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Is it the emptiness that keeps exploiting people and having holocausts? No self, no foul.

That's a cool word: muffin. Rhymes with McGuffin.

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Dude, the power of the ring was real (in the story). I think the image you want is the one where the Devil offers Jesus the kingdoms of the world for ...

Imagine a baby who is fed every time he cries. He becomes a person to whom pain is a sign of hunger. Pain means hunger. The point is that he thinks he...

Sober self vs drunk self. Sober world vs acid-world. Where is the truth? That's a question best discussed stoned at night in the middle of nowhere bur...

knowing the Other in itself? You can look through other people's eyes.

How does Lacan's Other relate to Jung's shadow?

I think he stopped running because there were helicopters following him. But you said you would think of running. Would you run?

Dude, you can't just run when the shit hits the fan. You have obligations.

OK. :)

It's written in chalk on the pavement near that grocery store you frequent. I'm surprised you didn't see it.

Humor me for a moment. Say I am the creator we're considering. I created x. I could have created y. Did x ultimately obtain by chance?

Following the scenario, the fact that x is actual proves God did want it. We can imagine that he might have wanted something else. You're saying this ...

H&K University (school of hard knocks)

I'm a certified roll-out checker.

Yep. Chalmers had an angle on that as well.. extended mind..

I think of Robert Redford when I hear that song.. for some strange reason :)

One of philosophy's roots is an interest in doing something about snake-oil salesmen and the power of mystery religions. 'Be open-minded, but not so o...

It's analytically true that an omnipotent God can't fail. So are you starting with a contradiction?

I think it already exists beyond the physical body. Part of my memory is in my cell phone.

I recognize the song. Your post opened some mental doors for me. :)

There's scientific proof that optimism works. Optimistic people undergoing cardiac surgery fare better their counterparts. For some people writing wis...

Because God is supposed to have the property of omnipotence, he usually gets what he wants. So if God wants x, there's a 100% chance of x. :) Maybe re...

Is this part of the scenario you were constructing or a conclusion you're arguing to?

(Y) Is there something to memories other than language use? The dreaded continental Wittgenstein: language is mechanistic, thoroughly conventional, an...

History of domestic violence, fleeing Bronco.... it just seems more likely to me that he did it.

What are the strands that go from one hour to another? Memories?

Because God had the power to do it and there was nothing to stop him?

A lot of people do think of the soul as immaterial. My point was that it hasn't always been thought of that way. I spend a lot of time thinking about ...

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Help me out, then. Has the soul always been thought of as immaterial? The Inferno wasn't written by Virgil, btw.

Wouldn't you want to understand what people mean by the term before explaining its requirements?

It gives one a hint as to how people at the time understood the soul. So your "souls by nature" comment is bullshit. :)

Virgil's soul had no problem moving around in hell in the Inferno.

The origin point in a causal chain doesn't have a cause, so God couldn't choose it. That point is incomprehensible. The alternative is that there is n...

OK. Just note that your usage of "chance" is idiosyncratic, and it's not at all clear how you're using the term. You're laying the groundwork for equi...

Maybe you could expand on why you think in terms of this opening. If the abstractionist deems the actual world to be one of many that could have exist...

I'm guessing that by "root" and "ultimate" you're talking about the origin point of a causal chain, which would have to be an uncaused event, right? S...

World-x would still be actual by my choice and not by chance.

Why couldn't world-x be actual because I made it so (as opposed to by accident)?

I feel you.

I think you're saying that there may be some wisdom in a bout of mental illness that a scientific approach might thwart. Problem is some mentally ill ...

I think he believes in underlying ambiguity. Language use paints a picture. For all practical purposes the elements of that painting are real. Sense i...

Didn't you say there's a confused concept of the self on the scene? I'm reading about Lacan's views so I wondered what you meant.

Where's the contradiction?

I'm not familiar. Was the drowned girl supposed to be reincarnated? Is there a contradiction in transmigration of the soul?

I imagine it's pretty ordinary in a community of Hindus. You still haven't shown that it's incoherent. I think you just don't like the notion.

Time is a big loaf of bread. Brian Greene said so.

Already answered that.