You're more than welcome! Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. Indeed, I remember remarking on a similar thread how every great philosopher beg...
:ok: You know a lot about poetry. Great to have you on the TPF team. It looks like most forum members have their own unique talents - just needs the r...
That kinda gives me an idea; if we speak with a rhythm, even prose becomes poetry. :point: That kinda gives me an idea; If we speak with a rhythm, Eve...
Way to go! Diamond Jubilee :party: :flower: Another 25 to go and you'll be a centenarian! I was just wondering about what @"Jem" said. While I'm not a...
@"Amity" @"javi2541997" :up: I don't know how that sounds in Japanese but it's actually prose in English: "Now then, let's go out to enjoy the snow......
You seem to be on top of things. So, God wasn't what you wanted to discuss. What you really wanted was an opinion on human failings, incompetence, and...
The constitution can't overrule facts. If souls are real, the constitution be damned! The constitution, any constitution, must be in line with the tru...
Basically, king meant something other than how we now understand the term. It calls for caution when we read historical texts for words seem to have d...
I most certainly agree that there's a difference between knowing and doing - the former is pure thought while the latter is action. There's a causal g...
You mean Scylla and Charybdis? Not much of a choice there - do you want a female prison warden or a male prison warden? Either way, you're in prison. ...
It would be wrong for the pro-life movement to ban abortions if they knew souls didn't exist and it would also be wrong for the pro-choice camp to mak...
Relevance? I do respect your call for a critical examination of omniscience; it, for sure, counts as one of the best advice I've received. However, om...
As far as I can tell, you've answered your own question, The Chomsky sentence, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously", is being used to elucidate the...
The OP's viewpoint that God worked his way up the hackordnung or hackliste in a manner described in the Peter Principle ignores the fact that God's om...
I do enjoy poetry, I have a very poetic personality, sometimes but, that doesn't mean I should allow myself to be led down the garden path without eve...
You're missing the point. I'm not talking about evolution. Let's keep this simple. Yes, a person who's acquired a PhD in some field can lose everythin...
But, you couldn't devolve into something lower in rank than yourself, right? unless, of course, God shares the same human frailties but then we're loo...
I'm only surprised by the fact that dark poems (thanks for updating my vocab) can be considered good. The "beauty" that "hides in the darkness"; exact...
I'm not as certain about this as I'd like to be but brains are generic in their pattern recognition ability i.e. they can detect patterns in all senso...
Go Wittgenstein: a word can be used in any way one wishes - the sky's the limit. Words, all said and done, are ideas, no? Since, as per Wittgenstein, ...
Poems about the dark side of reality are oxymorons: they're good poems about bad stuff that happen to life. The question is, if poetry doesn't do what...
An interesting point of view this. So, a being rose through the ranks, excelling at all levels of the hierarchy, but once this being was promoted to t...
So, you're suggesting that we look for a good philosopher and make faer king instead of trying to teach philosophy to a king already in power. If Socr...
I wouldn't say the poem you posted is great but it does get your point across. I read only one poem by Robert Frost - Stopping by woods on a snowy eve...
I reckon the link between metaphysics and poetry can be found in the urge to be, well, poetic. Under what circumstances, sensing which emotions, think...
You have so many toys Jack, I'm green with envy. Jack, a man of many talents. We're lucky you're not on some other planet. I don't get him but that's ...
It looks good on paper, like all things I suppose but when the rubber meets the road, all hell breaks loose. I commend you for the effort but I fear y...
By "...barely discernible..." I was referring to how very sensitive the instruments must be to detect CO2 concentrations in ice tens of and even hundr...
Christianity succeeded Buddhism. Is the conspicuous exclusion of animals in Christianity an improvement in or a deterioration of moral standards in re...
Before I forget, a top-notch OP. I give it an 11 out of 10 - you're off the charts. I hope we all can remember your valuable advice: An sit = Does it ...
Climatology is a science in terms of methodology but because it operates in geologic time scales, it's difficult to get a clear picture of patterns, i...
Indeed, you hit the nail on the head. I've been looking at the issue from a XOR instead of an OR standpoint. We may, there seems no logical contradict...
:ok: He does speak of maya, just very little, huh? Anyway, indeed I agree the illusion (maya) is nothing more than our misconceptions of reality out o...
I suppose the metaphysics of poetry is any topic of metaphysical concern that poetry deals with or is implied in its structure, form, or essence. The ...
One of my biggest fears: "...becoming accustomed to think..." There are many ways to think, false that one is any better than the other, and I'd like ...
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