If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: lie logic religious freaking mixture
You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.
Tags: courage bravery logic girl-power emperor spunk liyana
Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: logic wrong right rationality absence unfair exist
Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?"
"You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her
Tags: reason logic philosophical
1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.
2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.
3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.
4. But virtue involves overcoming pains and dangers.
5. Indeed, a being can only be properly said to be virtuous if it can suffer pain or be destroyed.
6. A God that can suffer pain or is destructible is not one than which no greater being can be thought.
7.For you can think of a greater being, that is, one that is nonsuffering and indestructible.
8. Therefore, God does not exist.
Tags: logic reasoning argument sound valid argumentation atheism-argument formal-logic
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
Norwood Russell HansonTags: science universe logic physics scale very-large very-small
I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game. I cannot do so for this plain reason, that a rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those kinds of truth were really there, would be an irrational rule.
William JamesTags: truth logic rationality
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
Edward TellerTags: science nature thought logic simplicity math mathematics human-thought
Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in different centuries with different agendas--yeah, let's get mad literal about that.
The literalness problem is compounded in religion by the circular logic of not being allowed to question anything, or else you're lacking faith.
Tags: humor religion bible logic rationality biblical-literalism literalism
Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?
A.P. .Tags: logic pride wounded-pride
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