(July 16, 2012 at 5:14 pm)frankiej Wrote: You don't know me very well, so you won't know how much I hate many areas of philosophy... a little philosophy here and there are fine, but when trying to debate whether your memories are real or reliable is taking the cake and shoving it on your cock. Discussions like these provide nothing for actual knowledge. It is pretty much equal to a masturbation circle.
Well, that's a fine opinion. Let me give an equally-supported one:
"Arguments about whether God exists provide nothing for actual knowledge. God obviously exists; atheist discussions are pretty much equal to a masturbation circle."
Since everything you claim to know and have evidence for depends crucially on your epistemology, I'd think that you'd be more interested. You know, if you were an actual skeptic, instead of just a pretend one.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”