Extstent and physical, agreed. Existent, but surely not physical. Hold out a piece of force for me to examine... These thing appear able to influence ...
Heheh, but it is really false to consider that the instantaneous existence any paticular objective quality is dependent upon a subjective qualia. We m...
This premise is false. Physics deals with force and energy as well as matter, and these are non-physical, yet assumed by physicists to exist. Your sta...
Are you suggesting that the only way for any object in the universe to appear rational is for it to have been "created with purpose", or for any occur...
Hahaha, I think I've made less and less sense as time has gone by... Though I agree that reality is the essence of truth, I don't see that as having m...
A perfect example of this is the absurd and embarrassing Catholic phenomenon (I was raised Catholic, and was always embarrassed by this) of the variou...
Subjective experiences are not evidential, not admissible in the Court of Mikey as evidence; the only evidence which is admissible is objective in nat...
Scientific investigation cannot do so because the question of deity lies outside of if scope of inquiry. Science deals with the natural universe, and ...
But, as I have already noted, ...but there are tests which purport to measure what I would call "emotional competence", which the OP has described abo...
I won't bother to go into lengthy explanations, but at least in the "high finance" sector: investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, etc., this...
Usually, discussions involving so-called "emotional intelligence" are centered around what helps people "succeed" within the business environment...wh...
Just out of curiosity, Tim, in what way do you view the issue of dp's as an adjunct to climate remediation? Is this simply the type of "pork" (to use ...
Thought and emotion are highly interdependent, with the perception of external stimuli producing both thoughts and emotions, and the experience a give...
For them, even more important than "ruthlessness", is the very ability to discern one's own emotions, as well as those of others, and to determine the...
Great thread topic! The influence upon the person, of the affective dimension of the mind is a subject of great interest to myself. This is quite a ps...
Yes, so true, and this is why I would never slip into the "antitheist" category of Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennet, and others. I do not take the position t...
I would not use the term "divine status", and even if I believed in the concept of divinity, I cannot understand how an "elevation to divine status" m...
Ah, I enjoy the ritual...it is the very reason I attend. I like it for it's particular beauty, and for it's familiarity. Of course, I don't recite the...
I think that it behooves us to avoid thinking of religion in terms of belief...of belief systems. Even though it is eminently true that: ...meaning th...
I think you make an unwarranted leap. The Greek conception of deity was quite mundane. The gods of the pantheon were in no way "omni-" anything. The c...
:up: ...and this latter set of meanings can only proceed from said Archaic *lego ("to care", "to have regard (for)"), and cannot rationally proceed fr...
@"Joshs", I just did a bit of research on this etymology of religio, and have made a fascinating discovery in linguist Michiel De Vaan's Etymological ...
That works semantically, and if it works for you and me, all the better! I am a bit surprised to find that Oxford gives it with ligo/ligare; the OLD i...
Joshs, I think the etymology which you suggest here is incorrect. Medieval Christian writers posited ligo/ligare ("to bind", "to tie") as the constitu...
Another example, perhaps less emotionally charged: often, a given species will overpopulate within an environmental preserve, and authorities are then...
If you have to "say it like that" for it to appear as an objective truth, then you simply highlight it's inherent subjectivity, do you not? Not even t...
Well, off the top of my head: England, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda (???), the Republic of Georgia, Greece, Switzerland, the old Duchy of...
I think that if we are to evaluate Mr. Cummins' question adequately, it will be helpful to precisely define "religion" in both it's expansive and part...
In a way which avoids diverting this thread too much, I wonder, why? Specifically, does the Zapffe essay represent, or rather indicate such a malady? ...
This is probably true for many of us, certainly for myself. Yes, indeed, if by "religious worldviews" you refer to those religions most familiar to us...
Oh, sorry, man, for putting words into your mouth that you never intended to say. I'm trying to give "Poetic" some constructive criticism, so that he ...
Yeah, this is the nature of my primary "beef" with free verse and so-called "slam poetry". I was thinking, @"PoeticUniverse", of how to describe what ...
I would like, in honor of my favorite season, the season of the natural sentimentalist, to post something about the autumn. Searching, I found this in...
Yes, although I tend not to like to use the term "world", which itself suggests subjective experience, to describe it. Usually, I will refer to it as ...
Gotta hand it to 'ya, you "damned fool", you come up with some "damned good" thread topics! This is ultimately true, by which I mean objectively true,...
:up: Your poetry displays/employs a definite "stream of consciousness" style, whether deliberate or accidental. The problem with that, as I have noted...
I highly recommend it, especially as it is brief while being profound. One caveat for the potential female reader: traditional West African cultures, ...
Change "you have filled it with, by my count, 18 self-indulgent, poorly written poems" to "...18 quite lengthy, self-indulgent, poorly written poems"....
In defense of this particular point, I will note that the Christian conception of "true repentance" necessarily involves a "turning away" from the par...
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