Agustino

Sorry, I was never warned of this message, and just accidentally saw it now. Because I don't think we need undeniable evidence (proof) of God to belie...

Sure, but you do realise there's a huge difference between predicting something in a few days, months or years, and an entirely different story in pre...

This is speculation. Scientific theories don't cease to be speculation just because they're undertaken by scientists. The truth of the matter is that ...

No we weren't. We were talking about the purpose of life, not whether existence is circular. What the hell does existence being circular even mean?

I just saw the "spectacular" additions to your post ... Kenosis means self-emptying through loving activity. :-} Just because I find your comments in ...

:s I don't remember we were discussing whether the universe has a spatial or temporal end or not...

Proving that the Earth is "round" (ie spherical) is an empirical matter. Proving that an argument is circular is a logical matter. The two aren't prov...

If you cannot provide a means to identify it, then we'll have to treat it as impossible, in which case it's time to dismiss your concerns as children'...

And it will certainly cure you of your idea that Christianity is dead.

Yes what about it? Why aren't you happy about it? It will dispel your misconceptions about the Christian spirituality that K. was advocating and you'l...

The book I recommended you.

How are you going to recognise that the origin is the origin if you'll keep asking what's the purpose what's the purpose to everything that is said to...

https://youtu.be/Th2qwiC7q70?t=2m13s

Logic can neither be proved nor disproved. It suffices that I point to the fact that you have no reason for questioning a final purpose based on askin...

Okay here's what will happen. Regardless of what purpose we tell you that life has (call it X), you'll ask "Why do we need to do X? What are we doing ...

No, I'd rather prefer if you put an end to the BS actually... ;)

I most often play by myself. And I certainly don't "learn to reproduce" by playing the piano for example. Nor does it make me prosperous. Really, if b...

The eternal dance of atoms in the void - remember when Democritus laughed?

>:O >:O

I agree with Thorongil. Play. Prayer. Art. Music. Beauty. God. Nobility. Man The Player is, as Thorongil says, a rather risky species of animal, who q...

But yes, I'm talking about the negative of pain being greater than the positive of pleasure. @"Maw" if you're around, can you give your input on this?...

But yes, I'm talking about the negative of pain being greater than the positive of pleasure. @"Maw" if you're around, can you give your input on this?...

Really people don't get it but Kierkegaard is as Catholic/Orthodox as you can get in terms of a philosopher. Even Thomas Aquinas isn't as Christian as...

By the way you should already be aware that merging into God is HERESY in Christian theology. So Christian mysticism is different than other forms of ...

Read Sickness unto Death, or Either/Or. Also you can check out this book: Struggling with God: Kierkegaard and the Temptation of Spiritual Trial

Kierkegaard thought union with the divine is impossible, in that the human self always remains separate from God, and cannot merge into God... :s

Puritanicus Giganticus >:) sounds like a species of powerful bug!

How was he a mystic if he rejected the God of the philosophers and rather accepted the personal God who directly and literarily spoke with Abraham? :s...

Have you actually read Nietzsche while trying to be honest to what he was saying? I can see the point you're trying to make, but it has little to do w...

>:O >:O >:O

We're dealing with a very big ignoramus in this thread. Whoever dares to say that Kierkegaard is an atheist/mystic who thinks Christianity is dead and...

What I'm trying to say is really that generalizing is impossible or not helpful in such a case.

Yes agreed. It's starting to become unbelievable to me that some people claim that there are no such things to be found in Nietzsche. I often wonder i...

Okay, so Nietzsche's "will-to-power" is as abstract as Plato's Agathon then. I'd be careful with identifying Being as historical consciousness. Histor...

My point is that the states of mind are more varied and more detailed than the label permits. Thus the label is always inaccurate.

For example Nietzsche's writings with regard to asceticism are pathetic. Asceticism is strength par excellence, not weakness. The ascetic is the man w...

Is such an exuberance a good thing, and if so why? Yeah but it doesn't tell us much. In my opinion there are some things of value in this life, and th...

:s Many of N. writings are quite the opposite of loving. N. often praises warriors and conquerors, and blood-thirsty men - certainly more often than h...

What will I do with the money? :s I want my time back.

The Sanders/Progressive movement >:O >:O >:O

Yes precisely. So how are we to square with this blatant self-contradiction? What would that metaphysical notion be?

N. was wrong. If "Truths are simply lies that people believe in" then what about this assertion itself?

Yes Trump is a congenital liar, and CROOKED is a world class politician - that's what you told us before >:O give me a break... Reading your posts in ...

For example, reason for Plato includes, and in fact is based on noetic truths and intuition, and the intellect is active, and not just a passive recip...

I'm not so sure about this. There's accumulating scientific evidence that traumatic events shape one much more than ecstatic moments do - the brain al...

Ehmm I did read Nietzsche, the problem of course is that there's not only one way to interpret will to power. So I'm curious what your interpretation ...

I think the biggest problem is that people are taught fake ideas about what life is like while they're growing up. Then they think there's something w...

Not at all. It's concerned with how we should live life. Thinking always has a practical aim for Plato.

I'm not quite sure. So long as we have a physical body we're trapped in time. After death we will be, as you say, in eternity, completely. Much more t...