He has an instinctual faith which is aided and encouraged by parents to, for example, drink milk from his mother's breast in order to deal with the di...
What is bollocks? No, it is literarily impossible to doubt when you have nothing to doubt. Doubting and disbelieving is a learned process that becomes...
So you don't care what the other person says they believe - you just know what they believe anyway, no need to communicate X-) That is impossible. Whe...
No religion defines Faith (as you like to call it my dear charle), as faith based on fear of death or "god". Apart from being circular, it would be en...
Of course, I agree with it, but that's besides the point. It's like telling me that if Newton's laws of motion cannot predict the movement of rays of ...
Well, I would be surprised about that. For example, I did make that connection but never mentioned it since I don't know much about popular culture, T...
I've never read Gurdjieff through Ouspensky, I've read him through Osho who commented at length on him - I must have been 13 or so back then, so it's ...
Thanks, I haven't come across that one yet. >:O Yeah, it does cash out in terms of the interrelationship of all (one) existence. Spinoza was using the...
Yes, infinite extension is by default unbounded. With regards to the quoted bits from Part II of the Ethics, I doubt Spinoza was referring to the dist...
That is much like saying "if Einstein is right, then Newton is wrong". It gives entirely the wrong impression since Newton is absolutely not wrong in-...
It is also very much found in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, where the distinction is between God's energies and God's essence (refer to energy-essenc...
I would also add that there is a certain other difficulty here. The empirical self (for lack of better words) exists only in-so-far as the body exists...
Quite the contrary, it takes faith to try in the first place. If you don't have any faith, you don't even try. So it's actually quite the contrary - t...
It is almost a given that when you're looking for the essence of something you will discard accidentals. The fact that such a universal unifying core ...
That is true, although there is a slight difference here. These ardent & wishy-washy Christians usually do have a degree of epistemic humility and ope...
Interesting. I have been pondering this. It is one of the less discussed issues of Spinoza since it impinges on Part V which is often ignored. For exa...
Merry Christmas! Well, I meant the same thing as when I say you are objectively aware of something - ie you can judge it and react appropriately to it...
Merry Christmas! In due time of course. Why, were you thinking to contribute when these matters came about? I think people, especially those who ident...
As for differences between Christians... take the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. You count them as two separate groups, but in essence they ...
Merry Christmas! Sure the Jews and the Moslems don't have the doctrine in the same manner, but they sure do have equivalent doctrines. The point of tr...
I haven't checked that thread out (yet), but language functions differently than consciousness. A computer is basically a language processor. All lang...
Indeed, the truth is that you will struggle to find any academic in the field of comparative religion, anthropology or theology who would even take th...
Non sequitur. This literarily has nothing to do with what you've quoted. So I'm supposed to take you seriously because you've shown an aptitude to pop...
I have a hard-time believing in technologically advanced aliens for some reason. Seems to me much like believing in ghosts - it's certainly possible, ...
Ah okay, I see what you mean. The term "familiarity" threw me off a bit initially, couldn't quite grasp what you meant. I've written on this in the pa...
Like who? I named to you 5 who are actually New Atheists. Add people like Michael, Arkady, and the like and you have even more. So there's at least ar...
I had a look at this. I'm not much of a believer in the free market anyway - at least not a pragmatic believer, in the sense that the free market is t...
Okay... where was I claiming that easily converging on similar notions makes them right? All I said was countering your notion that theologians don't ...
Hmm, I think toxoplasmosis is the disease not the agent. And anyway, from my knowledge, a very large share of people, even in developed countries, hav...
Not really - Trump does have some support on TPF, he's a real gangsta like that. Definitely - literarily zero support. LOL! Are you kidding me? Then w...
Yeah, if you bothered to read like 5 of those theologians, you'd realise that their understanding of God was actually quite close in most regards. Of ...
He might be, why are you telling me?! I've never backed MU's argument for that matter, and I haven't even followed it that closely. I do agree with hi...
Sure. You're not talking theologians here, you're talking about divinations and other forms of peasant claptrap. If anything, Christianity is largely ...
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