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Personally, I think we need to take both into account in order to even approach the accuracy we’re looking for here. It is where observation differs f...
February 19, 2020 at 01:30
In: Shame  — view comment
I have to disagree with this exclusion of the Genesis story as an incidence of ‘shame’. It is an exposure or revelation of fragility or susceptibility...
February 19, 2020 at 01:10
Agreed. The three ‘omnis’ refer to absolute values of knowledge, potential and will - not action. It is the successful application of all three that b...
February 19, 2020 at 00:34
Do you think this observation appears to turn Maslow’s pyramid on its head?
February 19, 2020 at 00:14
You appear to have trapped your thinking by blocking awareness left, right and centre. When you open your mind to the possibilities of the future as a...
February 18, 2020 at 23:13
For me, humility (like pain, loss and lack) is an experience of life - not an attitude or action that we need to be striving for. It seeks us out easy...
February 18, 2020 at 22:57
Well, I think that’s an oversimplification which effectively encourages ignorance, so no, that’s not really my view. But I do believe we are generally...
February 18, 2020 at 14:52
The terms I use are so often used and misused that I find most people misunderstand them at their core. I have actually thought a lot about the concep...
February 18, 2020 at 10:56
This is how everything relates: as a difference between two systems. I agree it is highly unlikely for the difference to be bridged, but I wouldn’t sa...
February 17, 2020 at 11:58
I would think that god perceives the universe as an interrelation of all infinite potential. That’s my understanding of it, anyway. Absolute possibili...
February 17, 2020 at 05:51
God does not isolate events or actions in time - for him, everything is always interrelated and cannot be reduced to separate events, actions, objects...
February 17, 2020 at 04:23
The way I see it, ants don’t conceptualise existence as ‘organism’ across an awareness of time, but across an awareness of individuals. So they’re not...
February 17, 2020 at 03:19
Okay, let me clarify. In god’s eyes, there is no such thing as evil, but that also means there is no such thing as good - there is no such distinction...
February 17, 2020 at 00:53
I’m not sure what you mean by that last sentence. There are a number of ways we tend to conceptualise reality anthropocentrically, that I think interf...
February 16, 2020 at 13:44
Ignorance is not related to intellectual capacity, but to awareness and information. The informal use of the term is derogatory, which does confuse th...
February 16, 2020 at 10:47
Most likely, yes - considering I don’t think ‘evil’ is even a concept in an omniscient perspective, but only an indication of ignorance in our own. As...
February 16, 2020 at 06:49
Yes, I can see your particle-ness showing here - my wish to build a comprehensive structure is for my relations with others more than for myself. It’s...
February 16, 2020 at 00:51
In: Shame  — view comment
I agree that shame as a consequence of self-awareness is the primary mark of humanity - but the urge to hide relates specifically to the difference be...
February 16, 2020 at 00:07
In: Shame  — view comment
I agree with this, too. I think people often hate or attack what draws attention to their shame, in the same way as they hate or attack what draws att...
February 15, 2020 at 16:23
In: Shame  — view comment
I tend to use ‘we’ because I find ‘one’ to be impersonal, and I acknowledge my inclusion in the description. But you have a point, and I agree that it...
February 15, 2020 at 16:14
In: Shame  — view comment
Shame, in my view, relates to an internal error of contradiction between values and behaviour. We feel shame when our actions contradict the values of...
February 15, 2020 at 08:34
Well I can relate to what you’ve written, in some ways but not all. That’s the beauty of diversity, though - isn’t it? I can relate to this distinctio...
February 15, 2020 at 05:23
It appears as if the sandcastle was never there only from your perspective, because to you, every grain of sand looks the same. But your building that...
February 15, 2020 at 02:58
The idea that ‘meaning’ is individual is a misunderstanding. My individual self has negligible meaning on its own, in isolation. All meaning is derive...
February 15, 2020 at 02:50
In panpsychism, the priority of the human perspective is in question. If all matter has some capacity to interact in relation to an awareness of pain,...
