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But maybe it isnt a fantasy, lol. There is no way for us to know absolutely. You can arge thre's no afterlife until you're blue in the face, but ultim...

Well thank you for looking. As I understand it, that's for each person to figure out for themselves. For me, heaven starts here. It may go on in the a...

I think you mean, like naive people think who know nothing about philosophy, or for that matter, that much about religion either.

Perhaps you can help me on this? On the one hand, I feel your answer is intuitively correct, and it surprises me so many people continue to state that...

Maybe what you're really asking about is intimacy. I dont know what its like in Amsterdam these days, but when I was there in the 80s, there were stre...

Right. I'll try to give a couple of examples, and Im probably going to need some help here. Women who let themselves be beaten by their husbands. You ...

Regrets to say I find myself repeating this rather often on this forum, and I probably don't say this very well, but there are MANY occasions when peo...

I rather agree. I did write a translation of the Gospel of Thomas, in English that is understandable to those for whom English is a second language. I...

So the discussion of the hermeneutic change, on absence of personal guilt for pre-Christian Romans and Christians, has reached my conclusion from it: ...

TO YOU, love is an extension of pleasure lol. The fact is, love sometimes means doing things that are not pleasant at all. Really, you do need to lear...

You know I struggled with that a long time myself when I was having problems with depression, so I really can sympathize with that perspective. Eventu...

On self mutilation at the time, the easy topic to find references on is castration. But the other self mutilations are not so easy to find. I did find...

What I have been told by others is that we don't have particular evidence that any of the texts said to be by Ptolemy are genuine either. All that doe...

Hi folks, this contains the completion of the hermeneutic argument started in the first post, that the pre-Christian Romans and Greeks did not feel ba...

What you are pointing to are all secondary or tertiary sources, and almost all compiled from documents thought to be written 300 years after Alexander...

Im not angry at you. Youre just showing you dont care about the quality of historical evidence youre denying. I described it very carefully. Logically...

lol, I just wrote a very detailed explanation that you didnt read. So obviously you dont know you cant believe that Aklexander the Great existed eithe...

As I did try to say, its all on linkedIn now while I look for a publisher, if you have no objections to my first post remaining.

Well I know what you are saying, lol, but there are people in both fields who claim otherwise. That's VERT well said. Ah. Well that's why I started ta...

Do other peole say the dogma of religion is like the laws of science or the books of lawyers?

Siddartha Gautama bases his ideas on those he had read in sanskrit, but there are two main innovations over Hindu traditions I would personally state....

I guess I have to agree with you. I was very interested for a long time in yantric systems. I was totally enamoured with the idea of associating shape...

I would go as far as saying prelinguistic beliefs are the foundation of all thought. I explain with example: 1. Baby is hungry 2. Mother comes in room...

Do either of you know something about why Saul decided to go on his rampage before he became Paul? I do remember being told it was kind of his own dea...

Ah. Well as you might have seen from the picture and above text I added, at least in some cases it was entirely voluntary, lol. Now that's an interest...

hahaha ok! Could particles pop into existence from nothing before the big bang? Now that's one Id really like to hear on, lol

Hi, I'm still working through your past comments, and I adjusted the text under the pictures now in the leading article to state more fully my specula...

Revisions to original post: Pictures added yay! Title changed TOC added at top (subsections now questions) Preface - removed unnecessary personal comm...

Aww Frank, thats a little strong lol. If he wants to talk maybe somebody else would like to discuss the belief. I do understand there is a fine line b...

Exactly. I'll enjoy reading the rest of your prior longer post this evening )

Hm. That;s a an interesting overvation, I will think about it while I mow my lawn, lol. My first reaction is, other authorities may not be prone to 'd...

Thank you both for joining in the discussion here. Maybe collaboration on an anthology is taking it too far, and we can just enjoy talking here. Curre...

Thank you so much! It appears to be a longer response from a scholar at Oxford resulting from my positing the original question there in 2015. It tota...

I got that far and stopped reading. Sorry. I would xplaoin why, but there is no point, is there. Gee what anice day. I think I'll mow the lawn. Hope y...

Ah. Well I was thinking about that while summarizing my prior research on convergence and divergence of divine and natural law, posted above. So I hav...

edited for readability, 9.29pm sunday. Good night )

For some reason it is often stated as the pronunciation of Jehovah, but Jehovah is typically pronounced with three syllables, but some with a soft J l...

Well it has evolved over time The 'early church' until about 150 AD operated rather like a commune. New members contributed their money upon joining, ...

as stated in INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY - Second paragraph of section one. No supporting references. No known reference to golden rule in any...

also, Oh. Not that I think it that important, but for your information, 'Yahweh' is an English pronunciation of an affectionate Hebrew abbreviation of...

You COULD call it 'the golden rule,' but that would NOT be correct. These have been widely known, at least since the King James version in 1511, and p...

Hi Tim ) Actually it wouldn't help, because I looked into this so-called 'golden rule' thing, and I can't find any evidence it existed at the time of ...

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Well thank you for a kind answer. It's clear we both would rather have a conversation, and I'm sorry I lost my temper. But I should also say, I guess,...

Before getting into whether I should put my friends with PhD's repurations at stake for discussions we had as friends, you should first be less rude i...

let me try this addition: "Even when Romans and Greeks were shamed by others, they still did not believe it their own fault. They blamed the Gods or o...

Well I can understand that. I add something. In terms of human volition, there are two aspects one may consider: permission, and power. To a parent, t...

On Thucidides REconstructing Speeches I did not quite represent this correctly. From Thuc. 1:22: The specific problem to scholars remains, Thucydides ...

Correction: Ancient Egyptian Surgery was on Knee, not Spine Apologies my memory since 2003 is off. I had said there is evidence were in posession of m...