Noble Dust

You haven't addressed the question of whether suffering is necessary for peace. But I do agree with Girand; I got at some of that in my first op on th...

Interesting, that's similar to what I'm trying to get at here. I haven't studied Kabbalah at all, but I've always found it intriguing. Yes, I agree. I...

But peace almost always is a result of prior violence, politically speaking. Inner peace is a product of personal spiritual practice, which always inv...

Thanks; probably Nikolai Berdyaev. I haven't finished the Gita and have read through the major Upunishads once. I need to study both more to have a be...

But does peace require suffering?

So to take your wording from your op, are you now asking "If God exists and He is all good and all powerful why does He allow suffering?" To me, suffe...

The Agustino fallacy: >:O :s >:)

Also a solid hangover cure.

It's better than Netflix!

How am I supposed to entertain myself at work now? :(

Yes, exactly! Finally you understand!

Since I'm drunk, it's probably best that I resign. >:O But I guess that classifies me as a heathen?

What, you're trying to batter against the heavenly gates? What does that even mean? >:O

God knows when. And "god" knows what exactly that means. I trust you have a sense of what I mean. If not, please batter against those gates.

What, you've missed me? >:O Into the hole of trying to present a philosophy of the spirit that doesn't presume anything much other than brute experien...

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If you want to debate in good faith sans insults I'm happy to, but otherwise this is pointless.

What's called context? What, this?

True, but I'm asking about the subjectivity of the concepts, because you seemed to assume that relevance was less subjective. Opinion isn't subjectivi...

How is relevance less subjective than realness, existence and truth?

Can science be guided? (yes, I did read your post). By what, an ideology?

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Love knows and acknowledges the worth of the person in question. "Worth" is actually inappropriate; this has been clear to me for a long while: Worth ...

To endure suffering requires a will. That will endures through belief in something better beyond that suffering. The experience of suffering seems to ...

I was annoyed because I admitted to being pedantic there, and then you just kept criticizing. I basically handed your argument to you, and you continu...

No idea; you responded to my question posed to someone other than you.

Guess I was being pedantic; sight -> perception -> interpretation -> knowledge, or something along those lines, but it all happens quickly.

My point was that seeing is perception, which isn't knowledge, but that's off topic...

Is seeing an attractive person knowledge?

Issues of biological parents/vs not, and how that affects the care given to those children is absolutely something to be discussed, but what I was men...

So how about the opposite approach, since your main line of arguing here is pointing out various conditions through which people arrive at concepts of...

Admittedly my mental health lately has led to these sorts of occasional pithy posts. But glad you found it worthwhile; that quote has stuck with me fo...

"Pride is shame's cloak." - William Blake

I'm not sure; you'd have to unpack that.

Existence.

His concept of the creative act is admittedly hard to understand, but I get a sense of it on an intuitive level, which is why I'm a proponent of it. T...

I probably already said this, but The Meaning of the Creative Act is a good place to start, if you can make it through the more esoteric elements. Div...

Anon, did you ever delve into Berdyaev?

It looks like you read the word "cynic" in the quote and based your entire argument from there. If you re-read the quote, "well-informed cynicism" was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scILa5iPBcg

is back to his OG photo. Does this signify some sort of tectonic shift in the philosophical undercurrent on the forum? (Asking for a friend/really act...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9jywQ4cgc

Seems purely arbitrary. I actually agreed with everything you said in your OP other than this statement; the plague of posting on a philosophy forum: ...

So, if it doesn't last... "forever"...why do good things versus atrocious things? Shouldn't I just do what catches my fancy? After all, eternity won't...

How/why do you know that?

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>:O (and where's the standing O emoji to follow?)

Me too. That's why I've taken a break posting on this philosophy forum. Perhaps a better place to begin would be to address this adage to yourself, ra...

I'm not sure, then, what you mean with that distinction, since you don't see any dichotomy. Unless I'm misunderstanding. Fair enough, of course. Like ...

I really have to say I continue to disagree with this. Reference my comments to you in the beauty thread. I have no problem with folks like you and Ri...