This is two different categories of knowing. Empirical investigation cannot be used to prove or disprove first principles. You can't for example exami...
Some theists hold that theism is a common sense default state or what have you, and that not believing in God is based on a confusion, like not believ...
Who's standards? Academics have one set of standards. Non academics often have other standards. Atheism, theism, and agnosticism, have been around a l...
The options as far as CONVICTION of God's reality are: 1. I lack conviction that God is real or unreal. 2. I am convinced God is real. 3. I am convinc...
My understanding is that the purpose of existence is to relieve boredom. Non-existence I take as a state of absolute boredom. I don't have any scienti...
Maybe this is too deep, but when I think why there is something rather than nothing, I can't help but think its because not existing is a vacuum that ...
A religion seems to be when there is revered beliefs and ideals. If you revere your favourite band or movie, it can become like a religion, a lifestyl...
Eg. Eating a sandwich is pretty ordinary. But if you think of everything that goes into the making of a sandwhich, and then went into the making of yo...
I am basically taking your question deeper. Hypothetically might you be God? Sure, why not? Anything is possible. Might you ACTUALLY, REALLY be God???...
I doubt anyone can give some logic which rules out the possibility that you are God. Isn't the default that a proposition is innocent of impossibility...
Curiosity can be part of the motive to be with others. But a desire to be soothed and affirmed by others, or needed and valued, I see it as relating t...
Like many philosophy questions, there is a risk of confusing the map and the territory. When Buddhists talk about no self and emptiness, they are refe...
The theme of your thread is absolutes. I don't know of an absolute way to measure right and wrong. So I can't give any absolute answer. My point is th...
I think sane people are less happy than insane, and "real" people duped by reality. I try to do the opposite of everything good and moral, as I think ...
Anyway I suppose Bret Bernhoft is right. If Shamanism is the oldest tradition of exploring the deeper side of life, it could be considered the primord...
I dunno. It may be a natural hierarchy. In the ancient Indian caste system, the Brahmins, or scholarly class, were the smallest class. Today philosoph...
I disagree with the fundamental notion that the ancients were necessarily, on the whole, more primitive in their development. I think a lot of ancient...
I agree. My point is that anything within a religious context, as far as I can tell, can be secularized, other than a belief in God, I suppose. They p...
Imagine if there were no secular arts. In indigenous times, there was no demarcation between spiritual and secular. So yeah, if music wasn't seculariz...
A democratically elected representative is supposed to represent the will of the democratic republic, is how I thought its supposed to work. In either...
I think man has been isolated from the beginning, and that groups are at least one factor in that. When someone sees me as a stereotype or representat...
Love is basically mutual assurance. People giving each other hope and consolation. Its not a thing in itself. Without fear and insecurity, how could w...
I think fear and curiosity are the two main drivers. Each has subcategories or synonyms, love being a subcategory of fear. Its the desire for things t...
There are two motives for staying alive: Curiosity, which makes life a fascinating exploration of potential. And the fear of death. Which is not reall...
I define fundamentalism as believing something because others believe it. Few people, far as I can tell, are not fundamentalists of some form or anoth...
I'd prefer to imagine who would win in a philosophical sparring match. A great absurdist OP I'm afraid Joe would win, even though Hicks would win in f...
For me it boils down to leadership. We all gotta play three roles. Leader of our self, follower, and leader of others. First rule is you gotta be the ...
Voting is simply not practical. In the real world, money and connections is what gives a person worldy power. Look around and see which class of peopl...
This is true if voting is a duty. Neglect of duty: bad. Fulfillment of duty: not bad. Doing good beyond what is required: magnificence Someone not pay...
That doesn't answer the larger question. How does a president represent the will of millions of strangers? You can't represent someone's will unless y...
If a leader makes decisions that the majority of people are against, which they do all the time, then by definition, their decisions are not democrati...
So even if I don't vote for either candidate, I never the less support one of the candidates by choosing not to vote? You could also say that that if ...
It used to be considered a rule that swans are white. Now its common knowledge that there are a minority of swans that are black. Does this mean the r...
When a "rule" has an exception, it means the rule is actually false. Eg. "It's wrong to kill." "Exception": "It's ok to kill in self-defense" If its t...
Probably because, being alive, I have something dead people do not have: a responsibility and duty, which I can either fulfill or shirk. The dead can ...
That means that dead people indirectly support sides in a confrontation. At least if they would have chosen sides had they been alive. Edit: Additiona...
It's pseudo-democracy. Even North Korea is called The Democratic People's Republic of Korea. And it's citizen's are required to vote every four-to-fiv...
If I were a Mod, I would make it a personal rule not to moderate threads I myself have started. Its akin to a someone being both a boxer and referee. ...
With analogy of a garden, virtue can be like good fruit bearing plants. Weeds like bad qualities that don't bear fruit. Wisdom might be the process of...
My take: What's good and bad for me is objective. That I should be well rather than ill, is a personal preference. Put interpersonally: -Its objective...
From a psychological perspective, I wonder if the desire to reach infinity is based on a feeling of something not being good enough in ourselves, or o...
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