jellyfish

I think it's a reasonable point to make, if one assumes what you call Kantian grounds. These grounds assume something like a utopia of free and equal ...

I agree. Right. That's how I've understood you. 'God' is something like the form or logic of matter. I don't object to this as superstitious. Maybe I ...

I'm glad things are looking up. I've walked through Hell a time or two or three or...and yet am strangely fairly happy when I don't get sucked into th...

Of course this is a wise and sensible position. I get it. And what else can you tell a person wrestling with a spiritual crisis but some version of 'g...

We agree. I guess I was just trying to explain what I find fascinating about so-called explanations. A super-sapien would build better mousetraps. But...

I really like your theme. I think we agree that human reason cannot conquer all, but I think I know what your colleague might have meant by 'only that...

Good point. But what does it mean to explain something? It seems connected to a sense of familiarity and mastery. You give someone an 'explanation' wh...

I agree. That quote doesn't feel right. For one thing, I can predict whatever I want,without some mathematical proof. And then math = axiomatic is its...

FWIW, I go with #2 also. But I go with #2 because I have old-fashioned actual beliefs about human cognition. For instance, I think if we really suffer...

I like your post in general, but maybe it falls into its own trap. 'The truth is only in your mind' is in some sense not virtuously humble at all but ...

I do empathize with the dark passion here. The time is out of joint. Something in our despised human nature craves something beyond this nature. I ass...

I agree that people blame, blame, blame. You do put your finger on the puppet master or source, human nature, but maybe you are ignoring that you are ...

Nice. Thanks for the reply.

I like Marx, but I also personally think that we are largely the leeches on our own backs. Capitalism is a beautiful, seductive monster. Today's art i...

It's a great theme. Pride is something like the enjoyment of (a sense of ) status. In its more 'innocent' form, it's maybe conforming to the norm, bei...

Hi. Perhaps you are oversimplifying atheism here. I'm an 'atheist,' but I also think God is a concept of central importance. I'd say that an atheist t...

It's a suggestive quote, and I think it's better to develop it in this or that direction than worry about true/false. It reminds me of this one: To me...

I think I see what @"dazed" is getting at. When God is dead, one is left with a plurality of causes. There are so many claims on the contemporary cons...

Earlier in the thread there was talk about religion being largely sub-conceptual. It's what we do, perhaps, more than it is what we say about what we ...

Starting with a definition might also assume some questionable project of making the 'ground' explicit. A big system of words is supposed to be its ow...

You don't make it clear perhaps, but I re-read your OP and now I take it that you are rejecting the problem of evil in order to defend some kind of th...

Often enough, yes. But I maintain that religion is misunderstood when it's examined as a mere set of silly concepts. The concepts can afford to be sil...

You said we can 'freely' decide. In the same way an addict can 'freely' decide to stop using --which is to say ideally or theoretically. And yet for m...

How free are we in this hypothetically godless world? Personally I think the world is godless, but I also think that we are animals who exaggerate our...

Yes, and it's manifest in actions. The obsession with beliefs misses what religion shares with other expressions of membership. Religion is continuous...

All good points. He abases himself to be exalted. I like Socrates, but he's only different from other gurus on the level of quality. He's not playing ...

Some folks replace God with History and religion with politics. Another popular substitute for religion is irony/cynicism/absurd-ism. An arguably more...

I like this, but I'd emphasize that perhaps philosophy (the good stuff) is simply a more profound self-help nostrum. The organism grasps for orientati...