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Questions to the atheists

ApocryphaNow

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foreverfaithless said:
I just find your posts hilarious.

You have to admit you are asking for it, it had to happen sooner or later.

If you don't believe me go to a professional philosophy forum and post your ideas. One hint though don't use the name deep thinker.

Hmm, professional philosophy. That sounds interesting. Do you have any suggestions or should I just google it?

I'm not sure what to expect. Professional philosophy sounds like a euphemism for sophistry to me.
 
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ApocryphaNow said:
Hmm, professional philosophy. That sounds interesting. Do you have any suggestions or should I just google it?

I'm not sure what to expect. Professional philosophy sounds like a euphemism for sophistry to me.

Actually yeah I had not read the post fully enough to recognise that, good thinking bat man
 
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copticorthodoxy said:
Who created this world ??

Who created God?

in the atheists view what the human consist of , Body only or Body and spirit ??

In my personal view, humans are conscious physical entities. Humans are conscious in that they are aware of their surroundings, their thoughts, their feelings, etc, but I don't believe that consciousness survives death because its existence has to do with the activities of one's biological form. I view consciousness as more of an activity of something physical rather than something physical itself -- being conscious is what someone does, rather than what someone is or "consists of" -- so it could perhaps be viewed as non-physical from a certain vantagepoint, but it is so closely related to something physical that there is simply no separating the two. In other words, in my view, in order for some entity to be conscious, it needs to have some sort of "body" to function that has the faculties necessary to allow it to be conscious.

I'm not sure if that answers your question.


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copticorthodoxy said:
the most fact in this world is the death , all the humans will die , there is no exception
what the atheists thoughts about death ? do you fear from death ? what you feel when you see any of your close friends or relatives died ? what is your hope about the eternal life ?? What if God exists !!

I dont' want to die, but I can't say I live my life in fear of death.

I feel sadness when one of my close friends or relatives die. There is no eternal life and God does not exist.
 
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ApocryphaNow said:
Hmm, professional philosophy. That sounds interesting. Do you have any suggestions or should I just google it?

I'm not sure what to expect. Professional philosophy sounds like a euphemism for sophistry to me.

I do have a suggestion for you to start off with.


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ApocryphaNow said:
Professional philosophy sounds like a euphemism for sophistry to me.

No more than "professional theology" is a euphemism for something unsavory. There are people who study to become theologians, are payed to be theologians, and who are recognized in the field as "professional" theologians.

Are you aware that philosophy is also a profession? That there are philosophical publications where professional philosophers publish their essays on some philosophical subject, have them critiqued by other professional philosophers, and are able to respond to the critiques?

I suppose that philosophy at its worst may be sophistry, but this is looked down on by good philosophers.


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Telephone said:
He also allows us to murder, rape, torture, steal, imprison, destroy and exterminate, how much you are great my lord !

Ah well, you cant have free will if your not alowd to do things your not supposed to, he allows it yes but thats our fault not his
 
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Telephone said:
You have been reminded that 'certain' has an 'e' as its second letter.

Dyslexia does not make you impervious to education, only religion can do that.

:pray:

lol your trying to agrivate me thats fine, carry on correcting my spelling if you like, just understand that your not educating me, for that to happen I would have to learn from you, and you cant teach a dyslexic how to spell no matter how hard you try
 
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Telephone said:
So do we have free will in heaven and can we use it to sin ?

hmm good question, I dont know I'll tell you when I get there.
I think you could say it would work one of two ways:
1. In heaven free will is taken away. Dont think its tihis way, but I could not say for sure
2. Yes you can sin, but you wouldnt, if you did you might loose out on being in heaven, and no one who got there would want that. This would make sence because when satan (in the fallen angel sence) was in heaven and he sinned by trying to overthrow God, so he was expelled from heaven. It would be harder to sin in heaven though as sinning would be much more clear, you would have the whole set of rules set into you, so it would not be like on earth where sinning is less clear cut and sometimes we forget, remember we would be at a higher state of consiousness so forgetting would not be an issue.
 
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Eudaimonist said:
No more than "professional theology" is a euphemism for something unsavory. There are people who study to become theologians, are payed to be theologians, and who are recognized in the field as "professional" theologians.

Are you aware that philosophy is also a profession? That there are philosophical publications where professional philosophers publish their essays on some philosophical subject, have them critiqued by other professional philosophers, and are able to respond to the critiques?

I suppose that philosophy at its worst may be sophistry, but this is looked down on by good philosophers.


eudaimonia,

Mark

Yes, I am aware of this. It is the idea of a "professional philosophy forum" that I find unappealing.
 
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