Forgive my interjection here. I want to point out that there is an important process which is necessary to undertake before one can make significant p...
In mysticism there is a process and realisation that one becomes God. What this means and refers to is a state of repose(on multiple levels) in the as...
I watched a nature programme recently in which tapping sounds had been detected being made by aphids. A kind of morse code, or something more like a l...
It is curious how there seems to be an apparatus, or means within us to follow this path, to seek this end. Or is it just the human mind which once de...
Yes I see this and don't disagree, however we can distinguish the brief moment of passing time, it's a reality and it is also clear that the moment we...
The alternative surely, is a very brief present though, with any sense of a moment of a longer duration, being some kind of simulation performed by ou...
Thankyou, very evocative. I do think that this subject may be beyond us in a rational sense. But I expect eventually there will be a science which wil...
I am thinking of the reality or truth of the situation we find ourselves in, so this is more of an exploration of that or what we can, or can't, say a...
I don't know, as I see it the travelling through time is part of the world we find ourselves in, an aspect of the spacetime. So in a sense time, the t...
Yes, but only in a relation or reference to the temporal world we are living in. I don't see a strict distinction between the eternal and the temporal...
Thankyou for your input on this, but rather than derail the thread I have started another thread about the eternal moment and would welcome your input...
Interesting, I don't generally see it this way, rather I consider the eternal moment, rather than a narrow boundary. That we experience a narrow prese...
Art with a capital A is what was regarded as the loftiest kind of artistic appreciation by the artistic establishment, such as the Royal Society of Ar...
For me music is effective in enhancing the emotions, or for setting a mood. For example while cooking, driving, painting, I will put on a piece of mus...
The singularity hypothesis is pretty shaky these days. Likewise an existing infinity. But I agree we cannot claim that the universe is not eternal, ce...
It is reasonable to consider that the universe is not eternal, we can see around us that the known universe began to exist. I know that this a vague a...
Ok, I've yet to see your refutation of the original though, i.e. "All things that begin to exist have a cause" Eternal things don't begin to exist, bu...
How is something that comes to us in the future, from some other source (Presuming that you don't assume that all things that exist to us are in the p...
Is your reason for the failure that the argument says all things that exist have a cause, which contradicts the conclusion that an uncaused cause exis...
"All concepts of God are false because, if there is a God, its true nature would be inconceivable to us puny mortals. Hence all concepts of God are id...
"uncaused" refers to a different sense of "cause" from what "cause" refers to." Quite, how far down this path does philosophy tread? And presumably th...
" Phenomena exist - what 'exists' is what stands apart, what begins and ends, every particular thing, every particular being. They all exist. The unca...
I agree with you and the rationale, but what does it prove? Does it prove the existence of God, an uncaused cause, or that from the human perspective ...
I agree LEM is not applicable here. Either existents had a cause, or they didn't, there is no half way house. However as I have pointed out, philosoph...
Well, you've really whipped up a hornets nest there. I'm not going to get stuck in on that one other than to point out that ever since the development...
"The issue with reincarnation in particular is that it is doubly taboo. Once because it was anathematised by the Church in about the 4th century, and ...
@Marty, I like your radical God, might I say a transcendent God, perhaps. But I would not only elevate ethics to that plain, but every experiential co...
The weakness of the argument is that it presumes to tackle the conundrum of first cause using logic. Logic (and the understanding it produces) is a pr...
Transcendental unity might be the same as the being in/of us, now at this moment. That being does appear to be undifferentiated, if one considers it a...
It's on the Norfolk broads, in the UK. I paint local landscapes of East Anglia, there is a strong tradition and interest in the landscape and art of t...
Yes I know what physicists have worked out. But that's besides the point, I am not questioning the scientific view of the universe. I'm pointing out t...
"If the universe is finite, then what's outside it? What does it expand into?" You might be in a state of delusion, or an artificial construct in a mo...
I don't see how logic can be of any use here. There are numerous loose ends which can't be reconciled. I have given this a lot of thought over the yea...
@TheWillowOfDarkness wrote, "My approach in this is deliberate. The major point I'm refuting is precisely that distinction. Meaning is infinite. It's ...
@wayfarer Willow is making sense, it's just with an unfortunate turn of phrase. Perhaps if you read between the lines, just focus on the direction of ...
We do have numbskulls in a way. In the sense that our selves are supported by a group of individually acting cells, cooperating and working in concert...
Yes the thinking mind of a human could be described as an algorithm. But I don't think that this is the whole story, there is consciousness and being,...
I don't see how logic can be used to say anything about existence, other than to comment on things that we happen to experience and know(the empirical...
Yes, I did once experience an insight of the subtly of the communion of forms of divinity, well on more than one occasion, in the presence of a guru I...
@Wayfarer "But what about communities of faith, discourse and practice? " I agree with you about this, however a degree of faith and acceptance is req...
I've have come late to this discussion as I have only just found this forum. I would like to point out that the God of man(and woman) is a conceptual ...
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