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"1) The experience of love works, a fact which can be confirmed by anyone of any belief in their own personal experience without reference to any outs...
August 26, 2018 at 11:55
I don't think that Christianity has ever been based on authority, persuasion, or blind belief. Paul says that there are three kinds of people, the nat...
August 26, 2018 at 10:42
I don't think that Christianity has ever been about persuasion, or reasoning to belief, or just believing things, but revelation. Paul says that there...
August 26, 2018 at 10:20
It's the birth of philosophy, or rather, what reigns supreme contemporaneously is sophistry, but philosophy wins the game over time, historically. Per...
August 26, 2018 at 08:19
I didn't grasp that it was literally about death, and I believe this to be for tragic reasons. Allow me to give another account. We developed the lang...
August 25, 2018 at 11:24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth Thought I'd look at wikipedia, and look at that illustration on the right. Time saving truth from falsehood and en...
August 25, 2018 at 09:57
Religion is how to live one's life. What to do. Philosophy examines one's life, so that it precisely examines these things. Religion is aesthetic, abo...
August 25, 2018 at 09:04
Because we all live in a fantasy world, of our own creation constructed by our preferences, and it is distasteful and upsetting that others should not...
August 25, 2018 at 05:23
I would prefer not to answer personal questions on the grounds of avoiding self incrimination.
August 24, 2018 at 23:24
People trying to find themselves. Everyone around us is constantly telling us, but they're all wrong, aren't they? The pain of objectification. The fe...
August 24, 2018 at 10:15
A reality within which I can breathe fully. A reality within which I do not need to trust anyone, in order to be kind to them. A reality within which ...
August 24, 2018 at 00:29
That is quite moving. Do you suppose that we are in captivity? We see quite readily not only are the animals more thoughtful, but they atrophy, and de...
August 24, 2018 at 00:03
Not saying that this is the same thing, but I'll give an analogous example. With respect to an object, or thing in the world, we have three necessary ...
August 23, 2018 at 08:45
Thank you, I appreciate your thinking so.
August 22, 2018 at 11:26
I wouldn't know on an individual basis, I don't think that the activity itself is relevant. I wouldn't characterize art is play, and farming as seriou...
August 22, 2018 at 11:24
I think that what characterizes play, is its non-commitment. It isn't serious. It isn't true. I'm pretending, experimenting, trying things out. It is ...
August 22, 2018 at 09:52
Yes, I think that we agree, I just lacked specificity in my suggestion. I was speaking more to institutions that develop to address contemporary socia...
August 21, 2018 at 22:06
Yes, quite right, on all points. Well put as well. Also happy to hear that there are at least some suggestions that this is the case, and I am noticin...
August 21, 2018 at 09:16
Indeed, I think that there is a natural wax and wane around an equilibrium. I think that there is a natural proclivity for institutions to quickly bec...
August 21, 2018 at 06:32
There is but one thing to fear, and one evil. That is God, and damnation. No amount of harm, betrayal, exploitation, defamation or disenfranchisement ...
August 21, 2018 at 06:11
"3) younger cohorts who have been raised by 1)-type globalist indoctrination, but are rejecting it and looking for alternatives (and this group may ac...
August 21, 2018 at 04:11
Drop all that mind reading. Whenever you hear yourself think, or have that sensation of "they'll think or feel this way" as an anticipation to any of ...
August 20, 2018 at 10:38
You did not, but the link suggests that. As it is about remembering particular details necessary for passing a test in school. Memorization, repetitio...
August 20, 2018 at 10:12
Understanding differs greatly to remembering specific things. What specific details do you remember about learning to talk? If you had to take a test ...
August 20, 2018 at 10:03
It's quite similar to what we both we talking about. As itself obscured, it is not clearly identifiable, or explicable, but like the sun, it is requir...
August 20, 2018 at 06:44
Are you referencing Plato directly with this talk of "the good", or is it coincidental?
August 20, 2018 at 06:39
Yes, I think so, on both points.
August 20, 2018 at 05:17
As an animal, you have the simple problem of distinguishing between what's part of you and what isn't, what to approach and what to avoid, and the lim...
August 20, 2018 at 04:51
I mean that taboos are a go to for comedy, for the shock factor alone. Combine that with the taboo being enforced around just vices, unattractiveness,...
August 19, 2018 at 21:15
Yes, you're alone, but not incurably. Language is public forms, that we use to express our experiences, and are universal while the experiences that t...
August 17, 2018 at 20:18