Gregory

Objective truth can interfere with subjective truth when the latter is faith. Does it matter if all is material when faith can lead to states that don...

I read your article. So Jews would say the Trinity was pagan and although there is 3 in God there is not three persons? Is this how modern Jews see it...

7 was also a special number they say

Can we define subjective as false and objective as true? Everything is subjective in that it's filtered through the mind, and true ideas are objective...

Is three more numerous in pantheons within the scope of religious studies? I would like to see a list of the religions and see how many had 1, 2, 3, 4...

Language only exists as understanding, and the same applies to translation.

"express a text from one language in another language" means "perceiving the meaning of text" while using different grammar, signs, ect

Manuscripts are just scribble unless something understands what the ideas involved there. The language that one uses to read ancient copies of the Bib...

Translating is a form of understanding

Going from one language to another is expressing ideas that are passed on in the process of translation. We don't know the sounds they used and the id...

There is no diffiference between translating a text and understanding it. The language of ancient texts has changed for 2000 years and it's impossible...

Matter is the movable in space. That space which is itself movable is called material, or also relative space. That space in which all motion must fin...

I saw an interview where a geocentrist asked a physicist how the earth orbits the sun and the physicist said all motion is relative. So nothing object...

When physicists say that there is no preferred reference frame they are saying that nothing objectively moves in relation to something else. Things mo...

Michelson and Morley showed either the earth doesn't move or the ether was not at a degree they thought it was. In GR the earth accelerates in all dir...

I thought Bell's inequality was about spooky action at a distance and not randomness

I'd define space as that which everything moves through. There doesn't have to be infinite containers as Zeno thought. There is something which can ha...

I'm not sure what fields mean if they are not spatial. The very word implies space

The reason I say matter is infinitely compact is that holes in it, however small, is space and so all the matter by default has no holes.

A finite piece of space is infinite in it's compactness. There can be space without matter but no matter without space. Objects are spatial and infini...

Is not the only thing conceivable as physically existing something that is spatial?

Space is also inherently continuous (inside), just as it captures all reality in its hands (outside). The community of all points forms finite spatial...

Religious texts have 1) moral lessons, and 2) religious stories of piety. These are not the same. The religious stuff can be quite immoral

Let me put it this way? If we have space infinitely compact, it is infinite so how can it expand and add more infinity to what it is from itself?

Doesn't substance in space have space in the sense of extension? Spatial things in space. But if space was infinitely compact how could it expand or b...

It seems to me a sense of I is necessary for enjoyment. Is it a metaphysical substance? That doesn't matter. We are all made of of the truly free mome...

It seems to me that without atman we would be transcendent

Yes, I think Buddhism is about saving yourself

Interesting comment. Nirvana is not knowing good and evil but transcending all duality

So Buddhism has gods but no Supreme God we are trying to get too. Nirvana itself could seem to be atheistic to a Westerner looking for loving union wi...

What about the part about samsara being nirvana? Does it mean we always live with the world of appearance or is there nirvana beyond samsara ?

I think essence and existence are like 2 segments and their angle. But which are the segments and which is the angle. Plato might say the form shapes ...

We don't experience waves or potentiality. We experience actuality and particles. Waves are what we call that we can't experience

A book I have on Buddhism by Mark Epstein (Thoughts without a Thinker) says that Buddhism rejects pride in self and also negative views of oneself. Th...

Yep

Thanks for the question. I was raised Catholic, served at the Latin mass and all that, but my consciousness changed a lot from 17-19 and one day I rea...

I use to be Christian and I know their theology quite well. My personal stance is that God is immanent in us and hardly distinguishable from us. I fin...

I believe in caused and effect and am surprised that others reject it. A determined action can result in spirals that are random whose effects would t...

I would contend that a determined motion can cause a random effect

Yes, but there may be true randomness and it would still remain casual. Hume didn't prove that there is no causes. All he seemed to prove is that that...

If one posits a multi verse in order to explain life's unlikely rise then why not a multi verse to explain virtual particles? We have to understand th...

The ontological argument is a sham unless seen as mysticism

Randomness occurs causally

The ontological argument requires some faith. I see Anslem's argument as a meditation tool

What do you mean? The whole assumption of science is that laws work by causality. Virtual particles come from somewhere for example. We just don't kno...

My point was even if we believe in God we can't prove he wants us to be religious. But proof is not needed for faith. It seems to me that those who tr...

Determinism is opposed to randomness. Those are the two properties of physical causation. Physics has never proved things can happen without a cause i...

I don't see how philosophy means anything or is anything but stifling without a desire for an afterlife. "God" is a concept we use for the virtue of h...

Because God and immortality are among the biggest philosophical questions there is and so the implications of those ideas are important.

Kant seemed to believe what you say as well but held to *faith* in God (and immortality). Some things are pure faith, but all reason seems to have som...