Jake

I know this is likely to be outside your scope of interest, so sorry to mention it again, but I can't resist. The DMT documentary I mentioned earlier ...

I'm here to explain my goofy notions with folks who are actually interested in the topics being discussed. To debunk this, start your own thread where...

Ok, sure. I'm just trying to adjust that balance a bit, and likely overstating the case in the process. Yes, I hear you. I'm not sure I'd go as far as...

You're not the kind of poster who has much interest in investigations. You wish to play the male ego competition gotcha Great Debunker game. Ok, play ...

This seems true, but that doesn't automatically equal it being wise. Instead of debating competing meanings we might look more closely at what meaning...

I'm suggesting that 1) unity is the fact of reality, and 2) aligning ourselves with reality to the degree that is possible is inherently rational. You...

Right. And all language is thought. And all thought operates by division. Thus, all discussions are polluted by a built-in bias for division.

So stop, and all your problems are solved.

Nobody is bothering you. Nobody can bother you in this medium. You're CHOOSING to read my posts. If you'd like to make another choice that would be en...

But, but, but if Rahner is going to keep agreeing with me, how will I write my glorious sermons???? :smile:

Yes. And the source of these pursuits is the perception that reality is divided between "me" and "everything else". Yes, agreed. In my experience this...

We are made of thought. Thought operates by a process of division. All else flows from that.

They are "truthy" (great word invention :smile: ) to the degree they comment usefully on the reality of the human condition. Imho, advice like "treat ...

Yes, good point. It's impossible to really discuss unity in language, because language is built of thought, and thought is built of division. Thus, an...

I am not a god, if that is what you're asking. :smile: Seriously, of course this is a hopefully engaging theory and not a perfect proven truth. I woul...

I am looking in to it already, through my mentor Father RankAmateur. He's doing a good job. If God is in all things etc, then the "something" that is ...

But we do feel separate, so I'm not sure of the point of this question. From my point of view, we aren't separate, a fact which anyone can confirm for...

I do, I do! Thanks for that. For one thing, it's interesting to me to find myself channeling Catholicism theologians I've never heard of and know noth...

Speaking for myself, I'm not at all concerned about getting pretty religious or evangelizing. Everybody on the forum is evangelizing all the time, me ...

Perhaps you could expand on this aspect of Catholic philosophy? It's interesting to me that Catholic doctrine (if i understand it) claims that God is ...

How dare you be rational on a philosophy forum. How Dare You!!! You sure won't find me pulling any stunts like that mister.

That's the whole point for YOU. My contention is that it is the experience itself that matters, not anybody's explanation of it.

Please prove that human reason is qualified to deliver credible answers, or even credible theories, on the very largest and most fundamental of questi...

Yes, agreed. But he's not running in those other countries. He's running in an insane nation which elected Trump.

According to my undercover secret sources, the Mueller report also contains video of Trump down on his knees giving Putin a blow job. You don't have t...

Your kind of atheism, all kinds of atheism, are just faith. All of it, all flavors of atheism, depend on unproven qualifications of a chosen authority...

Yes, like I keep saying, the problem is resolved, the investigation come to a useful insight. Nobody knows what they're talking about. Your atheism an...

You're repeating the point I just made. Yes, the investigation has revealed that we are ignorant. Thus, the entire basis upon which you accept one pos...

Yes, reason is qualified to outline the boundaries of our ignorance. As example, I can use reason to discover that I'm not going to become the next Ei...

That's because I am superior to you in regards to such questions, with no credit due to me nor any blame due to you, as neither of us had anything to ...

What color socks am I wearing? Members have no idea. Members have no way of finding out. Members could debate the question for centuries, but in the e...

This made me laugh! And even before I've finished the first cup of coffee. :smile:

The burden you carry is to prove that human reason can generate meaningful credible statements about phenomena the scale of gods, should such a thing ...

Well, don't worry about agreeing, just investigate for yourself.

You're being perfectly reasonable in the sense of your position being very normal. Normal, not a product of reason.

I think it's more like an attempt to explain color to a blind man. There are thousands of ways one might attempt to do that, which may create the appe...

Not only that, only 100 years ago before Hubble 99% of the universe didn't exist. Hundreds of billions of galaxies, they didn't exist, poof, gone! Abs...

Indeed. Just today I saw a guy riding in a narrow bike lane while hundreds of total strangers raced by at 60mph just a few away. Now THAT is faith!

On topics of such scale 30 is an ok excuse too. Nobody is born knowing such things, it takes time for some of this to sink in.

Personally, I don't think Sanders was a complete disaster, though I would agree he has weaknesses as a candidate, mostly his angry all the time person...

No. You're not. You believe in the infinite power of human reason with the same blind faith with which many religious people believe in their holy boo...

Yea, I vote for this. Trump would excel at playing the martyr role. It would give him a story line to build on for years to come. He'd probably start ...

What we're made of.

I often take offense at things people say on forums, but I am not promoting such reactions as a wise strategy. The logic here is as follows. If the fo...

Google is your friend. I learned this from a science documentary on either Netflix or Amazon, sorry I don't remember which, or the name of the show.

Did you know that time runs at different speeds in different circumstances? Do most forum members know that? Do most citizens know that? If you answer...

I would suggest two perspectives. In real face to face life such offense making needs to be limited to prevent violence. In the online realm, it's bet...

Well, science has done that, and proven that time runs at different speeds in different circumstances. This information is not particularly practical ...

Given that this is a thread about time it might be useful to reflect on the proven fact that time runs at different speeds, depending on the relations...

Another point of personal fascination is that while we resist death on one level, we embrace it on a daily basis too. Death is woven in to the fabric ...