The non-biblical reason for wearing clothing has more to do with climate than with gender. In the jungles of Africa, clothing is optional for those wi...
Yes. Both Theists and Atheists are reasonable in the sense that they each have reasons to support their pro or con conclusion. The problem is that Ath...
That "eternal basis" and "permanent something" is the cosmic principle of BEING, that I also call G*D, as a sop to traditional feelings. Yes. I don't ...
That "chosen" purpose may work for you as an individual, but most people who ask such questions are assuming there must be a higher, more universal Pu...
History affirms that "belief in god is an evolutionary stable strategy". Cultural evolution, that is. So, faith in gods must provide something that is...
He specifically mentioned Intellectuals and Philosophers, and didn't mention Introversion. If he's not a navel-gazing introvert, then maybe an outward...
The recent book by Susan Cain addresses that very question. Ironically, she is a lawyer, who gets paid to stand in front of strangers and talk. Innate...
One sense of the verb "to prove" is "to probe, investigate, analyze". So it doesn't necessarily imply that absolute Truth has been revealed. In Scienc...
Social awkwardness seems to be typical of Intellectuals, and especially Philosophers. Throughout history philosophers (e.g. Socrates) were noted for e...
The hyper-critical Cynics were the Punk Rockers of their day : act like an animal, "don't give a sh*t about anything". Theirs was an extreme opposite ...
It took me many years to deprogram my youthful propagandizing to fear death without God's seal of approval. Other than the nagging question of losing ...
What comes next is unknowable, but different religions & cultures have imagined a variety of sequels to our "brief candle", some good, some bad : the ...
I don't know that there is any authoritative answer to your interesting question. But in my own imagination, I can speculate. First, there is a signif...
As you suggest, the mind perceives that physical objects can be broken-down into smaller pieces, and then it conceives (in imagination) that metaphysi...
Maybe you are questioning how the human mind can analyze seemingly unbroken processes of change into smaller bits. Plato proposed the metaphor of "car...
Actually, my view is BothAnd. Our world is both a Holistic System that works as a unit, and a swarm of Holons that work independently. The "holistic v...
Whenever humans conceive of a continual progression as a series of steps, they implicitly digitize a whole system. For example, as someone pointed out...
Your question sounds like Zeno's Paradox. He assumed that the "gap" traversed between any two steps in a race (movement in space & time) is infinitely...
In my hypothesis, that intermediate "duration" between energy peaks and valleys is not Time, but Timelessness ( a state that cannot be measured in Pla...
Your example of color change reminds me of physical Phase Transition. The perceived shift in color is caused by a change in wavelength, and the gap "t...
That is one way to imagine the hypothetical fundamental non-entity I call "G*D". It's like a continuous unbounded unlimited Field of Potential (BEING)...
That is indeed the nature of Wholes in the real world. But my notion of the hypothetical super-natural creator of Reality (Nature) is just the reverse...
That's also how I view my meta-physical, non-anthro-morphic G*D : as a unique singular Whole, not a vast collection of parts. Dawkins seems to be a re...
That's merely a superficial observation of a mystery, not a theory of "how it works". Scientists know a lot about Phase Change, but still can't say fo...
I didn't call Jains "hyper-idealistic", I called them "idealistic". It was not intended as a put-down, but as a description of their uncompromising Dh...
The current dominant model of the brain says that it consists of an array of "modules" with specialized functions. But no-one has come up with a plaus...
"Hyper-pragmatism" is not pragmatic, it's idealistic. That's one problem with "hyper-idealists", they tend to view pragmatic moderates through a rever...
Yes. If you have a need for absolute moral purity, then go for it. But most people are not so angelic. I do my best, but it's never good enough to qua...
The OP was asking if, when Consciousness stops during sleep, we are in-effect dead for the duration. But that notion is based on a poor understanding ...
I have been losing consciousness nightly for 75 years, and yet my Self is still living. That's because Consciousness is not the same thing as Self or ...
Maybe the solution to the babble of languages at CERN is to provide everyone with a Babel-fish. :grin: Babel-fish : https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wik...
Yes, the Golden Mean is relative to the mode and range of the values under consideration. I this case, I am relating the Jain morality to my own perso...
Apparently, you don't know who Barry Goldwater was. As presidential candidate in 1964, he was the Donald Trump of his day, and had been characterized ...
I can quibble with the notion that "every new idea" is extremist. Many are quite moderate, but are rejected due to the polarized & uncompromising atti...
I never said that "there are things too idealistic to implement". What I did say was "It's an idealistic idea, but hard to implement in the real world...
I'm generally familiar with Plato's ideas, but I'm not a scholar. Where did Plato discuss the topic that you are calling "the One". I did a Google sea...
What "ideas" are you referring to? I don't suppose that you think cave-men were making utopian plans for turning their caves into high-rise cities. An...
Ideals are great as hypothetical goals to aim for, but they are by definition, not Real, or realistic, in the sense of practical. The Garden of Eden w...
I am not religious, but I am also not an Atheist. So, I'm not prejudiced against the idea of life after death. To the contrary, as a child, I was taug...
I don't have time to go into detail on Genetic Science, so I'll just mention that in Systems Theory, Reductive complexity (sheer numbers) is distingui...
That was a common assumption until the advent of Quantum theory. Ironically, though the theory is based on quantized phenomena, it was eventually stym...
Good point! A poster on another thread --- discussing FreeWill not gods --- replied to my reply, first by rejecting my links to "expert" opinions, and...
The Buddha came to the same conclusion. So, he showed people-driven-by-desires, how to break free from the tyranny of evolutionary appetites. Self-con...
I agree, but you missed the point. I was not equating Science and Atheism. I was simply making allowances for Theist scientists, such as Francis Colli...
Those "illusions" are Memes, and the brain/mind is very good at "creating, sustaining, and swapping them". Some Memes are reliable facts, but many are...
I asked what alternative "X" you would propose. I may or may not be in the market for "X", but you haven't explicitly said what it is. Except to denig...
If you are really interested in navel-gazing, without becoming a Buddhist or Hindu, you might enjoy Robert Wright's book, Why Buddhism Is True. Don't ...
Good point! I suspect that most of our behavior is habitual and subconscious. So we exercise our "FreeWill" by attending to the proposed actions, and ...
I agree that the Trinity doctrine is a muddled rationale derived from theological attempts to make sense of a few unrelated biblical passages. It may ...
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