Wow. You and GCB make quite the pair. I’m not going to engage in your private war against Islam. And don’t try to tell me I owe it to anyone else to s...
From what little I understand about factor analysis, I would say no. By dimensions, I do mean dimensions. But then, I’ll admit that my ability to gras...
I’m simply querying the relevance of Islam to the text. Don’t worry, I’m certainly able to - but when there is the perspective of a woman in the text,...
Sorry, but this is deflection. Stop using the example of Islam to paint yourself as the ‘good’ guy. The religion of Islam is no more ‘evil’ than Chris...
The way I see it, awareness of ‘self’ as a subject and source of value preceded the language, and contributed to its development as a system for struc...
A major societal function of religion is to regulate or structure the effect of internal experience on external behaviour. Moral law seeks to impose a...
It’s not the mark of a ‘good arguer’ (ie. one who genuinely sees benefit in ‘losing’) to stoop to abuse and belittling their ‘opponent’. Collaboration...
There’s a difference between silence in the face of information that is offered with compassion for their view, and running away from insults. Cowards...
I find it amusing how a story with a naked man and woman must be about sex. There’s exegesis, and then there’s apologetics... Adam said his actions we...
What are you expecting: a written testimonial? I’m happy to pry the occasional mind open just a smidgeon. If the response I get is silence, I’d say I’...
Everyone is afraid. Most refuse to admit it - they hide their nakedness, so to speak. At school I was often afraid of being wrong, of not making frien...
No, but we’re not talking about denying this. Hypothetically, it would have been a significantly easier education if we weren’t so afraid. No, but hyp...
Early humans - in developing a cognitive awareness of value in relation to observing, sensing and feeling as well as remembering and thinking about ex...
Not a blank slate - rather a more complex information processing system. That we are still prone to act on instinct should be obvious. The brain of a ...
There is ‘knowledge that’ as awareness: an initial physical/mental capacity to integrate complex, multi-dimensional information. And there is ‘knowled...
If you think humanity ‘learned ethics’ at this point, then you haven’t been paying attention. We haven’t even ‘learned ethics’ now. ‘Knowing good and ...
Just because physicists don’t address it, I don’t think that means we can’t use what we understand about physics (and how physicists approach the boun...
If an omnipotent being created a stone they could not lift, and then created a means to lift it, it would no longer be a stone they could not lift, an...
What you’re talking about is a shared subjective 5D experience of a 4D event, and how it relates to 3D objects in a 2D space. A ‘border’ aims to signi...
Your search for the will in action is a bit like looking for energy. I agree with you that what we understand to be the will appears ‘fixed’ in time, ...
Just a tip: pay attention to who you are responding to, especially if you’re going to get angry and abusive. You seem to be confusing the OP with a re...
I’m finding it difficult to follow what you’re saying here - is there a word missing? I’m going to bring Rovelli into the discussion again, with regar...
‘Totally connected’ doesn’t take into account the structure of these connections in consciousness. While they appear “to be everywhere in no time”, as...
Zombie apocalypse, here we come... Seriously, though - somewhere along the way, we came to a conclusion based on a limited view of the universe that w...
I actually haven’t thought about the question of why we laugh - that’s one to ponder, for sure. ‘Survival of the fittest’ is an extrapolation (or a br...
The way I see it, language in general enables us to share integrated information at a level beyond spacetime. It allows us to signify how new informat...
‘Survival value’ highlights the problem with the structure of ‘cause’ and effect: that we assume an intended outcome. But when the answers are not as ...
The way I see it, there are three main components to musical and mathematical ability: - the capacity to recognise and relate patterns in experiencing...
The serpent in Eden is referred to as ‘he’ in every translation I’ve read - so NOT female. And who knows what drugs the author of Revelations was on w...
The snake/serpent in Genesis is not an ‘evil tempter’. You’re dipping into doctrine here. The association between serpents and ‘Satan’/evil comes from...
I’m well aware of the traditional doctrine - I was raised Catholic, thank you. I disagree with the standard interpretation. I think that if you read i...
In my view, just to clarify, I think most of us can be either captain depending on the situation. I personally tend towards the latter, while I recogn...
Your use of ‘disobey’ and ‘punish’ in reference to the Biblical story shows your limited viewpoint, though. It wasn’t that A&E disobeyed God - it was ...
Wow, I didn’t expect that interpretation. Sorry, I meant ‘we’ generally, as in including the Bible authors, not ‘we’ specifically in the modern era. W...
To be honest, I’m not sure how much of what holds us back is due to cognitive capacity and how much is understanding how to access it. As I mentioned ...
First of all, ‘naked’ is an English translation, so we shouldn’t read too far into the choice of word. But I don’t think this suggests that nakedness ...
I don’t think we were created as robots - I think we evolved according to integrated information processing systems rather than survival or reproducti...
I’ll offer another interpretation of the story, if I may. First of all, I don’t see the ‘knowledge of good and evil’ as actual knowledge. What humanit...
I’m with you on all of what you’ve said - this in particular. I guess I’m just not content to leave it there, though. This is what philosophy is all a...
Thank you for expressing your position relative to mine. I recognise that you’re not entering into discussions about how free will relates directly to...
This discussion operates at the level of self-reflection - referring to a ‘self’ which purposefully maintains its relative consistency despite the var...
I think it’s a paradigm shift - and that’s not an easy process. That you’re prepared to try is appreciated. I guess what I’m saying is that what we re...
I recognise that what I’m proposing here is difficult to accept if you swallow survival and reproductive values as a complete explanation for evolutio...
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