Atlantis Found

[Kylie]

insight is what I offered


enough to know the truth

You offered speculation with nothing to show that the speculation reflects reality in any way.

Please post testable evidence.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Please post testable evidence.

not everything is science

 

[Bungle_Bear]

You offered speculation with nothing to show that the speculation reflects reality in any way.

Please post testable evidence.

He did. I rebutted it. But he continues to claim, though, that the evidence is sound.

 

[JohnEmmett]

testable evidence?


silly…

 

[Kylie]

not everything is science

If it's not science and yet claims to be factual, there is no reason to believe it.

testable evidence?


silly…

Why is it silly to have testable evidence?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Why is it silly to have testable evidence?

you're asking for evidence, in order to have faith


whereas faith lets you see the evidence!


hence you're backward…

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

not everything is science

No, but science is the best tool we have for acquisition of knowledge about the world; empirical results overwhelmingly support this.

some things are to believe, in order to see

I care not for belief; I am aware how easily we can be mistaken without reliable empirical evidence.

 

[JohnEmmett]

but science is the best tool we have for the acquisition of knowledge about the world

still, not everything is science


there is also philosophy

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

still, not everything is science

there is also philosophy

Sure - I'm a big fan of philosophy. Your point?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Sure - I'm a big fan of philosophy. Your point?

Atlantis is a philosophical topic


rather than scientific

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Atlantis is a philosophical topic


rather than scientific

How so?

 

[JohnEmmett]

How so?

events that occurred around 9,600 B.C. … maybe don't have testable evidence


however, we can trust Plato

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

events that occurred around 9,600 B.C. … maybe don't have testable evidence


however, we can trust Plato

Plato was a philosopher, but if he reported what were believed to be facts about places in the world, he was acting as a historian or geographer. Plato knew the difference if you do not.

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions, not anecdotes about the world.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Plato was a philosopher, but … he was acting as a historian … Plato knew the difference if you do not.

Buddhism is full of history


prehistory… long forgotten

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Buddhism is full of history

prehistory… long forgotten

There's a difference between the Eight-fold Path and history. The philosophy has nothing to do with the history, it's about a way of living and thinking.

 

[JohnEmmett]

The philosophy has nothing to do with the history

the history is to illustrate ideas


Araka's Teaching

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

the history is to illustrate ideas

Araka's Teaching

That doesn't make the history philosophy, it just means the philosophy uses historical examples.

Frankly, I have better things to do than explain the difference between philosophy and other subjects.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Frankly, I have better things to do than explain

perhaps you should listen

 

[Bungle_Bear]

perhaps you should listen

Oh, sweet irony

 

[JohnEmmett]

Oh, sweet irony

how so?