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Ok! Yes, I agree with you. Look, I know this won't sound sincere, an inherent dysfunction in forum etc, but this information you've provided has been ...

Very nice! All of it. Thank you But below especially, intriguing but I am not fully confident I understand: "within a theory"?

I'm pretty sure I understand your point, but because I especially like this "free miracle," isolated as the common element, what would this free mirac...

I agree with this observation, and, for me, the query goes further. Although I acknowledge that my explorations on this topic are not conventional. I ...

I am not disagreeing. However, doesn't this apply, even if to varying degrees to: Communists, Capitalists, Racial Supremacists, Certain groups of Acad...

Brilliant. May I ask what you think: 1. How do you suppose Nietzsche "defines" knowing (besides the quote provided)? That is what (ontology(?) if I am...

Thank you for your response. Fair enough, very convincing within the context in which you framed it (properly).

I was reading some of your other responses to posts and this came up to illustrate a prior query. I'd say the antipathy to infanticide needn't acquire...

That was, firstly, an excellent explanation. And secondly, to my surprise, persuasive in changing my thinking. There remains an overhanging question w...

Fair enough. Also, I agreed with your differentiation between know and aware that.

If you eliminate the redacted bits, Love your enemies Turn the other cheek It is not what goes into a person that defiles them, but what comes out of ...

And yet... Maybe I did misinterpret

"to preserve the profundity of the world" by "world" you don't mean.. "which has no place in the facts or state of affairs of the world" you don't mea...

Fair enough. Me again being foolish with my choice of words. Not self deprecating; acknowledging how frustrating that must be for people who make it t...

Oh wow! Thanks. Truth is, I've read Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil more than anything. But I appreciate that reference. No doubt exactly that has con...

Ok, I guess I was being dismissive. Why specifically do you question that statement. Maybe you take issue with "entire" history. Clearly I should be m...

Ha! Whatever

Sorry, I know you are paraphrasing another post I think beliefs are justified if they are--after a complex but often lightning speed process of dialec...

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I submit it is not biological, but only exisistential. Does that change anything? I presume you have read my various related posts to be claiming that...

Asking you authentically, not to set up some argument (sorry, I have learned that some think queries are concealed gotchas): 1. Are you saying there i...

I am a little bewildered at how often I've heard versions of this in response to submissions that God either doesn't exist, or if It does, is beyond g...

Sure! And why not? If it works, it works. I just say, that "it works," is the workings of Mind. But, ultimately, who am I?

While it's likely there was deliberately no logic. If there was, I'd wager this: While sequestered he was not alone, but with his Body, and thus one w...

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Paraphrased to illustrate: Jesus: nothing beats belief. Belief will move mountains. If you have belief the size of a mustard seed you will say to that...

But there is a reason. That is how IT functions, this anomalous human existence. We built sky scrapers and rockets out of belief. But in reality, in t...

Totally. There is only belief, ultimately. Knowledge is the sneaky tool we've evolved to hide that fact. Or...so I believe.

Does not all knowledge require a final movement to ordain it? And isn't that step belief? I would define knowledge as that "information," input into M...

Totally agree. This is not what Buddha had in mind; i.e. the relief from stress. But he did have in mind that the root of all stress, suffering, is th...

I agree with you

Yes, and so do we all

Yes. I like "confession" for healing the "spirit" more than apologize. You're right. Or repent. Repent and sin no more. If we want to think religiousl...

I think God--if there is--transcends our human constructions/conventions, including reason and morality. If God is the Creator/Sustainer/Recycler of a...

Ha. True. But, and this might have been the point (?) , yet how we do. Hey, myself more than the next guy! It's irresistible.

Yah I didn't bother looking it up. Do you know the Wittgenstein line?

As for who is morally culpable. Here's my take. From the perspective of human Consciousness, collective consciousness, or History, we must settle upon...

Right, and a variation on Corvus, could it be they answered your prayers in a "language" you have closed yourself off to? I'm not saying I agree with ...

Sorry Astrophel, annihilation? Would you accept, a rest, vacation, respite? I think I know what you mean, but meditation is a simultaneous turning awa...

I appreciate how thoughtful you are being, and I feel the earnestness in your tone. So, please note (I acknowledge you probably do anyway) that I am n...

Sorry, to expand briefly on my previous reply. The corresponding "philosophical" branch for religion (as in thelogy) is metaphysics not ethics or mora...

I separate spiritually from morality. The former's "purpose" is soteriological, or emancipatory. That is, to "lift" one up from/out of secular and mun...

There's no place like it

Thank you. And this next question is not argumentative, just as my first question wasn't. So I appreciate you taking the time etc. And forgive me for ...

Right? And that too is a topic for further discussion somewhere. We know but we act as if

Might it be that the one which consists in memories, what I've referred to as the Narrative, is that Mind which does not persist. But, to differentiat...

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Yes. Definitely not a dig. :up: I do too. But for me that "afterlife" does not include my ego--the Subject,"I"--nor any of its Narrative. So, admitted...

I used to entertain that. I still wish profoundly that it were true. And there's the rub. How then? And I am asking sincerely, not argumentative. Alth...

100% Agreed. Especially, the topic of afterlife, if nothing else, cannot but be approached liberally. Yet that's a field in which we find some of the ...