Arcane Sandwich

That's the wisest Catholic take on the Bible that I've ever heard.

If we're gonna share the oddest Bible ideas, or the ones that each of us has found to be the oddest, then I have a ton of questions about Adam and Eve...

Ok. But it's like, I'm not Jesus, you know? I'm not here to forgive your sins. You can sin all you want, doesn't really mean anything to me unless you...

Is it? But if one wishes to conclude that one actually is whatever it is that one happens to think that one is, what is the underlying ontology here? ...

Prove that I'm strawmanning biblical/christian literalism, othewise what you're saying here is just an opinion, not a fact. Again, that's an opinion, ...

Here's the thing. If I had to make a list of the most complicated things that I have ever had to read, Evrostics is somewhere in the top 10. Maybe it'...

Was he right?

If the literal interpretation of the Bible is correct, then yes, they have to. However, no one says that it is indeed correct. That's what I'm trying ...

Can it? Carlos Astrada. Yes, I can see that. Sure. It's the descriptive vs normative debate in philosophy of science. That doesn't mean that the knowl...

Thanks, ToothyMaw! Very insightful comments there, I'll have to think about them.

I have, many times.

Sure, why not? Who says that we can't do better than them, the ones from the past?

It sounds like my wife isn't a very reasonable person if she gets mad about some fruit that I forgot to buy. Not sure if I can conclude something abou...

Prove it, otherwise what you're saying is just an opinion, not a fact.

If Jesus was a man in addition to being God, why wouldn't it be the case that he has got something to do with material wealth? Not really. Jesus was a...

It was.

Hmmm... are you sure this is correct? It doesn't seem to be. I can think that I am a fish. That doesn't mean that I am a fish. Edit: Sure, why not? Hu...

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Why not? Think of the word "carnivore". It applies to some animals, and it also applied to some plants. Now think of the word "sheep". It applies to s...

Because he has abandoned himself, and he wants to know why. He is asking himself that question. In the philosophical literature, this is known as the ...

How can it be a national stereotype, if Latin is not a nation? The nation is Argentina in this case, Latin is simply a language that no nation speaks....

If it exists, it cannot exist independently of a thing, of a res, precisely because it would be a property, like you said. I just don't think that it'...

Not necessarily, for if the subject-object correlation is absolute, then the idea of an absolute truth for us is not self-refuting, precisely because ...

As North Americans like to say: what you just said there is an opinion, not a fact. Can you prove that what you're saying is true? If so, then it is s...

Uncontaminated by human reason. In that sense, they are matters of pure, unadulterated blind faith. It's uncompromising fideism, it is the complete sa...

Because these are questions about what we ultimately are. These are questions about our own ultimacy. What are we? Here's an example. North Americans ...

@"Mapping the Medium" Reasonableness is the Peircean Ultimate.

Here is a good place to start for philosophical discussions about the concept of the Ultimate. It's not perfect, but it's something: https://plato.sta...

Here's another way to look at this, @"Moliere" and @"unenlightened". Descartes famously said Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. I am something, ...

Of course, Brand Nubian were inspired, in part, by Boogie Down Productions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSil_hBqbac

@"Jack Cummins" Here's a song by Earth Crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatUiti6I30

Ok, let's see. Metallica's self-titled "Black Album" for First Place? Ok, I can respect that. You seem to be the kind of metalhead that likes to see j...

Let me ask you this, @"Count Timothy von Icarus", to connect with one of the points that @"Joshs"'s approach seems to suggest (to my mind, anyways). B...

Ah, but you are too Lawful, my dear. You lack a bit of the Chaotic joyfulness that I have : ) Besides, music has much to do with the issues that the O...

Then let's do it. Is there a philosophical reason that you have for avoiding music as a topic of conversation? Or is it that don't find music to be a ...

It's "Nazism for Philosophers", at the end of the day. Because Levinas is a Husserlian before being a Heideggerian. And Heidegger himself is, at the e...

Yeah but Laozi's entire point is that you shouldn't follow the Dao. Instead you should follow what the Dao follows: "what is natural".

Thank you for your time and energy, @"Count Timothy von Icarus", and for such considerate responses to my questions. That being said, I'm afraid to sa...

Not really. When you move to one of the corners in a room, you're not a the center of the room. So, you're not the center of the room. But you could b...

Well, let's all settle down, shall we? No need to get so personal among total strangers. Let's get this thing back on track. Here's something to consi...

Well, I have to teach Heidegger to my students at the Uni every semester, so there's that. I don't have much use for Heidegger's philosophy, to be hon...

Neither do I, that's the problem. I don't think anyone does, actually. I mean there's like, some guesses, but that's basically it: just guesses. At th...

Ok, let me ask you this, then. What would you answer to those questions, from your POV? If you were the one asking them, what would you say?

Well, then what you do make of it, then? The poem that I just shared, that is. What human experience does it record?

Is this what you call "the catholicity of reason"? What evidence do we have that this is not just the secular universality of human reason? I would sa...

Ok, then I'll just copy and paste what I just posted in another thread, so that we may take a look at it here, from the point of view of your storytel...

And if the reason is just to talk about philosophy between a Finn and an Argentine on an Internet forum? Is that sort of cooperation mutually benefici...

Think of it this way. Imagine that you have a watch. Suppose that you disassemble it. Has the watch ceased to exist? Some metaphysicians say "yes": th...

@"Moliere" here's another angle to consider, in relation to the topic that you and I are currently discussing (physics and history): positivism and sc...

I don't think it's a ruse. It's a legitimate philosophical problem. And I think that the correct answer is that the Reconstructed ship is identical to...