Gregory

So are there 3 positions? 1) being is source 2) being is knowledge 3) being is something else

If there are miracles, how can we ever know the source of them?

I live in California so I see a lot of the culture of buying all the new stuff and being attached to material possessions. I hear a lot that this is p...

Evolution is consistent with Catholic teaching and with it's methods of historical criticism when it comes to the Bible. I don't think Christian theol...

I think the pro-abortion materialist centered culture is worse off than religious people looking for pappa in the sky. People in the West struggle to ...

Buddhism doesn't promote lack of meaning. The lack of meaning in life causes a lot of suffering in the West

Nihilism has caused more problems for the West than religion I think, but I promote neither. I try to pursue philosophy and encourage others to as wel...

Schellings mix of mythology with philosophy in his mid career is interesting and under appreciated

In the Catholic church they usually take a more allegorical stance. And if the Flood left the Ark on a mountain, the Flood would have to have flooded ...

Schopenhauer was concerned with reducing suffering because our life goals are unattainable. It is good to have goals in life but narcissism is seen as...

I think Schopenhauer saw Christianity as a holding on to life instead of a letting go towards death. Kant seemed to think that life was irrational in ...

The sounds pretty ridiculous to me. There might be a flying monster drinking from a teapot on Venus, but it sounds ridiculous to entertain it as a pos...

1) the Flood was most intense during 40 days out of 150. That's how people read religious text 2) with the clean animals, a pair was consecrated as sp...

My argument is that the flood was about 30 feet high according to Genesis and the ark 600 ft long. And this ark lands on a mountain. Something doesn't...

40 days of a certain activity and 110 days of a different degree of activity. I don't see your three examples as contradictions. Noah had a different ...

Matter is not stupid. It has laws within it

Any order we find in nature is beautiful and does not need a cause which is uncaused. Kant spoke of purpose with purposelessness in nature and this ma...

1) Jesus could have been akin to a Hindu guru, thinking he and everyone were one with God. Maybe everyone's atman (soul) is united in a sense with Bra...

What limits? There are miracles claims being claimed this very day across the world. It depends on what you want to believe.

Noah landed on the "mountains of Ararat". So the flood got very very high. How could a local one do this?

Much of the Gospels seem to be history, except for the raising of dead people and the virgin birth and stuff. At least, it's asmuch history as any anc...

The *likelihood* that we can translate the Bible with enough accuracy to really understand what was written is *far* lower than the likelihood science...

The West has a very linear idea of time because of the influence of Genesis and Revelation in the Bible. The Jews who wrote the Old Testament had a pa...

You can reads the text as saying God formed every beast of the field every fowl of the air in anticipation of what Adam would need. After all, it is t...

Bottom line: study of ancient texts is not as reliable as the mountain of evidence science has that the world is old. The two fields of study are not ...

The Genesis account is consistent with itself but not with science. Christians have their ways of reading Genesis but they have to be very doubtful of...

I don't think the universe is infinite except in the sense that a circle has an infinite path. Events don't last so there is no infinity in the past. ...

Another point I have learned from Heidegger is that a thing's potentiality *is* it's actuality. If a chair can be burned it is because it is actually ...

Sartre says something like this near the beginning of Being and Nothingness. I think we all, however, struggle with some sense of someone else telling...

I don't see pantheism, panentheism, and theism as contradictory. They are aspects of the same thing. However, Hegel thought an Absolute Idea logically...

I'm going to have to analyze that latter, since I'm going to lunch and that quotation doesn't make sense to me

I will read those and start a thread about them sometime. Thanks. Heidegger ends Being and Time with Hegel, and he was also influenced by Schelling. T...

I think humans each have a dominant soul out of our many internal parts that is either male or female. People might say I'm being to philosophically P...

I agree with your points. Philosophy is messy. Trying to fix everything with a nail to a wall is false compartamentalism. I think Heidegger addresses ...

And you can't read. I said rewritten not reread

So you see design and contingency in the world. You say a mind must be behind it. But why say it's all powerful. You already said you don't know what ...

The point was that you don't know what infinite being means, so you have not gone through the Plato stage, let alone beyond it

Philosophy and spirituality deal with infinite things. Its odd that you don't understand infinite things, but you don't seem like a true philosophy pe...

Why is the idea of god so powerful if she is infinite? Why not finite? Why not be awed by a finite god?

The world is either: 1) necessary 2) contingent 3) neither 4) or something else 3 and 4 are correct.

I can disprove arguments for God.

Psychoanalysis would simply view your arguments as a confidence in yourself. Are you Islamic or subscribe to no religion?

There is a pitfall in the middle of religion just as there is in atheism. Religion I think does more good than harm in the West in this time, but that...

Have you read Jung's short piece on Job? Your God sounds like that God. Your God demands complete non-freedom in submission because your are islamic i...

If God can commit suicide, then all good can leave reality

As I am starting to understand, science is about mathematical correlations between objects and the dividing up of objects to find what is inside. But ...

If God can do anything, he can kill himself? Is this a sin for him?

I think that science studies beings, not Being or Time in their most real sense

I actually bought that book for a friend and now I think I want to borrow it lol. Heidegger wrote in a tradition that does talk about ethics, so I thi...

Subjective idealism: all is thought Objective idealism: consciousness creates matter (even its own body) Now I think one has to be careful with materi...