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I don’t work with beliefs, I don’t hold any other than those that are required to live a life. When it comes to questions of existence, I hold none. T...

You seem to have smuggled in the word assumption there. How can it be deemed unjustified if we don’t know if there are ways to go around, or unlock th...

What I have said doesn’t mean I don’t consider cosmogony’s like this. It’s a good philosophy as I said the last time we spoke. However we are limited ...

You’re aiming at the wrong target. It’s the human condition, not what thinkers have worked out, that is the problem here.

I will say one thing. Trump has kicked Netanyahu’s ass. This is progress. Now he needs to kick Putin’s ass. Then at least he might have a chance of ge...

Mysticism got there a while back. They realised that mental enquiry alone is blind, there are natural veils in our and the world’s make up, which prev...

Questions of why and purpose are inaccessible to us because they involve the purposes of who, or what brought the world into being. It might only be p...

I would say that logical inferences about the unknown, or the fundamentally inaccessible are speculative. However it is preferable to the infinite ser...

I agree with you and really these smart people aren’t all that smart, because the infinite past thing is just a way of putting off the inevitable. We ...

This is just speculation, all we know is that we don’t know and any speculation we do indulge in will be tainted by anthropomorphism. Where the anthro...

Yes, but you don’t need to assign consciousness to it, just intelligence. Or are you saying that consciousness is necessary for the degree of intellig...

Consciousness is not a result of mental activity. It’s a result of cellular life and in multi cellular organisms with a central nervous system. It bec...

Yes, they all are, every establishment is. There’s no credible opposition left, can’t you see that yet.

Well they realised the U.S. and Israel couldn’t be trusted when Trump tore up the deal with Iran in 2016. This point became inevitable then. So much w...

The NYTimes has been on the cool aid since everyone kissed the ring last November.

Netanyahu claimed Iran was 2 weeks away from the bomb in 1992 and has continued to repeat if ever since.

Well it does have a meaning in mathematics, as an endless sequence of numbers, or unbounded set. But this is not encompassing any endless, or infinite...

So are the possibilities for the origin, ground of physical manifestation, the possibilities are endless. Yes and the Flying Spaghetti Monster might h...

If you remove the word believe from that sentence and replace it with the word consider the word excuse loses it’s relevance.

Infinity not woo woo! Come on.

logic is computation and logical structures are software, by analogy. This is developed in living bodies that have a central nervous system. Living bo...

Quite, a world of philosophical zombies could have played the role acted out by humanity. And yet a cockroach and a crocodile have more self awareness...

I enjoyed reading this post, it laid out some of my thinking in a clear way. I agree about the limitations of human thought. For me meaning, or guaran...

No this not my view. My view is open ended, that we are trying to address things which can’t necessarily be understood by our brand of rationality, or...

Yes, I’m familiar with the argument. Putting the use of infinity to one side for a moment. A God which is eternal, existing at all times, past and fut...

It would require the U.S. to take Tehran, this is what the hawks and the Israeli lobby are trying to convince Trump to do now. Hopefully there is some...

Reminds me of the heady days of the Jref forum.

King James Bible. It looks like a ground of being to me. (from your post that I responded to) I’m not aware of people claiming the “God” is uncaused. ...

Apologies, I missed your first post addressing this, the other day; So this indicates to me that a ground of being is “ the very source and foundation...

Not necessarily. Let me explain it by describing a cosmogony in which the ground of being for an individual being is the body of a greater being and t...

But God might be one of these beings, with powers which seem unlimited from our tiny perspective.

Yes, I agree with that. Although what I was getting at is a growth, or development in the being, so there may be some kind of learning in a biological...

Yes and yes. But what is “going through it” referring to?

Yes, I have seen this as well, (I was involved for a decade during the 1990’s). Traditionally (prior to the New Age movement) people would have a call...

Yes, I realise that and the ability to view the world in this way requires a specific kind of training and understanding which can’t be sufficiently p...

Part of the problem here is that we don’t have the conceptual language to imagine (visualise) such things. Once you do, it’s quite easy to do so. The ...

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International law has been a fragile thing held together by the international bodies. It wasn’t going to survive a breakdown in the coalition of the W...

Interesting, I see an alignment here with the ideology of the Theosophical society and other attempts in the 19th century to bring Eastern philosophy ...

The blind leading the blind.

Yes it is a tinder box, which is why players shouldn’t play with matches.

I don’t have anything I can point to just now. But at the time there was a lot of discussion about it and subsequently lots of discussion about what t...

Yes, but before Trump’s first term in office the Iranians were moving very slowly towards nuclear weapons. This stepped up as soon as Trump tore up th...

It was working a dam sight better than when Trump started throwing his weight around. Now we even have Saudi and Gulf states showing sympathy with Ira...

No no, he’s still going to get his Nobel Peace prize. It’s 4D chess.

The idea was to keep a lid on Iran, it was working. Until Trump came along. The only way to stop them now is to topple Iran, or invade and occupy. Thi...

The hawks are spreading the narrative that Iran could have a workable bomb within 4 days. Even the BBC is repeating this now. It reminds me of the 45 ...

I don’t think Trump is stealing for a fight here, but the hawks around him surely are. They’ll be saying now is the time to take Iran out, they are we...

It’s all about him looking a tough guy on the day of his parade, tomorrow. You have to do the Trump voice when he’s being really mean when you say the...

Don’t forget the dolphin’s, etc..