Buxtebuddha

If someone told me, "Hey dude, Maestro Poptart, I experienced the jamming of a gnarled, rusty pipe up my ass the other day, and let me tell you, it fe...

Indeed I have. He writes, "They simply know what feels good and keep at it. They can see it without figuring it out. They know what's right without ha...

But saying, "I know what that was" is precisely what Colin has said, which is why I find his opining frivolous and entirely boring.

He experienced something, and therefore holds to be true whatever he now does. This is simplicity almost by definition. What struggle was there? If tr...

It would seem that your experience(s) is more an immense feeling rather than an intellectual enlightenment. Truth is best wrestled with, not embraced....

Just as a notice to you all, I've played The Witcher 3 (TW3) for about 100 hours, so take that admission however you like, :-* This particular questio...

I wonder what Lemaître would think of Krauss.

Maybe you bullied him into saying it's the truth, :-O

Which makes theology all the more confusing, but sometimes it can be fun! O:) Your username makes me think you're some philosophers' hitman, ready to ...

I meant that you don't understand some of the things we've discussed, less that you yourself are not understandable. You write quiet well, better than...

No, that sounds more like you. This isn't about one single thing, you've attempted to rub your boot in the face of all theology, categorizing some boo...

Except those theologians you don't understand because you've not read them. Those guys are clearly wrong. "Just look at how little I've read them!" >:...

So, again, you've only read rebuttals to a work you're already in agreement with...yipee... Strange that you seem entirely disinterested in understand...

So you've not read "sophisticated theologians", yet still have the gall to write upon their work as if you do understand what they're saying without h...

I fully realize that the absolute vast majority of "Christians" are dumber than rocks and hold such a superficial understanding of God as they think "...

True, but not everyone that describes God through personal terms is therefore suggesting that God is actually representative of those terms. Using the...

Well, considering that we're discussing New Atheists, the only targets they go for are from the Old Testament, which by itself, is Jewish, and not Chr...

You're still reading it as though the God of the Old Testament must be the same as the one written of in the New. If you read the Bible and think both...

If that's the narrative you would like to think, sure. But the New Testament is starkly different from the Old, which had God specifically talking and...

Not so much in the New Testament, which is the only non-Jewish collection of writings that make up the Christian Bible.

I know whatchu mean, man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DchPgJDJ9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1g4xd7gTM

I'll never forget when I was in 4th grade, being around 7 or 8 years old. I was in bed, staring at the ceiling, and remembering how those at church ke...

I've recently been reading a bit of Rousseau, and it seems as though he very much argues that emotion is the foundation for decision making, and that ...

The key to being genuine is being honest! :-*

What if in God's name we want to play God? >:)

Ah, yes, the election is so rigged that we've somehow come upon two of the most corrupt presidential candidates in US history, accompanied, of course,...

Is honesty important to you? If yes, then you must expect it in both yourself and others. If no, then that's that. Your inquiry ends there. Forget you...

I'd much rather love as nothing for infinitude.

The means with which to know.

How do you know about that which you cannot think?

Apologies for my being confusing. Precisely the opposite. This is what the OP appears to think, though, hence the "outside of thought and time" bit th...

See, I'd agree, but you haven't found what is sacred in itself, only imperfect and personal representations of it. Those we can experience and find me...

Well, I'd ask you as I asked Ben. How might you or I actually go about "finding" what is sacred, that which is outside of time and thought? Sorry, but...

You can try as much as you'd like, but you won't be able to find it.

Then whatever you find to be sacred is unknowable. You might as well make up some other word to represent "X" and say that it has some sort of impact ...

What specific sorts of things, or ideas, do you hold to have the quality of sacredness, Ben?

Trump compared to Alexander the Great.................

I'm beginning to find it hilarious how Agustino's posts generally boil down to " ;) " every time.

Have been massively busy, and don't really have the time to sift through these massive paragraphs right now, so Agustino, if you still want me to resp...

Oldies like Aristotle and Aurelius look classy in their busts, I think. Once photography was invented, philosophers were doomed.

Someone was trying to be funny on a philosophy forum? https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/f/pics/foucault.jpg Oh no!

I'm indulging myself and watching a soccer game. Will respond after I recover from my incoming heart attack :D

Red flag! I doubt it. No.

Wouldn't know what this means. Empty words and hokus pokus to me.

My clarification is this - sex and sexual tension is a two way street.The only reason two people would have sex is to do so out of compassion for the ...

Yes, and there are some conservatives out there batty enough to vote for Trump O:) There are quite a few too many Christians out there that think you ...

I'd agree... Uh, no, I don't think so. Apart from religion? What do you mean by that, exactly? (I actually typo'd and wrote sexactly >:O ) Sex is sex....

I think you mistake me for Whiskers. I've never disputed this. Also, how encompassing are you using these terms "conservative" or "liberal"? Because I...

You don't make for much nuance here. You're either a social conservative like you, or a deluded liberal. There's zero fine-line. And I also don't know...

You don't own a monopoly on the truth, Agustino. Just because you're rabid about this or that doesn't mean you can be so authoritarian as to say every...