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I don't know. As to Hinduism, for one example, the Kama Sutra is fairly ancient. There's of course a wide array of differing practices in the ancient ...

For my part, what I’ve so far found from my studies can be expressed in this generalized form: If the religious view holds the natural world to be bot...

I find the first part of this sentence to be a vast overgeneralization. That most of the major religions we know of are patriarchal to varying degrees...

A very insightful reply. Thank you for it.

When it comes to politics and economy, very much so. You're addressing poetic truths. I'm addressing the technicality of reality. No person is devoid ...

I appreciate the informed clarifications and corrections. What’s your take on the Gospel of Mary? The text is dated 60 or so years after Jesus’s death...

Most I think would not find the openness of someone who is homeless and starving to be a happier, or else more preferable, state than the closedness o...

First off, I admire and applaud what I see as the general gist of your stance: basically, that of tolerance for what does not harm. But not for what d...

How does this not then apply to the metaphysical conviction that anything which some might deem “spiritual” – such as the belief that death to this wo...

Hey, with pleasure! My own primary takeaway for this often-unmentioned fact of the Trinity’s commencement is that whomever Jesus might have been and w...

(With all this being inspired by a post that now seems to reside somewhere in the otherworld …) There’s also the idea that Christianity is a (I would ...

To all those mathematically minded who in any way take this thread seriously: Now, I’m no mathematician myself, but all this talk of defining straight...

To be precise, it began three centuries after Jesus, in the exact year of 325 CE. This is the year of The First Council of Nicaea, where the doctrine ...

I would address this by incorporating the both conscious and unconscious, intention-driven free will of all co-occurring minds in the cosmos. Not that...

I find the OP to be fraught with unaddressed issues. For any of the premises given: Good from the vantage of whom? Me? You and me together? The totali...

I can very much respect this. Just so its said, the way I look at this subject is that, just as we can infer that lesser animals have minds, with some...

I'm in general agreement. There was, however, the ancient philosophy of Heraclitus. True. I didn't want to define it by temporality, though, since it'...

Good subject and nicely made point. I would quibble on “no separation for the moment between self and world” being, as I currently interpret the expre...

I think I understand what you mean. All, or at least nearly all, concepts we entertain are language dependent. The concept of “animal” is specified by...

I’ve been keeping up with part of the interchange between you two. I want to present the following overall thesis regarding the past, present, and fut...

Just checked it out. It strikes me as a very formal way of addressing what is traditionally meant by the non-euphemistic use of the term "intercourse"...

I acknowledge your interpretation of the Tao. Thank you for it. I'll point out that there are multiple interpretations of the Tao. For instance: Here ...

Aye, though question - with the meaning intended to these quoted words being crucial to any proper answer. All the same, I so far see both as true at ...

Ah, in terms of that one particular book, I have not yet read it, and I too am uncertain. In fact, rather, given its primary interests, like I believe...

The OP's question is like asking which came first, left-ness or right-ness? Up-ness or down-ness? The correct answer is, of course, that neither came ...

First off, thanks for starting the thread. For clarity, this portion of what the OP quotes has the following link in the original: I’ve read Thompson’...

Because I don’t want to start a new thread on this topic, I’m presenting this as a tangential to the thread’s theme. Hopefully @"Count Timothy von Ica...

While the so called “scandal of deduction” is not something I personally find great interest in (primarily due to what I take to be the exceeding ambi...

Not sure how you intend the sentence I just quoted. But I want to clarify: As the Latin root of modern English “reason” and “rational”, “ratio” is the...

OK. Point taken. To then better address the issue you’re pursuing: While I stand by the belief that the LNC is sound, it of itself is in no way prescr...

Remember, these are models of the quantum realm, models that have a very high degree of predictive value, but models just the same. In Einstein's quot...

TMK, a particle is localized thing with volume, density, and mass. Whereas a wave function is not. So a wave function is not a particle. And hence the...

This, I think, will depend on what significance one imports into the terms "particle" and "wave". If the LNC does hold, however, then one can not have...

I should add: so do I (multiple possible purposes). But we will likely disagree on the details. It was good debating with you.

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We don't seem to share the same wants when it comes to philosophy. I'm interested to ground my beliefs on what is. If I can't currently fully explain ...

OK. That said, it certainly doesn't look like that to me.

Sure. Its called hypocrisy or doublethink. But no one actively holds two (or more) contradictory beliefs at the same instant. Instead, one flip-flops ...

TMK, it’s the way the LNC has always been worded and understood since the time of Aristotle. Anyway - as an aside that I find interesting - wanted to ...

In case anyone’s interested, in the name of philosophical accuracy, the law of non-contradiction states that A and ~A cannot both be at the same time ...

Someone with alien hand syndrome might not deem his hand (or other body part) to be an aspect of himself. For this and other reasons, I still find you...

There's a few aspects, but I'll start with this: This statement claims that "I" refers to both a body and to a unit of that body, this at the same tim...

Different in this respect: To which you've already replied: I asked so as to confirm that this same understanding is there in your proposed expression...

Do you by this expression intend that the "I" is different from the things it imagines? If so, how is this "I" aware of what it willfully imagines? (I...

So far your reply doesn't make sense to me. Maybe you could help me make sense of it. When I engage in the process of imagination I can imagine variou...

OK. I'd like an answer to the following so as to gauge were we currently stand:

I'm quite familiar with such articles - and fully acknowledge their worth. You however appear to not have understood what I expressed.

Hm, because taking text out of context is supposed to be ... ? As far as this conversation being over, as you wish.

My apologies, but for the most part your reply for me enters into word-salad territory. We appear to disagree on the referents which words address - t...

Firstly, I/we don't visually experience that which we imagine via our physiological eyes (e.g., one can so imagine just fine if not better with both e...