I have 95 current thread but quite a few of others have been deleted because they were not fleshed out well enough. I wish they would have at least se...
Capitalizing the pronoun "Him" clarifies you are referring to God. I listen to the "Him between" my conscious and unconscious mind. But I am an atheis...
Does it really matter if he is conscious or not? Even atheist try to live "by His rules" for the most part. You seem obsessed with knowing if God is c...
Thanks for that quote. I read Spinoza from a library book. God and our intellect are more alike than a plant and His intellect, but we don't know WHAT...
If matter does not perfectly conform to geometry, then this alone is the answer to infinite divisibility problem. I am more likely to accept a contrad...
Can God divide a soccer ball into infinite parts? I recognize that our thoughts are imperfect in this regard. But I think they are interesting because...
Zeno added motion to the question of infinite divisibility to make the question even more difficult. I think mathematics does apply to objects in that...
The ancient Chinese knew about this: "One of the few surviving lines from the school, 'a one-foot stick, every day take away half of it, in a myriad a...
If you can forever take a part from a solid and there always be a part remaining, it is not fully finite but instead has an aspect of infinity. Common...
In philosophical terms, since all objects are spatial and subject to one or another type of geometry, we have to say that objects are finite in form a...
The solution to Zeno that has been proposed here is that parts appear on the geometric item only when noticed. Did not Parmenides say thought is being...
Do you expect to be in the news as the guy who solved this ancient problem? As the mathematician said in video linked earlier in this discussion, grea...
No. The zeros (points) is approached by infinite space that is also finite. That is the only way to put this question honestly. "In the early 19th cen...
"Pierre Gassendi in the early 17th century mentioned Zeno’s paradoxes as the reason to claim that the world’s atoms must not be infinitely divisible. ...
The "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy" has a superb article on "Inconsistent Mathematics", which is a field of study also called paraconsistent mat...
There is no true space that cannot be divided by the mind. And this applies to the spaces that are divided from each other. And again and again. Under...
Points are the limit that infinite divisions approach. Space does lead to a pure contradiction. Our minds are not precise enough to understand it. Eve...
Although the parts exist together, they exist even though they are not separated. A continuum is an infinite substance. Nothing potentially has parts....
There is a dynamism in the resting of matter, something that Heraclitus glimpsed and could only call "fire". Perhaps he knew of Zeno type paradoxes an...
I was curious if others thought of gender in objective terms like I do. If others can talk face to face with someone without the assumption that they ...
I haven't said the physiology matters like that. The soul comes from neurons so that's a separate issue. Everyone's psychology is different too and wo...
I asked if people having gender reassignment was an almost religious activity and drew on how I see souls in a Platonic way. I don't think asking why ...
It's very strange to view the body as alone accounting for gender. Idn. I was raised traditional Catholic (Latin mass altar boy, choir singer, homesch...
If someone doesn't have breasts but everyone calls them a girl, the situation is not unnatural. I assume those who appear male have male souls but I d...
I never said its always psychologically valuable to find your identity. But you are denying it can ever have value to believe as I do and you have no ...
Like a rainbow from God's substance, everything comes from God's attributes. Modes are phenomena and attributes are noumena. So your soul comes right ...
As I've said many times of this forum, I'm a Hegelian materialist nominalist. But if we take twi oak trees they have something in common (clearly), an...
I didn't discriminate against anybody. I say that all humans by soul are either male or female but all have equal dignity. Representations of these ge...
If you feel that Spinoza should have known of the "hard problem" then either you think he was wrong or you believe he thought God was conscious. BECAU...
Modern physics only says how stuff work. Do this, that happens. That sort of thing. The electrons might be doing what the protons are said to do or th...
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