Agustino

I thought you were an empiricist but okay. How would you define a "being" then? And does your concept of being apply to God in-so-far as it pertains t...

Then how do you get your notion of being if not from the things which you see around you, which are all impermanent and created? :s

Yes. God is not a being the way you and me are beings. Theism makes a distinction between the created - beings - and the Uncreated - God. If you look ...

That's not what Theism, including Pascal would hold. How could there be such evidence? :s It's a matter of interpretation, not a matter of evidence he...

What does that mean though? How do you delimit what is your mind? Do you just assume that all thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc. are the product of ...

What determines plausibility? For example, miracles are plausible to me, but they must obviously be quite rare, otherwise they wouldn't be miracles in...

No, not exactly - you've misunderstood once again what I've said. No the Christian cannot benefit for himself from the study of Buddhism, since Christ...

Yes really - you just don't know what you're talking about - there's a difference there. https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capit...

Buddhism is good - as far as it goes. The problem is that it doesn't go far enough. I said Christianity is the most complete religion, not that there ...

Do you honestly think that would be true?

That's a true fact - you book a flight around here and check it out for yourself. And it was as much true today as it was 100+ years ago. The West has...

Why are these guys writing their names at the end of their posts? :s

There is no Buddhist Christianity, that's a very profound error right there. Christianity may have some similarities with Buddhism, however, because o...

That sounds quite tragic to me :P

So what would you do if you were left paralysed and deaf (I pick deaf because I know you like music) due to, for example, an accident or illness?

I know but syntax can be quite similar. Very easy for me to read, but I can get in trouble when writing it (cause Java generally has a lot of other sy...

@"Thorongil" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10cDyeIRF3k Putin disagrees with you about Catholicism and Orthodoxy being similar :P

Ahhh that language that I never officially studied or learned properly except by writing it >:O It feels very strange how one learns some things by do...

Why not? You're not contradicting yourself. You just said justice is a cause of joy, and now you're saying it's not :s

Yes. They go to sleep really early actually, and wake up really early - 4-5am wake up time :P They crack the whip on you with loud bells and stuff to ...

Okay good, so then Aquinas isn't wrong to say that the wicked going to hell is a cause of joy so long as their going to hell is just and not sadistic,...

Nietzsche did not understand Aquinas and Christianity very well - his understanding was always tainted by Luther. Nietzsche's morality was actually th...

They followed the letter of the law, but not its spirit, thus they were not just. But justice can also be a cause of joy then? In fact, why wouldn't j...

Is justice being done a cause of joy - yes or no?

:s What the? Monks do read the Bible actually, every day they read it, including during their morning prayers. I've lived with them before, and trust ...

That's also risky for the reason stated above, though not as risky as pure pleasure :P

That must be quite a terrible existence then for you, because pleasure is quite a fickle mistress, often attended by a harem of pain. Terrible uncerta...

The movement was well under way, with or without him. He joined in it, but he by no means started it. Augustine & Aquinas did not hold the views of Ca...

What part of Russian history isn't as I said? :s

This is demonstrably false, since apophatic experiences of God require dogma to be interpreted, corrected and guided. Dogma =/ fundamentalism.

There's a British accent which sounds exactly like a hamster. Which one is that?

Sometimes - some forms of Scholasticism certainly can be. I wouldn't say he personally did this, but he did help in that movement and direction.

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That implication is a non-sequitur I believe.

Goal post moving begins X-)

truth is a true statement, but Truth isn't a true statement :P - neither is it a false one for that matter, since Truth is beyond propositional forms.

That's good, justice is also needed. Aquinas did actually reject his philosophy at the end of his life and said it is all "like straw" compared to wha...

Solution: don't get involved with people who cheat on each other ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish (jk) According to Wikipedia, and this doesn't include all scholars nor does it reflect what I actually believe b...

Yes, except that Plato has convinced some people. You haven't convinced anyone with regards to your insight in my psychology I don't think :P Several ...

That's not bad you think you do but you haven't convinced me yet. Yep, that's who He claimed to be. Well granted that Plato foreshadowed Christ, that ...

I'm not sure how you've derived this conclusion :P I think Plato - like Lao Tzu for example - was a foreshadowing of Christ, since Christ is the Truth...

That may be true, how would you know it's not for example? :P O:)

That is an important point. It's not about mutually exclusive truth claims, but rather that only one of them has access to the Truth (which is non-dis...

The criticism from yourself and from those lunatics you quote suggests you've all never read the texts properly to be honest :P

Of course - Dostoevsky was an intellectual and as is usual for the East, there is a very strong tendency to "Westernise" and "Americanise" which usual...

Causality. These are empirical, sorry to disappoint. He actually did. Suuuuure, nobody, just several philosophical traditions :s

I do believe this. I don't believe this. Faith is dependent on will & personal experience & revelation

Please qualify what you mean by "fideist" because it can mean a variety of things from believing that knowledge of God depends on revelation & faith; ...

Causality is actually a metaphysical not a physical category. That's why there are actually attempts, including by atheists like Bertrand Russell, to ...