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@LinkMEP The difference is that Secular Rationalists give justification for their claims. Surely, a biblical scholar will do this to some degree, e.g., 'I understand Genesis to be saying x because y and z', but this will bottom out in a brute claim about the self-justifying nature of the bible--...

Anything invoking 'rights' is bound to be anthropocentric-talk, but I think there are points at which you conflate anthropocentrism with 'from the human perspective'. I'm not sure they're the same thing. Surely, we can never escape the latter, but if we understand anthropocentrism as 'taking th...

I take it that some are averse to your use of "divine" and "mystery" --- the unwillingness of popular atheists to entertain these notions seems to express an anxiety of not-knowing-- the same basis of religious dogma, albeit more credible in some respects. I hear a lot of Spinoza in what you're ...

Plantinga is right: I am not identical to my body, but this does not prove that I am essentially disembodied (what I think he wants to prove). In the Beetle-body, I'm still me, presumably because I'm psychologically continuous with human-body-me, but all of this still requires some sort of embod...

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@envane The bands you mention are for the steel-brained and aesthetically monotonous, which comes to the same thing in your case. Cf. "Die for Metal"

I think he notices that he's being filmed near the end- ha!

Very nice video

What's with the woman's boorishly trying to finish Bresson's sentences for him?

any chance you could smoke outside, occasionally-- hahaha