Apollodorus

It may sound like that to you. Stevenson and others like him regard themselves as scientists.

Well, we are unequal from birth on. Some may be more intelligent, practically dexterous or physically stronger than others, etc. Of course complex soc...

Spot on. And the Greeks proved right on many things.

I think there is little chance of him (or her) realizing that. But I agree that the left have been dominating discussion on climate and ecology and ha...

I've already discussed that with Olivier5 (see my quotes from Marx and Engels, etc.) but you must have been on some other planet or state of mind and ...

Correct. Omnipotence comes first. Everything else flows and follows from that. They can't accept omnipotence and then twist and turn it to suit their ...

I tend to agree that it doesn't make sense to single out Westerners for criticism. Slavery, for example, existed for many centuries in Ancient Egypt, ...

Or how the cookie crumbles.

He doesn't need to control us stricto sensu, he only needs to keep us under control (in the same way riot police might control a mob) so we don't dist...

As already stated: As for genocides, etc., it was humans who did it, not God. The world may be "imperfect" in the eyes of some people, but it isn't fo...

I know it isn't "your definition” but it was the definition that you yourself decided to choose. Are you retracting it now? Edit. You need to start fr...

Your own definition says "perfect or unlimited goodness" Why do you insist on the "unlimited" bit and forget about "perfect"? Plus, there is no law th...

You don't know that it doesn't make contact, communicate and interact. For example, inspiration, artistic, scientific, or religious, may partly come f...

It's only a "chimera" to those who are afraid of the unknown. That's where anti-materialism diverges from materialism. Human knowledge constantly prog...

However, the issue is not "consciousness after the death of consciousness" but consciousness after the death of the physical body or separation of the...

Not necessarily. Maybe some of them try but fail to establish contact except through dreams and visions, etc. that, unfortunately, can be explained aw...

You mean ideas as in Platonic Ideas or Forms or ideas we have in the mind in everyday consciousness? If the latter, they probably don't move in the se...

That's what I'm trying to say, I only gave Marx as an example because he is held by some (including those who never read him) to be some kind of econo...

Not necessarily very very slow in all circumstances, but certainly slower than the changes taking place in the changing object. Ultimately, even the v...

We need to remember that ancient philosophers were not messing about, they took their job of discovering truth seriously even though we may sometimes ...

Nobody disputes that music, poetry, etc. can be enjoyable and even beneficial. However, the way I see it, it's a question of balance. A person may enj...

Well, I read R H S Crossman's Plato Today that was read by Popper who said it was similar to his own views. Toward the end of his book, Crossman prese...

I think it does seem a bit hazy, but ultimately it comes down to the way you look at it. It's a bit like science stating that the earth goes around th...

Well, yes, because people's belief is based on their perception of change. In the case of the sphere the object retains its shape, therefore, psycholo...

Neither are you if you keep denying the sources. I simply posted the quotes to demonstrate how people have different conceptions of what is good. For ...

The same applies to change in general. You need a non-changing background or counterpart in order to notice changes in a given object. For example, if...

If there is life after death, then presumably, there will be some form of consciousness in which case our mind may be pre-programmed for it and some s...

Correct. If an agent is essentially omnipotent then it is impossible for that agent to be non-omnipotent in any regard.

That's exactly what I'm saying. You're pretending that Engels didn't write that world war and the disappearance of entire "reactionary" peoples is a "...

I don't know you, so I can't tell. As I said, it depends: If something has a materialist meaning to you personally or has the effect of making you mor...

Not at all. I very rarely read scripture. Maybe you do, seeing that you are so knowledgeable on the subject.

Actually, that's your statement, not mine. My position is that it depends on the meaning you give to objects and the purpose for which you use them. Y...

No idea. The word I actually used was "materialist" not "material". It was my reply to @jorndoe's question: The "materialist content" of interests was...

Anything that distracts from God, religion or spiritual things. If you use your guitar etc. for religious purposes, e.g., to play religious songs, the...

I think the original meaning of "wise" - at least in a Greek context - was to be knowledgeable and skillful in practical matters. It later acquired th...

I'm not saying it isn't interesting. And of course I know of John of the Cross and others. The problem is that this is a field of knowledge that has b...

Well, your genius definitely surpasses everyone else's here. It must be terribly frustrating for you, so I understand.

lol Very funny. I think you're talking about yourself. Other than that, if you think that quoting Marx and Engels is a "lie", then you should take iss...

To be quite honest, transpersonal philosophy or psychology to me tends to evoke the image of school leavers going off to India to fill the ashrams, ba...

Thinking of following the example and retiring to the vita simplex et contemplativa yourself then?

If quoting Marx and Engels is "insulting" to them or to you, then that only proves my point, thank you. As for your "suspicion", it has nothing to do ...

That has been my experience, too. Buddhism is often seen as a convenient tool for weaning people away from religion and herding them into the atheist ...

IMO that's a rhetorical question that has nothing to do with anything.

I don't see any difference. Millions of farmers under Stalin died from starvation, forced labor, or were simply killed. Plus, it is clear from Marx an...

Also, IMO it's better to be a "peasant" than to be dead. Besides, during the forty years of wilderness Marx was talking about, many Hebrews died, some...

He may have been "impactful" due to the massive propaganda by Engels and many others and, as I said, through the actions of his disciples like Lenin, ...

Correct. And being a Nation of Islam supporter doesn't improve things either. BTW you said that Marx achieved “far more than Hitler”. However, Marx ne...

They can do. Depends on the hobbies music science poetry gardening philosophy. If they have a materialist content, which they tend to do, then yes.

It looks like @!80 is up to his usual tricks, which isn't surprising. However, the way I see it, the apology was not "for not having done anything to ...

“I work in the philosophy of religion and its intersection with the philosophy of physics. This comes under the bracket of science and religion, which...