In response to the idea that their religion is purely negative, Buddhist often speak as if annata is denying you have Atman in order to open the Brahm...
The "law of explosion" is the problem with nihilism (recent posts on my thread on truth\beauty are talking about this). You can't really understand an...
Sometimes nihilism needs to choose to be less objective and straightforward, maybe even to choose a lie, in order to be set free. We have the right to...
Walt Whitmann and Nietzsche both said "if contradict myself, then so be it". If they had to fit into a religious structure, they probably would have b...
Your trinity seems very Kantian. Good is practical intention, beauty is in rest's attention. Truth is in movement and translation between states. So t...
On the contrary, to be free means the possibility of help is real. I'm an atheist. I don't know if there is a heaven and if good would necessitate it....
Augustine argued that because we can (so he says) know eternal truth, we must have an immortal soul Heidegger allegedly responded to this by saying be...
Everyone has an Ego so when we say "nothing matters" that is a claim to objectivity and can only be emotionally held on to as a meaning in life. The f...
When speaking of something that exists, the phrase "potential parts" is an oxymoron. Aristotle was in a bind over what Zeno had said years before him ...
Objects don't potentially have parts. The parts are actual, and also spatial. To be spatial is to be infinitely divisible and all things in the world ...
Something discrete. Yet "discrete space" is impossible if it is to remain space. This is a commonly held sophistry. As i demonstrated on this thread, ...
Numbers are used to measure volume or force or speed. Plato's tradition did think human aesthetic should be reflected in the world, but you need to de...
Someone on another thread posted this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significance_of_numbers_in_Judaism I think when anyone studies numerology however...
Modern mathematicians seem to have forgotten that Aristotle covered up this problem with a sophistry and that Kant presented this problem in one of hi...
Aristotle said in his book on the heavens, if I remember corectly, that 3 was a special number. I'm more modern in my thinking. For me all numbers, co...
After reading that work you might like the Tibetan Book of the Dead. At death, so it goes, you see a light. If you realize the light is you, you are f...
If something with mass suddenly traveled at the speed of light it would gain infinite mass, but from where? Where does the mass come from? From the pe...
The vsauce video was where I first encountered B\T. His supertask video also showed me that I was not alone in thinking about "Zenonian cubes". I know...
Entropy makes people depressed because they feel that disorder is taking over. Howecer, I think entropy is about randomness. Order and disorder are in...
When we do arithmetic, any number can have a half, so 1 plus 1 can really equal 4 in that case, which I believe means that we have to start with numbe...
To be fair much of string theory is speculation and based on aesthetic preferences. Platonic solids are dominated by triangles being at the center of ...
I saw a video one time about Christians "lying for Jesus". The Christians whos videos were shown clearly knew all the Bible verses that were relevant,...
I am from the Catholic tradition. Catholics usually say that the Jews may follow mosaic ritual laws and all that but only within the Christian theolog...
A smallest unit, if its spatial, has parts, and so on etcetera. This has to do with the building blocks of shapes, but I think this thread is only abo...
. Well what holds a compactified infinity is its limits, hence infinity is limited by the finite. I don't see how the tangible can be so extremely tex...
All religions make up stories because that along with ritual is the societal function of religions. The stories are more for the young and the rituals...
I have lots of questions about this. That arranging of objects and even cities in certain ways has an affect on the universe is a very Eastern concept...
Answer: blind obedience Remember when God told one of his prophets to use his poop as fire fuel when he cooked his food? It's in the Bible. Christians...
Other questions: How diverse are the many cultural societies of the world? Are they all equally bad or good? Is there just one "Western culture" or ma...
I listened to Bertrand Russell's chapter on Rousseau tonight. It was fascinating. The Frenchman associates each achievement of the then modern society...
I love that idea. It would be so cool to have asked Plato about brain mechanics and questions brought up by the likes of George Berkeley and others on...
The school of thought embodied in the writings of Napoleon Hill says that we must make our desires stronger so that we can attain what we desire. This...
You might want to better understand the process method of writers like Josiah Royce, Francis Herbert Bradley, Alfred Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze. Ag...
If someone says "I am lying that I am lying that I am lying that..." ( to infinity) we linguistically have negative infinity. Godel showed there are (...
The idea of zero is very interesting because we can play around with ideas of infinite zeros and how many infinite zeros equal a normal number. Just a...
Nietzsche was profoundly influence by Hegel, who's philosophy I can best express simply by the saying "your mind is changing as you read this sentence...
In the latter part of the 20th century when the 19 measurement constants were codified, a lot of people (pastors, priests, and lots of others) wrote b...
If you have a motion (try picturing it) and then another, previous to it in time, we have the a series (causality comes into the picture and was a que...
Here is one of the quotations that has got me thinking about these issues: "The philosopher's claim is based on the intellectual insight that the extr...
Hmm, well those who propagated his theories to the public said that God had to be the ultimate engine behind everything. Descartes's alternate vortex ...
Oh your right. We can't imagine every action causing an equal immediate reaction in the opposite direction though because things wouldn't move in that...
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