Protagoras

@"Jack Cummins" What if the subconscious and "unconcious" where we draw many of our answers are really our soul,our extended conciousness?

Life is now a question mark?! Someone is seriously debating if we need emotions! Like emotions are detachable like a pen top. Why have legs when he ha...

@"Joshs" Your right. It's an attempt to escape reality by inventing illusions to make people feel safe and comfortable. The irony is life is absolutel...

@"Kinglord1090" Animals don't have emotions!!!!!!!! Have you never had a pet dog? You have lost the plot monsieur. Your evidence is nonsense.

@"Joshs" When I saw this title I face palmed. Desire has always been and always will be the driver of humans,and our desires have a logic to them. Its...

@"Kinglord1090" Trying to get rid of emotions is like trying to get rid of breathing or the sun shining. Good luck in your delusions.

@"Kinglord1090" Computers and robots are not human. Logic and emotion are inseperable. You don't have an option. Your hypothetical are meaningless. Em...

@"Trey" Yes historically religions have started wars. So your solution is to start a war? How you plan on implementing your idea is a big issue. Not,w...

@"Kinglord1090" You believe in EQ yet want to eliminate emotions?

@"Trey" And you say abrahamics are savage,yet you suggest war!

@"Trey" So how would you implement this civilisation? What would be the case with people who disagreed with your laws?

@"Kenosha Kid" It is the point. The fact you can't name debates where one side changed is instructive on the mindset of the debates. All this supposed...

@"Kinglord1090" Why seperate intelligence into emotion and logic? They are inseparable. So what's your plan to how to live without emotion?

@"Apollodorus" This is an excellent post. To add,zarathustra and zorastranism have similiar concepts of monotheism,judgement and paradise. And some ve...

@"Kenosha Kid" How many debates have you seen where someone's mind was changed? And to be a decent debate there should be a bit of charity and underst...

@"Kenosha Kid" See,if you debate and you think the other sides point is magic or woo,then what's the point of a real discussion? Its then a polemic an...

@"bert1" It was,until the last couple of posts. Yep,I agree with the rest of your post.

@"Kinglord1090" Desire and emotions are what we are. No getting round that. Desire is vital to achievement. Humans are not robots.

You see how this "debate" is once again descending into a farce. 180 at the moment is incapable of debating anything. Leaving aside his overemotional ...

@"180 Proof" Same old formatting,cliches,lame humour and venting. Grow a pair,Mr runner!

@"180 Proof" You mean your too chicken to answer!

@"NOS4A2" In the main I fully agree with this. Especially in the implementation of the law. But the masses also want a legal system for protection,so ...

@"jorndoe" Secularists prescribe all sorts of rules and "morals". That's what the legal system is. Science is prescriptive in that it elevates "reason...

@"jorndoe" The secularists and scientismists do exactly the same public preaching. They both need to butt out!

@"dimosthenis9" The "engines work" is the expression of intelligence. But not everybody thinks in an aristelian way. Plus there is intuition,which is ...

And,Socrates said philosophy is preparing for death,and the afterlife. Egyptian philosophy had an impact on socrates thinking,and a huge effect on pla...

@"dimosthenis9" So by logic you are meaning what? Aristotle, platos dialectics or just intelligence? Because everybody uses intelligence in their life...

@"Jack Cummins" Childhood experiences can interfere a lot in our development in certain fields. I have always loved sports. The thing is Jack I bet as...

It's very strange that anybody could read plato as a whole and come away with anything other than plato being a religious monotheist,with a political ...

@"Jack Cummins" The brain or physical head is not the seat of your intelligence. The reason some people are poor at sports is because they don't pract...

@"Jack Cummins" When you play sport or dance or do something very physical you realise that to think the mind is the brain or purely in your head is n...

@"dimosthenis9" Academic logic is not the same as intelligence. Nor does being good at logic make you a decent person. People are driven by desire and...

@"180 Proof" Your silent about god because you believe in an apophatic version or because you don't believe in the possibility of God?

@"Banno" You mean you don't like it up ya! If you don't like it,don't give it out. And do be a bit more honest man. We are after all talking about tru...

@"Banno" Bingo bingo! Shocker! Unmediated means unmediated. What a sneaky method of time wasting,obfuscating and meandering to suit your debate/monolo...

@"Banno" And it takes 27 pages to explain one word! Go engage with Cheshire. You know he might be using unmediated in a normal way. As you well know w...

@"Banno" Nonsense! Could it be that unmediated shows Cheshire correct. You sneaky man!

@"Banno" If you know you can just tell us rather than ducking what Cheshire said.

@"Banno" So what does Davidson mean by unmediated?

@"Pantagruel" Lol! The psychologist in me says it's "hate that is blind"!

This comment of yours @"Pantagruel" should framed on the front of the website! How do overzealous atheists not see their dawkinsism is just a secular ...

Yes indeed @"Joshs". This is true. Though people outside academia didn't fall for the pure rationality nonsense. Only philosophers,scientists and the ...

@"Joshs" Yep. That's my personal experience. I'm combining Kelly and gendlin in my above post. If we threw in some freud, William James and Zen the ci...

Agree in general wholeheartedly. Now you see my beef with science and philosophy!? @"Joshs"

@"Joshs" Excellent stuff. Much appreciated. Would you say there are people whose superordinate system rather than triggering negative emotions when in...

@"Cheshire" I agree. In which ways do you feel the experience is misunderstood.

@"Joshs" Just read the wiki on Kelly. Superb psychological insights. If you are into those two thinkers why even bother with the vast majority of cont...

@"Cheshire" I say the mind is not the material brain. So you are saying God is a legitimate experience?

@"Joshs" Thank you. I just read the wiki article on Gendlin. It's quite amazing how close in some respects it is to my philosophy especially the part ...

@"Joshs" Both those sound right up my Street! I will look them both up. If you give a little synopsis of what you think are some of their salient idea...