There's been a lot of discussions of calvinism on this forum lately, but I don't think it's the place for it. Calvinism really has nothing to do with ...
There is a sutta (i.e. teaching) where the Buddha encounters two young Brahmins who ask him about how to pursue union with Brahma, the highest good. F...
Well, not really. They are the 'on' and 'off' indicators in an electrical pulse; it is where programming language is converted into physical instructi...
Actually the story of the transmission of the Buddha's words is thus. After his death (or pari-nirvana) the monks all gathered for a council. One monk...
Right! Makes sense to me. That is an effective analogy for the way the brain~mind 'constructs' reality on the basis of sensation, perception, judgemen...
Why can't there be a mountain range with no valleys? That would be just great - everything would be 'up', there would be no 'down'. The other great ad...
Well, if you're going to call yourself 'Mad Fool'.... :-| Do you think Brahma is the same god as Jehovah, or a different God? And do you think that Hi...
What I'm trying to explain to you, is that the Buddha lived and taught in a place where the Hebrew bible was unknown, and that he didn't address his a...
I kind of get what you're saying Woz, but it's a very idiosyncratic take on the subject. It is useful in these discussions to try and relate what is b...
I'm not, Fool. I'm answering the question, but you're seeing the answer through your preconceived notion of what constitutes 'religion', so you're una...
He was,however, founder of one of the major world religions, which would be unlikely had he found 'nothing at all'. The traditional expression is that...
I've tried to explain to you, with examples from texts, that the Buddha didn't talk about the matter of 'God' at all, but from what you're saying here...
It's not 'an argument', it's speculation. The phrase 'finding God' is meaningful within particular domains of religious discourse, typically Christian...
Not according to the doctrine of privation, which says that evil doesn't exist - what we see as evil is the mere privation of the good, which is compa...
That's not 'on one account', it is true even according to its most ardent advocate, Dawkins, whom you mention. He frequently observes that Darwinian t...
I'd prefer to think of it as the latter. 'Before' is a matter of perspective - which only a mind can bring to bear. Magee on Schopenhauer. Kant himsel...
This is more history than philosophy. One of the major themes of the Enlightenment was the 'rejection of metaphysics', right? Metaphysics was associat...
No, I'm sure he wasn't. He would have absolutely detested the kind of subject we're discussing. Mind you, Freud himself is now a museum piece, consume...
That's where the new-age woo comes in. I too watched What the Bleep years back, Fred Alan Wolfe was interesting, but all the Californian-style philoso...
Whilst reason dictates against discussing such a recondite question with a person whose forum name is 'Mad Fool', I will hazard a reply. The basic iss...
Why 'beings'? By beings, are you referring to billiard balls, trees, stars, and mountains? In normal discourse, there is only one type of entity that ...
Your problem is that before 'quantum nonsense' was discovered, many Leading Scientists were of the view that Science had just about cracked 'the myste...
Rationalist philosophers such as Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes, to name a few, were religious. Thomas Aquinas' works are scrupulously rational. Ther...
actually, casting about for ideas as to who might best represent the idea of 'spiritual but not religious', the figure that springs to mind is that of...
Which simply reaffirms the point that I was making - that your reason for rejecting 'spirituality' is that it is too near religion. Regarding the quot...
I don't think the philosophy forum is the place for proselytizing or defending the One True Faith . My advice to Beebert was 'meta-religious', not apo...
An opportunity for one of my all-time favourite quotations: Richard J. Bernstein coined the term in his 1983 bookBeyond Objectivism and Relativism: Sc...
The classic formulation of the problem is from Hume, as I'm sure you know; there's a decent summary of it ]on wikipedia. I take it to be the initial r...
The word 'spiritualism' always reminds me of Victorian psychic research - seances and spirit mediums. In any case, the kinds of ideas that are encount...
You don't seem to grasp how much more radical the notion that there are many worlds, or parallel universes, is, than that of heliocentrism, which had ...
As good a place to start as any is Max Weber's notion of disenchantment: Note the allusion to the 'death of god' in the final sentence. There is also ...
Well, I think you are, although I wouldn't phrase it in such obviously pejorative terms. What is the motivation behind those who are 'spiritual but no...
Evil as the privation of the good is not my invention, it originates with Augustine. The point is that evil has no reality of its own, it is comparabl...
That is about the sum of your objections to many things said in this thread, isn't it? ';Sounds religious'. It's like the topography of an underground...
There is no 'Copenhagen model'. It is not a model or even a scientific hypothesis. The 'Copenhagen interpretation' refers merely to the kinds of thing...
I do think this is a blatant distortion of the Christian message. Also consider the following. Some Christians are locked into their inherited underst...
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