Porn has actually been shown to have the same chemical response in the brain as heroin. And see Wayfarers comments above about the effect of growing u...
I agree on want being present in the human condition in general. But as far as how we fill the hole encapsulating our meaning in life, I revert back t...
There's research (fringe research, not mainstream research) that points to porn being harmful to the brain: https://yourbrainonporn.com/ There's also ...
For instance, what else is there in religious experience other than flailing in "inspiration of own personal religious beliefs"? (flailing clearly bei...
The context: "Fare forward, travellers! Not escaping from the past Into indifferent lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left th...
Another favorite from Four Quartets: "Not fare well, but fare forward, voyagers." Why the need for a bang or for a whimper? Why not voyage on without ...
Well, I have a hard time saying whether freedom is inherent, or an inherent lack in humanity. A lack of freedom from suffering (i.e....suffering), wou...
I always think apophatic concepts are best understood analogically. Load up a few different news sources for the best answer to your question here. Th...
This is a gross generalization. By definition, salvation means equality; it has nothing to do with superiority over others. Your point here is that cl...
I don't want to disarm the potency of your experience here, but I had a similar experience when I was about 15. A feeling of a divine "hand" grabbing ...
Well, any denial of tradition includes an acknowledgement of tradition, in the same way that atheism includes an acknowledgement of theism, just by de...
Oh please, don't let me make you feel ashamed. Sorry. It's more of a classic musician's response to another musician, than anything else ("oh god, you...
Btw, I'm not familiar with Summa for Strings, but it's very nice. Edit: and what you say about reaching out to someone but never connecting is very tr...
Oh god, you know Part, but not Reich? Sorry, I get emotional about these things. Part is wonderful; simply beautiful because of his fearlessness and t...
I'll leave it up to you philosophers to seek out the other 3 movements to this piece, as it doesn't exist as a single video or a playlist on youtube. ...
The fulfillment of the lack inherent in the human condition, I'd say. Check in with Aquinas, Tillich, Berdyaev, et. al., before you make that statemen...
Too many rules; analogies don't work this way; they should be simple. Yes, it does. Your analogy gets lumpier and lumpier the more you try to explain ...
Thanks. This make sense to me within the context of the Christian mystics, since I still haven't delved into Buddhism or other traditions as I've been...
That can't be right; if access to the closet was access to the knowledge about God, then you surely would have that access (assuming you have access t...
I see the need to think independently and authentically and objectively, but I don't equate that with the process of transcending the subjective and e...
When I first read about Plato's idea, I didn't identify with it at all. But over time I've come to feel some agreement with it. I often have an intuit...
All analogies break down, but it would depend on how I came to the belief that a ball exists there. If a stranger said so, I may not believe. If someo...
To be clear, I also had a similar experience with religious upbringing, and have doubted belief in God to the point of agnosticism, but not to the poi...
If it interests you, see my discussion of Tillich's concept of faith as "ultimate concern" in this thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1...
That's not the argument Tillich makes. Faith isn't a representation or misrepresentation of trust, belief, values, ethics, and knowledge; it's the mec...
Why? Tillich also suggests that doubt is an integral part of faith: "...faith is uncertain in so far as the infinite to which it is related is receive...
No, I wasn't saying that. I was having some fun re-writing (and paraphrasing) bible verses with Science as the god. Belief in science and God is of co...
Do not suppose that I have come to bring sarcasm to the world. I did not come to bring sarcasm, but rather poetic analysis. Verily, whoever does the w...
Verily, we thank the Almighty Lord Science for all and every form of alleviation of physical suffering, and for all forms of ever increasing physical ...
Ah yes; thank the Almighty Lord Science for offering the alleviation of physical suffering, and for his bountiful blessings of Xanax for those sufferi...
Well, I'm not that knowledgeable about visual art either; I'm a musician. So perhaps I need to revisit Mozart? But I never had a great impression of h...
Sure. To me, the possibility of a computer creating a more sublime piece of art than a human person ever could is exactly an example of the purest for...
I should also come full disclosure and mention that my issue here is primarily a fundamental one. I think a lot about the role of art, or the purpose ...
I somehow missed your post here, sorry. The result of checking the forum on my phone, it seems. I almost agree; with the case of Guernica, the idea ma...
A conscious throwing of everything we know into question, or an experience of it? My experience of doubt (and so, for better or for worse), my interpr...
But I was referring to your list of questions. They all had question marks after them, but they were leading questions, which means you weren't really...
John, I should also mention that another reason I focus on the importance of creativity over craft (or logic, or whatever), is that I find that, espec...
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