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Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 3:50am On Mar 24, 2024
budaatum:
This is precisely what we've been trying to inform you, yet you keep yelling Descartes, but go even worse than he does by claiming you are only sure you think. And when we ask you who this particular entity called you that thinks is, you go blind and don't see the question.
LordReed tell him cheesy
Something I've been saying since forever. Go check out my last thread, where I was trying to tell DeepSight this and he was arguing.
Infact I'll find the debate and post it here just for the heck of it!
Food › Re: Ghana Economy: This Sweet Cost 5 Cedis by PoliteActivist: 11:54pm On Mar 23, 2024
Elegantspiker:
Not with that scenario
What scenario?
Food › Re: Ghana Economy: This Sweet Cost 5 Cedis by PoliteActivist: 11:43pm On Mar 23, 2024
Elegantspiker:
What are you saying exactly? Because you are trying but haven't said anything.
He's saying that candy, and things in general, are more expensive in Ghana. U understand now?
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 11:15pm On Mar 23, 2024
LordReed:
Bwahahahahahahaha! The liar here is you.
budaatum:
Your argument is that you are not certainly sure that
Bwahaha my ass. I clearly said from beginning that Descartes assumed solipsism to write - he doubted everything he could possibly doubt including his own existence. Then concluded falaciously that thinking meant he existed. He should have stopped at thinking existed. But even that can be doubted - what appears to be thinking might not be thinking. The only thing that cannot be doubted under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES is that SOMETHING exists. "But we are not sure what the something is or it's nature"!
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 11:04pm On Mar 23, 2024
HellVictorinho6:
budaatum

this thing

again says you ,despite not being sure of you, cant do bla bla bla

the b@stard has 4tified her bank account despite not being sure


she wud say it can happen in a dream



but y cant she send murny 2?


cant she send murny in a dream?


what a crook!
I guess you didn't read these posts below.
As for money, let me "work" tonight, let's see

Foreign Affairs › Re: ISIS Claims Responsibility For Russia Hall Attack (photos) by PoliteActivist: 10:51pm On Mar 23, 2024
Germi9:
Those guys are enemy of the entire world, dem no get friend
grin
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 8:36pm On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
You are way too sold on Descartes, who's doubting was to prove the existence of a God, which it seems he did not bother to doubt too much despite having no evidence for the existence of his god, and which shows you are just beginning the journey of understanding your own existence.

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio.

I've included a pdf link so you have no excuse not to get a copy and read it.

https://archive.org/details/antonio-damasio-descartes-error
You can't prove solipsism wrong. Only thing you can do is say: "I know I exist. Trust me on that one. If I didn't exist wouldn't I tell you?? And by the way, you exist too!"
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 8:31pm On Mar 23, 2024
LordReed:
Bwahahahahaha! Here comes the changing of mouth because you've been schooled.



You claimed he was a solipsist now you want to change to he adopted solipsism. BTW he absolutely didn't adopt it. He came close to it but the fact he acknowledged the existence of others beside himself means he was NOT A SOLIPSIST.

Lemme keep schooling you while you keep dreaming of defeating.me. LMFAO!
We know you can read so we have to assume you are being intentionally deceptive. See the underlined, that's what I said from beginning

Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 5:30pm On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
You are way too sold on Descartes, who's doubting was to prove the existence of a God, which it seems he did not bother to doubt too much despite having no evidence for the existence of his god, and which shows you are just beginning the journey of understanding your own existence.

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio.

I've included a pdf link so you have no excuse not to get a copy and read it.

https://archive.org/details/antonio-damasio-descartes-error
Oh, I'll read it when I have time. Thanks 4 the link.
There is NO WAY to disprove solipsism - that's just the way our reality is structured. Descartes started out saying he'd doubt anything he could possibly, conceivably doubt. Well, he forgot to doubt that there was necessarily a link between him and thinking. Also, as you pointed out, the cogito statement is flawed because it started out already assuming "I" existed - which was what it was out to prove!
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 5:17pm On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
By the way, your entire argument is based on dishonesty, and finger pointing to evade your own actions of repeatedly insulting and avoiding answering questions you know point out the flaws in your position.
I'd still go back and read that your post where you said you asked questions. But I don't know what you might have asked that haven't also subsequently repeated
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 4:19pm On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
Your argument is that you are not certainly sure that you exist. And that despite the fact that you must have woken up somewhere today, and eaten today and have relatives and friends and neighbours who must have communicated with you today, and have people you call mummy and daddy and who call you their child. So, kindly explain the point of further explaining to you that you must exist just to respond to this post.

