That ancient God is a bit weird, "jealous" for example, and angry such that He might smite you. In those times I think they were assigning to God huma...
Have you seen a battery? There's a negative pole and a positive. You put a wire across, and if the battery is strong enough you'll see sparks. That's ...
I've come to reconsider what I said yesterday. I no longer believe that the physical object as a symbol (spoken word, written word, book, gift, or wha...
You haven't presented any logical relationship between any vaccination and any autoimmune disease. The fact that it is checked for in trials does not ...
Have you studied any physics. Science holds that waves are patterns of motion within a material substance composed of parts. They are a change in the ...
Thanks for the explanation Wayfarer, it's appreciated. I think we all need to apprehend that there is so much meaning in actions which are not a use o...
I thought the idea that vaccines actually cause autoimmune diseases was debunked a long time ago. Is that baseless hypothesis still floating around? Y...
Wouldn't there necessarily be a reason for the person to doubt and then reject "God"? Wouldn't this reason be the person's new Truth? However, the per...
The book is merely a symbol representing the meaning involved within the act of giving the book. It means that the master has chosen the successor, or...
The point though, is on what basis would you deem it irrational? You cannot judge it as irrational relative to the conventional logic, because the con...
The way I described it, the thing transmitted is not the written text. What is transmitted from one person to the other, is the meaning within the act...
OK, that clarifies that, because the way you had said it implied that you believed they had proven it. Well it depends on what you mean by "reason". I...
If you say that they "proved God doesn't exist", then you accept their logic. And to believe otherwise would therefore be illogical. You didn't say th...
You haven't explained how use of the vaccine could suddenly cause an autoimmune disease. There's no reason to believe that the body would suddenly los...
But we very often do go against reason and logical inference, it's in our nature to do just that. That's the point I made in my post above, with '"Goo...
Oh sorry Wayfarer, I got carried away by the words, and posted the post before reading the rest of yours. This is very similar to what I described abo...
What about the value of the "special transmission" which is the act of passing down the book? That is, the act itself. Obviously there is value in thi...
I think that since the successor had no desire to keep the book he hadn't learned everything which the master had to teach. If he had learned everythi...
Why would anyone be rendered sterile? I don't see the connection, you're just making up an imaginary scenario. What's the point? God might strike me d...
As you said, it's a "mighty fine assumption", and that's because it's based in true experience. That's what distinguishes it from many other metaphysi...
OK, that seems like a good reason for you to refrain from getting vaccinated, the possibility of unknown, unforeseen consequences potentially caused b...
No, what is measured, in the case of measuring the heat, does not determine the state of the object. As I explained, further deductive logic is requir...
Then why use 1 in 1000 in your example, if your other parameter is problems with no immediate symptoms? Why not propose 1 in 100, 1 in 10, or just pro...
When looking for side effects in a drug trial, they are looking for "weird" consequences, they are not expecting people to be dying. I think that by t...
If my math is correct, 1 in 1000 over 40,000 results in 40 cases. If it could "simply not appear" in those 40,000 as you suggest, then clearly it cann...
However, the inverse needs to be respected as well. When scientists are discussing the metaphysics of space and time, they ought to have respect for e...
I did not use the word "knowledge". You spoke of "level 1 symbolism", for lack of better words, as "a biochemically driven reaction that was precipita...
Well, ending the discussion right now would be an unhappy ending, so if an unhappy ending is what you're afraid of then don't end it. But I really do ...
I believe that all religions attempt to culture an attitude of self-honesty. Whether they have an efficient method, or are successful, is another thin...
No, the amount of heat is a measurement, and all that is determined with this measurement is the object's temperature. That measurement does not deter...
You don't think I believe in evolution? Do you know that there is more than one evolutionary theory? So I think that reducing to "the evolutionary the...
Well I don't really agree, because philosophy addresses issues which fall out of the reach of formal logic. So what it "falls back on" is an odd sort ...
Duh, the thawing ice adds to the quantity of liquid. Electricity? Well, I think if monists are ready to accept that there are two distinct substances,...
I can't see your point Harry. If we have liquid water and solid ice, and someone argues that ice is never liquid, and liquid is never ice, therefore t...
Can we say that level 3 is an operation of symbols, logic, which is totally divorced from the meaning of the symbols? The operations are universal, an...
I don't think it is correct to class religion and philosophy together, and separate science from these two. What separates religion from philosophy, i...
If I remember correctly, in Aristotle, a habit is described as a sort of property, what something has. So the word used is similar to "having", and in...
I think that this is a very significant part of being human, to be open to changing your mind, and to actually change in that way, is an important par...
The problem with this is that idealism, and theology in general, dispute this claim that "the physical came first". They believe that the immaterial c...
Here's something you might want to consider, Jack. There's an epistemological standard which proposes that knowledge is justified true belief. And the...
The third named thing is not another substance though, it's more like a name for the zone of interaction. That's not what I meant. All you are saying,...
If you read my post, I go further than describing the observer as an active participant, to the point of arguing that "the observation", any observati...
I told you where i get the unity aspect from. Individual is defined as single, and single is defined as one, which is define as a unit, or unity. Ther...
The reason why it is argued that eternal Forms cannot interact is that they are eternal, therefore outside of time, unchanging and necessarily inactiv...
This is a good point, but I think the issue of the op is whether this natural capacity for empathy is caused by group existence, or is the cause of gr...
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