Gregory

I am 33, and have a therapist (pretty one too). She keeps saying that I have free will in everything I do, even when it doesn't always feel free. It's...

Is it about being in this world, or being apart from it, generally? I listen a lot to religious chants. They all seem to offer different ways. The old...

There is The Secret, Napoleon Hill, and other more mild versions of "create your reality". Currently I am reading Reroute Your Thoughts

Well my point was that philosophy seems to be nothing but deconstruction. What do you know for sure after studying philosophy? Is the only way faith? ...

The old testament says teaches that God can order you to slay your family. This was never revoked in the new testament. Christians allegiance is to so...

Christianity has also hijacked the idea of a family friendly culture. It use to be Church law in the dark ages that children of priests were to be ens...

If the plank length is the smallest length, than it not zero. Therefore you can make a right triangle with it. Half the hypotenuse is smaller than the...

If someone can commit murder and God can step in and wipe it clean, that's evil. I don't want to hear excuses like "he repented and so God wiped it cl...

An eternal run from truth saying "no substance, no substance" leads to an infinite regress, which sounds like hell. Phenomenology might be a start, Bu...

Christianity doesn't just say that God helps you with grace to forgive yourself and others. Many say that Jesus's death washes the sin away (is the "p...

Very few people ever get much certainly about things in life through their own intellect Kant quoted with approval the words of poet Haller: "The worl...

But the "easy" answer is to say that there is truth in objectivity

That definition is fine. "Is there truth in that definition?" "No, there is no substance" "Any substance in that response" "No" The problem of philoso...

"But there is no substance in the law of non-contradiction! It can be treated as a nothingness" "Is that true?"

I want to find something spiritual in all this. The Dalai Lama said that, in the modern world spirituality without quantum physics is an incomplete pi...

Well the infinite divisibility of a geometric object suggested to me that pure geometry doesn't apply to the world of phenomena we know

We seem to be going in the direction where no knowledge can be obtained other than knowledge of ourselves. This is where Descartes started in his Medi...

I've had experiences (which others have told me they have had too) where I see a road or something with trees and all those green leaves, and my mind ...

Books like The Phantom Brain, Quantum Psychology, and even a Ted Talk I saw argue that we almost hallucinate our own reality. But to prove this from s...

If the classical is not entirely reduced to the "small", if for no other reason than emergent principles, then maybe scientific explanations of our se...

Nice. I don't think General Relativity will ever be reconciled with Quantum Physics. The geodesics don't work at that level, because space doesn't wor...

Yes, whatever they consist of. The Dali Lama is interested in arguing that the quantum world gives rise to the classical world, although it doesn't fo...

Let me clarify the previous post: an infinity of smaller and smaller movements with a limit of zero gives rise to dimensions. This reminds me of Lawre...

What does density mean at that point? Cardinality is the number of members of a set. What else can there be to a set besides that??

Interesting post Relativist. Sounds similar to an infinity of points arising to give a finite segment or solid

Contingency and necessity, in the A/T sense, I have long thought to be in the "eye of the beholder". Being and Time has impressed me with the Heideger...

Lawrence Krauss said the universe is "not only an illusion, but an accidental one". In modern language though doesn't accidental just mean random, and...

Quantum fluctuations sound like Heraclitus's fire, where the universe is the smoke from the cosmic furnace. I am currently reading Heidegger and learn...

Some of the "otherwordly" ideas about the origin of the universe are: 1) that the place Heaven, which obviously has different "physics" than ours, cau...

Thanks for the thoughts! Two cents: if energy is the foundation of causality, motion, and force, wouldn't it first have to have been in a state of per...

Believers in supernatural powers have the problem that this 'realm' might be out to fool them in order to garner more faith

My concerns stem from reading David Hume. Closer to the Truth series on youtube had the question of "whether the laws of nature can change" addressed ...

Where did God come into this question? I don't believe in God

Saying either that laws can change or that new laws from, say, another dimension will start kicking in are not different with regard to a methodology ...

If free will was an illusion, Galileo couldn't say "I dropped the two balls ten times and they always fell at the same rate, so they will always do so...

I think science assumes free will is real. That's why a scientist would say its unlikely they just happen to come upon certain laws. But if compatibil...