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@"Fooloso4" You think just by repeating "you've lost track of your argument" that somehow you are correct!? I examined my position further up. Go read...

Life is not a platonic dialogue!

@"Fooloso4" Nope,of course not. Come on,you can work that one out yourself. Read between my lines!

@"Fooloso4" Well I'm not dealing in "ifs" here. I've already stated some can be mistaken,just as scientists and philosophers can be! And tbh,how often...

The use of the phrase "made up" implies science isn't made up?? Really,I seem to recall several theories overturned or even considered ludicrous now. ...

@"DingoJones" There is no false equivalence. I said both sets of people ultimately determine this on their beliefs and emotions. Feelings if you will....

@"Fooloso4" Meaningless. Because one you don't feel that yourself,so its disingenuous to tell me. Two,I can disagree with someone if I feel their feel...

I agree we shouldn't give up our power to anyone or anything. But personal religion is sometimes an expression or symbol of something powerful or just...

@"Fooloso4" OK. Follow this closely, if you feel eternity then you feel you are forever. You feel you are not your material body. Thus death is not th...

Psychologism is the view that all true knowledge comes from feelings of certainty rather than "objective" truths independent of subjectivity. I see no...

@"Cuthbert" It seems some people are scared of psychologism,which Is really just the way the world is,as it demolishes platonism.

@"dimosthenis9" I don't really worry about defining to closely. I prefer philosophers who talk about human behaviour rather than just metaphysical stu...

@"dimosthenis9" Buddha by far the best. Protagoras,pantanjali. Nietzsche,dostoevsky and Feurbach. Freud is also exceptional on some points. But his oe...

I found buddhists in general to be just as dogmatic as any other group.

I think of all the religions/spiritualities I have studied Zen buddhism is the closest to a correct one. But I mean the Zen that emphasises meditation...

Pros of science; can be a springboard for new ideas,theoretically encourages free thought. Can be empirical. Cons; organised science is an elite activ...

@"180 Proof" Another book cliche from Shakespeare! Have an original thought chap!

@"180 Proof" Yawn!

@"Jack Cummins" But who decides what is sound logic or apparent facts? And clear explanations trump cold abstract dialectics and unnecessary reduction...

@"180 Proof" Nothing to refute. I don't play your dialectic game,sophist.

@"180 Proof" The overemotional bookworm strikes again!

@"Jack Cummins" But it is important to know what people really mean when saying rationality. Out threads are complimentary,don't worry.

@"180 Proof"Wow! One scientist! Talk about a cherry picker! Is this your famed rationality and dialectic at work? So those scientists who are religiou...

@"Jack Cummins" Whose standard of rationality?

@"Jack Cummins" If you look at my thread I'm trying to ascertain what angle people are coming at,without the overheated debates. In other words it's g...

@"180 Proof" LOL! Been nice if you had an original thought old man. Sense jealousy monsieur. My stuff is original,yours rehashed mash ups of book lear...

@"Jack Cummins" The problem is the word rationality is ambiguously used. I prefer the word common sense or "clear explanation." Rationality has become...

It's a strike against traditional philosophy that it needed a proof for existence. As if that wasn't axiomatic and immediately obvious and clear. Delu...

@"DingoJones" I would say either according to their reasoning religion is rational. Or they feel science is not qualified to deal with the human exper...

@"DingoJones" And what do you make of esteemed scientists who believe in religion? Have they become irrational according to you?

@"Banno" Ah,another who can't tell the difference between technology and the theoretical ideology knows as science. Strawman thread. Beavers have tech...

@"180 Proof" The irony of a guy who writes in a clichéd hackneyed jumble saying wtf! Suppose you've never heard of Ludwig feurbach or siggy freud on t...

@"Fooloso4" Read my post. You can experience a feeling of eternity. Your post has nothing to do with what I wrote. And I suppose you don't distinguish...

@"god must be atheist" Really,those are your responses? You show your vitriol and lack of insight with every post. Argument my pompous anger and fear!

The reactions of some atheists to a discussion is a proof itself of fear.

@"god must be atheist" You think life is a dictionary definition?! You don't understand as your wedded to dogmatic conceptions. Yes,I've experienced e...

@"god must be atheist" Who said eternity doesn't involve time? It means continuous unending time. And why can't that be experienced?

@"Jack Cummins" I think all 3 are in some ways oppositional as they are different methods of knowledge. Dialectics. Reductionism. And real religion be...

@"Fooloso4" Ha ha! OK,I will be back!

@"Jack Cummins" Of course,one could say there is a three way opposition between philosophy,science and religion?!

@"Fooloso4" Maybe I missed that part. You suggest he experienced eternity or hunkered for it?

@"ProbablyTrue" Zen flesh Zen bones. Books by DT suzuki,and Shunryu suzukis "beginners mind".

@"Fooloso4" I followed that thread before i joined. Plato does seem mighty keen on "proving" eternity? What do you think the reason is for that?

@"Fooloso4" There is still time!!! Do you feel plato experienced this feeling. Or do you think he was striving for this through his dialectics?

@"Jack Cummins" Thank you for the welcome. How about,can philosophy reveal eternal truths that science cannot? That seems to be the gist of your title...

@"Fooloso4" What if eternity is a an intuition,a feeling,an experience?

@"Jack Cummins" I read a lot of your posts before joining. I would argue that the general method of mystics and philosophers is Meditation. And this m...

People deny real conspiracies because of fear. Fear of confronting the status quote,and fear of hidden criminal machinations. Fear of the truth. Fear ...

I don't see science and technology as the same thing. Technology has obvious benefits,but not all technology. Weapons and excessive automation of serv...

@"Fooloso4" that's all good. But what is the reason you are unsure about eternity?