Why does Russia get to tell a sovereign nation what alliances to be a part of? I am sorry, I didn't understand that part... All I see is anti-West gas...
Look man, I don't care what you believe.. You can believe the Spaghetti Monster sprinkles parmesan on the evil Meateballio to defeat him.. My point is...
When your premise is that the self-referential claim that the Gospel as taught by X church is correct because it is taught by X church, then we get yo...
So I'd like to propose some food for thought that might seem "out of left field". 1. We are always thrown into a "baked-in" social reality. In some ci...
Ok, let's not pretend ancient writers followed modern standards for sourcing information.. The term "compiling..witness accounts", is a bit anachronis...
Im not really saying what he did one way or the other. Just that he seemed to jump to various sects and chose to create something himself based on the...
It was a man searching for something.. Became "zealous" in one way, and then "zealous" in another.. I don't even know if he really became a Pharisee d...
Our minds have had an evolutionary trajectory whereby due to various social pressures and environmental pressures, we have a secondary consciousness w...
Jesus was providing his interpretations of the Law, not telling people to reject it. Paul's view was fully his own, supposedly directed by not the hum...
More existential gaslighting. YOU'RE the problem because YOU were born. It's YOUR choice. .. So all the "You were created because of X, and now you mu...
See my other thread about boredom, I think we have similar themes.. It is existential boredom that is the default state. Depression is more of a physi...
Well, you should know my stance on procreation by now, Athena. That being said, taking my usual antinatalism off the table, and being more of a "exist...
I think it is telling that we have to "get" to some state by meditative techniques in the FIRST PLACE. Again, this is not countering anything Schopenh...
Loneliness is simply a specific kind of boredom. It is longing for social connection. But why is there this longing? Schopenhauer would posit a strivi...
Paul was a Hellenistic Jew from Asia Minor (Tarsus) with a pretty good Greek education in forms of Greek rhetoric as seen in the epistles. This was hi...
So he picks the wrong hobbies, and his main point is thus wrong? C'mon. Right, you are in stasis and have no thoughts until activated. No, not no empa...
@"Janus" Yep, second this. I love how we have gotten to the point in our competitive endeavors where people try to posture about their motivations nev...
I think Schopenhauer characterizes it best why it's actually a form of suffering: I bolded his most important proof there. It is not "Oh, I had a good...
You insult my intelligence by quoting me stuff I already know and then latching into stuff you want to argue about. What you quote is also well known....
Im not sure cause you haven’t directly answered my last post. I do not believe you go through life without existential awareness at this point and thi...
Because you think you don't experience boredom, and that we have radically different ways of being in the world. I just call supreme bullshit, I'm sor...
You're ridiculous. I am not saying they are mutually exclusive. But look at the motivations for what motivates you beyond remedial things (survival, c...
Well normal human cognitive function is often impaired by severe mental conditions, or physical brain alterations like a lobotomy. I doubt those apply...
Thank you.. I am very keen to learn about historical developments in ideas an human culture. I think it also helps orient philosophical ideas and thei...
My two cents on Romanticism as I am pondering it now... The Enlightenment of the 17-18th centuries sought out to understand the world using what they ...
Putin? haha But in a more allegorical sense too, Schopenhauer had a good quote on our own need for "something" besides boredom. We are in a way, alway...
Neither, though this brings up major questions in the historiography of Early Christianity and its implications in general for the Christian developme...
So you are basically just restating what I just said. Okay. Now I'm beginning to think you just like arguing for arguing's sake as you are now seeing ...
Also, as a minor point, Jefferson didn't write the US Constitution. He wasn't at the Constitutional Convention. More involved people were Hamilton, Ma...
Yes I know most of this. I am not diminishing the influence of Epicureanism, by stating what I stated. Most educated philosophers of the Enlightenment...
Well, Epicureans pre-date Christians, but I can see the ones that were around after Constantine using the same methods. What I meant was, after a thou...
I said this in another thread. You can use all the philosophy in the world to bolster something, but if the core element of it is that it is "revelati...
If the philosophy becomes based on a must-be-true "revelation" from a supernatural being.. All the philosophy in the world that tries to bolster it ca...
I think it should be noted what general Hellenistic diffusion was part of Roman Palestine already in Jesus’ time versus what came part of Christianity...
It was an extension of the same argument you were having. DA671 was claiming that X (suffering, imposition, negative) cannot be alleviated for the unb...
We actually don't know who the people who wrote the NT were! That's Ehrman's point! His (many people's) conjecture is they were urbane members somewhe...
Dude, slow your roll. Everyone who studies this knows that. Yes, already know that. Again, it was not common for religious-minded Jew to speak Greek u...
I realized how easy it was for me to mistype words that I was reading from a book (not copy/pasting). Imagine how many more errors would be created fr...
That people could write Greek that region is not disputed either. It is not if this then cannot be that kind of thinking. What we do know is the first...
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