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There is no adequate metaphysical consensus nor ground of epistemology. This is the most important stepping stone. Neither does logic, for that matter...
October 06, 2018 at 05:55
I want to believe in God, but boy is it hard? I am not even sure what I would believe in.
October 06, 2018 at 05:50
@"Mariner" What do you mean?
October 06, 2018 at 05:48
Things impact a surface and the missiles imbed themselves into the surface to add on to the totality of the surface. Over time they deteriorate, leavi...
October 06, 2018 at 05:42
@"Metaphysician Undercover"@"Janus"@"jorndoe" It seems that all attempts to understand something always lead back to an attempt at understanding exist...
October 06, 2018 at 05:27
What is there but the physical? And in that is said... "What is there but the phenomenal?" I have long since disbanded and have gone rogue on philosop...
October 06, 2018 at 05:13
This reminded me... Lets say there is a revolution. There arises a cause for the revolution... But is this cause the sort that would necessitate the r...
October 06, 2018 at 01:40
But is there a real distinction, truthful, between the physical and non material or phenomenal?
October 06, 2018 at 01:28
Operating machinery is the truth of scientific knowledge...
October 06, 2018 at 00:55
The scientific hypothesis is whether or not there is knowledge. This is substantiated affirmatively by presenting examples of scientific knowledge. An...
October 06, 2018 at 00:38
You should see William Blake's work when he talks of philosophy... " I answer’d: ‘All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics; for when you ran away...
October 06, 2018 at 00:25
The scientific tradition has its roots in many places and many cultures, and many a-cultural things as well.
October 05, 2018 at 05:47
medieval latin rituals are cool though, id say...
October 05, 2018 at 05:44
Religion and spirituality represent very meaningful experiences for people, and in every church there is undoubtedly something different but a part of...
October 04, 2018 at 23:49
Religion is socialized art and socialized expression. There are many stages of its development, and in every crystallization of it will be something d...
October 04, 2018 at 06:53
The solution would be... The only thing one can know is that they do not know. And this would be the case if it was a circle. But it has another dimen...
October 04, 2018 at 06:47
If you are referring to religions or spirituality... These came long after the taboo was created, and also much longer after totemism and worship of s...
October 04, 2018 at 06:13
This causal chain of events, though, is not linear but more-so a tree, but even less so a tree than it is a forest. So you can see where causality bre...
October 04, 2018 at 06:04
Do we witness causality or do we impose upon our witnessing, or is causality imposed upon our witnessing by some means or in some way? One could say t...
October 03, 2018 at 23:41
Which is correct?
October 03, 2018 at 00:46
Dennett is a philosophaster. I can't stand his language. He is a con artist of the genius who spoke of musicophilia. RIP Oliver Sacks!
October 02, 2018 at 06:28
William Blake's 'All Religions Are One' is a very great read. And also William Blake's 'The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell' is extremely interesting with...
October 02, 2018 at 06:24
Witnessing causality or imposing upon witnessing causality?
October 02, 2018 at 05:57
Jung maintains that synchronicity is factual yet inconceivable, in that how could it ever be shown to be more than a coincidence... Synchronicity is p...
October 02, 2018 at 05:51
In this so called affirmation of necessity however, the problem still exists on how one is to apprend scientific knowledge. And that is why I said und...
October 01, 2018 at 21:04
I agree, and this is elucidated upon in a few different writings of his. Thank you for correcting me, by the way, I think I meant the same thing but w...
October 01, 2018 at 21:03
Evidence is as evidence does.
October 01, 2018 at 06:12
Jung does not ever dismiss synchronicity as inconceivably factual.
October 01, 2018 at 06:11
This is the idea used in an argumentum a contingentia mundi. This argument supposes too much, and seems to be associated with a similar argument, name...
September 30, 2018 at 22:43
exactly! I have seen what you have seen without any mind altering substance as well. But I will remark again on the extraordinary effect the safe psyc...
September 27, 2018 at 21:28
What is the problem with absurdity? Where is there anywhere that states that there has to be a solution to a question about existence? Because we are ...
September 27, 2018 at 04:51
You should see the phosphenes when you close your eyes in darkness while your brain is on LSD or psilocin, or any psychedelic substance. Extraordinary...
September 26, 2018 at 17:52
agreed... Though Descartes also supposedly brutalized dogs.
September 26, 2018 at 08:08
Wittgenstein said that if an animal could speak, we still would not be able to understand it. According to this logic, sight is human... It is the onl...
September 26, 2018 at 07:44
Sartre would undoubtedly say that a belief in God is bad faith though, wouldn't he? Because the belief in a God is a subterfuge of responsibility?
September 26, 2018 at 07:23
Then what are we? A monad? I would say, instead, that we are indeed existence. A facet of existence. There is an infinite series of images that could ...
September 26, 2018 at 07:18
You will have to elucidate upon that please. What is God?
September 26, 2018 at 03:27
You came to basically the same conclusion I did about his thought.
September 26, 2018 at 03:25
Sartre wrote a book maintaining this. 'Being and Nothingness' Saying that it is rational that 'something' singular could be omnipotent, omniscient, om...
September 26, 2018 at 02:41
But is omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence a rational concept? I think this premise is taken for granted. I would agree with you... But this wou...
September 26, 2018 at 01:10
Religion is socialized ego dissociation, and/or socialized art. Keep in mind though, that the prototype of man could have already passed, and civiliza...
September 25, 2018 at 18:52
There is visual stuff when you close your eyes. They are called phosphenes. Have you heard of this? I, personally, have a theory about how sleep begin...
September 25, 2018 at 18:46
What bothers me so much is this aversion to what cannot be empirically distinguished, such to be defined like an atom can be, or a neural impulse. It ...
September 25, 2018 at 18:34
The phenomenologists attempted this... But I am about ready to say that philosophy is over... At least with what I have now at my disposal.
September 25, 2018 at 18:29
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of ...
September 25, 2018 at 11:46
Have to listen to 'meet me in the woods’ by Lord Huron !!! And read the lyrics!
September 25, 2018 at 11:42
Well, I would say running the course of one's truest feelings is the most firm security. And the source of the greatest delight.
September 25, 2018 at 11:41
What is sad is that belief has been mutated into some sort of dialectic. "Everything that can be believed is an image of truth." William Blake If you ...
September 25, 2018 at 11:37
The Bible does not give much sweet delight.
September 25, 2018 at 11:29
The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of qualia or Husserl's hyle? There is simply a prior, non physical, phenomenal aspect that no underst...
September 25, 2018 at 11:28