Frank! Great comments, thanks. Well, lets parse the meaning of concepts and reality. If it is true that we live primarily in an abstract reality, what...
Sorry for this observation; are you one of those stereotypical angry atheists? Do you have an axe to grind about something? Sorry, without you adding ...
Frank! The former. I'm saying that the concept of a God certainly exists. Why wouldn't it? A concept of Santa exists too. Is there a difference to you...
Can you give me some examples there? Are you saying formal logic will not provide much help? If so, of course, I would agree. However, except for the ...
Hey Frank! Well, one possible 'logical' response could be in that scenario, as well as other scenarios or experiences: "Either God exists, or there is...
Hey 180! Thanks for that. Actually, I'm the one who had the latter experience. I could go into somewhat shocking details of totally unplanned happenst...
In Greek philosophy, the term "metaphysics" originally meant "that which comes after physics." It refers to the fact that Aristotle's metaphysics was ...
Forrest! Great. Let's parse each of those concepts. I would like to explore many other metaphysical phenomena from consciousness such as mathematical ...
I'm not sure what you mean by noncognitivist... . To clarify the concern, consider the following concepts we've been discussing: anxiety, depression, ...
Very Nice, once again! Very Existential I must say!!!! How can we escape this....do we distract ourselves with pain/pleasure...or do we seek meaning s...
Very Nice, oh great one! Or, could that be, that we are no longer human then??? Yet another question could be, why do I wonder whether my wants and ne...
We can't. It's another unresolved paradox about the human condition. Something beyond logic. Kind of like the Heraclitus quote: "Change is the only co...
Frank! I think you could parse Belief a couple ways. 1. Belief could be defined as induction v. deduction. Having a belief in something infers somethi...
Hi Forrest! Thanks again... . There are a lot of intriguing things to unpack. 1. I see confirmation that the will precedes the intellect (from your op...
I have; but, on point would be the issue of self-realization. Is that an occurrence when a want gets transferred into a need, once fulfilled? No, it's...
Forrest! Thank you for that... It speaks in part to the limitations of what logic can do for us. Notwithstanding Aristotle's recommendation of 'proper...
Hi Forrest! Of course. Who would know the mind of God (can pure reason help us here... ). Again, as a starting point, I would ask you to consider what...
One existential thought about God could relate to the meaning of life. If God is Life, we would wonder if he/she is the essence of Life. Can we know t...
Great, thanks 180. I would invite you then over to the new existence of God thread that Forest created, and I would be happy to debate you. We're just...
Sure. Whether the so-called reality of past, present, future are either continuous or discrete? The bivalence issue , I thought, was in large part wha...
Hi Forrest, Okay, first if we could get some of the definitions out of the way, that would be nice. And as such, are we saying that the classic apolog...
Thanks Forrest! It will take me some time to digest all of this. In the meantime, there are some good contributions already. I will probably approach ...
Hey Harry! Nice analogy! You might could think of it this way. That political representative represents you. He represents you in many aspects of your...
Hey 180! Not sure I follow that completely. If an atheist makes any kind of positive statement or proposition or judgement that says, " God does not e...
Of course, existentialism is alive and well there. I would rephrase 'inherent purpose' to say self-aware, conscious existence, or simply, self-awarene...
Your arguments are clear propaganda. And you're right, you're willful ignorance is scary. Others including myself have repeatedly made attempts to edu...
This guy's got to go. His goal here is now clear and painfully obvious. His propaganda is dangerously motivated. I've seen enough to call it what it i...
Whether he's part of the whole Russia thing I have no clue but his incessant willful ignorance and irresponsible comments has reached a dangerous leve...
Unless you have a transformation recently, your support of right-wing extreme politics says that you're a staunch conservative. As far as freedom viz ...
What a knuckleheaded response. Dude, your extreme ignorance unfortunately is rearing its ugly head once again. Your response as yet another reminder o...
Sure. Generally speaking, the nature of consciousness and subconsciousness working together violates certain rules of formal logic/p and-p. Yet just a...
Yes, there are many. The Neo-Kantian in me must repeat the infamous synthetic a priori judgement: all events must have a cause. Do we know that, in pa...
I enjoyed this commentary from the aforementioned quote: "Through “liberation,” which religions call by many different names, we free ourselves from t...
I thought you would enjoy this Einstein Quote that speaks to, in part, Schop's transcendence or denial of Will. "A human being is a part of the whole,...
Good point! Similarly, a lot of truth can be conceived through paradox and contradiction. How can we integrate these dichotomies? It might be worth co...
You would have to support that view from a cosmological basis. Meaning, conscious existence and self-awareness. Cosmic consciousness is a topic covere...
Hi Forest! Just curious, how would you defend your belief system? For instance, which domain would you draw from ( logic/deductive or inductive reason...
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