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There's some great stuff here. Thank you all for your thoughts so far. I don't have time to futz with it just now, as I'm behind in finishing the syllabus for this semester and already have lesson prep to fold in with finishing said syllabus. I'll try to get back to this (as well as the...

Keith&Co, Neither of these friends are quite that daft. Good luck with that, mate. ;) Damn good point. I was just rocking with the general overview Wiki provides, frankly. I'm willing to stipulate that we have "desires" that are entirely physiological. That still leaves us with the other kind...

I'll add that both of my friends seem to see desire as being...not an emotion. This baffles me. I understand that psychologists differentiate between physical cravings (like hunger and thirst) and, well, emotional desire, but it's precisely the latter we're talking about here. :confused: If...

Hi, Diana! Great to "see" you! :) This makes good sense to me, but I don't have much faith (heh) in its efficacy with a believer. They seem immune to the realization that their arguments are circular--as the hope/belief one most certainly is. That's how I've always seen it, too, but they're...

Hi, Gila Guerilla. :) Thanks for your thoughts. I pointed out the dangers of equivocating different meanings of the word early in the conversation, and was shocked when one such friend said that in her opinion, the two main definitions (confidence in a thing based on evidence/experience and...

Wicked slow board anymore, ain't it? d

Yo. I recently posted a fairly popular Bertrand Russell quote on my Facebook. It goes like this: We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that...

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While I agree with your thoughts on this post in general, I have to call a "Not as such, no" on this. At least, not "recitation" in the sense that we understand it. I can, for example, recite the Gettysburg Address. When I say that, I mean I can say it word for word as it is recorded (which...

How you doin', Barry! :) This is a problem similar to God's condemnation of Cain's offering, isn't it? d

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah. Now reading A Wise Man's Fear, the second book of the Kingkiller Chronicles. d

Excellent point. To change anything would be to tacitly admit it does have flaws. d

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I've given serious thought to writing an apologetics book and/or apologetics novels just to make my first million so I can retire sooner. Seriously. Christians are so hungry for shit that reinforces their beliefs and seems to circumvent the "logic" of us "evil atheists," it seems only right to...

I just checked Rotten Tomatoes, and the highest score anyone registered there was a 5.5 out of 10--and that's by a Christian reviewer. I got curious about this movie because I've seen that "GOD'S NOT DEAD!" on my Facebook newsfeed a couple of times in the last week. Hmmmmmm.... From this...

Tamam. I just thought it was hilarious, really.... :) d

Just wondering who has seen this and what they think of it. I just saw the preview (I don't get out much), and I admit to being more than a little annoyed with the cliche'd-to-death smug, hateful "atheist professor" bit. And what they're setting up as The Ultimate Question to ask an atheist...

I haven't seen the movie, but I'm gathering that none of y'all read the review I linked to. That was the point of the post. d