Gregory

I am assuming, maybe wrongly, that you mean the Bible. Well, the Bible says Jesus paid for our sins. The price for our sins was billions of people in ...

And God's existence is clearly refutable: 1) there are ugly things and ugly acts in this world. God sustains everything, so he sustains child rape as ...

First off, the OP needs to distinguish CLEARLY between philosophy and science. The hybrid he presented at the start is a sleight of hand. How the univ...

I think in conclusion that I should clarify that I believe in corona virus research. That is organic science. Physics? Well.. they are good at making ...

Form and matter, for Aristotle (the originator of this idea) are united in an object and produce the accidents vs substance relation. Descartes reject...

The Bible should be in the comic book section

True. The traditional scholastics (a term used for Thomists, Scotians, ect) thought an object was divided into accidents and substance. The former are...

Hegel speaks of pure conceptualization through intuition. Actually looking at an idea in the mind. Kant had separated reality from perception. This wa...

If you strip everything mathematical or physical from the idea of the finite, and have finite-ness in its pure naked form before you, you can know ins...

Well guys, even the debate that went on the middle ages over "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" was about the question of points, limits...

The oddity discovered by Zeno of Elea (an ancient Greek living in Italy) is explained by Hegel in that section. Infinity and finitude are in every thi...

"There is another relevant consideration here too. If quantity is adopted directly from our representations consciousness without being mediated by pu...

Unless you subscribe to a specific ontology like Thomism, you should have said "God or Gods" and said "theism or polytheism" in the title

I disagree but this is the wrong thread for this

Humans have come up with paradoxes though. Zeno's directly targeted the intelligibility of the world. I'd rather talk about the Liars Paradox though, ...

I believe it's contradictory to say God is good and yet I can beat a kitten to death. If he is so deficient in nature that he can't bring the "greater...

Also, why God? Why not Gods?

Why does it have to be a person? Why can't it be a force, or Form, or Confucian Heaven, or pure potentiality? Also, there sure are things that have ha...

Here are the lyrics to a song I loved as a teenager: https://genius.com/Avril-lavigne-sk8er-boi-lyrics The lyrics are loopy in the sense that she is s...

I guess I'm being ambiguous there. I was thinking even if materialism is true and free will is an emergent spook of matter, this doesn't mean choses m...

Just because we can choose, this does not imply our choices spring from nothing

"We're all Jesus and we're all God" said John Lennon in 1968. "He's inside all of us and that's what it's all about. As soon as you start realizing th...

You choose between different wants which have different strengths. Even if compatibilism is true and you choose the strongest want every time, you wou...

It's seems to me that free will either is real or its not. It must be discrete. There may be levels of existence in objects and we can debate all day ...

Continental Divide is a great book about the Cassier-Heidegger debate at Davos (there have been other books written about it too). I struggled to see ...

Well why isn't epistemology the same as philosophy of mind?

Does red exist? Only kinda

When I hear songs like Christmas Memories, I know for sure the past exists. But at the same time I know for a fact that only the present exists. I don...

I meant "vegetable" in the sense that Augustine said a child is in a vegetable state in the first trimester . Santa can't grow beyond that in our cons...

Santa lives at least with vegetable level life in many peoples psyches. I don't know exactly how potential becomes actual

I would think that things come from potential to actual. Some call potential nothing. Maybe it's kind of a hybrid of something and nothing, and someth...

There wasn't anything that caused the universe. There is simply a causal series going back to the first member of the series, which would be the first...

Indian art often shock and awes you, and has a different intention then say the art in the Vatican. The latter tries the way of Platonic beauty, hinti...

The problem with IQ tests is that people are intelligent with regard to their goals. A Buddhist monk or a Beatle-esque fool on the hill may not pass t...

I believe we can see space, so since space is such an integral part of our consciousness maybe through meditation or self-hynosis we can find ourselve...

I don't find this a sound argument at all. I incline to believe in free will though. Those who disbelieve in it don't seem to realize that free will i...

Im in the same boat as the OP. I'm almost 35 and life just feels dryer and more routine at this age. On the afterlife though, I think consciousness is...

You are a really good writer Film noir is a kind of art. An old scene in black and white of an alley long ago is a type of art the Renassaince painter...

I've been there. Nonetheless, I wanted to quote some Bible verses that I thought were relevant to this thread, even for atheists like myself. Proverbs...

I read in a book once that art started our ancestors started making art about their ancestors. Primitave religion more generally looks to the past for...

I just grammar edited my last post. We might not be able to disprove that there is a supernatural order, but that doesn't mean we might not find a pro...

Just because something can't be disproven, that doesn't mean it can't be proven

Interesting aside imho: I had an older friend a few years a back. Named Glen. He had dementia. He said it was very frustrating because (as he related)...

I think a good definition of free will is that it is it's own cause or its own casaulity, the capacity to do something that wouldn't have happened oth...

"It is true that Newton expressedly warned physics to beware of metaphysics, but to his honour, let it be said that he did not conduct himself in acco...

Whether completely amoral people were born that way or not is debatable. Some psychologists believe toddlers have free will, and the corollary to this...

Youre not a careful thinker. Whether the Eucharist is in accord with natural law or whether atonement is moral is not a fake topic. Not all Christians...

Also, if you think my case is weak, then you think it IS moral to take someone's state of soul out of them and put someone else's in. In which case yo...

You're not good at debating. If Christianity has its inversion within itself, then it is a false religion. I'm making the case (successfully) that, as...

I was simply saying above that we don't fully know what matter is. You say it's energy. But do you know what energy is? How close is the relationship ...