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...hackles rising....... Very suspicious about that 'Global Research' site and who is behind it. I don't know, and don't want to know, but whoever it ...
August 22, 2017 at 00:33
I would think through a combination of observation and inference. The word 'karma' comes from the root word for 'hand' (kr-) - the implication being '...
August 22, 2017 at 00:15
That is an assertion, or, if you like, a proposition, by which you claim to have essentially eliminated Buddhism from answers to your original questio...
August 22, 2017 at 00:08
Says you. No argument here, only bald assertion. The fundamental question of Buddhism is: what is the source and the end of suffering. Nirv??a, as 'th...
August 22, 2017 at 00:04
I wrote my answer on the assumption that they're not fake ID's - that the question was about 'why do they leave their ID's', not 'who is planting fake...
August 21, 2017 at 23:02
I don't think it's an 'unwritten code of ethics'. I think they carry their passports because they're mobile, on the move, and if they don't blow thems...
August 21, 2017 at 22:49
I think the original intent of Sartre's 'existence precedes essence' was to foreclose any possible idea of soul or spirit. From the readings you provi...
August 21, 2017 at 21:08
Perhaps, but that doesn't necessarily entail fideism - the idea that everything is dependent on belief. I think faith can be quite considered, not nec...
August 21, 2017 at 06:47
I don't know about that. The point about 'the modern age' is that it is characterised by disenchantment. That was a term coined by Max Weber referring...
August 21, 2017 at 06:16
It's not 'a metaphysical claim', although the absence of meaning may indeed be a metaphysical ailment. Not at all. Suffering is the cost of existence....
August 21, 2017 at 00:44
There was always a copy of Frankl's book around in my house when I grew up (along with books by Erich Fromm, whom I see as comparable.) I never read i...
August 21, 2017 at 00:34
Hello and welcome. Nicely written and concise. The difficulty I see is that it is an attempt to re-do philosophy from scratch, as it were. It's good t...
August 21, 2017 at 00:05
Well, that was torpedoed by the discovery of the 'uncertainty principle'. There are laws, but the discovery of the 'quantum leap' was, I think, fatal ...
August 20, 2017 at 21:34
No, what I mean is, in relation to the Libet experiments, is that subjects reported that they performed the action before they were consciously aware ...
August 20, 2017 at 11:43
the fact that they're not available to conscious introspection doesn't mean they're not free choices.
August 20, 2017 at 09:40
Well, Buddhists are 'non-theists'. Buddhist morality is grounded in the original Buddhist teachings, and also the subsequent elaboration and developme...
August 19, 2017 at 23:20
(Y) More grist for the Lawrence Krauss mill On the Origin of Everything, David Albert The Metaphysical Muddle of Lawrence Krauss, Neil Ormerod.
August 19, 2017 at 22:55
Let me get in early to make the observation that whatever we say about the Universe, presupposes that we are making judgements and inferences about na...
August 19, 2017 at 22:54
In other words, it's a question-begging or tautological argument - which is quite true! Such arguments were not intended as deductive proofs or rhetor...
August 19, 2017 at 22:34
Have a listen to this TED talk, if you have 13 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&feature=youtu.be Harry Cliff, by the way, is not a...
August 19, 2017 at 22:33
But then you have the 'observer problem' which has thrown the entire 'mind-independence' of observation into question. One implication of that being, ...
August 19, 2017 at 22:14
Before you properly analyze this argument first imagine a universe in which nothing whatever exists. Would that be preferable to the universe we know?...
August 19, 2017 at 10:39
That was Michael's first post on the Forum. Hey, Max Tegmark believes the universe consists of numbers. As do Pythagoreans, generally. Check out this ...
August 19, 2017 at 02:10
Speaking of movies - that excellent sci-fi thriller with Matt Damon trapped alone on Mars - it was pointed out that you couldn't have a gale of the ki...
August 19, 2017 at 01:33
Besides wasn't it the nature of gravity about which Newton famously declared to 'feign no hypothesis'?
August 19, 2017 at 01:30
Damned if I know, BC. All I'm saying is the preponderance of gigantic animals - even including dragonflies and cockroaches - seems to suggest that som...
August 19, 2017 at 01:27
It might be interesting to consider the origin of the word 'teleological' and why it is considered 'baggage'. There is an interesting account of the o...
August 18, 2017 at 23:03
August 18, 2017 at 22:52
It isn't so much a question of nutrition, as how the skeletal and muscular dynamics of creatures that large could hold together. Like, move too quickl...
August 18, 2017 at 22:51
I would think that murder is always wrong, wrong by definition, morally and in law, in every culture. Killing is not quite the same thing. As has been...
August 18, 2017 at 22:05
I did acknowledge that earlier in the thread. It remains mysterious, however, why the mega-fauna of that age was so much bigger than anything that exi...
August 18, 2017 at 21:48
You're omitting a crucial ingredient, namely, observation (and experiment, which is a type of observation). Also, I don't agree science is boring, in ...
August 18, 2017 at 03:45
A bit of perspective - it's an internet forum. It seems to me there's sometimes a bit too much emotion being invested in it. I do understand the pull ...
August 18, 2017 at 02:07
No argument from me! I read The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars, Stephen O'Shea, a few years back. Interesting - and depressing. inc...
August 18, 2017 at 01:37
"I come not to bring peace but a sword" - the sword of discriminating wisdom, seen here wielded by Mañju?r? https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB140s7HFXXXXb...
August 17, 2017 at 23:39
That's where evolutionary biology has become something like a modern creation mythology. it is said to explain everything about human nature, in the w...
August 17, 2017 at 23:23
I think it's misplaced to think about it in evolutionary terms. It's not about survival, nonsensical as that might seem to modern ears.
August 17, 2017 at 20:43
Well, since the above post was written, Trump went feral again, this time in his own foyer, and showed the world his true colors (again, as if we have...
August 17, 2017 at 04:53
So, you're an enrolled student? You're writing academic work for assessment in a degree or non-degree class? If so, would you consider enrolling in hi...
August 17, 2017 at 04:15
my all time Favourite Song (Y) 'Love will always win'
August 16, 2017 at 09:22
I should add, on a more serious note, philosophy really is a subject, a discipline, and a tradition, originating with the Greeks, and carried on as a ...
August 16, 2017 at 06:09
https://youtu.be/7Xad5Rl0N2E?t=1m4s X-)
August 16, 2017 at 05:59
That's pretty close to the mark in my opinion. One point to note: the word 'scientist' came into vogue in the salon of Charles Babbage, who (along wit...
August 16, 2017 at 05:06
Listen carefully to the words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L8rRMipzMg Take that, Calvin!
August 16, 2017 at 00:26
The problem is, beebert, that for you it's not simply an intellectual issue. Even though I'm confident of my 'diagnosis', you're dealing with what is ...
August 15, 2017 at 23:43
Seriously - this to everyone reading this thread - there is a must-read book, called The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Allen Gillespie ...
August 15, 2017 at 22:58
David Bentley Hart's book Atheist Delusions is a salutary reminder of the revolutionary nature of Christianity in the formation of Europe - ' bringing...
August 15, 2017 at 21:35
I agree with your general point but I don't think you can make a blanket statement that Jesus' teachings of non-resistance has 'never been institution...
August 15, 2017 at 04:27
I do wonder about that. The recent movie, which I didn't see, Hacksaw Ridge, was about a 7th Day Adventist who refused to bear arms and performed hero...
August 15, 2017 at 03:42
Is that 'skepticism'? The fact of the concentration of CO2 in the environment is empirical science. It's not the consequence of a left-wing conspiracy...
August 15, 2017 at 02:06