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MU! I think that is what Prothero and I are saying, which is time, is merely a conceptual abstract. Time is subordinate to change. Think of it like mu...

NICE! That reminds me of this thought experiment: Imagine someone coming to you declaring or proclaiming " I saw God yesterday and he said... ." How w...

My interpretation: Schop was ahead of his time in this area of metaphysical Will (in nature). He covered a lot of territory starting with Spinoza's id...

Is the idea of metaphysical will, the same as consciousness in all of nature?

What, then, is the result, if the answer is yes? How is that possible?

Great question, and lots of good responses so far... . I think of imagination being much like our sense of wonderment. In the case of Kant and/or Eins...

Well said!! Time, like mathematics, is yet another abstract. An abstract truth(?). But time can also be an (as in time zones, clocks, calendars, sun d...

MY! Maybe try re-writing the conditional statement... .

Consider using the words 'only if' in order to identify it as a necessary condition. Otherwise, for example in contrast, you'd be using the rules of i...

Justin! No, that's basically conditional logic or the logic of conditionals, probabilities, truth tables etc.. Logical possibility/necessity is the fo...

Consider that during cognition, when one cognizes, does that require apperception-subconsciousness- of past and future tense (to produce conscious tho...

Agreed! Particularly since mathematics confers no Darwinian biological advantages!

With information comes newness In the current age as such When learning for the first time The illusion seems as much Learning comes yet again From re...

Yep! I remember in grade school one of the kids said to me that their parents wake them up in the morning before school butt naked. When he said that ...

...and... ?

Yep! I think women are finally coming out of their shell and speaking their mind to other men which is a good thing. For years they just kept it among...

Yes, agreed! Indeed. I can't tell you how many people both men and women who have complained to me... . It must have something to do with the notion o...

Very, very well said Bitter!!! Lots to unpack there, and plenty of lessons learned, as it were. I do think yet another common theme emerges there name...

I believe that's a healthy outlook and approach. Seems appropriate, depending upon your so-called audience. As long as you are true to yourself (about...

Yep, ask Bill Clinton that one ! Sort of begs yet another question about human sexuality. Why do people have affairs? Freud apparently had some theori...

This is the important distinction that people fail to make. Glad you parsed it!

I've been with several women ( I'm divorced) and on the first date, they asked how big my penis was... . I must admit I was a bit startled, but was ab...

At some point, whether through years of experience with multiple partners, or intellectual reasoning, one can easily conclude that a search for the St...

Sexual dysfunction from lack of communication (about wants, needs, desires, etc.) in the context of human nature. Sure, fair enough. I think that's wh...

With all due respect, your comments and advice seem to be part of the problem and not the solution. It's an outdated paradigm. What about being old-sc...

I think we should be just as open about sex as discussing politics. Opinions do matter; the voices of change can make a difference. After all, isn't t...

I once had a mystical experience The likes of which were few With practice makes perfect they say In secret they only knew So celebrate your secrete w...

Not to sound glib, but what is pleasure without pain? (What does that look like… .) I realize it is easy to dichotomize everything, but...

Ok, you seem to have a level of self-awareness whereby it is causing you to introspect about your own happiness and lack thereof. What is causing this...

The good news is, that there is a beginning. The genesis of this awareness inside of you. A re-birth of sorts.

Great post :up:

But can you have one without the other(?)

I do think he should at least atone for his sins, against human kind!

No. An artist can paint or write music about feeling bad in order to describe and/or connect with reality (the human condition). Is that bad?

But the question remains, did you experience feeling good as a result of your experience of feeling bad? Would that then suggest we should embrace the...

Good points. Consider then, in a paradoxical way (Zeno/Aristotle) or in the so-called reality of time illusion context, that there is 1) and intermina...

Have you considered the principle of Yin and Yang, where all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example, female-male, dark-l...

From John Keats: "Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is...

MU! Thanks for your reply. Would you happen to have any examples of how logic can help us explain the nature of emotional will? Thank you kindly.

Sam! Can you think of example where people willfully do not want to think rationally? Are there any benefits to not thinking rationally? Consider phil...

Ok. I am subscribed, thanks! Good stuff!! Also, please share your thoughts on the exceptions to the law of excluded middle/bivalence; modus tollens, a...

Can we infer then, that emotions are not understood through the prism of logic?

No $hit Sherlock; your OP said basic logic. LOL

In a very rudimentary sense (practical or pragmatic way), one can think of logic this way: Being reasonable requires one to treat like cases likely; d...

Thanks MU! That reminds me of the Christian metaphor (in Scripture) as paraphrased: My mind will's one thing; my flesh another. (I believe emotion is ...

Hahaha, indeed Cici !!!

Are you suggesting that emotions determine what ideas the intellect turns to, and thus in the end determines what the intellect comes to know? And wou...

MU! Can you elucidate a bit more on that? My interpretation of Will is that it is dumb, blind, emotive force that causes us to exist. In a humanistic ...

Great point (quite Existential I must say), subscribed!!!!

Indeed Scop1 :up: And from a 'physics' view of the meta-physical, it would be known as the problem of 'informational energy' or emergence acting upon ...