Arcane Sandwich

Thanks, I'm reading it right now. I've heard the phrase "Physics is Queen of the sciences". So, I imagine that the article will say: Ah, but an Empres...

I tend to get obsessed with one specific part of a text, and I focus on that. But that's a flaw that I have. It's a character flaw. It is. It does.

So what's the imaginary number that the letter "i" refers to, for example when you want to calculate the square root of -1?. What number is "i"? You s...

Yes. Indeed. Hmmm... Yes. But this is a problem in our contemporary societies across the planet that we inhabit. And you will have to excuse me, if yo...

The Jane English version is "more ancient", more "ancestral" in its expressions. Compare it to Stephen Mitchell's translation, regarding the 10.000 th...

Is Jesus God?

Yeah, that's the really sad part. Kierkegaard says that this is the essence of Christianity, and that it is irrational and unethical. To be a true Chr...

You seem to be under the impression that heavy metal has some Profound, Complex Theory of human emotions. It doesn't. It's just loud music for drunken...

So Jesus can't walk from here to there, just like you and me, for example? He doesn't undergo change of location?

Speaking of country: https://youtu.be/oMdlApv4-ys?si=0pERB8k8ISQDQQ6v And here is Afroman's version of that song. Afroman's version is way better: htt...

Yes, unfortunately that's what it's all about. That, and cool guitar riffs. And long hair. That's basically it. Hmmm... the "essence" of heavy metal? ...

I do not. Your contributions to this thread are substantive and greatly appreciated.

So what's your answer to the following question? Is it a "yes", or is it a "no"?

I am contacting you here, to tell you, that you, as a professional mathematician, must read the Merriam Webster dictionary in order solve the unsolved...

Does the Merriam Webster dictionary have the final word in matters of first-order predicate logic and the ontology of fictional entities in general, a...

I have a theory about that (but I have no evidence to support it, sadly). Here's my theory: integers might exist. Fractions might exist as well. Negat...

There are two apples on my table. But actually there's three, because one of them is a negative apple. It just so happens that it's invisible to every...

Thank you very much, Wayfarer.

Let's try the following, simply as a working hypothesis:

Notice the Norwegian flag. https://youtu.be/zae7HrLwqFY?si=ubD6NnoB7KVl8ofU

And what does that "look like", from an Anthropological Point of View? It looks more or less like the following: https://youtu.be/zae7HrLwqFY?si=ubD6N...

As the author of the Original Post (OP) of this public Thread, I have the authority to put this Thread back on track. And that is exactly what will ha...

That is another example and instance of a qualitatively impoverishing comment. Emojis impoverish the quality of any serious conversation. And the Tao ...

This went way over my head. Can you explain it to me in a simpler way?

Then why do you keep doing it? Then why do you need to state that you have no desire to engage further? I don't know. Are they? You tell me. "Guessing...

They will never understand us, friend, even though they have made many efforts, and will keep on making them. They will never understand people like y...

There's easier examples. I have two apples. But I want to eat three. I eat the two apples. Two minus three is negative one, right? So, where's the neg...

Right, like the Opus Dei, for example.

False. Your attitude is observable in the way that you choose to express yourself and communicate yourself in your written text. Lawyers and judges ha...

You're not offending me personally, you're disrupting the Thread. This isn't my Thread, it's a public Thread, and you're doing a disservice to it by t...

Your response was in the OP itself: I've said my piece about that, several times. So, there are only two explanations here: either you still fail to u...

Yes, this is possible. I agree. It's also possible that there are manuscripts of Aquinas that were destroyed for being heretical, or that simply got l...

I agree. I've always had that same feeling about Aquinas myself, he seems like an odd person. But then again, what medieval thinker isn't odd? William...

Interesting. Yes, I've read that somewhere. They are like celestial spheres, made of the fifth element, the Aether. Reality for Aristotle is like a Ru...

Thank you very much for your kind words, friend, and for your helpful contributions to this Thread.

Thank you very much for that useful reference.

I'm looking at these different translations (Thank You Sincerely for taking the time and energy to hunt them down and share them here). It is like you...

And even if we somehow completely sidestep the philosophical and political topic of the Being of Spain, if we talk about Franco, we also have to talk ...

They're just struggling to understand what's going on in purely conceptual terms, so I try to point them to a few useful references. But it's not just...

From the wiki on the Being of Spain: Using Google Translate: EDIT: I added some more text to the quotes.

Actually no, I did not think of bulls, lol. I suppose that my "unconscious" betrayed me there, as a psychoanalyst would say. Luckily I don't believe i...

Sorry to hear that, I hope you are doing better now! No, I would not. I would say that it is indeed in-itself, but it is not a thing, it is not a res....

Some really cool thoughts there! Another thing to consider is that every alignment is connected to an Afterlife plane. For example, after death, Lawfu...

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Does the following explanation involve a change in God/Jesus' nature, yes or no?

@"Amity" @"T Clark" :up:

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What do you mean? Doesn't Thomism accept Aristotle's concept of substance?

?x(Mx?¬Ex) - For some "x", it is the case that "x" is the Maltese Falcon, and "x" does not exist. Notice that "Existence" is a first-order predicate (...

https://youtu.be/oWPol4B7O8Y?si=st8rZyvYWP1u0qcC