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I’m not a biblical scholar, so I’m only using it as an example of how religious ideology can modify one’s behaviour to benefit society. The other exam...

What about dumb adults, or sheeple? Here in the U.K. there is a large cohort who still subscribe to political vibes from about 40years ago. Often desc...

Thanks for the link, that’s interesting. I think they need a new section focussing on the use of social media and the rise of populism.

I understand this, but in my experience the most likely demographic falling prey to populist ideology in the U.K. are the boomers, ages 60-80 years of...

I agree with the government that it is time to reduce the voting age to 16. But more importantly, democracy and the role it plays in our nation should...

On the assumption that it is the next stage in the development, or growth of the person*. There are numerous reasons for this, there is lots of litera...

It’s a thought experiment. It shows a way in which a world of rigid material, where consciousness is so inevident, could have originated from a realit...

It’s a contemplation technique, based on the idea that everything being an expression of God, and by implication is God, in essence. As to whether the...

Ok, I’m on board now. I agree with your idea that consciousness is fundamental, but I think it needs teasing out a bit. The way I do this is to break ...

Yes, from a perspective from inside the whole, it is entirely inaccessible. It doesn’t follow from this though, that there isn’t a purpose. Or that th...

In mysticism it is accepted that one is god-blind(although some worship a subjective image, which they feel they know), but also acknowledged that one...

Agreed, I like the idea you’re proposing. I have a sneaky feeling though, that you are describing something which is identical to what we understand a...

I have no issue with Enformationism. It sounds like a useful theory and compatible with my way of seeing things. G*D being the crux of the issue, is u...

I once had a lucid dream where I inhabited a plant, briefly. It was like my consciousness, disembodied, was moving around a landscape. At one point, I...

He doesn’t want it to become a discussion about materialism versus idealism. That’s all. Although that may not be possible on. This forum.

Quite. This involves direct oral communication and communication embibed by communion between people. Enabling understanding and knowledge not reliant...

Yes, it’s unfortunate, we are on a site populated by people who have studied academic philosophy, wherein the current zeitgeist is critical of what ha...

The ineffable God* can be known, understood and experienced by being it, in mysticism. Just not directly, It is done by it being witnessed, known thro...

The person, the person conditioned by society to behave in a certain way. You know like a Follower of Donald Trump, for example.

I’ve found that people on this site are guarded about what they think about such a disputed issue. Or perhaps it’s that once they have read philosophy...

Pretty much sums it up. Might as well throw a few flat earthers in there, to get the debate going

To see and know ourselves through an understanding of and with the body, through an understand of and being being and through growing, or progressing ...

I don’t really hold beliefs any more, (apart from beliefs relating to living a life in the world), because they are intellectually derived, rather, I ...

Very much so, do you know about 95% of my philosophy and what I spend my time thinking about, I can’t write on this forum. Because it’s a different la...

I would suggest that mysticism is the only way to fully understand ourselves. This is because it endeavours to develop understanding not simply throug...

Yes, fair enough. I was just pointing out that philosophy can’t answer the question in the OP. However we can conclude that the laws of nature can be ...

Yes, but that’s not an answer, it’s a description. Going back to more than one, could there, logically, be more than one without the innate pattern? O...

No worries. As for your question, I have concluded that the laws of nature are innate. That whenever there is more than one, a pattern emerges which o...

That’s not an example of breaking the law of gravity at all. Gravity still applies because the ball is still pressing down against your hand with the ...

I do think that repetitive office work can be bad for your mental health. Although I think most people manage to work around this with other activitie...

Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s top foreign correspondent who has contacts in Gaza has reported that doctors treating Palestinians in the vicinity of the Isra...

This is interesting, my next question is what are we for? For people like me the second question leads one to ask the first. Some people just seem to ...

There may be a translation issue here, I come to this from a mystical tradition where the mind is a faculty of being, not foundational of being. So to...

Seems to be straying into the mystical there. Requiring understanding and knowing not just through the lens of the mind. But from other parts of the b...

There are lots of interesting answers given in this thread. However I like to approach ideas about nature from a different view point and compare and ...

No worries, people around here are always willing to help. Although as I say, the consensus tends to follow what is accepted by academic philosophy. T...

Hey man, I’m the resident mystic here (or at least the one who admits it). I know what you’re saying and have many ideas about this stuff. Ideas I cou...

I thought we’d already got there with the idea of spacetime. One point at the Big Bang inflated into a near infinite quantity of points forming a netw...

Yes, I know. (although anyone who hasn’t read any philosophy would have no idea what that is). It’s always something cool, or hip, like the way images...

Yes, I quite like talk of zombies.

I haven’t offered anything more in response to yourself because I wasn’t sure what you were asking for. Now that you have asked it, I can respond. I w...

It was a bit of both. They were nice people, ordinary, down to earth art students, who just happened to be in the right place at the right time. They ...

Yes, definitely. I’m referring more to the tearing down of traditions in art. Now we have a clear space for new art movements to move into. There are ...

I do like a lot of modern art, but I saw the art establishment self immolate during the 1980’s and 90’s. This was actually the post modern period in a...

Well I will argue it with three examples. The arts are a matter of conception, expression and forms of beauty. Something which evolves and devolves wi...

I should have qualified what I meant about the death of art. I mean of the art being produced at the time of modernism, not the art of previous period...

This is where I suspected metaphysics would end up (not having read it sufficiently myself). Rather like the mystic, standing beside the door of the u...

The abilities, or skills in the creative arts ebbed and flowed with the prosperity and decline of societies. There hasn’t been a progression in high a...

Yes, indeed, this is a dark day in America’s history.

You know when Trump used the f word about Iran and Israel not knowing what the f*ck they’re doing, last week. When the Israel, Iran ceasefire was brok...