Recent content by rubicon7

good to see i can leave for the weekend and this topic is still spinning its wheels and gone nowhere i don't get the consistency of "one should never tell another what to do" when it comes to this type of debate. isn't that just telling somebody what to do? Stal brought up a good point...

"Plain logic tells us that there is no god." i'm curious. explain?

through claim? some, perhaps. many even, i suppose. but start examining issues of ontology, how things came to be and the nature of existence, and there's a very justified foundation for those who claim some sort of transcendent being not only is, but MUST be the source of the universe...

point taken. perhaps i'm too broad in how i categorize philosophers. it seems to me that anybody who presents a logical argument, either spoken or written, can be called a philosopher. i'm a christian, and appreciate apologists. he, more so than many others like him, seems to work less...

true, not much of a difference if ya ask me, in his case at least. to me, if you collect, organize and explain philosophical arguments (he references Kant, Descartes, Aquinas, Aristotle, etc), might as well group you as a philosopher but yes. he was an apologist.

Stal- yea i haven't gotten to the followup though i know about it. my graduating thesis was a presentation on how a christian god is consistent with the condition of suffering. not to argue on behalf of god existing, on to offer that it remains consistent. for those wanting to read an...

Stal - the pic is Tolkien, he was a quiet Catholic. Lewis was the outspoken protestant. in fact, the stuff i said about suffering is right in line with his book "the problem of pain" to whomever responded to the question on "good," it's still fuzzy. it sounds like you're saying that moral...

ha, yea Rakon, i graduated with a degree in philosophy, so i've read a couple of them before ;) for the most part, i think aristotle had it right. i know, i know, i'm antiquated i also know that a degree in philosophy mostly means squat God's a buddhist? which kind? ha cuz there are...

i agree with Mac, this topic doesn't do much. people on both sides are pretty much fanboys. that said, cuz i know it never ends, there are some things i don't get. for example, why is science always polarized to God? i mean, would a god, ya know, use science to do its business? another...

yea...i'm not so sure that the last administration would have made an economic stimulus package filled with all the things Pelosi tossed in there. maybe there would have still been an expensive stimulus package, but it definitely would have been different. i think Shaft's got it right too...

the newest Protest The Hero album is ridiculous, i've had Bone Marrow on repeat for weeks