General consent, of course, proves nothing: There can be a unanimous belief in something that is not so. The universal opinion over thousands of years that the earth was flat never flattened its sperical shape by one inch.

“Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years. The false doctrine of Hell and the Devil has allowed the Protestant and Catholic Churches to flourish far too long. Without a devil to point their fingers at, religionists of the right hand path would have nothing with which to threaten their followers. „Satan leads you to […]

Those who understand that these parties are not just a simple dance night, but a total gateway to knowledge in the mystic and the occult, those who understand how little we know and how many lives it takes to dig everything, those who understand that human is the only species dissatisfied of its own existence but we try to achieve this satisfaction, those who understand that thinking is the […]

i have alway struggled ,with sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result; zero. Lucky those who are unaware that to mature is to witness the aggravation excavation of our incoherencies, and that this is the only progress we should be allowed to boast of.

— we are responsive to reasons and are able to give relatively accurate explanations of our behavior in terms of reasons, just as we are capable of consciously planning behavior and deliberately thinking about particular topics. Here you can read more about

Some philosophers believe that free will is real, and determinism is not real, they are called metaphysical libertarians. Essentially, they believe that free will includes everything compatibilists believe it includes, but they also believe that our choices must be undetermined in order to be free. Some believe that free choices stem from quantum events in the brain, some believe that mind is a […]

The providence of the Deity appears not immediately in any operation, but governs everything by those general and immutable laws, which have been established from the beginning of time. All events, in one sense, may be pronounced the action of the Almighty. They all proceed from those powers with which he has endowed his creatures. A house which falls by its own weight, is not brought to ruin by […]

If suicide be criminal, it must be a transgression of our duty either to God, our neighbour, or ourselves. . I may add that though death alone can put a full period to his misery, he dares not fly to this refuge, but still prolongs a miserable existence from a vain fear lest he offend his Maker by using the power with which that beneficent being has endowed him. The presents of God and […]

It will here be superfluous to magnify the merits of philosophy by displaying the pernicious tendency of that vice of which it cures the human mind. The superstitious man, says Tully, is miserable in every scene, in every incident in life.¹⁷ Even sleep itself, which banishes all other cares of unhappy mortals, affords to him matter of new terror, while he examines his dreams, and finds in […]