Metaphysician Undercover

The point was that eternalism does not make motion impossible, because all you have to do is add more premises, like your spotlight theory does. There...

Nothing in eternalism "precludes" motion but the theory does not provide any principles which would allow for the actual existence of motion. So if on...

I do not agree with this characterization of metaphysics at all. What the metaphysician seeks, as all honest philosophers do, is truth. As exemplified...

Thanks Punshhh, I think I'm starting to better understand now. I think this chitta chatta is what I called mental habits, whether they are consciously...

There's another option, that they believe there's something outside the eternalism framework, which provides the special metaphysical status for somet...

Luke objected that I brought in religion to explain how time could be passing in an eternalist universe. But Luke didn't seem to realize that the movi...

OK, I just wanted to get clear on what you meant by chitta chatta. I assume from this post, that it is conversations with others. But don't you distin...

I haven't seen any principles to distinguish physical suffering from psychological suffering. All suffering seems to have physical and psychological a...

Don't you really mean "substituted by"? Which one provides the substitution sufficient for your needs?

Of course the moments are not the same time, they are identified as different times. But the issue is that since there is no direction, as you indicat...

This is good. You've developed a place in your mind, free from the chitta chatta, which allows you communion with the higher self, soul. Can I ask, ho...

You don't seem to ever comprehend what Luke is telling you ChatteringMonkey. There is no movement within that 4d object because there is no passage of...

I don't know what you're trying to say, but this makes no sense. I didn't say we're "lost" in thought, I said we are always thinking. In case you have...

As described in Aristotle's Metaphysics, the geometer's procedure of constructing and understanding geometrical figures is the actualization of potent...

I've been told in the past, that metaphysics is a form of mysticism, and I've see reasons to believe this. This is part of the reason why I do not acc...

I never said we ought to do any single thing all day long. Nor did I say more is better. So this is all irrelevant. I do think all day long, it's not ...

Sorry Luke, it seems like we're speaking different languages. As stated in the op, the moving spotlight theory requires a "special metaphysical status...

When Aristotle is read thoroughly, especially his Physics and Metaphysics, it is revealed that matter is simply a concept. It is a concept employed to...

Huh? I thought you didn't want to discuss this. Why make such a strange analogy? What I meant, is that you dismiss eternalism, because accepting etern...

I think it is a mistake to visualize this situation in terms of a "physical system", or relations between bodies. This is why the nature of time and i...

I don't see evolution in this way. I see evolution as a process, a passage forward, and this is why I reject the proposed divisions of . As such, evol...

So far in this thread, there have been no principles established which would distinguish a mystic from a philosopher. It appears like the mystic is a ...

The instinctive behaviour is a double edged sword. Because human beings, by their very nature, have a material body, they have a natural, instinctual ...

You dismiss eternalism because it requires religion to make sense of time passage. That says a lot about you.

In case you haven't yet noticed, religion offers the most intelligent understanding of time. Sure that's the case, but the two perspectives are comple...

I don't think this would be any form of mysticism though, to value experience independently of everything else. Wouldn't this be some sort of extreme ...

Obviously, viruses don't respect municipal boundaries, nor are they deterred by county lines or state lines, they run free with their hosts. A municip...

The passage of time in a B-theory perspective is completely psychological. The soul, as an eternal unchanging being, is thrust into the space-time wor...

Is the seventh, as prior to incarnation, an absolute then? I believe that in traditional western mysticism, which I think has very little remnants tod...

Exactly, very little, if anything of philosophical value there.

Please, don't let my dog know these opinions.

Isn't this a direct expression of Hillary Clinton's and her supporter's problem last time around, believing herself to have won the election long befo...

Do you think that the mystic ought not take oneself seriously?

The question is not whether he did something wrong in the phone call, it's whether he lied about it later. Clearly he did lie, because obviously he di...

The triadic system, or trinity, is very useful in understanding the nature of reality because it provides the basis for understanding the unity of the...

It all depends on the nature of the thought experiment itself, and it's relation to the purported purpose. A few are well thought out and actually use...

There's more than one way to say the same thing. One can ask that another refrain from escalating without saying exactly "refrain from escalating". Ho...

I don't see the need for such multiple divisions in a mystical perspective. In the west the tradition is one division, the distinction is between the ...

This all makes sense to me, but I don't see the specific need for seven, instead of five or nine or something like that. And since you don't lay out t...

I can't see the point in you analogy. If your being is composed of a multitude of parts, you cannot turn one part down to concentrate on the other par...

Great idea. His incessant tweeting is worse than a mosquito buzzing around my head. I just want to swat him. Maybe he could take the time to learn how...

If we apprehend "a person" as a being, we perceive a unity. But if we see that a person has a soul, and that the soul is a part of the person, then we...

You seem to describe an experience of observation, "baring witness", and an experience of growth, "the fully awakened mind emerges from the bud", with...

I must admit that I don't really understand what you're talking about here. Are you trying to make a distinction between discussing mysticism and disc...

This is the key point. It is a mistake to try and make the numbers, which represent no specific spatial properties, into a line, which represents a sp...

He started it!

Subjects mentioned in my last post, things like distinguishing between possible and impossible, right and wrong (good and bad), qualify as non-sensory...

So the problem is semantical rather than grammatical. That makes more sense.

You should tell us what constitutes a serious mystic, in order that we can properly answer your question. Otherwise we'd just be making meaningless as...

I see where you're going, but I don't quite agree. I think that the stages, or rules, points, or whatever you want to call your numbered items, cannot...