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It's a metaphor. noun 1. a short, jerky motion: Also bob can refer to a small mechanical part. "a dangling or terminal object, as the weight on a pend...
August 09, 2017 at 19:23
Oh yeah, old grandfather commie Sanders, who doesn't know two bobs of economics, as American President would have been great! https://www.youtube.com/...
August 09, 2017 at 19:19
LOOOOOOOL! >:O >:O Propaganda
August 09, 2017 at 19:16
God in His essence is both changing and unchanging at one and the same time - obviously. I don't even know why you mention this, as if I didn't alread...
August 09, 2017 at 19:10
Soon we're going to get to an infinite regress of an idea of an idea, etc. This doesn't really work because obviously the number 2 isn't the same as t...
August 09, 2017 at 17:54
What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8yySDrCBA
August 09, 2017 at 17:48
Why is that Christianity's failure, and not rather the failure of the unbelievers? I think Christianity does make death and suffering easier to bear f...
August 09, 2017 at 17:39
I didn't say you must like the idea, because as I said we're not sure if eternal refers to infinite temporal duration. It might refer to that. I said ...
August 08, 2017 at 21:02
Okay, sure, so what's the point? You don't seem to like the idea of eternal hell. Why not? Can you - a created being - decide what the just punishment...
August 08, 2017 at 20:55
Created beings, obviously. What's your point?
August 08, 2017 at 20:50
Stalin is a created being, not an uncreated Creator.
August 08, 2017 at 20:47
Why? And why would you think that your idea of good and evil can be applied to judge God?
August 08, 2017 at 20:40
Sure, hence he decides what is good and what is evil, just like he decides what is just and unjust. Those are too large questions, you need to be more...
August 08, 2017 at 20:27
It makes sense to question a theology maybe, but not to question God. You can think a theology is wrong, and that's entirely different. So far you hav...
August 08, 2017 at 20:25
Because you said if God is transcendent then it is meaningless to speak about Him. And that's false.
August 08, 2017 at 20:09
So I take it that you don't respect, admire and love God then? :s
August 08, 2017 at 20:08
Everyone else. No, I'm not sure if eternal = infinite temporal duration. Of what use is this insult?
August 08, 2017 at 19:55
Not to mention that your thoughts are the absolute height of stupidity - you believe you may be damned, and therefore you propose suicide or worse as ...
August 08, 2017 at 19:49
Your thoughts are all over the place, and it's impossible to discuss like this. Please pick a specific subject/topic and let's discuss it. We don't un...
August 08, 2017 at 19:46
No I'm not. To say God is beyond reason isn't to say God is IRRATIONAL. Hence it's not meaningless at all. Beyond reason isn't the same as irrational....
August 08, 2017 at 19:43
Yes, but we do have access to revelation. You need grounds for questioning something, and such grounds are in this case missing. Because that is absur...
August 08, 2017 at 19:04
You misunderstand. God is incomprehensible, BUT we do know that He is the standard of justice and truth, for there is nothing higher than God. Therefo...
August 08, 2017 at 18:59
:-}
August 08, 2017 at 18:53
? How do you know? Feyerabend is a scholar (and an atheist by the way). He thought the Church acted rationally. And I think so too. The evidence is ab...
August 08, 2017 at 18:53
We don't know if he is, but probably he is. He had a direct encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, and many things were revealed to him, compar...
August 08, 2017 at 18:44
The Church back in the day was doing what the scientific community is doing today (because most of the scientists were also priests, because priests w...
August 08, 2017 at 18:39
Yes, Nietzsche is great. In comparison to Hume ;) .
August 08, 2017 at 18:26
What's the problem? I would be punished by the Living God, not by man, and probably if God decides to punish me, then I absolutely deserve it, and wou...
August 08, 2017 at 18:24
I'm not quite sure Nietzsche is that great either. There's a lot of things he was blind to. For example, you protest about eternal hell and say that i...
August 08, 2017 at 13:14
Yes, and the deeper problem is that physical laws may actually change with time, but they may change so slowly that we haven't yet managed to perceive...
August 08, 2017 at 13:08
I don't think SX's discussions are generally very profound (take that as significant), but they are highly scholastic and technical generally, which d...
August 08, 2017 at 11:24
>:O >:O >:O If you show this guy a tree, he will still say it's not a tree - he'll be like "so where is the tree?! You said you'll show me a tree!!"
August 08, 2017 at 11:22
Banno's secret of course is to discuss the easiest most superficial and meanest subjects which everyone has the depth required to discuss - that's how...
August 08, 2017 at 11:19
A hypocritical society that lasts isn't to be preferred over an honest one that disappears.
August 08, 2017 at 09:34
For example, at least Osho, takes on a lot of Nietzsche's ideas, including critique of traditional religion, condemnation of hypocrisy, ideas on moral...
August 08, 2017 at 09:08
What's the question?
August 08, 2017 at 08:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0O9IK8bxM8 Listen to this. It's exactly what you're saying too ^^ (especially with regards to life-affirmation). Not ...
August 08, 2017 at 08:35
It would be strange to find a prominent historical figure that Osho doesn't refer to. He speaks, at times quite extensively, about Steiner, though not...
August 08, 2017 at 08:25
Sure, he would even admit to that probably :P But look at his ideas. You'd agree with them. You'd agree with him that society kills the individual, de...
August 07, 2017 at 21:18
On this point we can take entities like circles too. Perfect circles don't actually exist in material reality, and yet we have knowledge of them and t...
August 07, 2017 at 20:55
Number 2 isn't just an idea. An idea is always an idea OF something (an idea of a circle, an idea of a man, an idea of God, etc.). Number 2 is a being...
August 07, 2017 at 20:48
Probably my first "foray" into philosophy was Osho at 12 (just because my father at that time was very into the Osho movement). You Mr. Beebs will 100...
August 07, 2017 at 20:17
You cannot have one foot in heaven and the other in hell ;)
August 07, 2017 at 20:08
>:O It's not a little trick at all, but in an age dominated by scientism and the objectification of reality people often have a tendency to admit only...
August 07, 2017 at 20:05
Mid 20s. No, I'm a civil engineer by degree. I've worked in it briefly, but I'm working in IT/marketing at the moment. So I'm not a professional philo...
August 07, 2017 at 20:02
Ah well, that explains why you read a "not" there :P Well I find it strange that you expected me to answer "no", when I've been saying all along that ...
August 07, 2017 at 19:59
Why do I mean no? :s I actually said yes and told you that the spiritual reality signified by Mithras' name - hence the being represented by Mithras -...
August 07, 2017 at 19:51
Sure, the number 2 also exists, and yet you cannot touch it or see it. (Nor can you "verify" it for that matter). Not all beings exist in the same man...
August 07, 2017 at 19:08
Yes, the spiritual reality signified by Mithras' name does exist.
August 07, 2017 at 18:59
Mithras is a name. Does it matter whether you call it Mithras or Cthulhu?
August 07, 2017 at 17:38