BrianW

I love the wisdom in this message. Purely Divine! (And I will definitely quote you.) The message resonates deeply with my understanding of what our li...

The brain (I don't know about mind) ABSOLUTELY gains in mass and volume just as with any other organ. Stuff (blood, chemicals, nutrients, etc, etc,) g...

There's a big difference between 'conceptual' and 'actual'. Multiple worlds, parallel universes, time travel, teleportation, etc, etc, are still just ...

Imagine that. Having the same idea, and yet... discussion. Now we have philosophy!

I believe the root of metaphysical investigations is the human capacity to punch above their weight. For example, we investigate the weather, somethin...

We determine our part in those interactions e.g. building storm shelters, moving to california, spare tires, divorcing your mother-in-law's daughter/s...

Symbolically, suppose there's people's lives which are a phenomena whereby there is a point, let's call it a point of origin, such that no matter how ...

Also, The information we have about atoms only provides working hypotheses not absolute truth (if it exists).

Belief has no value without practice. That is borrowed from the "faith without action is dead" quote. The existence of atoms is a belief. The fact is,...

Ignoring the limited imagination through which the question has been posited, I would say that sacrifice is always a choice. Human consciousness/consc...

YES. My take is this: Reality (existence) is. Knowledge is about perceiving a copy of reality (that which is) within the configuration we refer to as ...

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PARADOX!!! For example, why compare an imaginary horn with real paint? If it's a real horn, then there must be a certain l...

Just a thought: If someone only read books their whole life, what have they made of that life? If they only travelled, conducted business, interacted ...

It's not crazy, it's just a way (an attempt) to preserve certain kinds of value. If we had perfect recall (memory of thoughts, emotions, things, situa...

At the same time, I also understand that this is a complicated discussion because we've already developed systems that are biased/polarised in one way...

What I get from that is a failure in communication. When the appropriate meaning is not expressed then we cannot receive the proper response. This is ...

Why go from meaningful connection to attachment? Why not maintain at meaningful connection?

The difference between attachments and connections is that in attachments, the objects and subjects we are attached to are given greater priority than...

Not attachments, just connections. Attachments are limitations while connections are channels for expression of our life-energies. We can connect with...

To me, all such thought experiments seem like responses to deep rooted fear within the coding of one's consciousness. They're all based on the premise...

Also, until one recognizes or realises their individuality (self or 'I'), life will remain a series of attachments. The only true path in life is self...

I think it depends on the importance to which we assign the need/want of overcoming the attachments. In analogy, I would say it's like any other probl...

The "Attachment" that is a problem is not the natural connection to things and situations. It is the inordinate craving/compulsion/dependence (addicti...

Yeah, everything just is. It allows for maximum focus upon oneself (the most significant point of anything that is).

I don't know any of that. For me, whether there is one 'first cause'/'being' (God or other) or many of such wherefrom the universe(s) - (if such a lim...

It's just another endless loop, isn't it. Sure, it assumes one unique first cause. However, what does it say about the arising of other unique causes....

If effects arise from causes, what is the cause of the first cause? Does the ultimate/fundamental origin also have an origin? I think the problem isn'...

If the intent behind the inaction is to enjoy the carnage, then it is wrong.

Perhaps, in a weird way, by helping advance the plot of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection narrative, he did right by God. From the human point of vi...

I've read what is referred to as the "Gospel of Judas" (or what's left of it). I think it's deeply esoteric and, if true, it may hold within it the my...

Whatever understanding is possessed by an individual(ity) is limited to and by that individual(ity). Only the absolute is and has absoluteness. Those ...

I think it is (in more ways than not, I believe so). I think our intelligent impetus deems what would have been seen as "cultural/traditional feminine...

Are the concepts of 'truth' and 'fact' completely differentiated in the way they are defined and symbolised? No, I don't think so. Also, no source of ...

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com *The above site is not the definitive on philosophical terms and meanings. It has a disclaimer at the bottom whi...

Through all the discussions on this thread, I have managed to gather some ideas which, it seems, everyone who's participated is okay with in some way ...

So, for you, is there a difference between information and knowledge? Or, perhaps, they're the kind of words (also, truth and fact) whose meanings and...

Yeah, thanks. I've learned quite a lot from that. It seems that there's an inherent idea that, at least, one of the differences between knowledge and ...

I've tried to hold this sort of position before and I think my worry is it doesn't seem to give much of a difference between knowledge and information...

It's just an attempt at finding a most comprehensive definition possible. Anyway, I think the word fact would be somewhat deficient if it were limited...

How about a fact is an expression of a state of affairs or circumstance. This can also fit in statements like "it is a fact that force is defined as m...

I thought axiom was appropriate because it is composed of a premise which leads to a conclusion through a particular line of reasoning/logic. This, to...

Thanks. It's illuminating.

I seem to have a problem with a proposition being characterized as true or false because, by my understanding, a proposition is not definitive. Its va...

I've never thought of truths and facts in this way before. At first glance I seem to want to protest but there is a simplicity to the explanation that...

Thanks for this. I take it to mean something like, "truth is enduring, that is, it will always be relevant, while a fact is relative.

This has become interesting. Can a proposition be true? I mean in the sense that, if it is true, is it still a proposition? And what is your perspecti...

First, there is no 'nothing' because every way it is defined, it is always related to 'something'. Sometimes the 'nothing' is the source, cause of 'so...

Meditation was once mystical. Acupuncture... ?