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The reason I bring that up is because your 'belief system' (we'll come back to what that means including the concept of belief itself) seems to indica...

Frank! Wow, this is quite a purging of sorts, eh!? Remember Pascal's Wager? That could be an analogious or a possible thesis to work from there... . T...

Yep, makes a good point to ponder. He/she is basically saying you don't even understand your own conscious existence, so how can you, through logic, d...

I'm a little confused with your reasoning. You are saying you need logic to deconstruct metaphors, analyze written texts, and so forth in order to arr...

Sorry for the piece meal, my internet is buggered up. Consider reading about the Holographic Principle and conscious energy/Biophotons first. Then, in...

Let me ask you again, what is grace?

Good question, there's no reason why God couldn't be... .

Gregory! I'm not sure you're thinking that through. The newbie contributor was positing that there is no 'higher eternal entity'. And so I replied wit...

We're confused, what is a "culturally responsible intellectual" a teacher? If it is, and since you denounce academia, it seems to be a contradictory s...

Are you sure? Consider relatively. At the speed of light, time stops and becomes eternal and timeless. Your point?

We're talking about the nature of existence. In other words, Metaphysics. Are you not familiar with that?

I agree with sophisticat, Aprokrisis and Seagull. You are making way too many generalizations. It's as if you have some sort of ax to grind, without s...

Please share your assumption.

Really, how so? Let me understand your premises. You are critiquing Platonism/mathematics/abstract language/objective truth's and concepts (and denyin...

We'll see how well he'll hold up under my scrutiny. Like you, I hope he doesn't fold under pressure :snicker:

Not sure what you are referring to...are you thinking subjective idealism of some sort? My point is that if you (or say, an atheist, or LP, etc.) argu...

It is necessary for thought itself.

Of course not. That's why something super-natural is logically possible. As an extreme example, multiverse theories include pretty much any and all hy...

Super-natural from a physics perspective relates to something beyond the natural laws of physics. Which could also include brute mystery at the end of...

Correct. That's why driving while daydreaming is logically impossible. Hence you are driving and not driving at the same time. Or can you explain how ...

Why hide behind titles? Just use logic and the answer will come to you my friend!!!

Indeed. Christianity (the Wisdom Books) actually speaks to that sense of ignorance (Ecclesiastes/existentialism). Nothing novel there!

180, once again, unknowingly acquiesced to admitting he hasn't figured it all out yet. And that's actually okay! How can you be a human and a snowflak...

Agreed. But it requires the object itself to be apperceived, otherwise, nothing happens. Of course, to the artist, who is, a subjective-object as well...

Not sure what you mean. Are metaphor's not meaningfull in the absence of logic? Or are metaphor's a substitution for a lack of explaining nature itsel...

The irony and/or paradox for some (atheists, etc.) is that they rely on objective reasoning, yet deny the significant implications of Platonism/mathem...

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Love what a great enigma! That's another part of conscious existence that seems logically impossible to explain doesn't it!

I'm kind of digging it actually! Maybe do more of a odd time signature like a 5-4 which would probably be more metaphorically appropriate. Accordingly...

LOL, in the spirit of Muhammad Ali (God rest his soul ), with all his pent-up anger I think he rope-a-dope'd himself!!

I hate to say it but 180z projection of anger only substantiates your position even more! It's kind of a cognitive science thing I think... At least i...

Oh, and don't forget to hit the quote button when you post, that way the other person knows that you've replied by way of their email.

I understand, it is quite mysterious to say the least. Pretty much transcends many forms of pure/formal logic (as it should be). I suppose kind of lik...

Our consciousness is much like that. Consider driving a car while daydreaming then crashing and killing yourself. Was it our conscious or subconscious...

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A demonstration in one sentence of two things: 1) there is no accounting for what some people will say, ...........So I shall make the effort to commu...

He didn't pick D, so I'm confused. Actually, if he did, it would certainly make sense because only you yourself, know yourself. I don't know Frank, li...

Indeed. Logically, there is more evidence in favor of a cosmological God v. no God. As far as human (Being) existence, those of us who are Christian E...

On the contrary. Because consciousness itself is a mystery and logically impossible to explain, it is also logically necessary to exist.

No, and good question. Because consciousness itself is a mystery and logically impossible to explain, it is also logically necessary to exist.

Sure, I don't see why not.

I would say that Marco's faith (assuming he has a thing called faith) is the same or similar faith that the atheist has in his/her belief system. For ...

Sure, great question! Math/a priori abstract concepts go way back to Platonism which of course is still popular today. Numbers or other abstract objec...

Your answer to 180 should be your belief in Agnosticism; it is both an objective and subjective truth (based on his options given). Just trying to hel...

Well said. Yet again, in Christianity itself, that is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes/existentialism).

I've been a Christian Existentialist for a long time. Thanks.

No exceptions taken! Since the concept of God itself is so broad, another way of wondering about such causation could be to parse the meaning of Truth...

Great OP TMF! I'm subscribed! (Because item 1 seems to include Metaphysics, and item 2 consists of things --many things-- like the paradox of time and...

There are a lot of ways to parse the human condition in this context. For example, one part of the logical analysis would be to distinguish between an...

Not according to Kant's theory of feelings associated with aesthetic value. Consider the same inanimate object (car) being sold by the owner because i...