T_Clark

Why is that relevant? Yeshua is Hebrew. Translated through Greek to English it became Jesus.

Welcome to the forum. A warning. There are a lot of anti-religion bigots here on the forum who often give believers a hard time. People here, includin...

According to the web, Jesus would have been known in as Yeshua Ben Yussuf; Jesus - son of Joseph; which was a common name when he lived. Christ was no...

Apparently there are devices you can put in roadways to charge electric vehicles while they are moving. Just have one of those installed in your house...

I'm with BC. A really good post. Thoughtful and well-written.

Yes, but that's because you are, as are so many here on the forum, an anti-religion bigot.

As are they all.

This in response to your reference to "literal minded people." I'm not a Christian, but my wife is Catholic so I've spent some time around the church....

Well, yes. There was some irony in my response.

Atheists like to complain about how religionists have hurt the world - they start wars, they torture disbelievers, they subjugate women. You have adde...

Coincidentally, you've also answered definitively the most often discussed philosophical question - Is there free will?

I think it means 8% of your DNA, not 8% of your body weight. I looked it up - the web says the average human has about 3kg of DNA.

Saying that causes exist is not the same as saying everything is caused. Bertrand Russell did in 1912, and he was not the first. To say that causes do...

I will continue to point out the difference between your professed desire that people be treated with respect and your disrespectful actions. I think ...

Again, delusions of grandeur. Complaining never solved any problem. It takes work to do that.

I was struck by your response to Photios. It reminded me, with perhaps some irony, of things you wrote a week or so ago:

I put the quote in just to show that the necessity of causation is not a foregone conclusion. Many philosophers and scientists dispute the need for it...

And you are the forums resident squeaky wheel. Talk about delusions of grandeur. You; in your self-righteous, self-serving, self-satisfied smugness; s...

I don't know if you saw my previous emails about the similarities between Kant's noumena and the Tao as described in the Tao Te Ching. I think my fami...

I think Antarctica might a good model for how it could work in space. If there is nothing to be gained in space other than knowledge, I don't see why ...

Antarctica. I'm not sure what this means. Meaningful galactic ambition depends on the ability to travel faster than light. Current science says that's...

With me, what you read is absolutely, completely, exactly, precisely, indubitably what I am really like. But you knew that. I always assumed it was so...

I don't question the value of music played by orchestras in beautiful, acoustically designed halls. I only question @"baker"'s smug arrogance in feeli...

You spelled "you," "have," "found," "your," and "level" correctly

For the purpose of this discussion, I'm going to say that reason is the same thing as cause. The idea that every phenomenon has a cause has been quest...

Seems likely that music evolved as a participatory activity. People didn't just listen to it, they danced to it and sang with it. People going to a da...

I looked Aickman up on Wikipedia. He sounds like an interesting writer.

Your argument is based on value judgements, not facts. Whiney, cowardly value judgements.

You spelled focusing wrong.

Which is exactly what I said. Focus.

Anti-natalists are saying that bringing people into the world is ok only if there is no risk. That's a silly standard. The whole basis of the anti-nat...

I missed this until Possibility referenced it. I like the way you've expressed it. I agree, noumena, as described by Kant, are not things at all.

Two thoughts 1) This is the wrong forum. 2) Because you have provided no background information or scientific reference, this appears to be pseudo-sci...

I've been studying speed reading, so I already got the books and read them. It took me ten minutes. They involve philosophy.

This seems to me to be a good description of the main difference between western and eastern philosophies. Eastern works from the inside and western f...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

There you go. I was feeling all virtuous and wise and you ruin everything. The long version is not available electronically. Part of my Taoist faith i...

Just finished Collingwood's "The Principles of Art." I've been thinking about aesthetics a lot recently. I think I finally wore out metaphysics. The b...

No. Don't worry about holding the details. I might not understand it, but being exposed is a good thing.

I've been really happy with how things have gone since the Shoutbox was reestablished. Lots of interesting stuff, although it is true I get antsy when...

I have no problem with that, although I disagree. This - smug, self-righteous, self-serving, unsupported - is what makes me want to kick you and Bartr...

I don't understand your question.

I was specifically talking about a comparison between the Tao and noumena. I've been thinking I should reread some of Alan Watts stuff on Taoism, whic...

That makes sense to me. I need to spend more time with the science.

Which is what I said.

When I started the "My favorite verses of the Tao Te Ching" thread about a year ago, I found myself dealing with the question of what my relationship ...

Been there, done that, although you're unwilling to acknowledge it. When your ideas get knocked down, you do one of two things 1) just keep repeating ...

So, what actually is that? It looks like it could be a galaxy.

But they were aborting the girls so they could have sons. Leaders also figured out that they would run out of people to participate in the economy and...