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You're preaching, not philosophizing. It's not just obvious, it's overt. I see people doing this regularly with impunity from behind the veil of some ...

Why are we all so compelled to place ourselves at the centre of all things. It's as if the Sun revolves around the Galaxy, the Earth revolves around t...

My existence is not mandatory as far as I have observed. It is an infinitesimal function of a greater whole and is wholly expendable.

It is a claim as a result of the brain, yes, but it is a fact independent from the brain.

Consciousness is a tool of microorganisms that we interpret as being our domain due to the nature of its function--self-awareness--which is mandatory ...

They most certainly do. They exist in other humans outside the singular human, and apart from that in other animals, and apart from that in everything...

Observation is not generated by the brain, it exists outside the brain and is interpreted by the brain. It is a function of the environment to impress...

That just isn't true. The concept of "position" is available to even the most rudimentary organisms in an absence of "sensory perception".

Facts are not generated by brains. Opinions are generated by brains. Facts are observed by brains.

I asked "why" and found the results dissatisfying, but then I asked "how", and the world fell to pieces.

That's not even in the same universe with what I expressed here.

I didn't give a definition. What I offered is more an illustration of how they function in practice. The OP asserted a Divine Truth as to what the two...

If The State owns and maintains supreme control of the livelihood of The People, needless to say at gunpoint, then his comment is close to the mark--a...

The bicycle wasn't invented yet in the year 0.

The answer depends on how much someone pays attention to it.

This is precisely the mode of thought that has polarized the political climate and stunted the education system in the West. Allow me to explain the d...

As much as we tend to ascribe "genius" to those among us we deem as excellent storytellers, it's precisely this that makes a good story: that a number...

I'm not trying to convince anyone to invite or tolerate vitriol or bigotry, I'm just sharing my view. In fact, I understand why you might, as moderato...

It's not my intent to rock the boat or to draw out your negativity, I'm expressing a view as was invited in the OP of this thread. Why would anyone in...

We're discussing a topic here, why are you implying that my side of the discussion is unwanted on your site based on a self-centered and skewed percep...

Whether you bring this specific person back to the site or not isn't my concern, I'm not trying to convince anyone to do so. You are the moderators, t...

I've had buddies all my life whose political or religious views, as well as my own, were bitterly disagreed on at times. There used to be an ability t...

I think there's a fine line between trolling and just having ideas other people don't want to hear. I think there's a fine line between expression of ...

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Please define "an atheist". Please also explain how, by the definition of atheism or "an atheist", you can lump all "atheists" together in any way apa...

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As long as entertainment placates the masses, what does it matter? We'll all become drooling dependent morons one way or another and end up in chamber...

I have a question, why are clinical psychologists/psychiatrists such failures at compassion and generally failures as human beings with more mental is...

Everyone has a massive ego. I'd say staying or leaving is a flight of fancy.

On the other hand, if I studied philosophy, my brain would soon after find itself in a trash bin.

I'm looking at the OP and thinking to myself "which suffering"? There are so many ways to suffer, and I can't imagine many ways to suffer to which des...

I'm no expert, but I would say that in the absence of anger our species would die off, but hey, we're heading for extinction either way.

It's hard to watch all the theist and spiritualist arms getting so sore from pulling invisible rabbits out of invisible hats all day.

Claiming that there's empirical data supporting the existence of anything supernatural sounds fanatical and is just plain false. There's no reasonable...

It makes no difference what you call The Grand Mover, its intangibility perseveres through tradition and speculation. That's why there's religion in t...

The scientific method is clear, and the are innumerable examples of it being utilized incorrectly. There are innumerable examples of it being ignored ...

There is no fullness of time. What we know today is factual, and while it may at some point be made more clear or more efficient, it will remain factu...

"Respect" and "taken with a piece of salt" are a contradiction of terms. Ancient philosophy is a mess of glaring mistakes, scientific ignorance, intel...

I'll treat your dismissal and accompanying commentary as an admittance that the only aim of this thread is to request a string of short fiction entrie...

The dictionary doesn't define spirit substantially because there is no way to define something that is unknown except by way of perception, which resu...

Well then, I suppose we should seriously address "the classics" for their assertion that a drop of menstrual blood destroys a season's crops. Why shou...

Alright. What is it that we're saying exists, then? Let's define terms. It's obviously not Santa Claus we're discussing. So then, what is it?

Again, a rope and a snake are each something. Somewhere in the analogy there needs to be a nothing that is treated as if it was a something.

From your "eyes" analogy--what is the analogous physical object in the discussion of "spirit"?

The existence of horses and narwhals proves the existence of unicorns. You could apply this principle to anything really. It's a simple formula, "beca...

No one here is a philosopher, but at least some people contribute to coherent or even rational discourse.

If God is invisible, intangible, impossible to detect under any circumstances, will never involve itself directly or indirectly in human affairs--then...

If what you're claiming is that the mind is personal domain, under direct or indirect personal control, then how can you explain that a thought is dep...

Saying that something doesn't exist for which there has never been an iota of evidence doesn't incur a burden of substantiation. By its very definitio...

I understand that you want to avoid straying from the specific notion of "spirit", but it's important to consider that it falls into a category with n...