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Of course I broad-brushed the response. The classic example that directly involves abstract metaphysical/timeless truths, is the existence of mathemat...

Great question. Because when we naturally use our sense of wonder (the Kantian 'all events must have a cause') axiom, then we naturally default to reg...

NICE! I just saw that while I was posting. Let me do a look-see.... and would love to offer my take on it...

Sure jorndoe, thanks for that observation. Being a Christian Existentialist myself, it serves to support my views concerning the concept of God being ...

But isn't timelessness eternity? Just as a formality.

Devan, am I correct in my reply below? Everything in time has a reason 2. Nothing can be the reason for itself 3. (From 1 and 2) At least one reason m...

But here's the irony, mathematical truths that describe the laws of nature are eternal unchanging truth's. So we have within our grasp a sense of eter...

Correct we would be wondering what started or caused infinity and or eternity, right?

I don't think there is a way out. The only way out is, if the Big Bang did not happen, which would make time itself, eternity/outside of time (?)

If part of your own conscious existence (intelligence) is both physical and metaphysical, and the idea of intelligence is both physical and metaphysic...

It's a loaded term with so much extraneous baggage that it has no place in your argument accept as a dishonest attempt to prove something like Christi...

Of course. Then it (the anthropic principle) must preclude consciousness emerging from chaos then, right? And, since you said: " Because only in a uni...

Interesting...sort of a hidden agenda there, imagine that :chin: Where's Freud when you need him!?

If one were to use logic (not that our sense of logic explains other world view's), the infinite regress of turtle power would mean that there was no ...

You were proposing that it was logical that human consciousness exists through logical necessity. And so, what else exists through logical necessity?

Hahaha....I know, I pray for him, just like a pray for Trump lol. But seriously, just think about it. If you study enough philosophy, you will see tha...

Don't hide behind ad hominem, if you're scared say you're scared LOL!

Okay, how about we focus on existentialism and phenomenology? Let me know!

Sounds good just so you know the rules will be wide open: all philosophical domains will be argued. But I will mainly focus on existentialism and phen...

Let me know I'll be happy to debate you one-on-one!! If you're scared, say you're scared . LoL

So it sounds like you believe in logical necessity then, no?

NICE. What causes consciousness? Was it you, or Hume that figured that one out !? Put in a quarter and try again! Lol

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation- William James

Dichotomy: division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups: a dichotomy between thought and action. LOL

Then why are you contributing to the thread...out of boredom? LOL Since you are not able to answer the question that speaks volumes already. If I was ...

But the point is, if timelessness is eternity, which we cannot figure out, and if temporal time is an illusion ( which has been successfully argued be...

Really, you mean you were able to answer those questions, where?

But we have knowledge of what empirically exists as it were, enough to provide clues, through induction, that more likely than not, an intelligent cau...

No worries. Materialism, Aesthetics, et. al. are just to name a few concepts worth wrapping your brain around. For example, just as a sort of synopsis...

I thought I did, but for some reason you failed to pass muster in answering my concerns. But yes, God does exist, if that's what you are asking me.

Do you have knowledge of what exists outside the universe?

Okay sure, let's stay on topic. Was conscious existence caused from chaos?

Those who show favor might not become dear Do not fear the unknown, for it just might be clear With a nod and a blink, there is never time Conscious o...

It's called a dipolar God :grin:

It should. And that's because consciousness and subconsciousness working together violates LEM.

Okay, let's philosophize. Let's begin with some existential/metaphysical questions: How can you prove God doesn't exist when you can't even explain th...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was Anselm who posited the Omni-stuff, as well as the ontological argument. In any case, I don't throw the baby out wi...

How can you prove God doesn't exist when you can't even explain the nature of your own existence? I take it there is some sort of acquiescence by sile...

Have you ever heard the term 'dipolar' God? Theoretical physicist Davies argues that in his book the Mind of God. It combines logical necessity with c...

Oh yes grasshopper, it's called philosophical Materialism 101. It's not whether they 'may be involved'. They ARE involved; no escape, as it were. Of c...

Of course. That is one reason I embrace Panentheism, where timelessness and temporality are folded into one entity.

How can you prove God doesn't exist when you can't even explain the nature of your own existence?

Yep, agreed. I do agree with Aquinas on his cosmological argument. Another way of saying that is that nothing can move by itself since it has to be mo...

...and so your perceptions of the world are based upon conscious existence, right?. How are they similar, in what way? For instance, similar, in that ...

Mmmm, let's see, I agree with Devon here ( I can add at least a dozen or so existential and/or metaphysical phenomena if that helps you): 1. The argum...

Yes, please provide a ToE or otherwise your theory of causation!!

Really? Please share your thoughts on the differences between our perceptions of the world, and what the world really is?

Baloney. The Kantian 'all events must have a cause' is a synthetic judgement that is used in almost all of theoretical physics. Is it "fiction" that y...

No. I'm saying that you are denying the value that is associated with material agency. (Then why did you use a cheeseburger as an argument to make you...

Beauty is both subjective and objective phenomena. Cognitive attachment-theory posits that the material agency has value in aesthetic judgements. So t...