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    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 18, 2014 at 3:24 pm)genkaus Wrote: (September 18, 2014 at 3:06 pm)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: I'm unsure what is meant here by 'opposes this view of philosophy'. The view that philosophy...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 18, 2014 at 6:08 pm
    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 18, 2014 at 1:05 pm)genkaus Wrote: (September 18, 2014 at 5:53 am)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: I'm tempted to quote Ayn Rand's epistemology here but since she's regarded as a non-philosop...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 18, 2014 at 3:06 pm
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 18, 2014 at 6:21 am)Dolorian Wrote: (September 18, 2014 at 4:26 am)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: As with so much of the Gospels we do not know with anything like certainty how genuine sayi...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 18, 2014 at 9:24 am
    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 18, 2014 at 12:30 am)Endo Wrote: . . . . . . If the "central purpose" of philosophy is "the love of wisdom",I'm pleased to note your use of 'if' as there's some doubt a strong case can b...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 18, 2014 at 5:53 am
    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 18, 2014 at 12:30 am)Endo Wrote: It shows that the system is complete, and fleshed out, instead of just being some overtly practical system cobbled together in someone's mental equivalent...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 18, 2014 at 4:30 am
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 18, 2014 at 2:49 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: That's not an example of religious failing, bigotry, or the Christian God's lack of genuine love for humanity though, because our house Christian...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 18, 2014 at 4:26 am
    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 18, 2014 at 12:06 am)bennyboy Wrote: (September 17, 2014 at 7:00 pm)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: Then what is the central purpose of philosophy?It's all in the word. The central purpose ...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 18, 2014 at 12:10 am
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 17, 2014 at 7:04 pm)Elskidor Wrote: They just need to make a new new testament to help support gays and correct a few hundred things to keep up with the times.The problem is centuries of ...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 17, 2014 at 7:09 pm
    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 17, 2014 at 6:48 pm)genkaus Wrote: (September 17, 2014 at 6:38 pm)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: Because how we think is absolutely critical to our survival. That's true - but guiding survi...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 17, 2014 at 7:00 pm
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 17, 2014 at 1:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They sing like shit.Congregations, even informal ones like that, always do. One of the worst outcomes of the Lutheran revolution was the idiocy of ex...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 17, 2014 at 6:47 pm
    Thread: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
Post: RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
(September 15, 2014 at 10:18 am)genkaus Wrote: (September 15, 2014 at 9:01 am)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: When philosophy, as it so often has, departs from it's central role of determining how we s...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 55 10047 September 17, 2014 at 6:38 pm
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 17, 2014 at 10:21 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: (September 17, 2014 at 10:19 am)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: You need to go beyond blind acceptance of today's many versions of the Bible and s...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 17, 2014 at 10:26 am
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 17, 2014 at 10:10 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Well seeing as Christ is the same guy as the OT Yahweh, and said he came to fulfill the law not change it, and in some cases even said stronger...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 17, 2014 at 10:19 am
    Thread: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian Students
Post: RE: Homophobic Preacher drowned out by Christian S...
(September 17, 2014 at 9:47 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Frankly there is not much to discuss on the bibles position on homosexuality, it is easily one of the clearest messages in the bible. The Bible ...
 dissily mordentroge News & Current Affairs 31 5424 September 17, 2014 at 9:56 am
    Thread: Why Would God Hide?
Post: RE: Why Would God Hide?
(September 17, 2014 at 7:10 am)Brakeman Wrote: If I claimed I had a personal relationship with Michelle Obama and I claimed to talk to her daily, but then couldn't answer anything about her that was...
 dissily mordentroge Religion 252 43604 September 17, 2014 at 9:46 am
    Thread: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
Post: RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
(September 16, 2014 at 11:36 am)Crossless1 Wrote: . . . . . . . . . Prof, seriously, why can't you apply the same real world practical reason you bring to engine performance to the other areas of yo...
 dissily mordentroge Christianity 1458 184352 September 16, 2014 at 6:35 pm
    Thread: Why Would God Hide?
Post: RE: Why Would God Hide?
There is seldom anything to be gained in attempting to have a true believer see logic, especially if they imagine the texts they work from weren't authored by members of our species and have never bee...
 dissily mordentroge Religion 252 43604 September 16, 2014 at 3:38 am
    Thread: On naturalism and consciousness
Post: RE: On naturalism and consciousness
(September 15, 2014 at 4:46 pm)Chas Wrote: (September 15, 2014 at 4:22 pm)Dissily Mordentroge Wrote: An extraordinary assumption given the paucity of evidence to hand. Not an assumption, a conject...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 291 44137 September 15, 2014 at 9:26 pm
    Thread: On naturalism and consciousness
Post: RE: On naturalism and consciousness
(September 15, 2014 at 11:28 am)Chas Wrote: I don't have a problem with mind being inextricable from a biological brain except for the lack of a mechanism and the lack of evidence. Possibly you're s...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 291 44137 September 15, 2014 at 4:22 pm
    Thread: Are We Living In God's "Matrix"?
Post: RE: Are We Living In God's "Matrix"?
(September 15, 2014 at 11:25 am)Chas Wrote: (September 12, 2014 at 10:33 am)sswhateverlove Wrote: Well thank you for your (I assume) expert opinion on what's rational. There are others with persp...
 dissily mordentroge Philosophy 100 14366 September 15, 2014 at 4:16 pm