Fire Ologist

It’s not. I’m saying, to convince me of the premise that my life is mostly suffering, you will have to add some suffering to my life. I’m not fashioni...

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Thanks for reading it. I was trying to say, here are the questions for philosophers, and here’s where there come from in the real world; our human exp...

Thanks for the comments. And I love that quote. It’s right in there. I was actually thinking of a part 5 where the distinction between dream fantasy a...

The principle of double effect points to where intention exists. In one single act, having multiple effects, intention can lie in all, or only one, or...

That is impressive in itself - intellectual honesty on display. Cudos to you, brother Bob. And the dialogue between you and Leontiskos has been very i...

Only if I add that smoking is as bad as too much drinking, and Augustine was certainly guilty about his drinking. I agree though, it may not be easy t...

Thanks Enoah - and totally agree, there are awkward bits that I still don’t like. Trying to describe perfect cigarette lighting was a problem. And yes...

Thanks Vera. Totally agree I overstate and basically repeat a few ideas and don’t develop others enough. It needs to be tighter before I could add to ...

Thanks for reading and for the comments. And I appreciate that note. I’m going to change it to he used to drink a lot in his youth… to make the same g...

Thanks for comments! I did intend it to focus on the questions and how they arise. It is high school level, but I think you need some understanding of...

Flux contains the paradoxes. The Logos is not within it, the Logos is about the paradoxes flux brings.

Yes he got it. Nothing was dropped out of the vocabulary. The river and the not-river both are, or neither are.

Thought I’d invite a few folks to read my little short, posted just above (https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15315/the-experience). I really h...

But the argument is that the lives to come will be full of suffering, and the evidence that the lives to come will be full of suffering is gleaned fro...

Just using your words. “build a social system that is on average fair and just?” — apokrisis Three things: fair/just, unfair/unjust, and on average. W...

Then what are we in the middle of? How is it a “middle”? Between extremes? Middle? Middle of what? You can’t say “middle” anymore without saying more ...

How can you say “middling” if you place something at the far ends of the middle (where good is not evil and evil is not good), in the middle? The nuan...

I agree too. But would you also agree with what follows: That leaves three things - the good, the evil, and the nuance in between. To have mature, rea...

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I look at it like this. There is one subject. One object of experience. The philosopher takes this subject, and with reason, cuts it apart to understa...

That is both spot on to me, and could easily make no sense to somebody. Re-entry from a mystical practice. In fleeting moments or longer breaths. I li...

I do see what you are saying, but I think I disagree with that. Criticism has become popular, but is not new. The mystic doesn’t make less sense today...

- People taking one aspect of another person, one impression even, and judging the whole person and their whole life based on that, and judging them t...

I think Bu'shoto and Zap'ffe’s hearts are in the right place, seeking an end to suffering. And there is passion, deliberation, and bravery, in them, a...

We certainly can. But too few of us do. Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek. 2000 year old quotes.

Valid observation. I’m actually optimistic. Just not in our ability to truly care for one another on any kind of scale larger than the people we happe...

If you say there is any level where there is “no mental anything” aren’t you pointing out a non-ideal thing, an object in itself regardless of the men...

Why did we ever conceive of the notion of “object” in the first place? Why did we not always know “when I reach out and touch, I am touching one giant...

Physical, not mental, basis? And I guess the distinctions between psychology and biology and physics are ideal only? My point is, you cannot speak, we...

I’m not pessimistic. I just mean we will never end war, end murder, end lying, end hurting each other and ourselves. We will never build a utopia, nev...

I’m not disagreeing either. (Meaning, as I jump in here, that I agree.) But if you see it at all, you aren’t fully being it, so aren’t really seeing i...

If God isn’t other than us, then aren’t we already doomed, right? Why would we who create the world’s biggest problems along with false ideologies to ...

It is not essential to religion that it build the “totalitarian” and “social scapegoating” and “warfare” and “imperialism”. Whatever club or faction o...

So if you would admit there are two distinct people in the universe, but don’t see any distinct physical objects apart from your own idealizations, is...

I see no reason to deny the physical world, and no reason to deny that mind incorporates the non-physical in this same world. Paradox, to me, is a uni...

Such as the value of logic. The lollipop of logic. Or the applicability of logic to explain what an explanation should be, or has to be (logically of ...

Belief operates like knowledge but is not knowledge, so I agree, it maybe paradoxical to claim a belief. But dishonesty and delusion?? The problem wit...

That is really good analysis. Both sides want to eliminate the cake, yet eat it too. I’m with you, Count.

This is exactly what I’m trying to say. There is a reason we can speak meaningfully to each other, that we can carry ideals to other minds; there is s...

Are you utterly isolated, perhaps the sole being there is, fabricating each of the impressions or ideals in your experience? Or are you utterly isolat...

I agree with this. We can replace “in space and time” with the “as we understand it” from your description above. Because the OP asked about “physical...

I see three things: The world which is there (for ages). Us in it, the human subject, also there, but now there with. And our perspectival experience ...

Hey Wayfarer, No interruption at all! The phenomenal veil, of our own construction, that cloaks and hides the thing-in-itself. Yes, love it. Straight ...

Or, who didn’t want to justify whatever they wanted to do.

I would argue that all morality is social morality. Morality is sought and found among two or more persons. Following one’s heart or not only becomes ...

Full agreement. No one will ever avoid the presence of truth and good in any statement that has a beginning an end, like this sentence. If I lie, then...

I’m beginning to lose sight of the question (the object of your inquiry so to speak). It’s a fictional thing, a laser gun that shoots an entire bug bu...

Was there a before King Midas touched, when the world wasn’t gold, and then what happened to Midas’ finger afterwards? Physical objects are distinguis...

We should compare guesses. In order to communicate our guesses we have to speak words, so we will now be using idealizations for sake of communication...