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Alkis Piskas

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Googling warfare of science with theology, one gets 4,380,000 results! I have a whole folder in my PC about this subject from a time in the past that ...
October 26, 2022 at 07:43
"Religious terrorism" (https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx) is irrelevant to science, and it sp...
October 25, 2022 at 15:50
Of course there are. All kinds of proffessions contain Buddhists in their ranks. But I don't think that a Buddhist psychiatrist will be of the kind I ...
October 24, 2022 at 09:52
We have an extremely rude person here, @ToothyMaw, who is either a psychiatrist himself, of the kind I mentioned, or a fanatic pro psychiatrist. A per...
October 24, 2022 at 08:35
I feel very bad! It's awful! In my country, Orthodox priests also are asent to Germany to become to study psychology. I have not heard anything about ...
October 24, 2022 at 08:17
Thanks. Wow! That's a lot of homework!
October 24, 2022 at 08:05
The war is back? In what way? Have I missed the news? :smile:
October 23, 2022 at 17:05
Maybe you won't find don't find it humorous, if you consider the reason for that. Psychiatrists appear as enemies of humanity in other novels too. Ind...
October 23, 2022 at 17:03
Right. I/we have talked about that. Right. But hereses within a any system should not be tolerated. Otherwise, the system falls apart. However, in my ...
October 23, 2022 at 09:44
Certainly. This is the healthy way to address the subject. Religious freedom is very important. Ironically though, the Churches and the people belongi...
October 22, 2022 at 17:18
I fully agree on and support religious freedom. Even if some people chose to "belong" to a religious denomination for other reasons than actually foll...
October 22, 2022 at 16:58
Yes, this is true. Buddha had chosen compassion. Quite similar. But I prefer Buddha's approach. Very "human", simple, direct, practical, no gods or ev...
October 22, 2022 at 09:07
Well, that's nice and inspiring, yet it is still too theoretical. I mean, not quite tanglible. I, personally, cannot even imagine how it would look li...
October 22, 2022 at 08:36
Yes, this is the other side of the story, which is more important, since it refers to the majority of people. My "uselessness" refers to the those who...
October 22, 2022 at 08:32
Us! :smile: More precisely, those who have written the Old Testament --actually the Hebrew Bible-- which then was adopted by Judeo-Christians and the ...
October 22, 2022 at 08:24
I believe so. I have not retained many details from my religion courses at school. I had to learn the material in order to pass the course! :grin: Wha...
October 21, 2022 at 15:57
This is true. In fact, we should be just and true to each other. Besides, we all belong to the same race. We should therefore support and help each ot...
October 21, 2022 at 15:37
We create a God ourselves, and then we realize that He is not just and then compalin about that. Ironically, however, the Judeo-Christian God is venge...
October 20, 2022 at 16:13
Too theoretical and insubstantial. Please give examples.
October 20, 2022 at 15:53
OK,. I accept your analogy. I don't want to spoil it more! :smile:
October 19, 2022 at 07:52
OK. BTW, I love both. :smile: As for their similarity, I can't find anything that connects these two in a special way. You say, e.g. "thinking ahead i...
October 18, 2022 at 17:41
Can you think of the tones of ink that have been spilled on this subject since eons and that we still lack a detailed description that is acceptable b...
October 17, 2022 at 15:44
You find it "uninteresting", and yet not only you seem to appreciate it a lot, but you have created a topic with a title based on an allegory connecti...
October 17, 2022 at 15:24
Come again?
October 13, 2022 at 11:53
A reflex, in physiology, is an involuntary response/reaction to a stimulus. This is not debatable. But in general, a reflex is a reaction/response to ...
October 13, 2022 at 11:06
You must have noticed that I used "philosophy" within quotation marks. This indicates "philosophy-like" or "pseudo-philosophy" or even "actually, not ...
October 13, 2022 at 06:39
I have never talked about "self-awareness" (I think it's the third time you bring this up) or "high cognitive functions". These are for humans only. I...
October 13, 2022 at 06:17
Before citing articles, I used simple logic. But it seems it was not enough ...
October 12, 2022 at 18:45
English is my second language and I am a professional translator. I have also graduated from an American college. But you miss the point here. It's no...
October 12, 2022 at 18:43
I have explained that shortly: "Every living organism, even bacteria, receives stimuli from the environment and reacts to them." You must not think of...
October 12, 2022 at 12:39
This is true. There are all kinds of "philosophies": a "philosophy" of reading and a "philosophy" of cooking. There are also personal "philosophies": ...
October 12, 2022 at 11:54
Not all. At least not me. :smile: Consciousness exists in all forms of life, however elementary it is. Every living organism, even bacteria, receives ...
October 12, 2022 at 07:59
Well, I referred to your saying "I try to cover as much ground as humanly possible, philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, political theory. To...
October 12, 2022 at 06:31
Well, well, well! You passed from simple computing systems to consiousness!! I would call that "too ambitious", if it wasn't a blatantly wrong conclus...
October 11, 2022 at 17:27
What is the "philosophical project" you are talking about? I wonder esp. because you are not using title capitals, and therefore it doesn't look a kno...
October 11, 2022 at 16:57
There is no objective reality. It there were, who would be able to tell? It would be their own view (reality), wouldn't it? There's nothing out there,...
October 09, 2022 at 17:47
Oh, thought you knoew that it is not in the brain ... Well, this is is a topic by itself. Talking about it would start a new thread and I think we are...
October 06, 2022 at 11:55
I know. I'm just being polite. :smile: I know that too. This is often my answer to those who believe --some of them are quite certain-- that conscious...
October 06, 2022 at 09:47
I sympathize.
October 06, 2022 at 08:17
I'm not sure where are you referring to with "holists" --medicine or philosophy-- but there's a very large part of people in the West and almost the w...
October 06, 2022 at 07:49
I watched parts of this video. All 3 participants look quite brilliant, esp. Kate. So, posted the following comment: "Excellent and very enjoyable vid...
October 06, 2022 at 06:30
Why don't you ask @Agent Smith who brought up this quote? :smile:
October 05, 2022 at 07:51
Right.
October 02, 2022 at 21:56
I suppose you mean what Wikipedia calls "Information overload (also known as infobesity, infoxication, information anxiety, and information explosion ...
October 02, 2022 at 17:36
Since you got me interested --for use by myself-- I checked the Web s little more. What I found out is that whiteboard animations cost from low to hig...
October 01, 2022 at 07:54
I already said that to @ChatteringMonkey: Arguments are impersonal. Logic has no face, identity, color or smell. Which means that whoever makes a stet...
September 30, 2022 at 19:00
I see what you mean here. But this doesn't match the statement of your topic "Listening to arguments rather than people". Anyway, I accept what you ar...
September 29, 2022 at 17:49
But isn't this what I meant by being influenced by the person who makes the argument? This can happen when we are listening to opinions, which are sub...
September 29, 2022 at 17:05
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/742150
September 29, 2022 at 16:02
Do you mean something like that? https://www.collaboard.app/digital-lessons-with-online-whiteboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhpE2yaSHmk
September 29, 2022 at 15:37