...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 ...
I would think through a combination of observation and inference. The word 'karma' comes from the root word for 'hand' (kr-) - the implication being '...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Well, Buddhists are 'non-theists'. Buddhist morality is grounded in the original Buddhist teachings, and also the subsequent elaboration and developme...
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...
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...
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...
But then you have the 'observer problem' which has thrown the entire 'mind-independence' of observation into question. One implication of that being, ...
Before you properly analyze this argument first imagine a universe in which nothing whatever exists. Would that be preferable to the universe we know?...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Seriously - this to everyone reading this thread - there is a must-read book, called The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Allen Gillespie ...
David Bentley Hart's book Atheist Delusions is a salutary reminder of the revolutionary nature of Christianity in the formation of Europe - ' bringing...
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...
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...
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...
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