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I do.

If someone is a fundamentalist Christian then their religion MUST accept a worldwide flood. Etc.

Good point. The only candidate for our permanent, enduring self is our awareness. But we also have a relative self. When someone says something about ...

The idea is to determine what about me is enduring (or, at least, relatively enduring). Thoughts and emotions change in a second. The body changes slo...

I have the eclectic attitude that if something is true, then it's true regardless of context. If natives believe the bark of a certain tree can cure h...

It goes beyond what I've personally experience, too.

The fundamental question, I believe, is of personal identity. One view is that our physical, emotional, and mental sensations being temporary, don't c...

Banno, I'm thinking of the the Block Universe as completed, done. And I'm thinking of a disembodied consciousness as having some sense of self. And al...

I think "supernatural" is a vacuous term because we do not yet know the limits of the natural world. We can assume some phenomenon is beyond what is n...

I took your initial assertion as God is hidden to protect our free will. Now, you seem to be saying that ON EARTH God is hidden to protect our free wi...

OK, I'd agree about 100% certainty of my own awareness. I watched part of the video, but it’s part 5 of 6, so I decided to watch all of part 1 of 6 at...

Does the concept of 100% certainty involve an infinite regress? A: I know X with 100% certainty. B: But are you 100% certain that you know X with 100%...

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It is unarguable that if it's a FACT that I cease to exist, then I'll never know I'm dead.Because I no longer exist. You seem to be taking issue with ...

I'd say that a person's personal Jesus incorporates some of the religious community's picture of Jesus. I think we agree. How we decide to count the n...

Regarding Kant, Schopenhauer noted that since we are a thing-in-itself, it should be possible to directly experience at least one thing-in-itself, i.e...

I've been watching some videos about Advaita Vedanta as presented by Swami Sarvapriyananda. I think it can be argued that Vedanta aims to help us retu...

I agree. If someone believes God always answers prayers but that sometimes the answer is "No" then there is no way to tell if prayer works or not.

T Clark, I agree they are trying to convey compassion and fellow-feeling, but there are many ways to convey that. I don’t see anything wrong with anal...

A bullet at any instant is at some point in space but my perception limits me to perceiving it in some region of space in that I cannot tell exactly w...

As to the OP, what is important, I think, is not what we say of it, but what we do. I can imagine two outcomes. 1) Someone practices trying to often r...

I wrote,if God exists. The point being if we are only really in the present (not the past or the future), then if God is real, our only point of conta...

Frank, the chart is interesting. Can you provide a link to the IIT project? We can see consciousness remains when the objects of consciousness change....

Of course, clinical depression exists but I've also seen some spiritual teachers say a stage of the path to enlightenment is where the world has lost ...

People watch sad movies but don't watch boring movies. Apparently, sadness is more entertaining than boredom. So maybe boredom is worse?

I don't think they are now. Not sure about the future. You seem to say "consciousness" is a bad word for describing brain activity. If we limit consci...

I'm using "consciousness" in a broad way, as something that perceives, something which is aware. Under that (admittedly broad) definition, a subconsci...

Another person is not contained in my awareness. So, that person can be in pain or even deceased and I might not know it. But if soul is part of me, t...

Doesn't saying awareness is our body's steward imply awareness is separate from the body? But can we be aware of our soul, or must we accept its exist...

I'm assuming awareness and the soul exists, and say that soul must be contained in awareness. How would you describe the relationship between awarenes...

Does he discuss a better social structure than political authority? If not, then his criticism may be true but it's not actionable. Simply eliminating...

If so, it would seem we are seeing different sides of the same thing when we look down and up. Atma is Brahman?

My take on the argument is "IF killing people in a video game is morally permissible, THEN sexually abusing people in a video game is morally permissi...

I think it goes too far to say philosophy is for questioning religion. I'd say philosophy is for discovering truth and the truth it finds often confli...

One breaks things down. Reduction. Deduction. AND puts together (Relativity and quantum mechanics describe almost all known phenomena) The other puts ...

I haven't heard of this fallacy before and I think it is helpful. I think it's vaguely like the moving the goalposts fallacy.

But religions can and have died, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc., etc.

It occurs to me a tendency towards monism is built into our language when we recognize universals. Suppose a child has a pet cat "Fluffy". If the chil...

1. The Bible attempts to look 10,000 years into the past, not 13.8 billion. Google to see how Christians calculate the age. 2. Science really looks. I...

Belief in the big bang, a theory supported by solid evidence, for example, the cosmic background radiation,isn't much more rational than the belief in...

I've watched Christian/atheist discussions (for example, the 'atheist experience' videos on YouTube) where time and time again the atheist knew more a...

Imagine a seven-year-old child who in a religion class has just learned that God is a trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The child has faith in t...

RogueAI, By “incremental morality,” do you mean something like the following? • Sacrifice sick eighty-year-old Joe so that infant Pete can live. Good....

Wayfarer, I’ve also seen the distinction that “exists” applies to what exists in spacetime and “subsists” applies to our ideas and other abstract obje...

I agree, mostly, but have one question: if there’s a truth about ethics, would that imply that moral values are objective, not subjective? I accept Hu...

Thanks for your informative response. I've seen "beyond being," i.e., beyond existence, taken to mean that the source and foundation of all existence ...

Statement 1: there is no ultimate thing, substance, entity that can be conceptually described and grasped Statement 2: the ultimate thing, substance, ...

I've seen this argument before but never fully understood it. Can you provide a reference which elaborates? Why can't existence be regarded as a first...

Yes. Is this like the emptiness of Buddhism?

True, but we seem to be talking about two different things. Monism, as I understand it, requires the "supreme being" to be the ultimate ground and bas...