And would you also claim not to know for sure if the children you go on to have exist or not?
Once again, the ONLY thing we are SURE exists is thinking, which Descartes declared long ago, and based on that he declared he must exist because someone had to be doing the thinking - ie he himself. Well, the only rebuttal he got was that he didn't go far enough - that thinking did not prove he existed because there was NO proof that thinking needed him to exist.
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 4:01pm On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
This is just plain stupid and a waste of time.
See below

Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 3:59pm On Mar 23, 2024
LordReed:
Bwahahahahaha! You posted junk from Quora but still have mouth to talk. Go and check the same Quora you'll see that Descartes WAS NOT a solipsist on there. I posted a Brittanica link there showing clearly that Descartes was not a solipsist but fool like you will ignore it to continue to wallow in ignorance.

Stupid arse that didn't even know who a solipsist is is now forming knowledge that Descartes is synonymous with solipsism. LMFAO!
You keep embarrassing yourself. I said Descartes adopted solipsism to write On Method - something Britannica clearly agrees with!

Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 1:45pm On Mar 23, 2024
LordReed:
Bwahahahahaha! Once again more shallow stupidity from the perennial dumbarse. You went shopping on Quora but failed to actually comprehend the substance of what is being discussed.
My friend stop posting nonsense from reddit and further embarrassing yourself. Even high school students know that Descartes is the closest to solipsistic of all our great scholars. His name is synonymous with solipsism
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 1:37pm On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
No one is claiming their senses are infallible!
Please see below the one scholarly source the obtuse doc HIMSELF posted to prove Descartes was NOT solipsistic!

Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 12:21pm On Mar 23, 2024
LordReed:
What a stubborn fool you are. Google was Descartes a solipsist and save yourself further embarrassment from me doing it for you and showing the world how foolish you continue to be. Bwahahahahaha!
HellVictorinho6:
Can u help me with 3k please?
The obtuse doc has spoken again.
I did just that. See below.
QED (as usual) 😆

Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 9:48am On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
I don't need to prove them wrong, just as I don't need to prove you wrong.

What I don't need do is buy into their ignorance and stupidity to think I'd wake up when put in a box and stuck deep in the ground when dead.

And I definitely would not be combining my resource with such fools on any project or venture.
So if you die in a dream and put in a box, you'll no longer wake up??

You don't need to prove anything, it simply underscores the fact you don't know what this reality.realy is
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 9:42am On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
So, you can't independently verify what your senses tell you about the true nature of the cars approaching the busy road you are about to cross?

I'm just glad not everyone uses their senses as little as you do or there'd be plenty more road killed.
Like I said, you don't think deeply enough. It is still YOUR senses that will tell you result of anything and you have NO OTHER WAY of verifying if it is true. If a non-existent you jumps in front of a non-existent car, your same senses/thoughts that conjured all that can also conjured up a non-existent death or injury and you have no way to verify if any of it really happened
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 9:32am On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
The same senses that I have bothered to train myself to use better than you who hasn't bothered because you think they don't even exist?

And what do you think therapy is for, I wonder, and even psychodrugs?

https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/reframing-unhelpful-thoughts/
Seems a nice article, will read it better later.
Problem is, you don't think deeply enough. If you did you'd realize it's still your thoughts reframing your thoughts and you have no power to challenge it, just as you can only verify your senses through your same senses and there is NO other way!
Foreign Affairs › Re: ISIS Claims Responsibility For Russia Hall Attack (photos) by PoliteActivist: 1:41am On Mar 23, 2024
I didn't know ISIS had a beef with Russia
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 1:36am On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
No one is claiming their senses are infallible!

That's why one would ask and knock and seek instead of merely believing the first thing one observes or is told, so as not to be lied to or lie to oneself.

But I suppose you might be the sort who crosses the road after your senses have lied to you that there is no car coming after it has lied to you that you don't exist.
You have no way to "ask and knock and seek" except through your same senses. Just as you have no power to override your own thoughts
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 1:33am On Mar 23, 2024
budaatum:
I guess one must accept that you do not know how to use your senses, and you assume everyone must be lazy and as incompetent as you are because that must justify your lack of effort to learn to use your senses.
Remember we are talking about true nature of reality. You have No WAY of independently verifying what your senses tell you about it. Just as you can't tell you're in a dream while in the dream. Some people say this reality is a dream - you wake up when you die.
You have NO WAY of proving them wrong. Some say it is a long-running computer game of advanced beings - they all have their own chips (people) they play with. Some say we are something started then long forgotten and we're so minuscule it is highly unlikely we will ever be stumbled upon again. Others say it is prison punishment. Others say it is reward. Others say it is a school. Others say it is a test. Others say it is happenstance, what you see is what you get, no more to it. Point is, you have NO WAYof knowing who is right!
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 10:57pm On Mar 22, 2024
LordReed:
LoLz! Dumdum is dying of embarrassment. Bwahahahahahahaha!

