Paragraph "Actuality and Potentiality" at the end that says Aristotle also offers an "even stricter” argument which concludes as: Can anyone assert th...
I can't speak of advantages of "poly" or "multiple views" but it's obvious that "mono" (whether in religious, political or cultural aspect) is what is...
I think I finally got what you mean, correct me if wrong. You position is hat polytheism is sort of more "democratic" compared to monotheism which see...
Fair point :up: but far from "click bait" The true reason why I started this thread is because theory of nothing is relatively new theory that is obvi...
Yes I wouldn't agree on that, my personal view is that: 1. Conscious mind is a biological phenomena 2. Animals are less conscious but never completely...
Both of which is love but with opposite "positivity", which exactly describes the world we live in, and therefore it's incorrect to say love does not ...
Indeed it would be impossible to empirically prove "supernatural", but same way it doesn't make sense to ask for empirical (natural) proof to prove su...
Psychologically speaking, it's in human nature to love and be loved, to have a feeling that there is somebody who cares of you even in most dire circu...
Fabulous, while it's conceptual truth that only nothing can come out of nothing, the opposite such that only something can come out of something is ho...
My personal error (even in real life) is, I express my self often wrong because of haste. So I assume same may happen to others. I think a solution is...
To find fallacy in scriptures is as impossible as "disproving" God, one of the reasons why for example are contradictions that are subject to interpre...
I was able to grasp all 3, but unmoved mover makes me go crazy because I can't see anything that would contradict God, mainly because Aristotel seems ...
Indeed, I find it simply put biased, it begs infinity which by it's nature can't lead to finite conclusions no matter how far you go. Assume nobody as...
Think of it as an unscientific motive :wink: Because why would scientist be bothered by God? as if the ultimate goal is to disprove God rather than di...
Well said, so nothing is not something and as such can't do anything to produce something. I can understand vacuum to be "nothing" because that's abse...
I see, what you're referring to are "traditions" (English is not my native but here's hopefully accurate translator output), relevant traditions are: ...
Theory of nothing and creation to my understanding say that something come to be out of nothing. The key to understand how something come out of nothi...
Agree, but this doesn't answer martyrdom question. Does it make sense to be willingly tortured in the name of morality? Even after knowing the "secret...
There are valid reasons why gnostic texts do not contain any truth or wisdom. Gnostic texts (unless I'm wrong) originate around 1st century AD, mostly...
subconscious. We also have dreams, dreams are subconscious, they usually do not make any sense compared to reality that we experience from day to day....
It must be past experiences, not necessarily memorized. Consider an extreme, a person living in a white room since it was born (something like madhous...
Nice comparison but fundamentally incorrect: 1. It makes the serpent redundant and insufficient. 2. It's not in line with the story of garden of Eden,...
I would say, emotional health is a branch of mental health. ex. mental disorder (broad, any mental issue) and Personality disorder (specific, it deals...
I would call them helpless only if God didn't command them not to eat, in which case there would be no reason to punish them. ex. only serpent should ...
Free will, but also cause and repercussion. God gave Adam and Eve free will: but also told: Using same rhetoric we can conclude: They disobeyed but di...
Contradictory statement. God is omniscient so he knows good and evil therefore that's God's own original sin and thus makes him evil. Which is contrad...
Thank you for input, very useful! I found some definition of philosophical nothing as follows: Therefore philosophical nothing is not limited by absen...
In same or similar way one could question the question of any of the great questions. But does that actually make sense? Just because there is no answ...
That depends on whether one believes in God or not. Consider 2 persons, one believes in God, the other does not. One which believes in God is struggli...
But we still have free will, it was not taken away from us, I don't see anything evil in that. It would be evil to be slaves of God's will, to worship...
Devil's biggest sin is rebellion against God, the devil doesn't want to serve God, instead he want's to be grater than God and to be worshiped as God....
If something is fact, then there could be no alternative fact. If there are multiple facts then which one is true? Pragmatic use of a fact is therefor...
Death is best understood if watching people die and listen to what they have to say. I know I'm dying but I feel no pain except regret. Death itself i...
I don't see any problem with democracy, socialism or imperialism. All of these are compatible and not mutually exclusive, so why being populistic by d...
Absolutely not! by exposing the secret you lose the power of knowledge because you make competition and thus lose monopol. Notice what serpent said to...
I think knowledge of good and evil can be taken either literary or figuratively. Literary, If you know what's good and what's evil then aren't you abl...
It's not secret that this story was written somewhat later than other books that chronologically follow it but still not before discovery of letter. P...
Indeed, you're correct. And you position is "the Garden of Eden myth seems to be intended as a warning against "evil" Science..." But that doesn't hol...
I see, but we are here talking about specific God, God in the garden of Eden is Abrahamic God which has all the properties that wiki defines. Also let...
Cool, I never thought of emoticons for the purpose of EQ :smile: This is where psychology can help :wink: Best weapon to detect hypocrisy is to ask qu...
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