Feymann and Einstein are ‘meglomaniacs’ because they admit they don’t have all the answers? Feymann because he is happy to state that there may or may...
Not really. Possibly for the more megalomaniacal scientist? Generally people who like to play football are not in pursuit of the basic workings of foo...
I’m always right because I know I must be partially wrong and knowing I’m partially wring means I’m right to know I am partially wrong, therefore ever...
Since when has it been ‘a right’ to have a mother and father? It is a biological fact, but it certainly isn’t a universal principle that children need...
When it comes to stating god exists 100% that is more or less dogmatic thinking. Believing in god does not make anyone dogmatic though. Some people ar...
sorry, ‘your ignorance’. About brain function and that physiology is not somehow separate from brain function. If you are a dualist there is probably ...
Just to be clear … ‘depression’ is actually an ‘illness’ of sorts. People are not depressed for a reason if they are clinically depressed. Depression ...
Husserlian Intentiionality. We are not simply ‘conscious’. We are, more accurately, ‘conscious of something’. Stating ‘to be’ is ‘to be perceived’ see...
1. Life is good over all. 2. Who is Jannet? :D 3. Thinking can make you happy or sad depending on subject matter and knowledge. I think ‘happiness’ is...
Next you will claiming pain and suffering are not ‘necessary’ whatever that means? Nah! You just go ahead and make a word salad and leave me out of it...
As a way of looking for some agreement I would say that in the opposite direction I think merely parroting other philosophical thoughts is not exactly...
They are not ‘categories’ just examples of how the term can be, and is, used. A ‘philosophy of life’ is colloquial whilst scholarship is technical by ...
I have a horrible feeling we’ve talked before if you are going to lead into some long ramble about ‘creation’? If so hope you have managed to express ...
I just think everyone should make some kind of effort to engage with people they clash with and try and understand the other’s perspective rather than...
If they are not eternal and not infinite then they are just like us. So then what is the difference? We are effectively ‘gods’ in the sense you seem t...
I can make some sense out if that view. We just seem to differ in what we define as ‘god’. I presume to know beyond my limited senses, so the ‘infinit...
I’ve already stated this twice at least. You are talking about ‘infinite’ and ‘eternal’ as if you have personal experience of such (which you do not)....
In the sense that you are framing the term ‘god’ I agree. The most common problem, as I stated, it people ‘defining’ god in low resolution so that it ...
My story is me I guess? In that sense the culmination of all human stories is ‘god’ (as I understand it in a religious sense), but I don’t believe man...
I don’t. My point is that if such beings exist they are beyond my conception so talking about them is futile just like talking about square circles. I...
The obvious question is then what makes your story real and mine a fantasy? What if other people believe their story to be true and your’s fantasy? Ho...
Homosexuality was also framed as such. Times move on. When there are numerous cases of addictions, schizophrenia and other brain disorders being cured...
I think you are making too much of a leap from story to reality. Telling a story doesn’t make it true. I could tell you a story about how I lived in a...
The definition of ‘god’. You said they/it is ‘infinite’ and ‘eternal’ but we have no direct experience of such concepts so it does not make sense to t...
It is the conviction of being ‘misled’ I would have some qualms with. The fact is such experiences happen (hence my phenomenological approach rather t...
I don’t understand what truth has to do with a story in the sense you seem to be framing it? As a little story it is fine. As some comparison to lived...
Well, I would not put it like that exactly. It is more of an expression of human existence. A natural means of dealing with the immediate environment ...
What are you talking about? There is plenty of scientific literature about such states. Alter states of consciousness are not ‘in a different house’ a...
Not just me. A number of prominent neuroscientists. Triggers include: - sleep dep - fasting - dancing - intense focus - hyperventilation Basically, th...
I’ve experienced ‘bliss’/‘heaven’ and I exist within the universe. If you are talk about something beyond my comprehension then it is beyond my compre...
In terms of ‘theism’ I think polytheism makes more sense as people can role play certain things and deal with problems piecemeal rather than try and ‘...
I’ve found hitting yourself and screaming works best :D People avoid crazy people. Derren Brown had a good way of dealing with such by talking nonsens...
Not sure what that means? I was talking about instances where members of the ‘audience’ took on the role of one of the representations on stage - some...
Okay. But can you comprehend ‘eternal’ or ‘infinite’. I argue you cannot so your definition is imprecise and mostly meaningless because of this. I hav...
Some would argue it is not an ‘extension’ but rather a piece of the ‘machinery’ of language - spoken or otherwise. The Chorus in ancient Greece kind o...
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