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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...
August 31, 2020 at 20:11
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...
August 31, 2020 at 20:05
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August 31, 2020 at 09:31
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...
August 31, 2020 at 09:27
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...
August 28, 2020 at 16:20
Empathy/love/compassion is to understand and value something beyond the ego. It is spiritual maturity.
August 28, 2020 at 16:15
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 ...
August 25, 2020 at 18:16
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...
August 25, 2020 at 10:21
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....
August 22, 2020 at 10:00
Like state atheism? The Communist Party engaged in diverse activities such as destroying places of worship, executing religious leaders, flooding scho...
August 22, 2020 at 09:41
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...
August 21, 2020 at 20:44
What do you mean by this?
August 21, 2020 at 20:40
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...
August 21, 2020 at 18:38
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...
August 21, 2020 at 10:10
If the intellect is to discern truth its only hope is if it is allied to consciousness.
August 19, 2020 at 20:44
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...
August 19, 2020 at 19:34
My statement is slightly tongue-in-cheek. But it has truth in it; the intellect is labyrinthine. So is philosophy.
August 19, 2020 at 19:27
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 ...
August 19, 2020 at 19:20
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...
August 19, 2020 at 19:08
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 ...
August 19, 2020 at 19:03
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...
August 19, 2020 at 18:41
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 '...
August 19, 2020 at 18:28
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 ...
August 19, 2020 at 18:21
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...
August 19, 2020 at 11:52
The subtext here is that only 'provable' rudimentary truths are admissible; subjective things are open to debate, established science and mathematics ...
August 19, 2020 at 11:43
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...
August 19, 2020 at 11:14
What, in your understanding, is this motivation?
August 19, 2020 at 10:57
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 ...
August 18, 2020 at 21:23
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...
August 18, 2020 at 21:16
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, ...
August 18, 2020 at 21:12
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...
August 18, 2020 at 21:04
I would be hard pressed to describe anything that is demonstrably anti mathematical.
August 17, 2020 at 13:12
Yes, I understand that. I'm just putting forward an observation that needs to be answered.
August 16, 2020 at 16:17
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...
August 15, 2020 at 12:27
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/character Mozart was a child genius. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/pictures/composer/class...
August 14, 2020 at 18:15
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 ...
August 14, 2020 at 12:42
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...
August 14, 2020 at 11:40
It takes decades to develop character and some children are already born with highly developed characters - bad and good...
August 14, 2020 at 11:32
“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...
August 13, 2020 at 20:43
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 ...
August 13, 2020 at 18:23
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...
August 13, 2020 at 16:38
Are you sure about this? Many children are born highly developed - Mozart, Picasso, child geniuses etc.
August 13, 2020 at 16:34
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...
August 12, 2020 at 10:25
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...
August 12, 2020 at 10:19
I'm not saying it is more real. I'm saying the result - matter - is dependent on the cause, energy. This means matter is contingent.
August 11, 2020 at 22:13
All kinds of things can tempt towards suicide. But if certain philosophies are depressing so too are some philosophies optimistic and life affirming. ...
August 10, 2020 at 20:56
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....
August 10, 2020 at 11:29
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...
August 03, 2020 at 19:06
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...
August 03, 2020 at 10:46