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Possibly, I might not be aware what hidden assumptions I'm making. I noticed you referred to baggage, I agree about that.

looks like you're putting words in my mouth. I'm not saying God exists, but rather we can't answer the question using philosophy. I am referring to th...

That's not what I said. I said therefore God exists.

Those attributes which coincide with/are perceptible by, our bodies. Natural philosophy and science have described them quite well.

My evidence for the existence of God is my existence, it's pretty strong evidence, because without God none of this world I find myself in and myself ...

This is a weak argument, it relies on God being necessarily defined by the person claiming his existence. Philosophy would need to go deeper than what...

What if it is a necessary simulation? Simulation might be a part of nature. Perhaps folk who think on it should look to ways it might be happening in ...

I'm all ears, teach me.

No not them, they only "lent their vote", I mean the true Tory voter. I heard a group of them being interviewed on the BBC lastnight. They are very ha...

A fifth dimensional being might have numerous reasons to create, or go to a 3 dimensional universe. Like a fertile ground for seeding fledgling beings...

no, that isn't it at all. I genuinely cannot imagine how anyone can physically construct the universe in which they live. this is largely because I th...

The UK government is so corrupt it stinks, but they are not worried because they can hide anything behind Corona and their voter base has become funda...

I agree that that is a reasonable definition. But the atheists will shoot holes in it with hippopotami, or flying spaghetti monsters. All you have to ...

I don't think he was doing that, it's not my place to say what he was saying though. Yes, although I was referring to the esoteric schools. They were ...

If one looks at that funky jazz objectively, the reason why those sages taught silence and stillness, was because it was a meditative technique with t...

I agree with your sentiment. I am reluctant to comment on metaphysics in case I don't fully understand it's workings, but to me, it does seem to fit w...

Yes, to the extent that in the embodiment of all experience symbols are to be found and known in that experience. My emphasis though is on being, phil...

These personalities might be described as the dreams of the S?k?ma ?ar?ra, as it travels the spheres. Brought to the west by the Theosophists. https:/...

Because all the products which are currently produced in China are going to go up in price, or become scarce.

I am boycotting Chinese goods, namely huawai products, because they won't be supported by Apple, google and Microsoft. I will update my IPad now befor...

It may be useful when philosophy is trying to describe the being, the one who is doing the describing and the hearing of the description, to tabulate ...

Nice, for me it reads as "fantasy" is referring to ego and personality. Such feeds on symbols as it lives and builds the sense of self, society and cu...

Nice text, clearly written by someone who has conceived of being as spirit, or flame. Finishing with the realisation of the decent and return to the s...

I like your analogy, it reminds me of the idea that the Christ is the light of the world. Wherein the light is not the light we see with our eyes, or ...

James O Brian provided an interesting insight into the government's (in UK) strategy for the coronavirus crisis. Essentially it is to create confusion...

Yes, so the racists (who are right wing) in the UK want to get rid of the EU and EU nationals, because they don't want immigrants stealing our jobs an...

The silver lining is that Johnson has offered UK citizenship to the majority of Hong Kong's population, approx 3.5 million. I wonder if he told all hi...

Super Saturday, our Independence Day, 4th July, the British economy gets back to normal. Johnson is urging us all to go out and spend, get drunk and b...

I to am concerned about the problems of mankind. But from a slightly different angle than the usual. My concern is how humanity will secure its long t...

Acknowledging my and humanity's lack of knowledge of our origins and the origins of the world we find ourselves in. They are not privy to the informat...

I can understand that, she was a controversial figure in her day.

Heavy animal farm shit.

Well yes in the realms of human discourse, religion, politics and human intellectual knowledge. But none of that answers the question, the EOG, unless...

Helena Blavatsky was the driving force behind the creation of Theosophy.

This is where we hit our first problem, I can't define God because I am not up to the task, but I still might know God, or have met God. So the questi...

Well you didn't address the issue at hand (EOG). Can you say that I am not God?

Any Blavatsky Mews?

I joined the thread because there seemed to be a bunch of atheists bashing a theist. I just thought I would point out that philosophy can't do that, i...

I was being ironic, but also serious. I don't know what 3017amen has in mind here specifically, but I know where he's coming from. You see some people...

Maybe it is to simple

What you will repeatedly run up against on these forums is that philosophy is ill equipped to tackle the issue of G/god, because it is a discussion of...

Bannono Is this what it takes to get you to wax lyrical? Surely quietism is appropriate here.

Agreed. On a materialism thread some folk say that there is nothing apart from the material known to us and science and its effects, products. I usual...

There is, but that largely falls under theology, philosophy seems to find it a hot potato.

You have some interesting ideas there, but until science finds out something, we won't be able to confirm or deny any of it.

I hope you are not going to view me as schizophrenic now. lol This is all fine for a philosopher, but it still doesn't have the capability to explain ...

Likewise. I think it is reasonable to distinguish between the management of the bodily functions by the brain and the intellect. Yes, but have we esta...

Quite so, some people on these boards think that mind equates to consciousness, or visa versa. So you are including in mind everything the brain does,...

I've had a change of heart after reading this on Quora; Is Brexit going to make the UK more powerful? So in that spirit, I will answer, yes of course ...

I asked you for a thought proven to be true and you mentioned a finger in boiling water, it is you who are confused. My next point was that your body ...