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But it's not just one or two new features of the same substance that can "emerge": rather, a truly "emergent" thing has to be totally unlike the thing that gave rise to it, in all regards...chemical, physical, attriubtional, and so on. Mind is nothing like brain. Brain is a piec...

One is only required to produce evidence when one rejects a position not when one is merely skeptical of one And therefore I do not say God does not exist but I do not think God exists. A subtle and important distinction As the first is a truth claim that requires evidence while the second is not a...

I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of people that you've never met, but if you were to say that because of that, they don't exist, does that make them not exist? No, but then 1 person in 7 billion can definitely be lost in the CROWD of equally small people. Your false god is supposed to be, j...

To me, Mind , is that part that is open, to absolutely any and every thing. Mind has no boundary and this is what allows human beings to imagine any thing. For example, only with an open Mind human beings have been able to work out how to create every thing that they have. Consciousness , is that p...

I have evidence that you are in fact deluded. Provide YOUR evidence that there is no God. No evidence is needed to prove something does not exist. Absolutely there is! Just because you specifically haven't interacted with something or don't believe in it doesn't mean it does not exist. I'm sure the...

There is only the NOW here now nowhere is were every conceivable permutation of every possible realities exist simultaneously This is true as the past is simply the NOW that has already happened and the future is simply the NOW that has yet to happen But the only thing that is actually happening is...

You might also want to consider the possibility that if you think god (whatever the f*** that is) created humanity then humanity's failure is god's failure to create a being capable of reading god. But that's what you don't understand. God doesn't wish for us to be able to understand all of him, or...

Unfortunately I know alot about everything. Take for instance the reason why you are here. The most probable reason, is that you are not only looking for the "meaning" and "nature" of life and gain some form of companionship like everyone else, but it is primarily because you ar...

Seleucus wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:08 pm There is a reason why criminals are imprisoned and punished and not simply killed or deported. Who will absorb the debt otherwise?

Isn't paying to imprison more people just creating more debt?

So have you had a diagnosis on the schizoid spectrum? Or perhaps smoking drugs? As I say, there are what I see as legitimate uses of phonological features. For instance we can say that Zeus, Jupiter, and Deus all have a common sound and also root and that the spread of monotheism into Europe was as...

Well said Doc - and to add, this entire thread is a self-contradiction. The OP must acknowledge there was a message and in doing so must acknowledge that to suggest 'God' failed is a contradiction - for at least, the OP knew the message!! If there is any failing, it is by way of both theist and ath...

I think the key here is the idea of a political comment. The president in this context was condemning the idea of not respecting the anthem and/or flag. While he said the players should be fired, it was from the perspective of one opposed to their statement and manner of demonstrating it, not the fa...

The short answer, then, is that we're here because God is love, and because He wants to bring us into a relationship with Him. We're not cosmic accidents or the detritus of an indifferent universe; we are here by God's deliberate intention, and are precious and valuable, and loved. I remember that'...

Over my years it has become apparent to me that all people are the same, just differing degrees of intelligence, and wisdom - to understand the two are not coupled together to a great degree is necessary to understand what needs to be understood. While I am 100% behind you on the need to differenti...

I find your response deeply confused. Of course atheists say that the universe has no meaning. Saturn has no meaning. Grains of sand have no meaning. Empty space has no meaning. And so on. Quite right, according to Atheism. Nothing "means" anything, nor does any entity -- planet or person...