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:roll: Well, ime, metaphysics – making sense in the most general way of the whole of reality – is conceptual (i.e. presuppositional > descriptive), no...

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This story (myth) is not "salvation" because, in fact, one's "suffering" (i.e. frustrations, fears, pains, losses, traumas, dysfunctions) ceases only ...

I think "in general, idealism" asserts that "the physical" is only an idea and not real (i.e. mind-independent). Maybe you mean platonism or cartesian...

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They are not because "natalism" is not an ideology or doctrine or dogma –"unlike antinatalism. Natality is a biological function that animals can prev...

Plato and Kant basically say that "all is maya" too by arguing "appearances are not reals" and "phenomena and not things-in-themselves", respectively,...

RFK is just another gaping hole in DJT's 'stay-out-of-jail' boat imo. :smirk:

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Just a speculation, more hope than worry.

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So we agree: in sum, your "panENdeistic G*d" is an empty name (cipher) for mysterium tremendum (i.e. "Enformer"-of-the-gaps) that does not testably ex...

Well, Spinozists like me don't "believe in Spinoza's God" or that "everything is God" either because (A) only natura naturans (e.g. laws of nature) ar...

"Real courage", as you say, would be to quit your "maliciously useless" life asap instead of cowardly whining on and on that you (we) "should never ha...

I don't see the relevance to the OP or to my reply to it. I didn't exoress a "belief" so much as a conceptual description / interpretation of your "wh...

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Yes, like the plot device of "Manwë" in The Silmarillion (or "Sauron" in LotR). :smirk:

True, but @"Sam26" (the Jedi) might be a solipsist ..

Existence itself is absolutely presupposed, and therefore requires no justification; also, it's self-contradictory to assume that 'IS possibly is not'...

I agree: not "malignantly indifferent", just reasonably indifferent to MALIGNANT USELESSNESS – courage – like e.g. (non-academic) epicureans, stoics, ...

Raised & educated by strict Roman Catholics, I'd reach this conclusion by senior year in my Jesuit high school (though my apostasy had begun two years...

I wouldn't know, mister sad sack, because I'm not very sociable anymore and yet, absurdist bluesman that I am, for decades I've been growing more chee...

And yet consistent with your (Ligotti's) defeatist premises that's still a MALIGNANTLY USELESS "notion", no? :smirk: Yeah, of course, because (like in...

On the contrary, g/G is an empty name that pacifies the superstitious. :pray: If this "hypothetical explanation" is testable, then cite such a test or...

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Again, non sequitur. There's been no discussion of "the philosophy of physics" here. Go troll someone else, sir.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I did not refer to either "materialism" or "daoism" in my last post reply to Gnomon..

Yes, and Spinozism is not a "shit-philosophy", so what's your point?

:clap: :lol: The section (in the full article) on how to test this "theory" is nothing but vacuous bs. Like "The Force" in the Star Wars movies, "UFT"...

Explain why you think "testimonial evidence of alien abductions" is not "good testimonial evidence". :smirk:

That belief ... merely is your ego – masking oneself (i.e. being-in-the-world) – an 'illusory separation' from the world (i.e. disembodiment fantasy)....

Okay, short attention span-friendly: a belief is a fiction (until corroborated by evidence) and an attitude is a strong feeling about a belief or an e...

For me it doesn't make sense ... Well, imo they don't work. In each case "ocean" "house" "statue" are manifest, finite modes (natura naturata) and yet...

My name was taken in vain first (see the quote). Also, Wayfarer and I have been jousting for about fifteen years so ...

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:sweat: Not "phobia" so much as principled disregard for woo-woo-of-the-gaps nonsense which you've always fetishized, sir. To invoke "the supernatural...

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I don't know as an empirical matter whether or not Spinoza is an "emergentist"; metaphysically he's certainly not. – and, I think, "foreign" to Spinoz...

Afaik, natural sciences make use of hypothetical-deductive reasoning; "abductive reasoning" is only used to evaluate rival versions of a theory (or ri...