Let me ask you a question. Do you agree that your existence is just as temporary as an ocean wave which is transient dynamic structure 'observed' by h...
:grin: That 'I' does not 'exist by itself'. Its status is predicated on the 'existence of others' from whom it acquired the pronoun 'l', and the word ...
'Entropy' is a human concept linked to their other concepts 'time', and 'events'. Without considering human requirements in defining 'order of events'...
On 'the committee nature of self' G.I.Gurdlieff. Gurdjieff goes on to say that at any time, one of the dominant "i"s acts as 'chairman' to regulate th...
Things are thinged by thingers. They have no existential status 'in their own right' .What you call 'logical contradiction' amounts to disagreement be...
If you consider a Venn diagram with three intersecting circles...Jesus, Human and Divine. Proposition A eliminates the the Jesus circle outside the Hu...
Your questions rests on your dichotomy between 'human' and 'divine'. However, no doubt some religionists, would dismiss that dichotomy on pantheistic ...
What appears to be missing in all this discussion is acknowledgement of the evolutionary trait of 'tribalism' which humans have in common with other p...
Insect 'stillness' is nothing to do with mind 'stillness'. The first foils predaters, like frogs, whose perceptual mechanism is only attuned to moving...
To Poetic Universe This is a very stimulating project which has prompted me to research Omar Khayyam. Congratulations are in order for your efforts to...
Well, imo all 'absolutes' are religious, the irony being that it is mainly in religion where 'existence' is questioned. (Obviously I'm discounting the...
There is no riddle! 'Thinghood' is a word ascribed by humans to focal aspects of their common experiences and expectations of experience. 'Existence' ...
The 'question' is meaningless, because it already existentially requires human observers verbalising their projected experiences in order for it to ar...
You are correct from the pov that 'existence' is relative, not absolute. i.e.. Nothing 'exists' before it is conceptualised/languaged/ thinged by huma...
TO THE PSEUDO GNOSTIC Actually 'Gnosticism' relative to other esoteric cults, looks like a pretty nebulous hotchpotch of ideas. The 'hidden truths of ...
BTW Here's a 'philosophical sonnet' of my own. (It's okay. I'll just dance in a corner). The Wood and the Trees Walk with me this childhood path Where...
I think I can identify the reasons why this troll is being perpetuated. 1.His obsession with his infantile anthropomorhism with which he goads 'believ...
The only way to shut trolls up is not to feed them. We are all guilty in that respect. This forum seems to particularly problematic with this relative...
TO ALL It's perfectly possible, and overwhelmingly more logical, to criticise all religions, including gnostic cults, as a potential source of social ...
That's the meaning of 'apotheosis'. And any fool who calls himself 'Greatest I Am' would seem to confirm that even you, with your limited logical abil...
Thanks for that extensive trolling information. I underestimated the size of his problem ! The 'seeking good minds' ploy is of course a supercilious g...
My apologies...I took you for your one 'follower' from another trolling ground of yours, A2K. A list of your infestations would be quite useful to giv...
TO ALL Having trolled this forum and getting the inevitable heckling, the 'Bishop' is now trolling Able2Know as the pompous 'Greatest I Am', preaching...
You seem to be confusing psychpathology with philosophy. The first deals with delusions and obsessions, like grandiose claims of apotheosis, or 'stand...
'Apotheosis' ........as in the declaration by Caligula of his deification to his Uncle Claudius ? ...and you think this is a viable subject for a phil...
Thankyou on two counts... 1. For confirming your own smallmindedness by anthropomorphising 'God' by assigning the human trait of cowardice. 2. For und...
You make some sense. However my objections to this poster (who frequents other forums with the same 'questions') is nothing to do with the negligible ...
As an atheist I know that some deists believe that what they call 'God' does 'show himself'. Other deists (like you) base their own idiosyncractic rat...
'How science works' is indeed a philosophical problem involving our human preoccupation with 'prediction and control' and the dubious epistemological ...
My citing of Nietzsche's position comes second hand from Rorty's comments* on 'truth'. But this direct quote refers to that position.... https://www.g...
No. IMO, definitions merely suggest potential usage contexts, and 'materiality' tends to imply 'of focal concern', not an allusion to 'physicality' as...
It is my understanding that Wittgenstein's 'meaning is use' was a later rejection of Frege's support for 'a picture theory of language'. From developm...
The word 'truth' doesn't come into it except in negotiation of what is agreed 'to be the case'. The 'reality debate' concerns the more general issue o...
I agree with your objection if it amounts to dismissal of the functionality of a non-contextual dichotomy between 'subjective' and 'objective'. I mean...
Irrespective of Augustines 'mental prowess' or otherwise, you don't seem to have considered that 'the church' benefitted materially by acquiring estat...
Goethe's color 'theory' was opposed to Newton's 'physics' of color, in that it stressed color as a phenomenological experience in which, for example '...
That 'colorless world' conclusion seems self evident to me. Nor are 'scientists' from such a world likely to be interested in the rest of what we call...
Ah...I seem to remember that gnostics consider themselves to be 'God' (or a manifestation thereof). If so, you presumably have the power to forgive yo...
That's a pretty self indulgent assumption !... that you are 'a good man' rather than being merely parasitic on the standard theistic faith of others w...
Surely the onus 'to go away,' statistically remains with religious 'crazies' who infest cozy respectable philosophy forums instead of standing on drau...
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