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    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

Edit: (July 10, 2013 at 12:39 am)simplexity Wrote: It could not be: 1)A gods commands/instructions because nothing is necessarily suffering and therefore these gods commands are not necessarily mora...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 10, 2013 at 3:23 am
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

2 and 3 are only true for most of us who are aware. Yes. But if you like to suffer, than you are not really suffering. Which brings up some other additions. I reasoned through that maybe a little too ...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 10, 2013 at 2:33 am
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 9, 2013 at 11:28 pm)Inigo Wrote: You didn't read what I said, did you? I said that you tried to eat your cake and have it. You quoted numbers and then you said 'of course, the numbers don't ...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 10, 2013 at 12:39 am
    Thread: us flag symbolism
Post: RE: us flag symbolism

@Dragonetti That all makes sense. I think I've heard the part about it representing the hats worn in the revolutionary war before, maybe in elementary school or something. I originally got this as a ...
simplexity Atheism 15 2419 July 7, 2013 at 11:48 pm
    Thread: us flag symbolism
Post: us flag symbolism

I'm not sure whether or not to care about this. Apparently the US military flag folding ceremony has an 'unofficial' symbolic story that is read throughout, which is very religious. Wondering if anyon...
simplexity Atheism 15 2419 July 7, 2013 at 10:47 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

Inigo, all you are doing is making up a definition of morality, even though that is not how most people use the word, and then based on YOUR definition, say that only an agent can provide these instru...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 7, 2013 at 7:02 pm
    Thread: Ask the experts
Post: RE: Ask the experts

So if you are traveling at light-speed, that means an infinite amount of time will pass at a point in rest, ...so on earth an infinite amount of time would pass. Meaning everything would also cease t...
simplexity Physical Sciences 1 721 July 7, 2013 at 2:02 am
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 8:00 pm)Inigo Wrote: I pointed out that when we do wrong it seems clear to most of us that we now 'deserve' harm.When we do wrong and/or think of a wrong outcome it is not clear tha...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 8:16 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm)Inigo Wrote: He's about to die, thicky! Can't you read? He's about to die and the one thing he really wants to do before he dies is disembowel a prostitute. Does he have ...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 6:03 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

Oh, just shut up. I'll give Jack plenty of reason not too by locking him up. He doesn't have a reason otherwise, and yes, that's just how it is.
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 5:10 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 4:44 pm)Inigo Wrote: If you think he has reason not to disembowel a prostitute but do not believe there is any god or afterlife kindly explain.As I have already stated time and time...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 5:00 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 4:11 pm)Inigo Wrote: So, if an act is morally right you don't necessarily have reason to do it? It can be irrational to do what is moral, can it?And you don't always have reason to...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 4:16 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 3:52 pm)Inigo Wrote: No, because instincts either aren't instructions, or they are only instructional due to being desires, which are things that can only exist in a mind. When so...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 4:08 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 3:43 pm)Inigo Wrote: I assume you cannot find a flaw in my reasoning or assumptions and so this is what you're driven to.Assumptions are always flawed. That's why they're called ass...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 3:50 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 2:48 pm)Inigo Wrote: (July 6, 2013 at 2:10 pm)paulpablo Wrote: But then why does there have to be an afterlife because of morals? Why could the person issuing the demands not be ...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 3:19 pm
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

Instructions don't require an instructor. They can be contained in a code that is read through already existing patterns. We call these the laws of physics. The code itself is written through already ...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 2:10 pm
    Thread: hello
Post: RE: hello

Yay! This is the place for you. Heathens unite! Oh, what were we uniting for again? Hmm, now that you ask, I'm wondering the same thing. Something about 'no more nonsense' or something. Anyways, welc...
simplexity Introductions 45 5570 July 6, 2013 at 1:44 am
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 6, 2013 at 12:48 am)genkaus Wrote: (July 5, 2013 at 11:57 pm)simplexity Wrote: I have already told you what morality is in itself. It is the set of of thought patterns generated from the m...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 6, 2013 at 1:08 am
    Thread: Proving a negative
Post: RE: Proving a negative

If I were asked I would say I can't prove there isn't one, but also that it is pointless to assume there is a god, when there is no evidence for one. All it takes to be an atheist is not to assume the...
simplexity Atheism 51 11763 July 6, 2013 at 12:12 am
    Thread: Atheism and morality
Post: RE: Atheism and morality

(July 5, 2013 at 11:09 pm)Inigo Wrote: Basically, it involves confusing what morality tells us to do and be (normative ethics) with what morality is, in itself. It is a set of ideas, stemming from t...
simplexity Philosophy 508 149765 July 5, 2013 at 11:57 pm