charleton

As i understand it yes.

I not saying that. I'm saying that you can only know X as an ideal. Existence is an ideal too. Everything is partially understood through the ground o...

Yes, Pascal's wager is bullshit. He suggests giving up the only thing you have; your own autonomy on the absurd idea that what some crackpot priest sa...

PLONK!!

No, religion does not do this at all. Without religion I am free to determine with honesty my own telos.

And so have nothing to do with consciousness "surviving the body" QED the thread is empty.

Both Marchesk and creative soul are data streams in my brain, as is the sensation from my fingers as I type.

I think this is wholly nonsensical.

You are mistaking the idea that "objective" is the same as truth. Your example is RELATIVE, and as such it is not about objectiveness. The objective t...

So what? Since the findings of science are gathered with a strict method they are deserving of that faith. Mythical stories written by goat farmers 20...

So your are a time-waster?

I have plenty of value to say. One person talks bollocks, so it is my duty to call you up on that. Near-death, is NOT death.

yes... then absolutely NO. How can it be objective and subjective.This is an abuse of language.

Sorry this is unavoidable. Sharpness is a value judgement, and even if measured objectively is it still subjectively understood. Your contention that ...

Actually existence is ideal - you have no other reference but yourself. Idealism is thus true as the substrate of all understanding, even materialism ...

1) No. Not necessarily the only source of meaning. 2) There is no sourceless meaning. Meaning can only relate to a conceiver. Meaning is in the subjec...

But this is nonsense. The absence of god does not entail nihilism.

that does not help you since the beach, the footprints and the person can only be objects of your perception, and can only be known through the concep...

Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body Since testimony can only be given by a surviving body, not testimonial can be offered in evidence. This i...

The poll result shows the naiveté, of those voting. You cannot know existence except through the senses and this is an ideal reality. It is unavoidabl...

I have to tell you that you are arguing against the existence of god whether you like it or not. You seem to want to insist that god is an omnipresent...

What is 'objective' and 'subjective'? A property is objective if it is linked to the object, that is, the thing observed, thought about, spoken about....

you said "This cannot be, so eternal hell doesn’t exist." Same argument exists on a number of issues that conclude that god does not exist in the firs...

Simply, relatively, and absolutely. What's the problem?

You asked "relative" or "simply`' What do you mean?

"A Materialist (aka metaphysical Physicalist, "Naturalist", or Nominalist) will say that there just is the physical world, and that it's just a brute-...

absolutely

Things are. Nothing is not. "what is nothing" is a meaningless question like what is the colour of F-sharp, Or what does blue sound like. Things have ...

Words are not concepts. True. But a one concept is not another concept. When I think "bird", it carries a unique set of bird experiences and observati...

I do not think there is anything wrong with the idea that every thing is physical. But you cannot necessarily understand it by examining its physical ...

Since there is no widely agreed theistic morality, nor coherence about the definition of god, it begs the question WTF grounds morality if you are a t...

This thread does not seem very wise. Perhaps there is not God after all.

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The main thing to know about David Lynch is that he is not only a completely sick minded idiot, but that he's the sort of idiot that other people fall...

Downfall; yes. Tragedy; no. The Marshall plan was not altruistic but wholly self interested. Nonetheless pay and spend economics do in fact work. In t...

Complicity with your community's moral code is your choice. You are not even asking a question here. It does not matter if you consider morality subje...

If we are contracting in all directions we would have disappeared in a moment. I'm not sure you understand what you are saying here.

" This opens for the possibility that objects or events can possess beauty as a property without necessarily being experienced as beautiful." No. Just...

I would want to know why the aliens are so crazy.

We have inherited millennia of language laced with teleology. Science is descriptive and yet on answering "how", as it should. it tends to conflate ho...

There is no "calculation'. Calculation implies units and measurement. A dog catching a ball is a pure analogue experience where the motion of two thin...

Then the soul can never be self-aware on it's own? — Harry Hindu More of my speculation. Self-awareness without external awareness is what we might fe...

I would not consider Dancing (Latin and Ballroom),or Tai Chi, as art, though there may be artistry in the performance. I do sculpture

Taking a short sentence out of context does not aid argumentation. "God can want for nothing else god would not be omnipotent. — charleton You replied...

What sort of art projects are you involved in?

I think you fell at the first hurdle. What is god in the first place and what would it mean for a thing to be omnipotent. Surely it would also involve...

Luther had no idea what was coming so is not qualified to answer this question, yet the answer is at hand from the quote. Luther and his gang of pries...

You are not bothering to engage with the argument. Me four hours ago... "For my money Post Truth (PT) has more to do with the establishment loosing th...

From the start I have said that we do not live in truth but in belief. The difference is the pace of change.

You've not been paying attention. PT is about the framing of an item of news. On the twittersphere many people have concluded that Muslim men groom wh...