You have not addressed the issue presented in the allegory of the garden of Eden. This is the cornerstone of the religious narrative. Essentially, hum...
A lack of egoism or of being a bigot does not equal humility, humility is about something else. A good philosopher is one who simply considers all ide...
Jim Morrison for surrealism perhaps. We each have our favourite artists, or musicians. I think that particularly in the case of music it is the music ...
Yes it's an industrial hangover in the marina of my local town, Ipswich. The development of the marina was stopped in its tracks in 2008, a nod to the...
It seems at times that humanity is superfluous, it is the relentless march of entropy towards heat death which is the be all and end all. I would say ...
Yes, but that doesn't negate the transcendent, it is merely a comment on the manifest world we inhabit. The transcendent nature of humanity is such th...
I expect they are looking for a candidate who has had a significant impact on culture and Dylan could well be the most influential poet of the last ce...
Exactly, someone like Trump will have appalling taste. I expect that his brief for the architect was I want something striking and taller than everyth...
A few more cartoons, all about Blair, in the first one he is the glove puppet. https://s5.postimg.org/o67smcc7r/IMG_6117.jpg https://s5.postimg.org/sg...
It's interesting that PC goes out the window in regard of the prophet. To be replaced with fear of death, or war. It's the one subject I wouldn't depi...
I will give this schema more thought, my own position might be orthogonal to this. In that I see material extension as primary here and time is a pecu...
Not necessarily, I was talking only of the physical world in that comment. Also by "world" I mean what we find when we are born, a physical realm, one...
The way the physical world (including our bodies) behaves, as science has described in great detail, is as a fully integrated cohesive material realm,...
I don't know if I could be described as a Stoic, but I do contemplate the idea of aligning my will with the will of God. Although I don't hold a belie...
Yes, I don't use the idea of black boxes myself. I prefer a scenario where there is some direct realism, but rather than boxes, veils, which in variou...
I was a cartoonist for a couple of years about 2003/4, I was so incensed by Blair and Bush going into Iraq etc that I turned to satire. These are a co...
Yes that all makes sense. So the eternal is becoming in the moment, but by the time it has become, it has passed into the past? Yes I do consider some...
For me this reads as some kind of feedback loop. Whereby in perceiving of one's expression, one expresses something more. Then one might percieve this...
Yes, this rings true. I had this insight once when the guru turned to glimpse at me during Puga. For I noticed in that glimpse that we were worlds apa...
So black boxes jigging about on a stage, perhaps the box is an atom, a special atom with a smidgeon of God in it, just jigging around with all the nor...
I don't think we can conclude that time is prior to temporal existence, the issue might be more subtle than that. Time external to temporal existence ...
Wasn't Royston Vasey set near there? (Sorry couldn't help it). My folks come from Huddersfield, I know that part of the world well, beautiful countrys...
Confined because we are in the position of having to rely on our brains for the computation of our minds. Hence we are subject to the environment with...
I agree and those terms are determined by (steeped in) our evolutionary position and development. But is it the case that we are experiencing two para...
Tiny houses would help, that's why I mentioned mass production of prefab' houses. With current technology they would be quick and easy to make and por...
As a fellow UK citizen I am well aware of the housing problem and have watched it develop over the last 40 years with the government not addressing it...
Thanks for the Russell reference, looks interesting. I have read some Allan Watts a long time ago, I remember that I found it inspiring. I would sugge...
I agree with your conclusion that there must be an abosolute prior actuality and if for you this has equivalence with your concept of God, then it doe...
Perhaps the idea that those external objects, the external world we find ourselves in, is itself beings, or monads, but of a different order to us. Or...
Thanks for the invite, I will be travelling around New Zealand for five weeks at the end of January. Although I know it is still a long way from Austr...
I haven't read Leibniz, but I'm wondering if the esoteric explanation is that the role God is playing is from our perspective like (rather crudely) so...
It's not easily being an outsider(intellectually), but it's very rewarding if you are an explorer of some kind. It is something which has been going o...
Well we can try, but folk have been praying for millennia, but the problems keep mounting. Perhaps it needs someone to pray for the right thing. I do ...
Yes it is not as simple as I suggest, it is a big subject. I don't want to defend any cosmological argument, but rather consider what people who take ...
Yes, not debased. I wasn't thinking of the less than constructive tendencies in hedonism, which can be real for many people. For me, the experience oc...
I am not saying inconceivable in principle, rather from our humble vantage point. Yes ts true that folk perceive divine beauty, meaning, or perhaps so...
Yes, I was thinking of dual aspect monism. I favour the thought that number is something that comes with manifestation, like time, or extension. This ...
Yes I think it depends on your personality type. I always had very positive results, except for a few brief episodes of paranoia, cased by external ci...
isn't it more a case of the words are alluding to something considered or believed in, but which is inconceivable to us. So rather, a humble acknowled...
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