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I've reached the conclusion that both traditional theism and naturalism (materialism) are equally ridiculous. Theism is rich enough, ontologically speaking, to account for all sorts of higher-level phenomena, but it requires a belief in things not seen, things which are downright absurd...

I honestly don't care what religion someone chooses to adopt. Character is everything. Besides, "religiosity" is a characteristic of every individual, even for someone such as Richard Dawkins who has a superficial view of "religion." Seeing as how TLO mostly consists of "materialists" (which is...

@ qcrisp The whole idea behind the "epoche" (transcendental reduction) was not to doubt the reality of the external world perceived by the senses; it was to allow one to describe everything as a datum for consciousness. Too many people associate Husserl's transcendental phenomenology with some...

Anything which cannot meet the following two conditions ought to be considered ontologically dubious: [1] must be verifiable intersubjectively, i.e., there must be a public "space" in which the phenomenon in question can be experienced by more than one individual at the same time. Again...

The word "criteria" suggests that there are various competing principles or maxims which are meant to help guide inquiry. The principle a skeptic might follow is that "evidence" must be ultimately tied to perceptual experience, a principle which has been esteemed highly since the ancient Greeks...

Well, I will say (as an unapologetic antinatalist) that one can perhaps find "meaning" insofar as the ultimate goal for humanity, it's telos, is to return from whence it came. There's a rather loose narrative regarding man's redemption (an unlikely "eschatology" if you will) which ought to be...

- which is why I have more respect for Lovecraft and Ligotti than I do for most philosophers. They recognized the same thing while presenting it aesthetically.

Do you mean to say that because one finds such occurrences normatively appalling that there must be some underlying meaning to said events? I just find them appalling. They certainly don't prove that there's some existing metanarrative - quite the contrary. One would have to show that there's...

Reminds me of Wykstra's CORNEA argument against the evidential problem of evil. Philosophical Disquisitions: The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 5) - Wykstra and Alston EDIT: The above link proves that not every Christian is an uneducated moron, though I disagree with skeptical theists. I find...

I exist in order to refute existence. Every time I wake up without putting a gun beneath my chin it's as though I'm placing the heel of my foot on the neck of the universe. To lower one's expectations regarding life is also a sign of victory, which is why cynicism is the summit of wisdom.