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No I don't. What are (some) Intelligible grounds to believe that 'nonbeing became being'? :up:

On the contrary, as I've stated in many other posts, the purported BB (@ negative 13.81 billion years) is the earliest moment modern science can measu...

The way I see it – if such models, for all their limitations, are both prevalent and more adaptive than the alternatives, then all the better for our ...

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I think so.

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Very sad. Vera, I'll miss you. :broken: :flower:

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*a blues played in a "mock opera" style* https://youtu.be/yk3prd8GER4?si=YWYJZRYsM5xeh8jw "Bohemian Rhapsody" (5:55) A Night at the Opera, 1975 writer...

Reformulate the question? I think we still think "in terms of story" – how could humans not? – such that philosophy produces reflective and suppositio...

Refutes itself. Yes, because 'metaphysical statements' are themselves only, in effect, categorical interpretations of – conceptual proposals about – f...

You seem to have missed this It's not a matter of 'narrativity' or the absence of it but to use logos to transform mythos into narratives which frame ...

Won't find any in foxholes either. :smirk: One, in fact, can live by bread alone a hell of a lot longer than one can live on faith alone. Why? Because...

Idle question(s). 'Your context' does not provide any grounds to doubt "what is really there" and, in such a context, you're "seeing" is indubitable (...

Well, at least as far back as Thales, logos (re: "laws") has been used to demythologize – but cannot fully eliminate – mythos (re: "gods") in order to...

What makes infinity woo-woo?

:up: Same here. In my book this "excuse" amounts to appeal to ignorance (i.e. woo-of-the-gaps). Well, not only doesn't that follow (category error), b...

I agree. Idealism, antirealism, immaterialism ... quantum woo-woo, etc are much poorer alternatives. :up: :smirk:

The late, great Anthropocene. :monkey:

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Nonsense. "Nothing" necessarily cannot "exist". ... except, sir, you don't seem to grasp that "logical necessity", as you say, does not scientifically...

I appreciate your thoughtful response. Thanks, Jack.

It's an unsupported assertion, not an argument. Besides, I concede the point in order to make my objection to your other assertion about physics.

Yes, decades ago.

Even if this 'claim' is true – of course there's no evidence for it – so what? Physics explains many fundamental aspects of the physical world and not...

I'm currently in a rehabilitation facility (for a couple of more months) with other post-op amputees and variously disabled elders where I'm confronte...

Just as there is no ocean "outside of" ocean-waves, there is no "world outside ourselves" because we – our minds – are aspects of the world itself rat...

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:up: :up: Idealists tend to put the cart before the horse forgetting, as you say, or denying (E. Becker) that 'truth' presupposes (pre-cognitive pragm...

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I'd go even further and claim, in a Spinozist sense, that logic IS being and that the law of non-contradiction (LNC) entails differentiations (i.e. mu...

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It seems to me "intentionality and purpose are left out" simply because there is no objective evidence that supports leaving them in any account of ho...

Yes. I don't see why it wouldn't be useful.

'Animism' (ancestralism ... or daoism) seems the oldest, and really the only, "religion of the people" that's ever worked for any people. It seems to ...

:clap: Thanks for this. Even though I don't agree philosophical practice is strictly binary, I find the case you make quite strong and convincing. The...

Yeah, well, I keep encountering theists who don't understand the God they accept, that is, do not propose a cogent, self-consistent 'God-concept' they...

Of course there's no such "equation" ... :roll: S is an acosmist (Maimon, Hegel) and not a pantheist (or pan-en-theist or pan-en-deist) or philosophic...

:up: :up: No doubt, given most cogent, critical objections to "disembodied mind", "NDE", "OOBE", "reincarnation" – i.e. substance / body-mind dualism ...

Scientists interrogate nature and nature is not an intentional agent that conceives or answers to why questions. Rather they ask more general how ques...

I've always thought so: intentional agents make goals and the only intentional agents known to us are ourselves, mere humans. Am I missing something? ...

Okay, but then you contradict your "Transcendent" claim with this Anti-Transcendent (i.e. pure immanence) claim: Actually reading Spinoza's work itsel...

I.e. yinyang of the eternal Dao Is that what really happened, sir? How do you (we) scientifically know this?

Well, of course, that depends on the contexts in which, or how, (any) concepts are used.

Just as toddlers "find meaning" in (naming, talking to) stuffed animals – magical thinking. Your questions don't "upset" anyone, sir, they are often j...

If 'divinity' is real, why believe in it (e.g. mother, gravity & numbers are real)? Or if (we) believe in it, why also need 'divinity' to (seem) real?

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Of course not. :roll: Like Spinoza, neither am I.

More pathetic projection. :roll: That the universe (i.e. timespece) "began" is no more certain or determined than "the edge" of the Earth. Again, bad ...