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My view is that the evidence for human-induced climate change is unequivocal and undeniable, but that there has been considerable fear, uncertainty an...

Australia introduced a carbon tax which was working exactly as intended back in 2012. All of the indicators were in line with expectations and rates o...

Further references here.

There are references too numerous to summarize here, but I will take it from your answer that you do, in fact, tend towards denying the problem.

So, you do think that human-induced climate change is a real problem which requires urgent action?

It was in response to the passage I quoted - you asked the question 'Are you saying that the repugnant things are suddenly no longer repugnant once si...

If it was intended as ironical, my apologies, but it really didn't come off that way.

My question was: does evilness and ugliness exist in Heaven? I would have thought the answer to that was 'no' according to every Christian denominatio...

Yeah, it insinuates that 'climate change is a left wing plot'. All of your points are right out of 'climate denialism central'. And, incidentally, I a...

This is a question, not a challenge: do you think there are 'ugly and evil things' 'in Heaven'? I would have thought not, and furthermore, that this i...

There's your problem. The magnificent organising power of the Roman empire congealed around a revolutionary popular religious movement and endowed wit...

I don't want to drag the thread into a discussion of Nietzsche. What I mean by 'potentate' is that N. depicts 'God' as a kind of universal ruler or po...

The only kind of God the Nietszche comprehends is a potentate. He knows absolutely nothing of the 'divine darkness', the Way of Unkowing. Stick with W...

Your basic error is to believe that 'evil is real'. That is precisely what 'the doctrine of privation' denies 1. But in order to make this intelligibl...

That is why the only place you will ever read about 'qualia' is in reference to a particular clique of mainly American academics. In reality, it's mea...

It could mean putting someone in charge of the agency responsible for climate change, who has a long track record of disputing the evidence - in fact,...

That really has no bearing on dualism, JD. Descartes' model was an abstraction: let's say the world comprises two substances, one extended but unthink...

That question - 'how is it backed up' - is the subject of a very large and even acrimonious debate between many big time scientists. It is being calle...

Note also that the Critique of Pure Reason puts 'mind' back in the centre of things, because of its role in organising perception and making judgement...

I think Nagel's book, Mind and Cosmos, has the best overall summary of the problems arising from Cartesian dualism: The problem wasn't really from Des...

google 'After Virtue' by McIntyre, if you're not familiar with it. The wikipedia entry on same is decent enough. It's on the large pile of partially-r...

Agree - but then there is the issue of subjectivism and/or relativism - what if my 'spiritual experience' is simply a delusion? What if it is being dr...

You mean, the authority of one born in a manger. What kind of authority is that? What I'm talking about is 'authoritarianism', generally, which overal...

Thanatos Sand didn't 'forget your password.' Thanatos Sand is banned, 'John Harris' is a sock puppet account, you're a troll, pure and simple, nobody ...

The question of 'authority' in religion is a vexed one. I think a very strong historical case can be made for the fact that the Catholic Church devise...

In addition to, and support of, Janus reply to your point. Again, I think your attitude is probably based in fear of disorder or social collapse, and ...

Well, can't disagree with that. But as I think you know, when you're committed to the work of self-realisation, ego has a way of appropriating the cur...

Apologies, so you did. W T Stace. Alright, apologies again. I got drawn to this thread because @Agustino pasted my name into it about four posts down....

You're not even capable of owning your own statements or making an argument for them. All you can do when challenged is resort to insults.

OK to ease your soul, here are a few examples of Thanatos Sand/John Harris advocating positivism. All of these are textbook cases of 'verificationism'...

I'm sure I'm not the only participant here who notices that your typical modus operandi is to mock, belittle and condescend to anyone who tries to int...

Which, again, is positivism.

An analogy can be made between 'soul' and 'body' as being like the relationship of 'meaning' and 'letters'. Symbols - like the letters this sentence c...

In current cosmology, the big debate on whether 'the universe' is 'only one' of a possibly infinite number of 'multiverses', which might forever be un...

My views change constantly. The salient point of my earlier response was that, earlier in life, I was not much interested in what I understood as 'rel...

So if Huston Smith, who wrote a best-selling book called The Religions of Man, which is still taught throughout the University system, is not 'a peren...

Don't recall having said anything to you, John Harris. What I was commenting on was this: Which is pretty darned close to saying 'all that can be know...

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Amen to that ;-)

I'll be completely honest: went to an Anglican school with services three days a week. I think I always felt an affinity with Jesus, and I still do. B...

I think it's this: Huston Smith, whom I mentioned, was a living refutation of this assertion. He was born of Methodist missionary parents in China, an...

My admiration for the idea of 'perennialism' is not because of 'picking and choosing' or 'being politically correct'. My dear one works for a Christia...

This is a philosophy forum. There are many Christian theology forums out there.

I find this a painfully ignorant and hostile sentiment. That is what caused the sarcastic response. I have a busy day ahead, and I could effortlessly ...

Besides, amongst the numerous defects of this OP, is the idea of perennialism as 'a religion'.

I can't abide 'triumphalism' in any way shape or form. Or the implicit and sometimes explicit authoritarianism that is an inevitable consequence.

I know Comte and what you're arguing is pure positivism. And scientism.

I think it would be preferable if everyone returned to the mentality which underlay the 'Religious Wars' of Europe, where entire communities were enga...

Actually, it is positivism.

What I think he looses sight of, is the infinite goodness which 'salvation' comprises. One point about 'salvation' - so I'm told - is that, in its lig...