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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I would think that god perceives the universe as an interrelation of all infinite potential. That’s my understanding of it, anyway. Absolute possibili...
God does not isolate events or actions in time - for him, everything is always interrelated and cannot be reduced to separate events, actions, objects...
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...
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...
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...
Ignorance is not related to intellectual capacity, but to awareness and information. The informal use of the term is derogatory, which does confuse th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The idea that ‘meaning’ is individual is a misunderstanding. My individual self has negligible meaning on its own, in isolation. All meaning is derive...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
I certainly agree that there is nothing wrong with striving for perfection, and that ‘perfectly achieved’ goals and aims are attainable, when consider...
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...
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...
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...
‘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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The possibility of ‘future physical existence’ for Bill is dependent upon a sufficient consensus of perceived potential for ‘reincarnation’ (ie. futur...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I don’t believe these ‘material/immaterial’ and ‘physical/mental’ dichotomies are helpful in understanding ‘mind’. The plans and policies of a communi...
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...
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