Aaron Thacker

[Aaron Thacker @AaronThackuelj]

@XCosmosOfficial Religion can speak of the moral without thereby being moral. Morality requires consciousness. Moral agency requires self-consciousness.

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@Sonderisfon One simple way is to look at yourself and find yourself attracted to what you see.

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@JesusSaves1500 The goal of Bible study for many, not all. There are several reasons why someone might study it.

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@amazing_physics None of those things. You would be ripped apart from several different directions.

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@AmoaHamlet Yikes. What a list.

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@joeroganhq I think this is all a little rich coming from his mother.

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@PAHoyeck If only humans were good enough for this to be true.

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@ScottRoberts That’s not quite right. If someone knows he did, as God, and then ignores him, then the decision might be irrational.

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@yosoycarl0s @archie_lochie You don’t know that. But I suspect you wish it, which is disturbing.

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@PAHoyeck 😆

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What seems pretty matter of fact to you? That this definition supports your claim. I see no way that it does. Also, one short definition of science cannot overcome years of reading long books on the scientific method. It is more nuanced and complicated than this. And contestable — after all, there is a whole discipline called the philosophy of science, with many subsets. Also, many scientists are philosophers, and some philosophers are what are called experimental philosophers who regularly collaborate with scientists.

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@lukeappleton Can you give me an example? How does it depend?

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@yacineMTB I suppose the next natural question is, ‘What are your reasons for supposing it’s true’? We conscious beings don’t have a direct line to truth.

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We should distinguish between presupposing and supposing. To presuppose something is to assume it without analysis. To suppose something can be quite rational and considered, without requiring proof. We all suppose a great many considered things all the time. The more scientifically educated we become, one could fairly argue, the easier it is to suppose there is no god.

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@Write4Republic Capitalizing ‘is’ does not making this statement true nor unchallengeable. Nor does it secretly provide reasons for believing the statement.

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@jockowillink If you don’t fight to keep discipline, you won’t just weaken the capacity for discipline — tied to cultivation of the will — but also whatever capacity you were applying discipline to. Double loss.

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@ScottRoberts Then he was very fortunate to have access to Jesus in person. Millions didn’t get that opportunity and therefore did not have Christ.

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The relationship between language and culture is not linear, therefore it isn’t strictly accurate to say that language is merely downstream from culture. Linguistic practices can establish culture as well. Which begs the question whether we shouldn’t be more cautious in assuming divergence from Victorian English reveals a process of degradation in English — doing so can perhaps promote a cultural elitism.