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So this is taken from another thread that I don´t want to derail. (Lies are sinful...always?) A poster asked me: So how do you determine what is morally right or wrong? Me: I don´t. Him: So is nothing morally right or wrong for you? Me: Can you explain what you mean by "morally right or...

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In your terminology, are "creating" and "designing" synonyms?

My custom title ("God"? What do you mean??) points out that "God" isn´t sufficiently well defined to make the question "Does God exist?" a two value question (yes/no). But it seems to me that there´s a similar problem with the other keyterm - "existing": "Existing"? What do you mean??" or...

(Not exactly a moral/ethical question, but one concerning human interaction, so I guess I can put it here.) Usually, I am quite interested in hearing other people´s opinions and learning about the way they construct their reality, but sometimes... There´s a guy in my Badminton team who has...

...why the Philosophy Forum has been shut down?

I have been wondering if there are any philosophical attempts to establish the concept of private property as the almost universally accepted basis for moral considerations that it apparently is. To clarify: I am not asking about attempts to regulate or define particularities for private...

A couple of days ago I posted a thread in which I used the premise that the afterlife is non-physical [http://www.christianforums.com/threads/the-problem-of-a-missing-motive.7942518/]. Much to my surprise a lot of Christians there told me that this premise doesn´t accurately represent their...

First off two things: 1. This isn´t meant to prove the Christian God non-existent (albeit imo, it is related to e.g. the Problem of Evil). It´s just about something at the core of Christian theology that doesn´t make any sense at all, to me. 2. Obviously, I am looking for an explanation that...

Some of my younger guitar students recently came to me and asked to play songs from the movie "Bibi und Tina" (German movie for kids - I haven´t watched it; just saw some of the music video clips, from which it appeared to be a typical harmless girlie movie - horses, friendship among girls...

"Do you love me?" Sorry, I´m not sure I understand the question the way you mean it. Could you reword it for me, please?

In another thread a Christian claimed: "Atheism keeps us believing dead unconscious things can perform miracles, without proof." Unfortunately, he wasn´t willing to support this claim, but instead asked me to refute it. Now, notwithstanding the shifting of burden here, I would like to do the...

In another thread a poster asked for a refutation of the claim that God exists, and for purposes of this task he defined "God" as "The Greatest Conceivable Being". I am wondering if we can expect persons who ask for putting their claim to scrutinity that they define their keyterm in a way that...

Since I´ve always had trouble understanding the question "What is the meaning of life?" I thought it might be helpful to start with something more simple. :)

This thread has been inspired by a discussion with 2Philovoid in this thread: http://www.christianforums.com/threads/without-human-existence-does-god-need-to-be-good.7910680/ , and I´d like to dedicate it to him. :) In that thread we came to agree, that the Euthrypho Dilemma can´t address a...

Lots of criticism of the "fine-tuning/design"-arguments have been given in countless threads. Here I´d like to focus on just one point that I can´t seem to be able to make sense of: One token of (good, intelligent) design is elegance and parsimony. However, the "fine-tuned/designed for life"...

Next thing in medicine are "head transplants". Would you think of it as a "head transplant" or rather as a "body transplant"?

Now that we have this forum, what do y´all think of establishing a commonly accepted rating system for the conspiracy theories presented? I suggest we first collect criteria for a good conspiracy theory (each of which will be rated on a scale of 1-10). Criteria I´d like to be included in the...

Driving on the right or on the left?