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Not asking for spoon feeding, but thought it would be nice if you elaborated on the metaphysical suppositions of Spinoza since you have volunteered to...

The attribution of emotion wasn't mine. I can confirm that I was not there when God was creating the world and light. There was no one around in the v...

That is an interesting view on Absolute Nothingness. As long as you have arguments with possibly some evidence, we are interested in looking into the ...

Nothingness is a concept, but it is also ontic. Nothingness is the only concept which can be applied to space. Because they share common qualities suc...

Yes, that is where nothingness comes from. Therefore the origin of nothingness is external to human mind, not internal to human mind. But married and ...

Have you not read the bible? I recall God saying "Let there be light, and there was a light. God was happy to see the light in the world he created." ...

So, what does Spinoza's God do for Spinoza or for the rest of us in this planet?

That cannot be always the case. You can make up an empty set from a biscuit tin, which contain no biscuits. Empty set can be made up from empirical wo...

Anyhow "Absolute Nothingness" itself must be from external to you, because without the object called "abstract nothingness", how could you have formed...

But you still need data to subtract from outside of you? You must know what you are to subtract from what. That what must come from outside of you? If...

But isn't the subtraction external to your mind? Surely you must have subtracted something from something else from the objects external to youself. Y...

What are the connections / relations between something and absolute nothingness?

That sounds like the substance of Spinozan God is purely mental, conceptual and immaterial. Would it be correct?

Then would it be the God in Christianity or Judaism with emotions and passions like those of humans'? That would be the God usually normal religious f...

Wouldn't it be the case, then to relate / attribute God to substance seem an ambiguous attempt in logical connection. In what sense did he?

I did some reading in the link and the published books on substance and God, but I couldn't quite see what the true existence of substance at all. Spi...

Heidegger wrote on Nietzsche in 4 volumes, and they look cool. I am sure Heidegger covers most of the topics listed in the OP in his own philosophy.

But then, most of the major religions in the world have been Monotheism. Would it mean that, the majority of population in the societies in history pr...

You seem to have been confused between your mind and the objects of your perception. What you see and hear, the content of your perception is not your...

Thanks for the link. Spinoza has been in my reading list, but still haven't managed to start. When I opened the "Ethics", and read a page or two, I co...

It is just one of the different scenarios of what the nature of time might be. That wasn't anything to do with a supernatural tangent. It was just an ...

Does it then imply Nietzsche's idea was that a living agent cannot overcome / transcend its biological foundation i.e. DNA, inherent characters, featu...

If time is some physical entity running itself somewhere in the universe, and if there were different timelines running in different physical spaces, ...

It seems to be the case that at this stage, your incumbent job is to define what mind is. What does mind mean to you? Please define.

Yep, got the description for "exotic matter", but you still need to explain why and how exotic matter is required for time travel. How does it suppose...

Yes, it must have been my mistyping. I try not to google too much if I can help it. The underlying implication for asking the question was not just th...

I do admit I am not familiar with Deacon. I only did read synopsis of his theory. But still I don't recall the synopsis mentioning anything about God....

It appears to be not enough detail of the evidence for the claims, hence was asking for more details.

Does it mean then, Spinoza was an atheist? Perhaps would it be the reason why he had been excommunicated from his religious authorities? In that case,...

This sounds more scientific theory than philosophical or metaphysical statements. If it is a science theory, what supporting evidence does the claim h...

In fact, could you elaborate on these statements with more details, viz. in what sense the orchid does mind truths, and the orchid is synonymous with ...

I see. Thank you for your clarification. It sounded like the natural world is your God. I recall some folks saying that. Could it be Spinoza? Anyhow, ...

The question was forwarded to you because you claimed that the natural world is ample evidence for your God.

If the natural world is ample evidence of God, then how do you explain the mindless, irrational and unpredictable natural disasters such as earthquake...

An interesting point. Who were the first people started atheism and theism? When you say they share the same starting point, does it mean in time, or ...

You said you know the mind very well. So I asked you what is your mind? You said, what you see is your mind. I said that cannot be true, because if yo...

What is exactly the 'exact matter' including various virtual particles? So does it not prove that the whole story is just a fiction itself? The OP see...

A story that you hear, or the world you see is not your mind itself. You seem to be misunderstanding the content of your perception with your mind. It...

Does it mean that Democritus made up a word for atom for something he didn't know what he identified with or intuit about? In that case isn't the word...

But do we know what "God" is?

What do they have anything to do with the knowledge of your mind?

Tachyon is a hypothetical object which is in the domain of a fiction. In Modal Logic, when you say X is possible, it implies that X was possible in re...

It seems to be your futile tactics to revert back to some poetic nonsense, when you have no idea what you were even asking about.

I was asking you the questions, and you are supposed to give your answers. You are not supposed to answer questions with your questions.

:cool: :ok:

So, if you are watching TV comedy show, then is the TV comedy show your mind? If you close your eyes, then you see nothing but darkness. Is the darkne...

That sounds like your visual perception. Are you sure it is the existence of your mind itself?

So, you are claiming that you can perceive the mind. What is the shape and colour of your mind?

Come to think of it, what prevents you from trying to prove the assumption? Wouldn't it be actually an interesting attempt, and all the emanating argu...

But Orchid doesn't mind. To Orchid, death just means a course of nature.