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    Thread: Help, I need someone to talk to
Post: RE: Help, I need someone to talk to

This may not be much in the way of advice, but it's at least some encouragement. This is perhaps the best time in your life because it sets you up for who you’ll be later. Don’t worry about your pare...
XK9_Knight Atheism 36 7636 September 8, 2014 at 1:53 am
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

Hey Esquilax, I hope your day went well? I've had a long day today, I'm tired, but I wanted to give you a partial response to our dialogue. :P Oh, I also rearranged what you had said so my response r...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 6, 2014 at 1:45 am
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

Oh man, I have begun my response for the last 2 hours and it is late. We will continue this tomorrow! :D In the mean time, I have a book to recommend to you Esquilax... Mind and Cosmos: Why the Mater...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 5, 2014 at 2:47 am
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

(September 4, 2014 at 4:27 pm)Esquilax Wrote: XK9, I'll get back to you later, it's just four in the morning now. :P Can't wait! [Image: http://media.giphy.com/media/2uMOU52yxfoKA/giphy.gif]
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 4, 2014 at 7:23 pm
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

(September 4, 2014 at 1:54 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You..are aware that most American abolitionists were originally secularists and deists, right? Not to mention all the enlightenment philosophers...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 4, 2014 at 2:52 pm
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

Holy cats! Do I dare go off on a tangent… YES! I’ll keep it at the bottom and in a hidden tab, so it doesn’t detract too much from the main point of the thread (Although, I think it’s just Esq and I i...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 4, 2014 at 1:51 pm
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

I like to keep things tidy. As such, I’ve split and hid my response to the individuals prescribed. (In response to Esquilax) (September 3, 2014 at 2:23 pm)Esquilax Wrote: In...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 3, 2014 at 4:29 pm
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

(September 3, 2014 at 7:03 am)Esquilax Wrote: It's not our fault you haven't bothered to look into the evolution of morality. That stuff is out there, and the concept itself is extremely simple to g...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 3, 2014 at 1:32 pm
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

I think many of you have been very helpful in clarifying the issue… except Benny. [Image: http://allthingsd.com/files/2013/03/i_am_disappoint.png] What many of you were pointing towards what Esquilax...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 2, 2014 at 11:07 am
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

(September 2, 2014 at 12:03 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: As for the OP. You have two options, either your god watches terrible things happen and does nothing to stop them or he can't stop them, that either ma...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 2, 2014 at 12:26 am
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

Don’t worry about David’s book, it was more of a jumping board into a much broader discussion; the point of bringing it up was that it would seem (to me at least) that McAfee rejects God based on what...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 2, 2014 at 12:08 am
    Thread: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
Post: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

Good day everyone, I hope you are all doing well? I’ll begin with a brief story. Not long ago did my oldest sister “lose her faith” and become an atheist. It occurred at a rather difficult time in he...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 99 19551 September 1, 2014 at 11:25 pm
    Thread: Q. About Rationality and Nature
Post: RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature

What an exciting question! I recommended Aristotle to you not long ago, and although I saw you haven’t read Plato, I’m wondering whether you’re acquainted with him? I’m sure you would like Plato, let ...
XK9_Knight Atheism 21 4002 August 17, 2014 at 1:47 pm
    Thread: Do you ever doubt your atheism?
Post: RE: Do you ever doubt your atheism?

Your question reminds me of a conversation I was having friend not long ago. It was a conversation on logic and rationality. I was saying that certain truths can be obtained by shear logic alone and, ...
XK9_Knight Atheism 112 15825 August 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm
    Thread: What Christians think of atheists
Post: RE: What Christians think of atheists

I hate to be the devil’s advocate here (and as a devote Christian I must say being the devil’s advocate is an abomination, but as a devote lawyer “One’s as good as another”), but I think his case must...
XK9_Knight Atheism 24 4214 July 20, 2014 at 8:59 pm
    Thread: Is “love” significant?
Post: RE: Is “love” significant?

(July 15, 2014 at 12:36 am)bennyboy Wrote: (July 14, 2014 at 11:00 pm)XK9_Knight Wrote: I think from what I'm gathering from all this is, "because it is valuable to me it is significant.” Would th...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 50 7642 July 15, 2014 at 9:51 pm
    Thread: Is “love” significant?
Post: RE: Is “love” significant?

I think from what I'm gathering from all this is, "because it is valuable to me it is significant.” Would that be an accurate summation of what’s been said, or would that be an oversimplification?
XK9_Knight Philosophy 50 7642 July 14, 2014 at 11:00 pm
    Thread: Is “love” significant?
Post: RE: Is “love” significant?

(July 12, 2014 at 11:09 am)bennyboy Wrote: [if] emotions are temporary states, they do not have lasting meaning or value. I think you could define love in other ways. For example, if something abo...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 50 7642 July 13, 2014 at 6:13 pm
    Thread: Is “love” significant?
Post: RE: Is “love” significant?

(July 9, 2014 at 8:08 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Did you mean something deeper like, "what do mean by behaving as if weren't just chemical reactions?" Because there is a platform or framing problem with that...
XK9_Knight Philosophy 50 7642 July 12, 2014 at 9:59 am
    Thread: he knows im right, but is still a christian?
Post: RE: he knows im right, but is still a christian?

[Image: http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/5...322880.jpg] Here’s my two cents anyways… Whatever happens just let him know that his friendship is worth keeping. I have atheist friends from schoo...
XK9_Knight Christianity 43 9418 July 9, 2014 at 6:30 pm