Comment Re:Biggest joke a hundred years later (Score 3, Insightful) 183
Regardless of what else you think he is, he is clearly also a Patriot.
FTFY
Regardless of what else you think he is, he is clearly also a Patriot.
FTFY
you really are not winning points with anyone
ISIS isn't trying to win points with anyone. They just kill anybody who may have more points than they do, which amounts to the same thing.
FYI critical thinking skills are developed through courses in logic.
But not English, PoliSci, or pretty well anything ending in "Studies". Which accounts for about 95% of Liberal Arts grads.
Noe received his PhD from Harvard in 1995 and is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley,
where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media.
He previously was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
He has been philosopher-in-residence with The Forsythe Company and has recently begun a
performative-lecture collaboration with Deborah Hay.
Noà is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.
Which illustrates the pathetic state of academic philosophy.
You can be religious and an atheist: there are many atheistic religions.
Religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
That is exactly what atheism isn't.
Atheism is a belief that there are no supernatural deities.
Wrong!
Atheism isn't a belief at all. Atheism is the acceptance that these is no evidence that any supernatural deity exists.
If you tell me something that's true, but you can't be bothered to try persuading me of it, shall I flatly refuse to believe it?
Yes, but not believing that the assertion is true, does not mean that you believe it to be false.
It just means that, for the moment, you must reserve judgement.
Regardless of the idea's underlying merit?
Who says the idea has any underlying merit? And why?
it's just a common thing philosophers do when they like being right.
FTFY.
I meet so many people claiming to be atheist who say god doesn't exist and then attempt to impress that belief onto you by citing where they think science proves religion unnecessary because they found natural ways to understand nature without the need of a creator or God.
FTFY
Once again, there has never been a more apt username than yours.
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