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Aristotle: a Prime Mover or maybe many of them, as the final cause of the world. As finality he or they move the formal and material in eternal time. ...
April 23, 2022 at 22:43
Maybe he forgot, while trying to see time as merely a concept of the mind, that time is like space: it's not a thing or an object. It's the measure wh...
April 23, 2022 at 19:51
I think time is the universe as a whole. We can only think in parts, but have an understanding of time, which although vague, represents the unity and...
April 23, 2022 at 19:39
If the world is eternal, each member previous to another is the first cause and it is time that holds all these first not-first members together
April 23, 2022 at 19:18
If time runs backwards there is still linear causation, just no linear time
April 22, 2022 at 17:59
But that can't exist like a ball on a pillow that has no time. If time is eternal the series can exist by the fact it moves while existing. What you p...
April 22, 2022 at 04:31
Creating oneself is the same as something from nothing.
April 22, 2022 at 04:24
All your first premises are wrong.
April 22, 2022 at 04:23
More sophistry. The mechanics of simultaneous causality is not related to how you defined self creation
April 22, 2022 at 04:20
That's not an argument. The first premise is wrong. Those are two different things. Suppose we have minute one with the ball on the cushion. It contin...
April 22, 2022 at 04:09
Simultaneous creation is not self creation.
April 22, 2022 at 04:00
There is no argument in the OP
April 22, 2022 at 03:59
Your way of constructing self creation makes no sense because you don't have eternal time. How can something create itself before it exists. Any way o...
April 22, 2022 at 03:57
An eternal series does not have aseity because nothing is first to cause the effect. Everything is an effect
April 22, 2022 at 03:45
Kant was probably influenced by Descartes remarks about analytic vs synthetic thinking. Descartes thought there were different kinds of mental operati...
April 22, 2022 at 03:42
You've described an eternal universe, although not necessarily just that. When Aristotle argued against an eternal universe unless there was a God and...
April 22, 2022 at 03:32
When children learn mathematics they learn a synthetic skill, not an analytic one. Sure they start out counting the numbers but even this is not analy...
April 22, 2022 at 03:26
An example of self creation would be an eternal universe. This caused by that caused by that, going backwards like a god dependent on a god dependent ...
April 22, 2022 at 03:10
The difference between analytical and synthetic is that there is no new knowledge produced in the former. Of course if someone didn't know the languag...
April 22, 2022 at 02:05
There is no one historical viewpoint. Which is to say there is no certainty about levels of probability for events that happened many years ago. A the...
April 17, 2022 at 00:46
Addition (to whom it may concern): When I ask myself "why am I here" I think of the good parts of my life and that becomes a goal to sustain wherein b...
April 13, 2022 at 00:49
Everything is chemical in biology. When you meditate to happiness you use chemicals as when you take shrooms or salvia. But with naturally finding hap...
April 10, 2022 at 22:00
Why would anyone not choose happiness if it's an option? It's good for oneself and available with effort. I'm proposing that will is what makes men in...
April 10, 2022 at 18:53
Now IQ skills may be slightly different subjectively than other skills even though they would fall under the field of intelligence. I wonder what evol...
April 10, 2022 at 18:07
I agree! Consider musicians like the Beatles that make creative music and play them themselves (which takes more than coordination). The result is cle...
April 10, 2022 at 17:51
Being rich causes more problems than it solves, as even Sean Hannity admitted. The richs' dilemma is that they are tempted to be greedy by the very th...
April 10, 2022 at 17:49
The rich will always cause inflation because it is how their psychology works. One equal state of ownership couldn't happen because there are too many...
April 09, 2022 at 21:50
Peterson has debated Zizek on capitalism. They are both extreme in many ways imo
April 09, 2022 at 21:15
I didn't say you were a Muslim apologist
March 28, 2022 at 18:58
The OT has brutal punishments and says slaves are property. So it's right to call it chattel slavery. The South had their arguments about why slavery ...
March 28, 2022 at 18:18
You lied about the Muslim thing and are dishonest in general
March 28, 2022 at 18:02
The Bible supports slavery and supports slavery as property ownership
March 27, 2022 at 23:03
You admit slavery was part of the law but say it was benign. Why should I trust you when the Bible supports cutting wives hands off and setting people...
March 27, 2022 at 21:01
Defend satanic religions all you want, it's a fact that the Bible calls slavery "property". Lev 21 and 25 speak of perpetual slavery and Num. says to ...
March 27, 2022 at 16:01
I agree. Deut. 25:12 was the verse I mentioned
March 27, 2022 at 15:36
Slavery was the same then as now. Slavery in the South had its apologists too.. Christians say a higher law is now in place but it should have always ...
March 27, 2022 at 15:34
Leviticus 25:46 "make them slaves for life"
March 27, 2022 at 06:42
The old Testament reports a "father" who treats his old Testament children different than the New people. In the OT he had husbands cutting off their ...
March 27, 2022 at 06:38
Christians follow the new covenant as if it was ok it was not always in place
March 27, 2022 at 05:09
Donald Hoffman, mentioned earlier, can't say evolution happened then say it shows everything is an illusion because evolution is then an illusion. I w...
March 27, 2022 at 02:10
I didn't realize this thread was 3 pages
March 27, 2022 at 01:52
To be is to feel yourself embodied
March 26, 2022 at 23:07
Reality is reality. I've done most psychedelics. It's brain function
March 26, 2022 at 22:51
Name an argument against solipsism if the world is purely mental
March 26, 2022 at 22:18
The old Testament supports slavery. Somehow Christians convince themselves the new Testament calls for more love. Why not more love in any age?
March 26, 2022 at 22:17
You are making consciousness an object in order to separate it from matter.
March 26, 2022 at 22:02
Everything in your OP accepts reality a priori
March 26, 2022 at 22:00
Polytheism sounds cartoony to me. Nonduality is better I say. It says spirituality is totally one
March 24, 2022 at 17:58
Your unconventional polytheism is not satisfying
March 24, 2022 at 17:19
Does a baby who suffers cause it's own suffering or is it forced into a theodicy God never endured?
March 24, 2022 at 17:12