The Philosophy Discussion Forum

I’m agnostic. In my view, God must be benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent. Children with cancer make me believe that God is not those things. Therefore He/She is not God. No? The world is a place designed. That means it has inner workings intended by God. Individual liberty is a key design key in...

Bad people are confused about Good. They feel that whatever Opposition applies to the 4th Principle of Summum. Good and Bad are actually the only opposition to which the Principle of Opposition does not apply. The Principle states that all oppositions are a scale of more or less than one thing. This...

So the state says that you cannot murder another human being. Is the state not justified in giving you that limit? If someone becomes an economic monarch, using his or her wealth to unilaterally create whatever policy suits him or her, which the rest of us are economically obligated to follow, is t...

There are 8 billion people on the planet. How much influence could you have in a group of 8? How much could you stand out in a group of 80? Paradoxically, the individual is the most powerful being on the planet. There's something about individual subjectivity that puts you on the throne of your lif...

I'm stubborn and it's usually my way or the highway. I realize this in some sense, but I just can't back down from confrontation or head butting. I'm like a moth attracted to a flame. How does a person change the way one feels about conflict? I assume, step 1 is to want to and in order to want to, ...

I've heard it argued that the problem with "socialism" is that it seeks to eliminate private property. Most versions of socialism I've read about do not seek to eliminate ALL property, however. If eliminating all property is the definition of "socialism" then it seems that Marx ...

It doesn't matter whether rich or poor, male or female, black or white; a person who is comfortable in the position they're in is a privileged person. Privilege comes with breathing as a cash money being. It is God-given, as what comes from that privilege. It is privilege to luxury, to posh and gra...

If I don't worship God, don't go to church, and don't see life as a sacred gift from God, am I "evil?" Am I essentially an agent of Lucifer or else a sympathizer with the ways of Lucifer? Will I only spread evil and curse others if I influence them? And if I am "evil", is there ...

Across the world, people follow many beliefs, religions, and ways of seeing life. But when truth matters, how can we know which worldview truly reflects reality? The truth is not a worldview as much as it's a distinction. It is a knowing of Self that is irefutable and held with conviction. It leads...