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Screw "the moderates" – both (all) sides, or peoples, need to mobilize their respective militant anti-extremists.

:fire: ... ecstatic immanence.

As "the essence of religion", why do you priviledge, or prioritize, (your) religious ideality over (primordial) religious facticity? It seems abundant...

I missed (overlooked) this post – I more or less agree. :up: :roll: I tried to help clarify your "dumb" definitions, but you're incorrible. Both theis...

4June24 :smirk: I'm fever dreaming ... (1) After SCOTUS delay tactic decision to, in effect, kick "absolute immunity" pleading back down to the federa...

Neither. IMHO, wrong question as I point out (above): https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/908263

Am I wrong to read this as "there isn't enough time for you/us to wait for AI ..."?

I think "The Trolley Problem" is a variation on the lesser evil dilemma which is political (re: surviving (e.g. triage)), not moral (re: thriving, flo...

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Civilization (i.e. the sedimentary archive of 'oligarchic dominance hierarchies') has been dying for at least ten millennia just each of us has been d...

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Sure, anything can be believed. My point (re: D), however, is inferred.

A. I believe in a God. B. I do not believe in a God. C. I do not know whether or not there is a God. D. I claim that 'theism is not true, therefore th...

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Kant was a Lutheran (Pietist) who strove 'to limit reason in order to make room for faith' and so his practical reason (e.g. deontology) was faith-bas...

The obvious lesson here, just as in the previous 3 civil law suits: DO NOT DEFAME, SEXUAL ASSUALT, DEFRAUD OR MAKE/TAKE UNLAWFUL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION...

"Might makes right" now (i.e. zerosum); however, reciprocal might deters wrongs (i.e. non-zerosum). I suspect even Thrasymachus would agree.

True. However, dogmatism is always anathema to 'reflective inquiry' (or dialectics & contemplating aporias) and usually consistent with – follows from...

1. Convicted Whiny Bitch Felon-1 2. Convicted Whiny Bitch Felon-1 3. Convicted Whiny Bitch Felon-1 4. Convicted Whiny Bitch Felon-1 5. Convicted Whiny...

In my mind that "little difference" is this: philosophy (logos) begins with questions we do not (yet) know how to answer and proceeds by reasoning tow...

Now I can't wait for the June (debate") between Sleepy Dark Brandon and (probably no show) Convicted Felon-1. :lol: https://thephilosophyforum.com/dis...

30May24 Today in Trumpenfreude "The Orange Turd" has been flushed! :party: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/donald-trump-guilty-hush-money-tri...

Simon Rosenberg on C-Span, 24May24 https://youtu.be/OTL035K5BIU?si=z7fJz60pQ0QmplhU Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/8955...

:up: :up: i.e. ethnonationalist colonizer-settler apartheid regime

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Fuck oppressor-apologists.

"Purpose" in the context, as I've pointed out previously, seems to me a (sublimated) quest for symbolic/magical immortality (motivated (driven) by the...

What I understand the OP question about "the essence of religion" to mean pertains to the (speculative) cultural-anthropological origin of religion an...

I.e. if one is a sentient, self-aware mortal.

What do you mean by "pure philosophy" and how does "superstition" follow from it? :up: I differ with this only in the order of experience/realization:...

:100: Terrific story. :up: In a similar vein, Iain M. Bank's Culture series of an AI-managed post-scarcity, interstellar civilization-wide anarchy... ...

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:up: ... or as opposed to the truth: "I, the Lord thy God, shall condemn thee to suffer and die. :roll:

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There is no "freedom" without "knowing" (e.g. the difference between being free and not being free). To be free from ignorance is the capacity to be f...

I did not anwhere claim or imply your "religion in opposition to science" strawman. Also, read the OP and thread title: "essence" is @"Constance"'s te...

Yes, death – ritually denying, or wishing away, its finality (i.e. anti-anxiety terror management (E. Becker)).

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I'm not "frustrated" with anything, least of all religion. Stick to what I've actually written as I don't have a hidden, or sublimated, agenda. The hi...

If so, then why are religions not founded on public impersonal objective truths and are not daily practices (celebrations) of rigorous public error-co...

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:wink: FWIW, here's a sentence: Plebian philosophical naturalist that I am, the only sense I can make of the term "transcendent naturalism" (pace @"Wa...

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Idling semantic quibbles aside, do you mean "academic philosophy" or "amateur philosophy" or "way of life philosophy"? Consider this: these variations...