TSR Member you'd most like a coffee with and why

The smell puts me off more than anything tbh

Lmfao i read that in such a ghetto accent sorry..
But black forrest is where it was at! ugh so sexy! Reminded me of thjs really hot guy in my course

Seems terribly time-inefficient if you ask me.

Would only go there with someone else and really not more than one person either. Too much company is very overbearing.

you are all you need. if you haven't got you then coffee shop-ing is a difficult task.

Ooh I don't know. I most enjoy talking to a group of people who sometimes take over the "does God exist thread" to talk about the ontological argument in great detail. Of those people, perhaps Jammyduel.

it's only because I'm tired and I actually can't be arsed to type in a way which some people, predominantly middle class and predominantly of the top universities, or in the process of travelling to such a place, and generally receiving or have receieved a cushy lifestyle, consider intelligent.

But why? What is even there? Are the interiors especially aesthetically amazing? I don't even like the scent of coffee. I can't imagine why I would ever want to go into such a place alone.

Its okay lol, i understood that reply more than i ubderstood this replt abyway

Excuse spekking mistakes so tiesd thanks

it's only because I'm tired and I actually can't be arsed to type in a way which some people, predominantly middle class and predominantly of the top universities, or in the process of travelling to such a place, and generally receiving or have receieved a cushy lifestyle, consider intelligent.

It would be nice to finish our discussion on that other thread IRL as it's far less work then. Like, far, far, far, less work. And I agree that disengaging from those topics even when you have far better ways to spend your time is very difficult.

I'm still back on TSR now ffs.

I agree, although I find it much easier to muster my thoughts when writing.

You should join us when we get talking about the ontological argument if you want tbh, since you study philosophy. All the others study maths and i enjoy philosophy but don't study it.

The ontological argument is silly. I doubt the mathematicians would like my mathematical non-descriptivism tbh.

I studied ceaseless philosophy of religion in my own time during high school/college and I really find it redundant now in hindsight. It's so meh.

Like, I still don't see why you would ever care about making a theologically logical conception of God if you don't actually intend to then look at that through the lens of science in order to view its viability with regards to explaining reality.

I don't think the ontological argument is silly. I think it's extremely cool. The reasons why it doesn't conclude that there is a God I find very interesting to discuss. Especially the modern ones. And it generally ends up in discussions of possible worlds, the difference between maths and logic, the Kripke semantics and such. The best thing is that these discussions piss off all the people there who want to debate really mundane things like scripture and talk about evolution.

I personally think the philosophy of religion is highly important. Atheism has an intellectual high ground in today's society but at a popular level atheist arguments are so poor (thanks Dawkins) and that irks me.

Yeah. New atheists are a blight. Nearly as bad as the modern moral nihilists

Possible worlds are a nonsense though and they're the direct result of terrible meta-physics which came about because Wittgenstein was ignored...

How old are you? What are you studying/studied?

Like this?? not even sure if I'm quoting properly.

If it does work, you.

Oh.Ma.Days.

How?!

Elaborate on why possible worlds are a nonsense. Verification was surely rendered useless by Godel? They seem to be the perfect formalisation of model reasoning, at an intuitive level at least.

I'm 17. I'm studying philosophy (well, the cop out version of it you get at A level anyway), history and ENglish lit, with the intention of studying history at university. However, recently I've started to get back into philosophy. And also, politics is starting to interest me. I flip flop so much with what I want to study it's embarrassing.