No! By definition, geniuses have the uncommon ability to "think outside the box," to "interpret things in ways never before surmised." Will there no l...
Why not "unintelligent design"? Are not all biological entities examples of unintelligent design. Could not one argue, for example, that cancer resear...
For each of us, death is the MOST SIGNIFICANT and DEFINITIVE EVENT we will ever experience in our life, because it puts a definite end to our life, it...
What I proposed does not necessarily mean that I believe in an afterlife. I simply wanted to investigate the implications a certain interpretation of ...
No. I submit that self-creation is impossible because I never participated in either a decision to exist, or a decision who to exist as. Or, stating i...
Gnostic Christianity proposed its own unique “explanation” for the existence of evil which differed significantly from the “explanation” proposed by o...
Correct! Nothing external to me would be responsible for me being the who that I am. Instead, either only I would be responsible for being the who tha...
If both the "that you are" (your existence) and the "who you are" (your character or personality) are dependent upon the will of another, the will of ...
When one speaks of someone having "absolutely free will," to me this does not mean having the mundane uncoerced ability to choose between A or B. Inst...
Certain sects of early Christianity presupposed that all created beings were originally in the presence of God prior to the Fall. Certain of these cre...
You might want to read Arthur Schopenhauer's "Essay on the Freedom of the Will." Presents what I consider one of the best essays ever written on this ...
Reality is that which can be perceived (observed) from every possible frame-of-reference. Since human beings cannot do this, they only perceive (obser...
In the original Hebrew and Aramaic, the word for Spirit "Rhua" or Wisdom "Chakemah" is feminine. When translated into Greek, the word for Spirit "Pneu...
Tom. I don't think there are any deliberate conspiratorial machinations or plots at work here or in any other grand materialist or idealist epistemolo...
Kant's epistemology never really explains satisfactorily where sensations come from before they are synthesized by the transcendental forms of intuiti...
Tom, one could ask: How precisely does Kant's thing-in-itself differ from Berkeley's (actually Locke's) substance, or matter? That "something, I know ...
RGC, what is the written work of Caspar Hare titled wherein he sets forth his system of philosophy which does not need to reference a transcendent fac...
Tom, any conjectures as to the "incomplete ideas" which might be unique to each system, or common to them all? For example, Berkeley needed a transcen...
Berkeley's system is coherent only because he postulates the existence of a Transcendent Master-Mind. Kant's system is coherent only because he postul...
Berkeley's idealism differs from Kant's in the same way that Fichte's idealism differs from Kant's. Ostensibly, both Berkeley and Fichte seemed to hav...
Example of a metaphysical poem. To Run Lovely Rings 'Round Each Other Within My Mind's Imagination, The Boundless World Surrounds Me, And You are in I...
It seems to me that poetry does not always have to be about what humanity experiences as being pleasant and/or beautiful. It can also describe and/or ...
I think poetry is primarily a form of art, rather than metaphysics. Using an economy of words, the poet enjoys painting vivid nuanced portraits of lif...
Is this Haiku, in your opinion, easier to deconstruct? Demiurge Imagination Form giver to nothingness Godlike in essence. Or, is this non-Haiku even e...
Does the Haiku technique (economy of words and precision of meaning) somehow imply its own separate metaphysics? The Hermit Hermit greeting time Out f...
For all I know, the alleged "important stuff" may be "unimportant stuff." And it is perhaps for the latter reason, rather than for the former reason, ...
OK, If it makes you feel better: Thanks for noticing my infamous "pleonasm." However, I do think you're "splitting hairs" as they say and trying to cr...
How, then, given your position, was it at all possible for so many philosophers to have tried to describe or explain ultimate reality throughout the a...
Hegel praised ultimate reality, while Schopenhauer condemned ultimate reality. Why? Because each characterized ultimate reality in diametrically oppos...
Nicely put! However, despite the smokescreen of the ideological verbiage and symbolism of Communism, I still contend that the actual day-to-day Totali...
Nice nuanced analysis. Fundamentally, I think we are on the same page. However, I do not think the Chinese leaders really believe in pursuing an "inte...
In a constitutional republic who should get to differentiate truths from lies? Should persons be appointed who possess unique abilities or special kno...
As I understand it, according to Hegel, nature and humanity are the self-alienation of God and a dialectical process is occurring whereby, ultimately,...
Our Constitution and Bill of Rights recognize precisely that this is NOT a perfect world. That's the exact reason why both exist, viz., to try to spec...
Quite frankly, I think you are a very rude person who resorts to ad hominem arguments when frustrated. How meanspirited to refer to me or anyone else ...
For the same enlightened reason that Kamala Harris did. Because it was Trump who facilitated development of the vaccine(s) and recommended taking them...
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