I know what you mean by that dogma. It's around. It exists. But would you not agree that it's pretty small in terms of the proportion of humans who em...
I agree. And yet our will to worship and subject ourselves is something we do not choose. We are thrown in to this itch for the holy. So we might spea...
Exactly. We try to find the words. It's a pleasure or a spiritual practice to look for those words, to become more awake to the way we are there. That...
I feel you. What we take in our hand we cannot hold for long. We are always dying and being reborn. One love object fails. Another appears. Slowly, th...
Yes indeed. That hope is dim. I waste no time on it. For lack of a better word, I experience the quest for clarity on these matters as a private 'spir...
I hear you, but I am pointing at something far less theoretical. I need to keep this body intact as a vessel for my soul. If a truck runs me over, the...
I agree and relate. I might speak of a whole that we organize with categories internal and external. The way it all flows together is hard to articula...
Well said. To me this describes the real stuff. I almost hate the word 'philosophy' for being too preciously or artificially understood. As you say, i...
Very well put, my friend. I very much relate. The 'real' problem seems to be that nothing lasts. Everything passes. Time conquers all. We can't get ou...
What is the point of being human? Some philosophy looks like (and maybe is) word games. On the other hands we are thinking, loving, fearing, aging bei...
Is it not better to say that naming the feeling can increase the feeling or focus the feeling? If there is a urge toward freedom, it may be that this ...
Nice. In other words we know that our lives won't last. And we live in this knowing and shape our sense of what life is all about in the context of mo...
You're right that it smells unfalsifiable. But I'm really more interested in describing. I look around and talk to people and they all hold something ...
That's a beautiful passage. I love Hegel, and that's Hegel really getting down in it, spitting it out. That's THE Hegelian vision for me. It all adds ...
Would you not agree that our intelligence is widely and correctly assumed to have a biological foundation? When it comes to beliefs concerning origins...
What's fascinating is that even an attempt like Heidegger's to get under the usual metaphysical fumes can begin to smell like one more fume.This is pe...
This is fascinating. Perhaps thinkers who deny or ignore god are worshipping and serving god as they understand god. Perhaps 'god' is a word for what ...
That's a good question. The 'animal' foundation seems pretty fixed. A certain kind of food is reliably good for a human, while various poisons are rel...
Good point. I think it's fair to look toward the realm of values here. What it is to think and feel is already whatever it is to think and feel. The a...
Hi. In my view the notion of the human is a nature of the human. We can only have this discussion because some pre-interpretation of the word 'human' ...
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