I think Christianity is the antithesis of love. In that system God created people knowing they will end up in hell. I would never do that with my own ...
If I approach an object, first i have to go half the distance. Otherwise I am there. And half that, otherwise i am there. Laws of identity say this go...
Does the genitals or the rest of the the body define one's sex? There are lots of hermaphrodites born in India and the orient. A number get into porn ...
It sounds like you're Spinozian, with a twist from Plotinus. Plotinus thought the ultimate reality was potentiality. Aquinas said actuality was prior ...
Let me put it this way: Aquinas says all sin is infinite. So maybe all the sins of the devils and humans create a meta-infinity that cancels the initi...
In the Catholic Church there is much debate about morality right now. Before it was said that someone can do something objectively wrong while not bei...
You've said positive AND negative thing about Duns Scotus on this forum. I find it confusing because you do not make clear what you like about him and...
Maybe so many people do evil that their dark force takes God and His and puts them in hell, with the evil victorious. I don't see Aquinas countering t...
That's a dilemma, mathematicalphysicist. Sometimes it seems to take courage to do "evil" while it's pleasant and "selfish" to do the "good". I'm think...
You seem to hold to Plotinus's idea of good, God, and evil. But you didn't provide proof that good is more powerful. Aquinas took it as an axiom. Did ...
Evil isn't pure absence. It has deformity power. How do we know it doesn't have a meta-infinite power which can deform God? Needless to say, I've been...
Our views might always be limited, in the sense that the idea of an infinite God is limited by an even more infinite, hidden, meta-nothing. People are...
Your assertion is not at all obvious. Many say pleasure in life comes from doing wrong. Even if pleasure comes about by good, the evil in the world br...
I believe Aquinas was a sophist. He found a Mozartian mode of writing that fools you into think he has proven things and that he knows best. Neither A...
Who says the simple is not truly extremely complex? Thomist say God is most simple, but Dawkins thinks God must be extremely complex. Who is to say wh...
I was reading Spinoza's Ethics recently (and stopped once he started talking about ethics lol), and it seemed like he said we effect God with our thou...
A lot of people use cognitive science in order to deny the reality of the brain. However, is this like finding the flaw in reality that shows reality ...
We seem to know for sure that we really exist and feel things, but what does "real" mean? Time moves such that the minute you point out the now, it's ...
If I say there is no truth, you'd ask "is that true?" . But selfreference isn't allowed or it leads to Russell's paradox and the liars paradox, I reto...
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1014.htm There is some homework for Devans (a small portion of what Aquinas wrote on the subject). I don't like having ...
I've stated my counter arguments but you insist on trying to see only deism. That's bias. You even choose not to read Aquinas's arguments on God's omn...
It is a counter argument. Your position is based on you thinking you understand time and matter, yet even you said on another thread that "The mind is...
There is no reasoning with you, as a lot of us are finding out. You think you fully understand time. You think you fully understand matter. And you th...
Maybe the world flows from an eternal spiritual form, not a person. The form doesn't choose or change, but the world flows from it, the temporal from ...
"what is the purpose of the humanistic will to wonder?" Life "And explain to me what the will is, and what wonder is... ?" We both know what they are ...
Holding an unwavering position on those principles is unwise. There is much paradox in this world and you are not going to get far being narrow-minded...
I'm warming up to you. I find that recovering Christians are just in rebellion to what their parents forced down their throats. I found that in my own...
If a religion is well inculcated in a person, I think it's impossible to get rid of it. You can reject the rituals and adopted some new views. But par...
For the reader, the BGK theorem only says there is a distinct boundary at the start, a unique start. The authors have clarified MANY times that they d...
Are the parts non-zero? Do they have a front and back? Uh, the front and back are parts! This is the paradox started by Zeno. YOU don't have the solut...
I've told you before I am a materialist. I was raised Latin Catholic though. I am not interested in philosophies that try to take responsibility away ...
Do you potentially have a hand, or do you actually have one? How can something have parts only potentially? How can something exist yet not have parts...
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