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Couldn't you make the argument that religion gave birth to rationality? The historical thread of Greek myth -> Greek philosophy, and similarly, Christ...

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Hold on, you keep moving the goal posts, I think unintentionally. You're initial statement in your OP was: And my first comment here was a direct resp...

I'm not sure your series of quotes before this statement follow each other. As to having the freedom to find our own ends, I think it's an illusion. I...

No.

Perhaps your confusion lies here? I don't think anyone in this thread is making an argument for religion; personally I repurpose the word religion to ...

Right. But freedom in general still isn't the ends. Freedom is a state of being. It's another prerequisite for something else. It's possible to live a...

Autonomous thinking is a tool, not an end. It's just the first step. What's autonomous thinking for, exactly? It serves no purpose (end) in itself. Yo...

It doesn't; ironically it's more of an emotional appeal to rationality based on given cultural circumstances. The enlightenment championing of reason ...

That's a great guide for artists, and philosophers who are sympathetic to an artistic approach. I'm also interested in Christian Existentialists, so t...

Neither do I; I didn't say that. Everyone has a worldview; the evidence for this is the basic values they put out into the world. Someone without a wo...

You do; part of it involves: You consider a self-inflicted psychological condition something undesirable.

Did you read the fine print of what Wayfarer was describing as "myth" here?

Right. My problem here is that not everyone has access to this sort of thing. So, my questions remain in a philosophical realm (ironic for me). Assumi...

I do feel this; this is one side of why I feel conflicted here. The other side is that some circumstances are not in one's control. Is this more of wh...

Yes. I struggle with this constantly; it's the question of exactly how much spiritual responsibility is placed on the individual. Is it a set amount, ...

This is a valuable insight; I think you have the key here already, within all of your trepidations and frustrations. How could personhood be the highe...

(Y) I like how you can already see the beginnings of his style and focus in how the trees in his early work look like tapestry. Makes me think his evo...

How was it not necessary?

It's a piece by Piet Mondrian. He wanted to create a "real equation of the universal and the individual." I'm fascinated by modernist artistic philoso...

And I'll leave you with this: If you're unwilling to examine the very modes of thinking by which you make arguments, are those arguments worth making?

You missed my point; everything I quoted of you in that last paragraph are examples of intuitions of yours. Your intuitions are what drive your ration...

Which tells you more about the apple? Maybe I am. I'm developing my own system of thought, and the role of intuition is part of my ideas. It's an inco...

No, this was my definition of intuition in this argument: In regards to Kant, I said my idea was similar, which it is. Your quote of Kant wasn't my de...

Do you actually want to address my ideas? I don't respond well to being made fun of.

Alright no worries, I was just re-reading through the thread and was confused by that.

Similar to that, but in relation to things like meaning, morality, and the underlying principles of why we bother to have discussions, in place of "ob...

Nowhere here did I equate these. This is a charicature of what I said. I'd invite you to re-read what I said if you want to comment on it. You haven't...

Why did you delete the rest of our quips in this exchange when you split this thread? It looks like you made it sound as if I was complimenting your a...

Also found this quote: “Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a s...

Read the blog post, looks interesting. I wonder how an analysis of how those problems have developed up until the present would fair, vs. this analysi...

Interesting, looks like I need to do some more reading. Yes, I was trying to get at that in response to , but maybe I didn't frame it quite so succinc...

I came here for a discussion of spirituality. If you come to a discussion of spirituality armed only with rationality, then of course your own prophec...

How does it account for morality? I'll put this here for clarity: I should clarify that my definition of spirituality is the state of something being ...

I didn't mean mind/body dualism, I mean something more akin to the Hindu idea of the Self (Brahman) being higher than (i'd say inside of) the Ego, or ...

It's hard to describe. Haha, sorry, here come some more vague definitions. I'll try to make it as clear as I can. I consider the subject/object distin...

A box fan blowing into my left ear, which is the ear that has hearing damage from running stage monitors as an audio engineer. So annoying.

I meant elude, sorry. You continue to ignore the definition I offered in my first response to you. Maybe you missed it? Here it is: Spirituality: The ...

Bah, as if the kudos of a spiritual-something-a-rather-ist means anything to such a staunch atheist. :P

Ok; kudos to you too then.

It's a nice quote, but overquoted. It's actually a tautology. But I don't know, maybe that was his point. But I'm not saying that there's something to...

But you're just indirectly describing a "meaning of life" here; you're assuming that clearing "up the limited habitat, 'making space for newer, younge...

Kudos to you for that; it's rare to find atheists around here with that mindset.

I don't want to speak for , but I would say that all of the above are the definition that he's describing. The reason the concept might seem vague is ...

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Oh lighten up, it was a joke! Apparently my emoji's didn't properly express my feeling, as per usual. Try this: :-} >:O Two of your favs!

:-* Dear lord, do you have any response these days other than your choice emojis? :-} O:)

True. They exist here though, but they're kind of the holy grail.

Sounds like a plan; NYC or Australia? What kind of cake tho?

Just finished The Upanishads Currently: The Bhagavad Gita Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis (re-reading) The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton (re-...