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MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Truth dangerous, then so be it, but only because there are mystics who don't see it yet.
Contradictions within reality do not exist. Things only appear contradictory at the limits of our perception, which is where their apparent contradictory…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"If you sometimes define words with essential meanings and if sometimes you don't, and sometimes you don't, you are not a practitioner of formal logic. You cannot both be and not be a practitioner of formal logic. So, in your case, that…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Thank you Glen. And I might add that I think reason leads to the NAP. I am against non-retaliatory force when dealing with other people within society, for good reason. It is irrational and counter-productive."
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"That's your response? Very thoughtful, Marc. More emotion based metaphor. You are clearly more religious of the two of us, holding on dearly to the blatantly contradictory principle of foundational skepticism. You completely ignore objective…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"I will not concede subjective reality for the purpose of not becoming marginalized. It is like you are telling me to not be so adherent to truth as to not get along with people who don't get it. I will not sell out. Go ahead marginalize me. The…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"It is not simply tautology when it is based on objective reality. The fundamentals are self evident. Existence exists and has concrete identity. Any belief that this may not be true is arbitrary, incorrect and not able to be defended rationally. And…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Absolute skepticism is not only a blatant contradiction, but renders language fundamentally arbitrary. We should be skeptical of a claim in the presence of contradiction but not when we have contextual noncontradictory knowledge, especially when the…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"You mean an absolutist attitude like 'For sure, you cannot have certain knowledge, because there are many complexities to nature and knowledge is limited."?"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Reality exists. You don't need to prove it. It is self-evident. And those that will not accept that as fact are lost. The non-existence of god is just one small step away. If you can understand the implications of the law of identity, you will…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Omniscience is not possible or necessary for certain knowledge. Just because there is more to learn, doesn't make it possible to find impossible things. Nothing will ever demonstrate that the fundamentals of learning and demonstration are…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"You do not need additional proof than knowledge of causality and non-contradiction. Needing experimentation to find something that would violate the very principles we use to experiment and find is a demonstration of a lack of understanding of basic…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Arguing, as an atheist, that you know that god is possible is kind of funny. And erroneous."
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"There is no evidence of a god, because evidence of a god is impossible. There is enough evidence of the validity of the law of identity, however, to know that things that are contradictory, metaphorical, undefined or supernatural cannot…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Sure Dean,
But what about? We agree on gnostic atheism and for the same reason. The possibility of god is not reasonable."
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Right-e-o! Damn, I thought I fooled you with my quantum phantasmagoria and gobbledy-gook."
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Mark,
God can have an identity. The same way the invisible pink unicorn or the flying spaghetti monster can. It is just invalid and contradictory or metaphorical. Faith is the absence of reason as god is the absence of noncontradictory concrete…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"Nice cartoon. You are silly. I am a gnostic atheist. I have zero faith. And zero religion. For beliefs, convictions and knowledge, I use only reason, the art of noncontradictory integration of objective concepts formed from sense perception and the…"
MCT replied to scott martins's discussion IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?
"It could have been Cthulhu! You never know for certain! Cthulhu and modern theoretical particle physics trump reason!! Have you ever heard of what these new scientists, that publish papers at universities, are finding in their particle accelerators?…"
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- I am a 36 year old straight single male. I grew up in Chicago and now know that I prefer to live in or around a very large city, at least for the next decade or so. I am an emergency room resident physician and I love my job. My biggest hobbies are exercise, movies and philosophy. My goals are to finish residency and work diagnosing and stabilizing emergency medical conditions in humans, go back to school, have my own lab, learn everyday, have fun, make friends with cool people, chill, challenge, grow and change for the better and earn the freedom to do whatever I think is right for myself. Oh, and I would also like to live indefinitely and plan on being cryogenically preserved, if and when I die. I am an atheist, an egoist and a determinist. I think Republicans and Democrats are both socialists and I long for the day that we are not born into slavery to the Fed or each other. I have zero willful ignorance (faith). Spirit and the soul are simply metaphors. They, like God and the after-life, do not exist in reality, which is all there is. I loathe codependence and value individuality.
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Someone Tell Stephen Hawking That Magical Creation Is Impossible, That Nothingness Cannot Have A Characteristic, And That It Is Not Science That Tells Us With Certainty There Is No God
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:47pm 11 Comments 0 Likes
Stephen Hawking is great and happens to be correct about there not being a god, as we all know (or think we might, for all you 99%ers), and he is an excellent example of why physicists need to be reminded that they have necessary epistemological foundations to their knowledge and the ability to obtain it. We do not live in one universe of many. There is one universe. It consists of distinct and possibly overlapping expansions. This expansion should be called a sub-verse or mini-verse or…
Continue I Think Therefore I Am: Not The First Of Three Valid And True Axioms
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:00pm 68 Comments 0 Likes
The first bit of awareness is not that you are thinking. It is of something. Something in reality. You sense first, then you think. It takes a multitude of sensations before you can have thought, or the manipulation and integration of concepts. As such, the very first statement, if you will, or thought you can make or the base of all cognition, epistemology and therefore philosophy is not 'I think therefore I am', but 'there is something I am aware of'. This entails an existent with identity… Continue
Socialism Sucks!
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 2:30am 66 Comments 0 Likes
Socialism, or collectivism, is a consequence of a more fundamental philosophical mistake. This mistake is the opinion that you do not have a moral right to your own life, that you owe part of your life to others. This idea is called altruism, which is mistakenly thought to be a moral position. Well, the principle of altruism, if you wish to actually think about it, is one of self-sacrifice, that it is moral to sacrifice your life to others. This should be clearly distinguished from benevolence,… Continue
Immortal Volitional Robots Need Morality.
Posted on January 27, 2011 at 11:58am 16 Comments 0 Likes
Immortality would not necessarily preclude the need for morality. There is no logical need for the futility of morals for an immortal. Why can an immortal volitional robot not choose that breathing clean air, while maybe not necessary, feels better than traveling to the moon without a space suit? Maybe reminiscing by the beach on a yacht on a sunny day is worth the money earned while providing medical care to mortals or teaching philosophy and better than hanging out in a trailer while watching… Continue
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- At 2:54pm on February 5, 2013,
Tonya Wynn said… Have you looked into the group Physicians Committee for Responsible MEDICINE (PCRM) ? It is mostly vegetarian or vegan. Thought you'd fit in well now! Have you heard anything bad about dairy, besides acidity? Just read The China Study and it swears that cow's dairy makes us diseased. Quit milk because of its acidity, but still love my nonfat yogurt.
- At 1:36pm on October 8, 2011,
Jason Spicer said… - I'm seriously wondering what lobe of Cane's brain contains the lesion.
- At 7:39pm on April 11, 2011,
Alice said… - Michael - you being a physician are you open to helping me with a problem I have? It's regarding autoimunity, diet, aching joints and sensitve teeth... : ) I don't want to have a winge - LOL - I just am really interested about what's going on with it, in a physiological way - I know that biochemistry is really complex - but I'm having some strange results that I don't understand - I have a theory and wondered if you might be knowledgable about it?
- At 12:00pm on March 9, 2011, Tonya Wynn said…
- I love the way you think. A famous ancient Chinese philosopher (statesman) said something about the best statesman being the one who barely rules or changes anything...laissez faire! Maybe it was Sun Tzu.
- At 5:41pm on January 23, 2011,
Dr. Terence Meaden said… Welcome to the busy group "Origins".
Terry
- At 9:15am on January 20, 2011,
Atheist Princess said… - Welcome to the Nexus ( :
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