obvious---"free will" is not a universal,catch all concept. For example; I do not have free will to fly in the sky as a bird. Therefore hunger and the response to it does not preclude free will in other areas- such as the ability to choose between doing/thinking "good" versu...
January 20th, 2013, 3:11 pm
Syamsu - you do not gain friends or influence people by blaming them for not following your writing! Be assured that I shall read what you have attempted to explain - and also that I do not suffer from cognitive dissonance as you so arrogantly and unnecessarily claim. Your attitude in this "dis...
January 20th, 2013, 2:44 pm
Unfortunately "Syamsu" you do not seem to be able to convey your thoughts clearly enough for others to understand - as has been pointed out by several others. This one for example,"This is really more trying to explain free will, but the point is the care for the existent knowledge in...
January 18th, 2013, 3:14 pm
The convoluted, unintelligible posts regarding a "simple" explanation for the Holocaust merely support the cautionary note that it is innapropriate and naive for anyone to attempt to offer "simple"explanations. As a Jew whose family has been directly affected by the atrocities, I...
November 10th, 2012, 8:42 pm
First, I congratulate you on an admirable venture of exploration! Any effort to "understand" the universe is laudable. This reminds me of Herman Hesse and his magnum opus The Glass Bead Game ( 1947). I have described mathematical models of his GBG in order to "concretize" his Gam...
November 10th, 2012, 5:13 am
Einstein,“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us t...
November 7th, 2012, 1:43 pm
For what it is worth, a "right" is not granted by anyone or anything. If it were then if would not be called "inalienable"
November 4th, 2012, 1:23 am
The tediousness of answering questions and your disparaging comment about the Bell curve attests to your dangerous, grandiose delusions and "agendas" as to what humanity should be! This reminds me of the very same lunacy that was a presage of atrocities based upon similar maniacal ideas pr...
November 4th, 2012, 12:27 am
Do I understand the OP's model to be :? Religions(contain good and evil verses) + Believers (comprised good and evil people) = Religious good + Religious based evils If so then I do not agree that "religious based evils" necessarily follow from there being "evil verses". That the...
November 3rd, 2012, 11:10 pm
Catching up on the discussion and having not read all the posts, I can comment only on the general impression. Quote,"so long as religion serves as a catalyst for atrocities the arguments against it remain sound and valid." Obviously this is a huge generalization of what religion may have ...