TheMadMan

That's what Jehovah's witnesses said to me when I kept telling them "I'm not interested just let me drink this cola in peace".

Apparently for some it is.

At least someone gets it. :sweat:

I asked the opposite

You remind me of many religious fundamentalists people I have had the displeasure of talking to.

Yeah but I too have a lot of opposition about your beliefs but I didn't make any judgement of it precisely because I didn't want too deal with them in...

I see what you meant. What I wanna ask is how does this assumption arises from mind. I don't think it does. It just explains one way of what matter is...

And I just want to point out that I didn't ask.

Hmmm so do legs exist in anyway without walking?

Yes I agree. I don't see a question.

Relax man, what are you 12? What you aren't getting is that I didn't start this discussion to argue with physicalists. I am interested in arguments fr...

Thats what we know on the scientific front. Im asking philosophically and even experientially.

Philosophy starts with wonder and doesnt arrive at conclusions, if it does it becomes dogma. Good luck man.

Brother you need to practice some intellectual humility. Your are just making statement authoritatively not allowing space. You talk about doing philo...

What you are describing as matter is just the physical properties, observed and measured. My question is for all levels of matter that we know, to the...

Was the excitation physical or idealist?

But still you are saying that legs come first and walking is just the epi-phenomena.

Many people, have maintained that representation is only one way of experiencing. Mainly because of the brain's need for a model of the world for econ...

Yes, one can express it that way. An excitation of the field of consciousness/absolute-emptiness.

Broadly speaking there are two perspectives of humanity on earth: 1. Humans are above nature so they must conquer and control it. 2. Humans are part o...

Maybe the shame and guilt come from our expectation of our self. I don't feel guilt or shame when I fail at something I know I'm not good at. So it ma...

Just saying, the golden rule is a really bad rule. "Treat others as you would like to be treated."? A lot of times the way you would like to be treate...

Im not sure how one can give a moral judgment to the mistake/error. I think that the moral judgement falls to what could cause the mistake/error i.e n...

OP used mistake and error with the same meaning. Nevertheless Im not putting moral value to a mistake. And people will feel regret even if it is a fau...

But there are also mistakes that are not depended on your knowledge. You can know all that is possible for you to make predictions and still make a mi...

If you are referring to the negative religions (buddhism, taoism, zen) notion of no-self then you have started in many wrong steps. For example. No-se...

Yes its is irrational.

No I don't separate humanity from the rest of life on earth. What if...? Do you have arguments that humanity is the thorn. You would also have to prov...

Exactly, very broad. And you expect me to "give the reasoning behind it".

Some things I take to be obvious to people that's why I don't go on trying to explain every statement. I prefer parsimony when possible. So if my stat...

I believe this is the an ancient Hindu story of creation (more or less).

I understand and it's a good philosophical argument I just don't need the roundabout-ness of it.

You make too many assumptions of my statements and prematurely reached your conclusions on me self-refuting.

Then why add to the problem of interaction in the first place? Sound like mental gymnastics.

Exactly the same as it has been, is and will be. If I was all that is then self-consciousness does not make sense since there is no self as opposed to...

That heaven would be hell. Eternal torture. Meaningless. Eternal void would be preferable. "Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happin...

You are explaining idealism as dualistic. In your explanation the mental and the non-mental are two and thus interaction has to be explained. As I und...

If X is not misanthrope/antinatalist and does not recycle, I don't see how X becoming misanthrope/antinatalist makes them recycle. I think pro-environ...

I can't consider misanthropy as a philosophy. It's more an emotional reaction to negative life experience coated in "philosophical" language, which ma...

No creator does not mean no creation. No purpose does not mean meaninglessness.

The creation of the ego in a person is inevitable. It arises out of the dynamics of biology, environment and society. Why do we have it? Primarily it ...

What you are describing as "atheist" is actually a anti-theist. Your "atheist" is just a believer of no-god, but a believer nonetheless, that's why he...

"No dearer is man's life than that which he holds dear. Take care that you hold not your precious life as cheap as gold" If you put your values on "my...

Can anyone direct me to sources that deal with the issue of "If God is omnipotent then why is there evil?"

I agree but without clarification it makes thinks unnecessarily complicated. On this we agree. I use consciousness as Mind -not the particular mind- o...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/771855

We are speaking different languages. You are using consciousness mainly as being conscious or meta-consciousness. I'm using it as a fundamental princi...

I agree. I can't imagine how a thinking human being can say that consciousness doesn't. But it also doesn't make any sense to me how consciousness is ...

I am not assuming how it is like to be a stone or a cat. I only maintain that it's experience is not like human's. I would say that's a fair deduction...

This quote is saying the same thing as I am. The author is as disappointed with the progress of science and technology as me. The only difference is t...