Yes. It is the same with Russell's Paradox. The paradox begins with "The set..." but the thing under discussion is not a set at all (the paradox shows...
Language is not, generally speaking, as rigorous as logic. One should not confuse the two. As you say, it is the logical relationship between ideas th...
That argument asserts that there is nothing outside the ego that has any intrinsic value in itself: that only by way of satisfying the ego does it hav...
Not necessarily. Love may be pure in the beginning but the ego is an opportunistic leech; it tries to appropriate everything, even love, to itself. Wh...
There needs to be a distinction here between thought and the concepts and images produced by thought. Thought is the energy of the mind. The mind has ...
Thought is being 'I think, therefore I am'. Being is God. The power of thought is God, in our minds. When the mind thinks it moves through God as a fi...
It was the banks that brought him to power. https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/hitlers-bankers-finally-face-up-to-their-sorry-past-26400645....
Like state atheism? The Communist Party engaged in diverse activities such as destroying places of worship, executing religious leaders, flooding scho...
A great deal of psychology is a tautology; they have renamed and relabeled many elements of the psyche and bleached it of spiritual reality. What is t...
I think what he is saying - S. Weil says something similar - is that abstract intellectual cogitation will not resolve the issue. One must find someth...
I think this needs to be put in context. What does he mean by 'thinking'? Trying to think it through and come to some kind of conclusion or resolution...
I disagree. My beliefs are convictions not the fulfilment of unconscious desires. Of course you can say 'How do you know that if your desires are unco...
Looked him up on wiki. Honestly, he just takes the "immortality project" and runs with it. It is so easy to do this. You can take some psychoanalytic ...
The purpose of philosophy is to teach us that the intellect cannot attain truth. Truth exists in the realm of consciousness. The a/theist's rationaliz...
Well, if that is what it is it has not worked very well. The human condition is steeped in pain and religion does not change that. But I am also wary ...
Yes I agree but I am talking about science as knowledge not as a creative activity. Scientific and mathematical knowledge is primitive. By primitive I...
Very often people argue about religion in terms of whether the mythology is 'true' or 'false'. That is like arguing whether a painting by Cezanne is '...
Yes, all is one. Consider the following. Let x^2 mean x squared. Now consider the squares;- 1^2 = 1 2^2 = 4 3^2 = 9 4^2 = 16 and so on. This squaring ...
I don't think god is simply invented to explain things. Belief is often based on intuition. Yes, people may use god to 'fill in the gaps' but even the...
The subtext here is that only 'provable' rudimentary truths are admissible; subjective things are open to debate, established science and mathematics ...
When I say primitive I don't mean historically or culturally primitive, I mean they are rudimentary. Atoms and numbers are rudimentary compared to the...
I am saying the reality of these things cannot be hammered into the limited confines of scientific knowledge. Science can not explain these things so ...
There is no need to prove the reality of these things. Art is really there. So is music, religion, consciousness. The question is not whether these th...
I'm not sure what your question is asking. I am asserting the reality of art, music, religion... When I say primitive I am not referring to primates, ...
As I see it, science is concerned with primitive realities. Matter is primitive and so is much of mathematics. It is naive to think that the science o...
But can it be explained in terms of genetics and nurture? It hasn't been so the question of preexistence of our spirits is still open. I have known ch...
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/character Mozart was a child genius. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pictures/composer/class...
The properties of a sub atomic particle are the particle; they are its nature. The distinction is artificial. Mind-brain (or mind-body) is a feedback ...
Consciousness is of the mind (the five senses are a physical imitation of the mind's consciousness). Brain development allows more of the mind to part...
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” ~ Keats "Mathematics is beautiful. If it is not, nothing is be...
It lends credibility to the idea that our spirits exist before we are born. It is clear that many children have highly developed characters at a very ...
Even unscientific theories can be true. Also, if a person remembers a past life how can we be sure it is their past life? It may be someone else's lif...
As I understand it, the laws of nature are not separate from nature or imposed on nature from outside. Things behave as they do because it is their na...
Suppose you have a lump of bronze and you make a statue of an eagle from it. Nothing of substance has been added. Only form has been created - the for...
All kinds of things can tempt towards suicide. But if certain philosophies are depressing so too are some philosophies optimistic and life affirming. ...
There is no need to prove it as science already shows that matter is only form. Energy assumes a certain structure and when it does we call it matter....
I think it is a question of approaching things with an open mind and, for me, realizing that God is the most coherent explanation for the world. I wou...
Rather than assuming God's existence and arguing from there I think it is better to argue from existence and arrive at an argument for God's existence...
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