Gregory

If you look at ivory and see matter while i see something mystical, we can both be called materialist while only one has the their eyes in focus. The ...

I agree that the world is matter and this is all there is. But I believe the matter in the world is mystical. So we can speak of love and camaraderie ...

Tradition lives in us in a way that defies science. These ideas we get from the past define what we think when we rationalize about the world and it's...

Unicorns don't exist, while Aquinas says God has all reality in Him. But it's in a unity, so it's not like unicorn nature in there and human nature is...

Everything has actuality first and their potentiality comes from what substance they are. A rock not being able to move has nothing to do with potenti...

There is an article I read once on Thomistic Kabala, which reminds me of this. I think Aquinas is open to an Eastern interpretation, but not all Thoma...

I think you actually have to take courses in calculus to understand this. You failed, btw, to give an alternative picture except by saying every objec...

How much mathematics so you know?

Lines in three dimensions make extension, which is the first attribute of matter. And you didn't explicate how something discrete can be partless and ...

Whether matter has two principle, form and prime matter, or one it still is spatial. You are saying it's made of discrete parts yet you say infinite p...

So Aristotle was wrong to say that matter is infinitely divisible? If it's infinitely divisible the infinite infinitesimal are there. But how can matt...

If I go half a distance, then I have to go half that otherwise there is no space let. And half that otherwise there is no space left. This goes to inf...

It seems easier to believe in God if it is female. The RCC says God is without gender although they portray it as male

I'd like to add that continous means infinitely divisible while discrete are the points themselves (indivisible). At least that is my definition. I th...

I agree free will is real yet I think time and space act together through motion. In the sense that God is said to know the future, time knows the fut...

Einstein did not believe in free will either so he was a super determinist

I visualize the y axis as time and the x as space. Motion is a bit of both and they all cover the same territory. The singularity is space, time, and ...

Would you say claiming that past and future do not exists is related to the parts of an object not existing on their own? I say that parts and past an...

If there was a necessary being then the world would be like a shadow to it and would not exist, a Plato admits. But the world exists, so it's necessar...

According to Pascal *whenever* someone cries "danger" you have to run. That's a sickness

Pascal btw refused to see doctors throughout his life for his sickly constitution because he thought he was meant to suffer. Says something about his ...

If there is no proof of infinite pleasure or pain there is nothing to gamble on.

And since you can't prove there is a God, there is no infinite to contrast with the finite in the gamble

False. Salvation is not a gamble. Where's your argument? Life is a gamble but not salvation. To gamble like that is to lose yourself and go to he'll. ...

Suppose you find a tribe that says you will have infinite pain if you don't follow their religion. Do you cease to be Christian and join their religio...

Faith is not a gamble, it's a choice of the heart based on love, not phony logic of a Jansenist

Pascals wager is a trolls device, asking people to accept a bargain while assuming bargains don't lead to Hell

There is no way to know what happens at death from our fear of it because our fear might be of the beginning but not the end. A fetus might fear birth...

Time matter <> experience matter <> experience matter <> experience matter <> experience No matter <> experience So we pass thru time experiencing mat...

Then dying itself is experienced in body and soul

Perhaps Buddha would say you divide in yourself because you are divided. Idn

A soul cannot exist without a state. It's state is itself

I don't publish is journals, no. But this is a forum for everyone So instead of talking about simplicity, you should have said you had direct access t...

There is no denying that you are your body. This is my premise because it's actually self evident unlike yours. Something simple means it's nothing be...

Indivisible means simple

I deny the first premise which is that souls are simple which we were trying to prove.

Consciousness means mind

Where's the argument. You define a soul then assume it's existence from it's definition. Is it an ontological argument?

The soul is not simple. Consciousness is a subject, not an object. No soul

Matter is in time just as consciousness is in time

Untimately for Hegel conciousness only truly exists as love which transcends matter because matter cannot explain anything about it whatsoever. The di...

The core of reality lies within consciousness which is social. "Consciousness finds that it immediately is and is not another consciousness, as also t...

Heidegger's main point, I believe, was that matter AND time bring about consciousness. A mechanical linear view of matter won't get to the core realit...

There is much to be said about the relationship between matter and consciousness. We are a body but consciousness might not rise from the body in a de...

What if the experience surrounding "death" is eternal and the body dying doesn't have a way to delete the eternity once it has happened in its own tim...

Maybe forgetting yourself leads you to try to kill your son in hiding

I do believe that the mind makes concepts of the world and these are needed for morality (imperatives on how we treat people) but nominalism for me is...

Objects have infinite divisibility (the "finite" means discrete which means limit of infinite process, hence multiple objects), extension, and palpabi...

Allow me to clarify that Zeno proved everything is infinite in the universe and Aristotle responded that it's only potentially infinite, showing that ...

From my perspective Aristotle didn't believe the world exists. He says the perishable needs some foundation, that Zeno was wrong about motion, and tha...