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This is encompassed in my phrase "turn to God". For a person to turn to God during the soul searching in the crisis of the athiest* on the death bed, ...

I think that the wager is not so much concerned with such notions, it's more to do with soul searching in the subject making the choice. Whether they ...

I'm not sure you are getting to the crisis which the wager addresses. It is a universal crisis which people have faced throughout our history, well at...

I have come to this thread late, so haven't read through it all. I would point out that this issue is not really philosophical in the rational or logi...

There is a move to give the rights of a person to primates.

We need to invest in and develop zoos as we will have to rely on them to keep many species in existence certainly during the next generation. The scie...

Philosophy can help us to understand what we don't know and what we can say about what we do know. Thus achieving some balance and perspective on our ...

I am happy and I have a happy cat. We live a happy life together. I am on ocassion aware and a little sad that there are unhappy people and unhappy ca...

A point is reached where the person who (or the public opinion which) decides whether the money flows into the coffers, has to take the "truth" on fai...

I'm Spartacus!

That would seem an ideal these days. We are a colony though, so there's no escaping it.

A logical analysis of your being cannot answer whether you are a philosophical zombie, or not. It has to be taken on faith.

I don't know. Presumably some greater (cosmic) purpose would emerge at some point. Unless there is no purpose, but only happenstance(because cosmic pu...

Again this is your point of view, however I am not going to defend religion, only to say that there is a grain of sense running through it. As above, ...

I can't defend the religious narrative here, because it is vulnerable to criticism and I am critical of it myself. However I can offer some perspectiv...

Yes it's possible that we are in a Mainlander situation, we can't know from our perspective(putting revelation to one side for now). The trouble is th...

This is not necessarily my view, but by acting as a devils advocate I may be able to offer an answer from the perspective of religion, or spirituality...

Because we are constructed to do it, its second nature. We find ourselves doing it as though we have some grand destination. Some of us think and say ...

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ? William Shakespeare, Hamlet It was only a matter of tim...

Quite, we are biological organisms which persist over time simply because we have chemical systems for replication and extending lifespan(to the scale...

Perhaps this is like try to getting your head around infinity. You just end up imagining a very large quantity or size, then you intellectually multip...

As I see it purpose is something which cannot be known outside the mind* of the agency which performs the creative act which is completed by acting ou...

I would say that your body is your home, for now, until you move house. Whether you are your body, or something else, I would say that you are your bo...

Transfiguration. One way of looking at this process is that energy* flows through the body like water down a river. For our body and soul to be transf...

This is not necessarily the case. For example the experience of Charles Manson would be quite different to the experience of Jesus. So provided the pe...

If a scientist examines a concert hall, say the Albert Hall, during a concert. They might come away with a map of the auditorium, the sheets of music,...

Yes, metaphysics is always a means of limiting the mind, the imagination. There is an implication that we, humanity, have the capacity to both determi...

Quite.

Accept the consistency of solipsism and sufficient doubt is introduced for the OP. Regarding the issue of other minds, in some sense we are all one mi...

Yes, likewise. Actually for me both metaphysical views dovetail nicely into one whole, absent the rhetoric in either which denies something in the oth...

Yes I agree, infact I don't often mention spirit because it is so volatile that it can't be addressed without failing to address it. Rather like God, ...

I agree, I have looked at all the arguments for doubt on a philosophy guide website and none of seem relevant to me. They merely discuss differences b...

Does anyone believe that anything is immaterial? I mean material in its broadest sense, so the soul, while not constituted of physical matter, is cons...

Perhaps I can help. It occurs to me that if one looks at the issue in terms of the occurrence of being, rather than the experience of that being, ther...

When I first started posting on these forums, I was surprised to encounter this school of thought called idealism. I was expecting that my spiritual p...

I can only agree, within the field of philosophy, from what I know. Otherwise I see no trouble in saying what it means, although discursive communicat...

Ok, but the many may only be an extension of the one, so still one.

I agree, its pointless, other than as an academic exercise. I'm curious though if you say that substance monism is unintelligible. Is there a monism w...

What is there if there is not the real?

You said it. Seriously though I think you should have been born in Italy during the Renaissance, you would have fitted right in in the world of the Me...

Well John has said pretty much what I was going to say. I will add though that the Mona Lisa is not very well painted and only gained notoriety due to...

That's wrong, there are large numbers of geniuses and many more who if they were put back in time to the renaissance would be equivalent to geniuses. ...

Well if one puts aside the problematic consequences of pressing the button and accept it simply as you describe it. Then a true physicalist would pres...

I'm very happy for you, that you're not suffering to the extent that you would push the button for your personal position. Many people who do suffer w...

Yes, I visited the Abstract Expressionist exhibition at th Royal Academy a couple of weeks ago. There were lots of nice Pollocks there, not to mention...

Ok, I find it interesting in that it is like holding up a mirror to yourself, that you, or someone else, can view your ethical and ontological commitm...

Yes I think I see it now, I think I couldn't see it, because I had already seen that as a cat. Right on the bottom two tenths in from the left.

Yes, I have noticed that some people don't see them so easily. I might have to draw one, zooming in is just to blurred.

What colour's the flames eye, I can't quite make it out? It's getting late here, I need to crash now. Feel I'm going to have some vivid dreams;)

The white bit is just to the right of his long nose, like a dogs nose and two slightly darker bits are his ears sticking up above his head. Yes I know...