So fascinating. This need for testability, for empiricism, isn't even something that I actually have any critique of; I just can't fathom it for mysel...
So are you critiquing my response here, or critiquing your own statement? vis: ____ Where did I suggest an all or nothing attitude, and what "firmly g...
I dreamt I flew on great white wings. We sailed over my worries into the past, Into the infinite first feeling. Not like the first drop of rain, But e...
What have you read on this? I'd be interested to read it as well. The reason I bring up prostitution in relation to porn isn't because of legality. As...
Sure; we all should, including yourself. There's no way to assess anything other than as a subject interpreting events. Again, no one does. This isn't...
Ha! Simple common sense is simply not on your side in this debate. Your stance is quite far removed from simple common sense, and represents a conceit...
But you're missing a key factor here; sex work often involves an element of manipulation, and sexual manipulation tends to be deeper and more emotiona...
But people create porn; people objectify through porn. Porn is one of the most straightforward ways to objectify. When a person objectifies another pe...
My mistake; I made my comment without much forethought. If only there were a delete button here... But, I did make the comment with a general feeling ...
Ironically, there's arguably more Catholic Christians who have contributed to philosophy than most other forms of Christianity (Tieilard de Chardin, M...
Ironically, since we're on a philosophy forum, the immediate question isn't actually about whether any law should or shouldn't be imposed about porn, ...
Well, in a Protestant, evangelical understanding, having a relationship with God means communicating to him through prayer, and listening for his comm...
I mean, you can't say all here; like I said, it's a pretty modern concept to have a "personal relationship" with God. That was not a concept from Jesu...
That's plausible, but I don't think the idea of personal relationship really took hold until the 20th century. Which kind of debunks my previous thoug...
Why not say the same thing of empirical observation? That's certainly true, there's no moral evolution per se. But I think we're dealing with differen...
That's an interesting observation. I wonder if that could be the genesis of the evangelical emphasis (fixation) on a "personal relationship with God"....
I'm not nearly the scholar you are on those various sources, and I'm interested in learning more, but at the same time, how should religious experienc...
The only thing I don't understand in what you've said here is how you come to the conclusion that Jesus was basically teaching to just follow the Tora...
Or both! breaking into the world through the inner life of the creative spirit within you. This is actually closest to my current interpretation. So i...
To me the fact that it begins with "not against flesh and blood" just signifies that it's not a physical struggle, and so then whatever comes next (pr...
It almost seems like you place all of your eggs in the basket of texts dealing with the Judaic people and religion, using it to refute the version of ...
But how would "principalities, powers, rules of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness" signify the establishment? Right at the beginning...
I'm honestly having trouble parsing through what you're trying to say here. The typos are not helping either to be honest. Why are people interested i...
The circumstances of a spiritual journey for truth differs from person to person. For instance, I don't begin with the assumption that the world is me...
I'm fine with this, but I think the difference is that I don't stop there. I can see how this jives with your reliance on empirically observing realit...
Fine, no problem. The issue of violent porn or BDSM was tangential to the main point I've been trying to address, which is addiction. I can entertain ...
Addiction has always been relevant to the OP; he stated that there's evidence that porn is not harmful. I never directly addressed the OP, but bringin...
Consider for instance, that in 2005 (couldn't find something more recent on a super quick search), 2.5 million people in the US were treated for alcoh...
But the most pressing aspect of the topic is addiction because of it's prevalence and the way it affects peoples lives. What's worse right now is ther...
Lol what? I guess because it's violent? I don't understand how you're coming to this conclusion. Your responses don't deal with what I mentioned about...
Fine, I can entertain the possibility, I just don't think it's important or relevant to the issue of addiction. It doesn't affect the problem of addic...
You said: And then proceeded to describe "issues of escalation" outside of the context of addiction, so I assumed you meant that porn isn't an addicti...
The problem is that this is too theoretical. It's implausible to imagine someone who's never been exposed to porn seeing it for the first time and goi...
I don't get why you don't think it's an addiction; you're essentially describing addiction, just using slightly tamer language. Have a look at this: h...
:-} Stop misquoting me. I never said that I was only asking questions. I said I was "asking an open question about just how harmful porn is." This is ...
The problem is that porn addiction escalates in the same way that tolerance escalates in drug or alcohol addiction. Those violent forms of pornography...
Clearly I never said that. I was asking an open question about just how harmful porn is. This is definitely a problem. I was mentioning the secrecy of...
The problem of legalizing things seems complex to me; Portugal seems to have done well with legalizing pretty much everything. I'm not necessarily arg...
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