What part of I am not interested in solipsism do you not understand?
Embarrassment because I taught you the primary meaning of solipsist. Shame on you Dr. Reed for not acknowledging when you've been taught something.
And by the way Descartes WAS a solipsist (secondary meaning). He made himself a solipsist {at least for the duration he was writing "On Method"}, and also convinced himself of the existence of God [see below]

Business › Re: CBN Policies Paying Off as exchange rate (N1431/$) posts Best Gain in 6 Weeks by PoliteActivist: 9:16pm On Mar 22, 2024
The trick is sustaining it OVER TIME!

Dialpad:
Hope prices of goods and services will reduce as people have taken undue advantage of this situation
Once they rise, prices RARELY permanently reduce. You ought know that by now
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 9:13pm On Mar 22, 2024
LordReed:
LoLz. Stop being a stubborn goat and learn. Bwahahahahaha!
Now that that's been accomplished, let's continue.
Are you now firmly convinced your senses could be lying to you, or you still think they are infallible?
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 9:09pm On Mar 22, 2024
budaatum:
No, I do not rely on my senses to tell me what is going on. My senses merely perceive, while my mind is used by me to interpret what my senses perceive.

There's no way my senses can perceive a fat man that is not there, because my mind will tell my senses to look again to confirm.

But if your senses work that way and perceive fat men that are not there, be a Ferrari salesperson so your senses can tell you to exchange a real actual brand new red Ferrari for the imaginary million pounds in my imaginary bank account that are both not there please.
Bottom line: we are not CERTAIN what we experience through our senses is true. And we cannot tell for SURE when our senses are correctly reporting the way things really are and when they are not. The reverse is also true: our senses may refuse to perceive a given reality for whatever reason - you simply subconsciously refuse to see or feel it. OR the brain is too busy doing other things right then - example, people injured in battle or sports don't feel any pain from their injuries until afterwards.
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 8:37pm On Mar 22, 2024
LordReed:
Dumdum is discussing Decartes A PHILOSOPHER and wants to discount the PHILOSOPHICAL meaning of a word. What a stupid ignorant arse! Bwahahahahaha!

Stop being an arse and say thank you for learning something new. Bwahahahahaha!
You learnt the primary meaning of solipsist, did you not? Did you know it b4? Nope. You are welcome
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op):
LordReed:
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Bwahahahahaha! Dumdum educate yourself and stop being an ignorant ass. LMFAO!
What is the primary meaning of solipsist?
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 7:58pm On Mar 22, 2024
budaatum:
It is not your senses that deceive you when a magic trick works, but your actual lack of knowledge of the trick, and you not developing your senses, and the trickers ability to misinform your underdeveloped senses.

What makes magic tricks possible is the knowledge the tricker has, and your own ignorance. If you were not ignorant and instead knew how a magic trick works you'd find you wouldn't be tricked by magic.
It is actually your senses. You rely on them to tell you what's going on. If they tell you there is a fat man when there's not, they deceived you
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 7:52pm On Mar 22, 2024
LordReed:
Bwahahahahaha! Dumdum you have just confirmed how SHALLOW you really are. A pretentious simpleton who gets orgasms because of big words yet has no true understanding.

Read the encircled and be educated dumbass.
It says clearly the primary meaning of solipsist is selfish
Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 7:37pm On Mar 22, 2024
budaatum:
I think it is English that is your problem.

If one claims to be perceiving something that is not actually happening, would you not say that person is stupid and tripping and maybe high on bad weed or just plain lying?

if I perceive, as in register with my own senses something actually happening, then something must actually be happening for me to perceive it.

For example, if I perceive, as in register with my senses, a boxing match where an ant is beating Anthony Joshua, then that ant must actually be beating Anthony Joshua for me to be perceiving it.

Now, that doesn't mean that anything you claim you perceive actually happened, because you have admitted that you don't know how to use your senses and you just might be lying or tripping, while I don't create imaginary crap in my own head and claim I perceived it when I couldn't possibly have perceived it.


Some people watch Tom and Jerry and claim rats talk too, but Tom and Jerry and Matrix is not actual reality the last time I checked.
Wow! This is becoming rather childish. You are the only adult I know who doesn't know your senses can EASILY deceive you. What do you think make magic tricks possible??

Christianity Etc › Re: Atheists Debate Religionists * by PoliteActivist(op): 7:33pm On Mar 22, 2024
LordReed:
Again if you want to believe live in a lalaland that's your prerogative, I am not interested.
Just admit you have no way of knowing what is truly there. That's all

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