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Indeed Jack. Some passengers seem to live in an interminable state of emotional unrest :joke:

I was reading through the link on Hesychasm, thank you. Quick question, does that relate to speaking in tongues at all?

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Thank you for that response, as I will be mondering it and will respond accordingly. However, I did want to quickly acknowledge your disappointment in...

Thanks P, you're too kind. I'm big on cognitive science. That's why I like philosophers like Maslow who started out in Psychology. They've used practi...

Hahaha! How'd you guess :joke: Yes of course TMF, towing the official lines is good as a starting point, but we're continental/post modernist's :yikes...

Freud has always gained my respect as a psychologist who, as wacky as it may seem to some, brought to light the many interesting, strange, and dysfunc...

(Thanks A, for the other parts of your post) and considering the foregoing quote, what are your thoughts about how the Gnostics were influential in Sp...

TMF! Nice post. Why can't both be true?

(In logic) is that an ad hominem fallacy? :razz:

Hahaha. Have you thought about opening an angry atheist thread :joke:

Is that like the Ontological argument ? :razz:

I believe in certain countries like Syria, their politics and religion are not separated. Likewise imagine a Catholic becoming president and how Prote...

Well said. Religious philosophy obviously not only influenced Greek philosophy... , and the American currency :cool: Here's an interesting thought, I ...

Is that another Einsteinian emotional response, or are you a player without a racket? Surely you're not throwing in the towel again in yet another mat...

Cognitive science has much to say about the why's of existence. Similarly, those that were psychologists who then turned philosopher, they too have mu...

:up: :100: I'm a Jungian fan for sure! It does. Hence over 75% of P-domain's posit a concept of God. Conversely, if they posited "Whatever", then we w...

George Washington existed in the history books, and there was a gravesite in Virginia. Jesus existed in a history book(s) and there was a correspondin...

Thanks. Are you trying to say that a collection of history books that seem consistent with one another is more believable than just one history book?

No exceptions taken. I think it further supports, temporal-ness, finitude, and other kinds of human existential angst. Similarly, I always liked the m...

Like many, many, things in this world, apperception consists of both the subject and object. The concept of a God is no different. The concept of God ...

Of course, you're joking right? Many folk use them interchangeably to where it really doesn't matter. Especially considering the informal nature of mo...

It's been argued that that is one of the appealing things of Christianity v. other 'religions'. I personally embrace other religious philosophy like T...

:100: :up: Why do you suppose that is... ? Sure, but it was included in the Bible for some reason... . (Example, Ecclesiastes was the historical antec...

F4, While it is accurate to say philosophy itself lives in reason, not all biblical accounts live in Revelation. The OT/Wisdom Books are much about re...

Well said... . Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but anything in the 500BC to 200AD range works well with early Greek philosophy/Christian philosophy (Pl...

Does that mean a something that transcends logic and consciousness :razz:

Great, please share any Christian philosophy there... . I would also recommend delving into those old testament wisdom books (Sirach, Proverbs, Eccles...

Hey Jack, do you read the old testament wisdom books much? (It's good Christian philosophy.)

I believe 180 threw in the towel. It's a shame, I expected more from him... . In Jack's OP, it would be sweet Jesus peace :razz:

Sure, but much like a lot of newbie converts, perhaps he got caught up in the fundamentalist paradigm. Ironically enough it may have much to do with t...

Oh my gosh, lmao, now that was just plain funny!! Well at the risk of even more redundancy I think it was William James ( The Varieties of Religious E...

If you can, please share more about this. This is very tragic, and speaks to the Fundy concerns... . As I've alluded to Fooloso4, Paul was not Jesus; ...

And damn those preacher's like Paul, who afterall, was just a man. Unless of course he somehow overshadowed Jesus :razz:

Those sons-a-bitchin/bastuds :razz: LOL

Hahahaha....funny you mentoned that A. Since we're talking about human behavioral kinds of stuff, I was just telling a friend (viz man-women relations...

Good point. Your comment made me think of early church history and how it were simply mere mortals who decided what's to be included/excluded from the...

Well said. Maybe it goes back to simple reasonableness and treating like cases likely, different cases differently, not sure. Meaning, if we substitut...

Not sure how we can escape the many descriptions/explanations of so-called existence as being considered logically impossible, yet still exist . Accor...

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Sure, and using that same sense of logic, synthetic a priori proposition's are alive and well: all events must have a cause. Perhaps that, in a strang...

Think of it this way. If theism/a-theism is based on Omniscience (Omnipotence Paradox), descriptions of a deity or God, then the negation of same, is ...

Sounds like a subjective truth :razz: Actually, I think it might be much worse; it sounds arbitrary and capricious :chin:

Yep, and round two consisted of attacking the definition standard. Incorrect. We agreed on an unlimited time to respond. You did not honor the agreeme...

:100: I know. Seems politics & religion folks get their panties all up in a big gooey ball. Not sure why :razz:

"We don't need to guess because I was the one who closed it. It was closed due to your failure to provide an argument to support your proposition that...

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Thank you to all who have legitimate concerns, questions, etc.. I will get to all that were addressed to me, and want to also focus on Michael's conce...

Thank you for your reply! There is a whole lot to unpack there. My gut reaction is that your thought process boarders on a type of Fundy interpretatio...

Great point, thanks! The only concern there is, that so-called either/or argument implies some sense of faith, for a lack of a better term (I hate usi...