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Well put, it would be impossible for us (or anyone) to prove the existence of God, even to ourselves. So it would only be idolatry. Even if God came d...

You can’t say that because you don’t know anything about existence, or God, for that matter.

Yes, it is surprising. There seems to be a leap made wherein the mind is seen as the one remaining anomaly not fully explained by biology and is seen ...

I wouldn’t group idealism in with solipsism. The later is illogical, whereas I can see a strong case for idealism. I think you should revise what you ...

It will all be a democratic conspiracy.

Well if one accepts this, it doesn’t lead anywhere, other than staring at yourself in the mirror (metaphysics ends up reflecting the nature of the wor...

That is philosophy, about the possibly true. If it’s verifiably true, that’s science. Philosophy is about coming up with ideas and explanations that m...

Yes, native and indigenous peoples knew the importance of living in harmony and balance with their ecosystem. We can learn a lot from them.

The Normans should never have been able to win at the battle of Hastings, but they had the good fortune that the English army had been fighting off th...

Cool.

we should think about the ecosystem and how we can protect and live alongside it.

It was worse than an autocracy, it was colonisation. The British people were ruled with an iron fist for centuries, by French colonialists. The invade...

Trump only wants regime change because Maduro is a “leftist”. If he were on the right, Trump would be inviting him to have tea at the White House.

Yes, that is the only way around it, we are part of God and God sees everything. Therefore there isn’t anything that isn’t seen. If this isn’t the cas...

So it’s Multiverses all the way down then?

He’s doing a neat trick whereby the phenomenal has to become intelligible (therefore an intelligible object) before it can be acknowledged.

No more than your replies are a word game. The game seems to be, let’s insist there isn’t anything else (other than our reality), because we don’t hav...

Your replies read like a word game. But the OP is asking about what is, are you confining what is to what can be known by the use of words?

So which one are you?

I wouldn’t want to name names as I feel cheeky enough saying what I said. There is a point though, only an idealist, of some kind, would restrict what...

These guys are idealists masquerading as physicalists. They just want to shut down the debate and confine the physical material to their idealism. If ...

I looked into it, it’s a short article giving a summary of the conclusions from a study by Yi Zhang, at the Cooperative Institute for Modelling the Ea...

There have been some studies suggesting that there is some greening going on. I came across it because lots of climate change deniers have started say...

I was joking with Unenlightened, when I wrote that. He was spreading doom, in a light hearted way, as is his want. It is a real possibility though, jo...

Well I’m not in a position to argue with that. The unpredictability is off the chart, all we have is modelling and a long list of factors which will t...

My point is that Christianity provided the moral framework which enabled the development of Western civilisation. Wayfarer put it better than I could....

Not rosy, I realise how the people were controlled with brutality. But at least the rulers realised the benefits of the ideological stability provided...

Yes we have free, but will complicates the issue.

Let me qualify that, I meant to be ripe on one’s soul (or equivalent). Not that the institutions facilitate this ripeness. But rather enable the flowe...

The church told us in an authoritarian way that God was watching every single thing we did, could even see in our thoughts to see if we were a sinner....

Don’t forget when the tropics become uninhabitable.

Yes this is the other front we will have fight on. Not just climate change, but bond villains too. Oh and mass migration too, nearly forgot that.

Namaste

Interesting, reminds me of the antique trade. Traders are looking for what’s in fashion and offloading what’s going out of fashion. What you guys desc...

Let’s hope Trump doesn’t impose martial law, or a civil war doesn’t break out.

As I see it there is a confusion in the way Western commentators and teachers describe and teach and how aspirants operate and form ideas in this ende...

That sounds like a description of what happened in 2008. This time there is a vast crypto bubble being inflated by Trump, Thiel and Sachs. Which is to...

It’s looking like a bubble to me. Too big to fail. You’re not filling me with hope here. I was watching a documentary (BBC Panorama) yesterday in whic...

-David Bentley Heart. Not only this, but in that reverence, it’s inherent sense of community, people naturally become collegiate, eager to contribute ...

Very much so. Where are we going now? that science and reason are king? We are blind.

Here she is with her white hair. https://www.reddit.com/r/CampingandHiking/comments/11ns3is/view_of_the_most_elusive_mountain_mount_nanda/

This rationality becomes blind, a Minotaur, a Frankenstein’s monster. Look at the leader of the free world we have now, a sad indictment of the progre...

Yes, he/she was always attacking general comments about climate related issues, within a philosophical overview with badly researched data. It became ...

Yes, exactly. Although one of my kids who’s 35 and has been working in IT his whole life. Lost his job last year and can’t find work anywhere.

Hi, and thanks for your input. You do sound like an insider who is very excited about developments within a bubble. I’m holding my breath, I just don’...

Have you read the posts and exchanges by Agree to Disagree? Not just in this thread, but all climate change threads.

Well we don’t know much.

I had a trip once where I realised that the atoms in my brain were 99.999% (or something) empty space and if I rocked the boat too much I would fall i...

This is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (fsb) argument, it goes; Because there are no actual fsb’s out there I would need to see evidence of their existe...

Well any brand of agnosticism (take your pick) is the only rational conclusion. I’m toward the deistic agnosticism end of the spectrum. You are famili...