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To try and summarise Nihilism, i believe it's generally understood to there being no purposive truth truth to anything. So from the angle of meaning, everything is on the same level as having none....

I'm guessing your not familiar with economics. Having a progressive economy depends upon a population being self-interested. Having a population competitive to achieve their own ends makes everyone...

If your just throwing words out here 'God is incomprehensible' then there's nothing I'm opposed to. I think the cosmological argument doesn't prove anything, it's completely invalid. The universe...

I don't know how many times i can rephrase this. You only believe the universe is created, you cannot prove it's not infinite. Just as you cannot prove God doesn't need a cause, like your supposition...

A straight face would get in the way of my lifestyle of laughter.

The news confirms my belief that this world is absurd and meaningless. And the only way to live is to rise above what this world...

Saying God is non-contingent, and the Universe is contingent is just making suppositions. Saying something is beyond comprehension begs the question of why you think/comprehend it.


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I can sympathize with your position. Long hours on campus require a healthy diet of leisurely reads. I like to take advantage of the university library and read texts which are difficult to come...

Can you answer how this is true of God but not true of the Universe? Why doesn't God need a cause?

My apologies if i was unclear on certain aspects, i just dislike long posts and aim at conciseness.

Your reasoning was so close to reaching my conclusion. We are aware of causality's existence...

What your saying is true. What more i was hinting at was science will never reveal why there is "something instead of nothing", and that will only ever be answered philosophically, that is, not at...

I'll admit i'm not well versed in physics so i can't really discuss much into the uncertainty principle and the like. It just surprises me and delights me that the universe, despite so much...

Hi, i posted an answer in the philosophical literature forum which might help

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As for one disciple of science not being able to disbelieve in God, it depends on what you mean by...

I agree with you almost in full. If people were just to acknowledge that some first cause is likely (presuming Aquinas' arguments are correct), and then personally take a 'leap of faith' to ascribe...

You are missing the point. I agree with him when he said personal faith is the only sufficient way to religion. Except, even though he says rationality can't prove religious truth, he puts arguments...

Can you tell me why reading and writing is anymore corrupting than speaking? It's just another medium of communication, and people have to be critical enough to deal with whatever information they...

No, i don't. I think he's just another dogmatic apologist who throws arguments out there hoping each will hit. Although i am in agreement that he also argues that he doesn't 'truly' believe in any of...

I second that wholeheartedly. Just about every philosophical book I've read has lead me to the same conclusion.

This is 'the other side', as you put it. Either Individuals are given meaning by an...

Interesting hierarchy of 'human essences'. Is this a theory put forward by anyone in particular or of your own reasoning? I could imagine such a theory having more than a paragraph written about it....

I'd also say that's why we have civilizations, cultures, religions and pretty much any symbol imaginable.

If i see you try to pass off another famous intellectual who was non-Christian as Christian, i will be disappointed. Jung was well versed in Christianity, but he has no special devotion to it, as you...

I've heard these arguments plenty as well, simply the cosmological argument and the teleological argument. St Aquinas wrote so much, I've noticed the Summa Theologica in my uni library and it's...

Is the world really full of opposites? Just because two colours appear complete opposites to us, does that make them essentially opposite? As for the likes of happiness and sadness, good and evil...

I'd probably agree with Erich Fromm, the very astute philosopher/psychiatrist with there being nothing 'natural' about human behaviour. The general biological nature of organisms is thrown out the...

Philosophy has mainly served humanity as a creative outlet, a chance for innovative thought. Whenever we've seen human progress there's been philosophy flourishing, Ancient Greece had many schools of...

Unfortunately for myself i haven't read The Brothers Karamazov yet, but i have read Colin Wilson's The Outsider which convincingly argues that The Brothers Karamazov, and Ivan specifically, are...