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The way I see it is that a human has something extra than anything else in the world. An ability to act in a unique way, free of instinctive, or deter...

I would go further, in a very real sense we are one being. One instantiation of life and all that that involves.

Well I can’t think how else something would be caused.

The billiard balls are under the influence of gravity the whole time and gravity plays a role in the movement and trajectory of the balls and plays a ...

Surely everything we know is part of a causal cascade instigated by a demiurge. While mental activity is mini demiurges (us) learning what’s involved ...

Nice essay, summed up in this sentence; The people who deny this teleological purpose are in a way blind to it. They see things only in the external. ...

But in the U.K. it made him vulnerable to the newly developed (post 2008) Tory populist ideology. Which has now royally screwed him up. Just like the ...

I live in rural Norfolk and used to work as a polling clerk during elections. I remember seeing the older farmers ( there are not many young farmers) ...

Assad was an average man, we was an ophthalmologist in London before he became a genocidal maniac.

It does, you should spend more time with chickens. When a new bird is introduced to the flock, she finds her place in the pecking order by a stand off...

They’re full because it’s a good pyramid (ponzy) scheme.

There are two people doing that right now and anyone who hears about it gets really angry about it (as I did watching the news last night).

Sorry my chickens do this too. It’s intrinsic in the pecking order relationship. I’m not here to argue, because I agree with 99% of what you say. What...

I was suggesting some ways in which God can be the creator of universes, or worlds while not being fully aware (ignorant) of what he was doing.

Have you ever stood on a nail?

Self awareness is not required for step one, or step two. I observe my chickens doing this every day*. I suggest that all biological organisms have th...

Then you would be right, bingo!

For God creating universes might be like breathing, in and out. Or it might be for lesser beings, heavenly hosts to do it. We just don’t know.

I could toss a coin and let you know the result.

It might make sense from our perspective. But we are in almost total ignorance about these issues. All we can say with certainty is that we don’t know

Only in a very limited way. We are confined in the machine of the body with very little agency. Apart from a little bit I will call x. That’s not the ...

That’s the problem, you see, Catholicism. Maybe we could try Quakers, or Shakers. Although, I admit it might not translate well via the keyboard.

Enjoying your dry wit by the way. If you imagine that God does actually exist theology makes sense. Although as I was saying to Frank, Catholicism too...

We may already be in hell, earth may be hell. The spirit in each of us is separated by this heavy dense material substance that we wear like a straigh...

Then why all this focus on Catholicism? All these doctrinal abominations you and Banno are going on about are just over reach in the Catholic Church. ...

Apokrisis’s explanation is effectively that the movement and life force we observe is like water flowing downhill. It doesn’t need an animating force,...

Nice to read your way of explaining things again Apokrisis. But we are still at the impasse. The we in us is still the ghost in the machine. How is th...

Yes, this is a profound understanding, as embodied in the father-mother-son relationship. In a sense, this is the trinity in human form.

Thanks for the link. Interesting.

This doesn’t necessarily negate truly virtuous people. This is a hang over from the political decision by the Catholic Church to require confession fr...

Not necessarily, we can’t assume that God knows any particular thing. Also to God the bit of creation that we know might not be a creation. Or it migh...

Not necessarily, if a person is a good person and serves his fellow man. He does not require redeeming. Isn’t Christ the fisher of men, seeking out th...

In ancient history it was commonly understood that the earth was flat and that the sky (the heavens) moved across the sky from east to west every day....

Yes, I agree with this. But this time it’s different and that’s because of the size of the global population, the rate of the stripping of natural res...

Yes and this will only accelerate with the looming climate crisis. Also the breakdown in ethical practices and codes. We are back to where we were whe...

Power and capital are already adjusting for this. Which is partly why the populists are shouting so loud at the moment.

Time for some silentism perhaps.

So what, God still created it. Yes, they had no idea of a universe. Their universe was earth. We don’t know any of that, because the infinite God is i...

If God created the universe, then by implication, he created the earth at the same time. Because the material that formed the earth was part of that c...

There are different ways to understand what is going on with the Holy Ghost/spirit. It is confusing and there seem to be more moving parts than needed...

Maybe all the silent theists and believers, patiently being silent should now come forward and make their presence felt. Otherwise the casual observer...

I often think while observing the insect world, that there seems to be an excess of awareness. A vibrant interactivity going on. A kind of bursting wi...

yes, he’s hit the nail on the head. That is what’s going on and capitalism, as in free market capitalism has turned toxic.

I have remained silent on the issue for a number of years. But you didn’t seem to have much to say about that. Or even acknowledge that I was doing it...

I was talking about the trinity, which is a way of talking about these things. I represented Jesus as man(mankind). Jesus is the son of God and so is ...

I don’t give much weight to an omnipotent God. I see the Omni’s as a human invention, like infinity. I don’t think there are any infinities.

The son is the result of the creator engaging the medium. The creator can’t create without engaging the medium. The son can’t be the same as either th...

The trinity is a system of relating principles, or concepts, based on the family unit, of father, mother and son. The idea that if there is a creator(...

I’m not a biblical scholar, so I will leave that to others. I will point you to the kernel of truth in the kernel of truth I gave you. That once human...

I can understand your cinicism coming from a country where religion is such a dividing line. I’m in a country where religion is barely mentioned, play...