February 15, 2020 at 01:51
Not ‘supposed’ to be, but perceived to be. The idea here is that ‘God’ is personal: that is, “knows, loves and relates to us all”. We commonly interpr...
February 14, 2020 at 10:29
I think perhaps ‘God’ does ‘suffer with’ the fawn - just not in the way we expect or intuitively understand. I get what you’re saying, but just becaus...
February 14, 2020 at 09:29
Because God’s omniscience is only possible, not actual. The life forms need to develop an awareness of each other in order to live in perfect cooperat...
February 13, 2020 at 11:16
Arriving late to the party... I notice you’re assuming that the pain and suffering of the fawn is an ‘objective’ fact. To the fire, the fawn is fuel. ...
February 13, 2020 at 11:02
Agreed. I thought A Seagull’s statement is apt here, too: The concept of ‘God’ has been another key player here, providing a relational scope to this ...
February 13, 2020 at 06:23
Personally, I think the key here is potential. Humans evolved with the mental capacity to be aware of abstract concepts such as ‘value’ and ‘life’ - b...
February 13, 2020 at 00:48
I certainly agree that there is nothing wrong with striving for perfection, and that ‘perfectly achieved’ goals and aims are attainable, when consider...
February 12, 2020 at 15:21
I wouldn’t say it was an ‘undeniable fact’ that any reward or punishment is carried out (by ‘God’) according to ‘goodness’ or ‘evil’, particularly wit...
February 12, 2020 at 14:19
To the extent that the event or entity is unknown, of course it doesn’t. But we aren’t entirely ignorant of potential or possible events in the future...
February 11, 2020 at 15:22
Yes, it can be used as an excuse for mediocrity, but recognising that nobody IS perfect can also be helpful as we aim for the possibility of perfectio...
February 11, 2020 at 11:43
‘Want’ is an unhelpful way to describe it, IMO, because what we want right now doesn’t always correspond to what we want a year from now, or over the ...
February 11, 2020 at 11:12
Yeah, well, I did ask for that didn’t I? It’s obviously still raw for you. Did you just want validation here, or a philosophical discussion? It wasn’t...
February 10, 2020 at 10:52
At the risk of playing the devil’s advocate... If everyone else is dutifully offering the ‘validation’ so eagerly sought, then sometimes a little pers...
February 10, 2020 at 08:55
The way I see it, ‘happiness’ refers to an interoception of positive affect in the organism. What we do with that and how we conceptualise these insta...
February 10, 2020 at 05:44
That’s fair enough - I have a problem with ignorance in preferring either bias, but otherwise I think it’s possible for a both/and approach to this qu...
February 10, 2020 at 04:16
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February 10, 2020 at 00:56
It certainly seems that way, doesn’t it? But our desire to always ‘be happy’ (whatever we understand that to be at the time) invariably results in ign...
February 10, 2020 at 00:51
The possibility of ‘future physical existence’ for Bill is dependent upon a sufficient consensus of perceived potential for ‘reincarnation’ (ie. futur...
February 10, 2020 at 00:08
Bill exists potentially, before his physical life, during and after it, so long as those who interacted with Bill during his physical life can still r...
February 09, 2020 at 15:27
This is where you and I differ, because I consider potential and possible existence as two types of ‘immaterial’ existence, and what is observable/mea...
February 09, 2020 at 14:36
Well, I don’t agree with this part. We think we want to be happy, but for the most part we don’t even know what it IS to be happy. I think our stronge...
February 09, 2020 at 13:47
I think we are morally ambiguous, and that ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are relative. We are therefore responsible for both our good and bad deeds, but I don’t t...
February 08, 2020 at 09:08
Well, no. For there to be a relation in the mind there has to be concepts, and the definition of those concepts is an expression of the extent to whic...
February 08, 2020 at 08:12
I don’t believe these ‘material/immaterial’ and ‘physical/mental’ dichotomies are helpful in understanding ‘mind’. The plans and policies of a communi...
February 08, 2020 at 05:20
When you say ‘physically’, do you mean in relation to what is observable/measurable or in relation to physics/chemistry/biology? What you’re referring...
February 08, 2020 at 04:29