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The Bible is not just a religious text. It is linked to ethics, literature, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. The Bible is also a huge to...

Many people are interested in the ancient texts be it bible or literature, because they are interesting in many ways.

Sure maybe. I was not talking about the religious people specifically, but general readers like me who are not religious, but is interested in the her...

It was just a simple example to say how the words in the bible are rich in their meanings. I believe it is important for one to know them, if they are...

It is not category error at all. Both are abstract concepts. If you think existence in this case is some physical entity, that would be a logical hall...

I was on my way learning the Greek language recently, but stopped due to lack of time. I felt it would be advantageous even to be able to read the Gre...

Sure. Interesting book indeed. The Bible has many Hebrew and Aramaic words, it seems a must to get the dictionary ready all the time when reading, eve...

“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of ...

If the past history is the criteria for predicting the future, then the concrete prediction is that humanity will keep thriving and do well in the far...

It is the ancient text. Not all the words would be straightforward even in the literal meanings I would imagine.

The first thing I will have beside the Bible before reading is a very good etymological dictionary.

I still believe one must understand the text in literal terms, before they can progress into the other type of understanding or interpretation. Yes, w...

I find impossible to make sense of how it could be hard to make sense of. Perception itself is existence, then why does it need another existence to e...

Imagine for a simple example you were reading the bible. It says in Genesis 1:1, God created earth. If you didn't know what creation meant or didn't k...

I feel that, whatever text one reads, it is the literal understanding which must be achieved first. Then they can progress further to the other genre ...

"If" statements themselves cannot motivate humans to do anything, but they will help form the basis of intentions and certain psychological states for...

If perception itself is existence, then it doesn't need the conditions for existing.

I think everything is up to interpretation. And if we agree God is out of the boundary of human reason, then it is comforting for some people to base ...

Where there seem no reasonable answers to the questions, it is our tendency to rely on God for the answers. If you are a theist, you would accept it. ...

Yes, I would be happier in using DATA rather than information to denote the universe workings and makings. :) Strictly, DATA is still in the system as...

My post was purely from guemory (guessed memory), so it had very little content. But the link content will give me multi dimensional insights. It is a...

That link is really substantive material for the topic. Thanks. :up:

In that case, what follows is, nature made / caused events or entities are not meaningful in terms of human intelligence, perfect form or logic in its...

What would be difference between a wood carver carving away his mental image in his brain into a woodspirit carving, and something taking physical sha...

Also the truth value of linguistic statements and propositions depend on time, subjectivity and geographical location and many other conditions in the...

Sure. I think it is the best attitude in philosophical debates. I try to educate myself to be that level all the time.

I did search for the origin of the world "information", and the standard dictionary definition of information. (1) (Christianity) Divine inspiration. ...

Sure, but each individual will only need specific tailored information, and process with it. By definition, I think, information is tailored, abstract...

And then you must come back with your critical attacks to my points, which can be lethal or surrendering. :D

Sure it is. I am just saying from the other side point of view to get the dialectic discourse of the argument. :) Whenever there is a new OP, if every...

I wonder if all the details of how information correlates to it's neural parts, and the embeddings of the physical changes taking place with the envir...

I think it is organised data for certain purpose or use.

In Platonic idealism, this world is a temporary illusory reality. The ultimate reality is then, the reality of Idea, which is timeless and final. Even...

Some say that all the studies in epistemology and metaphysics in history up to now, is just footnotes of Plato.

The common trait of existentialism is to reject any system or logic anyway. It was to revolt against the domineering hegemony of Hegelianism and Kanti...

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Some things must be accepted as a priori, whether you like or not. You cannot change or reject transcendentally certain things such as time and space,...

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I am a part time nihilist myself.

I accept the reality as it is. Sure, where I can reconstruct, if it looks reasonable and possible without my loss and looks like it will make it bette...

I think it boils down to one's view on life. It then becomes personal value. It is not a matter of truth or falsity. You value human relations and bel...

Nihilism, for me, is just knowledge and mental attitude about life, with the prospect of all life of human being being finite and limited, therefore n...

Nihilism is not all that miserable and horrible position for one to be in, as some tries or seems making out. Many are actually quite content and happ...

I think recent A.I. Robots technology are still mostly based on the microchips architecture and programming around them. So the codings still might ha...

Most famous philosophers in history enjoyed solitary living for their thinking and writing. Human relations come and go, and it is something of a cont...

Physical or biological entities can be replicated for the exact cloning. If you are saying that human consciousness is constituted with the workings o...

It seems the source of nihilism is the end of life, which is inevitable death, rather than life now, which is suffering and not being perfect. Because...

Unless they can fully explain, replicate, transfer the workings of the full intelligence and consciousness from one being to another and demonstrate, ...

For instance, if you wrote "Nonsense, babytalk" then you must back up that utterance with clear and solid logical argument, why you came to that concl...

Sure. I like the Rimbaud poems. They are mostly surreal, dark and nihilistic, but the vocabulary and atmosphere it creates is deep and rich. Problem w...