Nietzsche was primarily concerned with the affect of Christianity throughout the world. If kindness is natural there is no reason even to talk about i...
I don't see how God figures into it but maybe there is a conception of God that will arise in the future which will work. I don't know. Christianity h...
Getting along with people and contributing is of course necessary. But too many attach themselves to things and other people in a false idea of love. ...
This kind of logic is founded on philosophy and philosophy can offer very different answers. In my opinion, in philosophy there is nothing contingent ...
Because everyone believes in karma, while the biggest Christian denomination in the world (Catholics) say through the mouth of the their Pope that "ju...
Christianity gave West the idea that we are all one mystical body being showed mercy by God. However, karma applies perfectly to all good and bad acts...
That's not possible because it bonds people in slavery to each other. Compassion is empathy and kindness but can also mean mercy, which means "karma i...
I already said I don't live in the East so I don't have first hand knowledge of it. I do know the West and Christianity. Individual pursuit here is no...
Huh? Christians families are often very strong but they unite in the bile of "we are all sinners together but Jesus died for us!" It's union of narcis...
I think Nietzsche was right. Mercy is a weakness not a virtue. The whole point of mercy religions is to unite people in a blob of misery, giving your ...
It's not cool, manly, or macho to call people out for with subtle violence in your back pocket in discussions on a public philosophy board unless the ...
Napolean said 'I feel like a rock thrown in time". The universe is not bound by philosophical ideas like necessity and contingency. Things have potent...
One writer once wrote here that theism is "please spank me daddy" syndrome. A lot of the past has gone with the winds of time so physical explanations...
There are two experiences on the side of scientists. First, many have been profoundly shocked by the miracles their methods accomplish. Moreover, few ...
No amount of complexity and interconnection of parts of the world means there are minds outside the universe. God=many-worlds but instead it leaps fur...
There IS something wrong with "supernatural faith". In fact it's sinful if I may use the word. Perhaps there is a lesser condition where belief in God...
Faith in supernatural things is not real belief or genuine action. It's make-believe. Do people enjoy warm fuzzy feelings and so appear to have faith?...
They only claim to be theist. The human mind cannot believe in God without fooling itself. Everyone is at the core an atheist and in philosophy an agn...
To believe in God is something that can't really be done. Derrida rightly points out that God is beyond reason so the best stance is atheism as the ne...
As Sartre says, we start with freedom (will) and end in "reason". Authenticity takes responsibility but too many look for reasons to justify their act...
An animist would regard himself humbly and learn from other species while seeing divineness in everything. But a human is not an inferior species a pr...
Humans are animals as well. If animism says a storm is equal to a baby they are insane and that is not religion. But animism can be salvaged by those ...
My point was if someone were to consider nature to be Divine it would be far easier to see divinity in animals then in the sun. The anthropologists I ...
I never said animism comes from the word "animals". I took Latin for years in my teens. Aside from that, look at Jainism. They believe the world is di...
If... 1) humans 2) animals 3) objects ..are all divine, there probably is a hierarchy among 1, 2, 3 such that you can feel more love from 1 over 2 and...
There are: 1) actual infinity of things 2) abstract infinity of numbers 3) quasi-infinity of the past 4) essential nonnumerical infinity of the ground...
Aren't their people more often named after animals than objects? There is nothing that hasn't been worshipped, but I've read about Mongols believing t...
Anselm first claimed that the greatest idea must represent the greatest being by using a slight of hand but it was a meditative technique. Aquinas the...
The ontological argument doesn't prove too much because it takes the maximum of good and puts it together, which might not be possible of course, but ...
I think animism actually regards animals as the highest expression of mother nature and holds them as God-like, hence the connections with environment...
The brain is consciousness because you are a body. It is true we don't know exactly what a brain is and how much we construct reality, but neurology i...
Consciousness is "for itself" and finds how to be "for others" as well, in his search for growth. His nature in itself is what is called Heaven, Nirva...
You're a common idiot dude. I'm 35, I'm not a kid. You wouldn't have a chance first of all. And you say God is a finite mind with infinite power and t...
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