Athena

Absolutely! As a horse is created to run and a bird is created to fly, we are created to think. I think it is totally sad to go through life without b...

You worded that very well. Yes, and what is philosophy about if it is not about asking the questions that are impossible to answer and attempting to a...

:lol: No one has first-hand knowledge of god. And I am NOT certain of anything. If there is a problem it is attitude. We are taking ourselves way too ...

Nothing could be better than starting the day with such wonderful questions. I love it. :grin: Let us go back to ancient times when no one was sure ab...

A counselor I had said we create our own life drama. That is our story about our childhood and relationships and experiences. Life as it is seen from ...

Oh but God gave man free will. He didn't give that to women who must submit to men. However, in Heaven, there is no free will, because our free will d...

Thanks for correct me. :lol: I feel like an idiot for that mistake. Maybe I need to check my medication? About the argument about if god exists or not...

I love your argument and playfully will argue a different way to receiving things. Now, mother nature does not care if we live or die, and if we viola...

I think people live their fantasies, they just don't know they are fantasies. This would include people being exactly as we believe they are, if we li...

What other terms are there? I would love to open up the discussion of God, and I am getting push back.

Why use the word "god"? To avoid the dead-end conflict of if there is a god or not. I hate that argument because it is the same over and over again. A...

Well, an easy answer would be logos, the organizing force of the universe, or mathematical organization. It could include strange ideas such as Jose' ...

I am not sure we are using the right vocabulary? Everything that is, is energy. We have a materialistic language to speak of that which exist but it i...

No thank you. I intentionally lift the definition open. Magical thinking is not our only option. We have the options of philosophy and science as well...

I am one of those people who doesn't have a problem with the existence of a god, but it is the Biblical explanation of God I have a problem with. What...

It is about inductive and deductive reasoning. Bacon challenged the ancient authorities and this became a very important social movement radically cha...

I think you have confirmed my opinion. Heaven knows there is a lot I do not know and I don't fault others for not knowing something. But when one is n...

My source of information was not Richard Dawkins but the history of education of which I have several books. You really do not know about Aristotle, t...

Thank you for that explanation. I was grappling with Plato's notion of perfect forms. I don't think we are born knowing what a horse is, but we share ...

I am glad we have agreement. I think those words are important and meaningful. The Catholic church relied heavily on Aristotle for its Scholastic educ...

I am not sure that reasoning is correct? I doubt that is correct because of my experience with a man who was not intellectual and he was more capable ...

That is like agreeing to meet and not being specific about the time or place. The word "word" is a label and we can not know what we are talking about...

I am not as well-read as others but I love the word "logos" and have a little knowledge of how our brains work based on modern science that Locke and ...

Yes, it was Nicholas's post that pushed me to check my books, so I could move from the familiar to the unfamiliar and got me so excited I want to take...

You missed one of the most important divisions, the religious divisions. When everyone had many gods, it may have been easier to get along with people...

Do you mean like today's war of the sexes? Not only have people of color become super sensitive to discrimination and past injustices, but women, in g...

It is much easier to understand people killing each other when they look different. I remember when the British and the Irish were being quite violent...

I have to reply to this again because this morning I am so excited by the number 9. The number goes with the quote for mathematical reasons. I don't r...

Thank you for that information. I am not so sure it is different from other common beliefs of the day. From the East, the many come from the one. I am...

I am currently giving a philosophy summer camp some serious thought. I am thinking perhaps I could make something happen in a small coastal town that ...

You are such an exciting person to know because you know so much about so many things. I had to lookup Hermetism and I am blown away by all this invol...

Good grief another book I need to read. I so want to know of that of which you speak. At this point in time, it is beyond my comprehension. How did yo...

My thoughts of happiness come from Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Thomas Jefferson When I was young and trying to figure life out, I realized my idea of...

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Oh my, on my way to the pool I listened to beautiful violin music and thought of what you said and the Greeks focus on beauty and good music and Mayan...

That is a good thought. I do not know of philosophies that speak directly to the problem of climate change, but the Bible tells us to be good stewards...

Yes, our sense of self and our emotions and addictions do become a complicating factor. We do not have to go to the extreme of convicts. Obese people ...

Wow-what a nice way of explaining. Are you coming from Eastern culture? And I like what Jack Cummins said about getting beyond binary thinking. I have...

Perhaps you speak of fast and slow thinking? Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman explains fast and slow thinking. Most of the time we are in fast think...

Morality is subjective because we are social animals and live in groups. All social animals must comply with the group's culture or be expelled from t...

My thinking is based on Cicero and the notion that we choose the right thing when we know what that is. If you disagree, it would help me form an argu...

That is where I rely on Cicero and the belief that humans are compelled to do the right thing when they know what that is. We all know shoplifting is ...

I am amazed by the huge transfer in wealth we are experiencing with so much money being given to citizens who have done nothing to earn it and telling...

I do not have so much faith in what the West knows. We have been specialized and our knowledge seems very limited to our specialty and our personal li...

Someone put a lot of work into that explanation. Is it your original work? Personally, I think family is very important. Next to that is a sense of co...

I think all religions are basically the same. However, they are organized differently. Rome gave Christianity its organization and when Rome in the We...

I think I love you! I have returned to buy old, grade school textbooks because there is a new committee to study education for democracy and I want to...

Again, I think this is an economic matter. In the US, not that long ago, Christianity helped the poor by assuring them they were closer to God than th...

I think how a country manages poverty is very much an economic matter. The US was totally dependent on charity and government had nothing to do with t...

Okay, and if we decided who is a Muslim and who is not, would there be the same concerns about who is really Muslim and who mistakenly thinks s/he is ...