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If it's not obvious to you that the scale of duplicity involving Trump far outweighs everything that Clinton was accused of during the campaign, then ...

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Clinton wasn't 'spouting accusations', she was quoting a media story, and her statement was rated 'true' by politifact at the time (although subject t...

Kalama Sutta

No, I don't think so. I think Ramana Maharishi was an authentic guru (not that I am a 'follower'.) And there are volumes of documentation about the ab...

So, you're either nihilist or crackpot, right? It's perfectly OK so long as you wear an Hawaiian shirt whilst so engaged.

that's not really what I'm getting at. Naturalism, scientific realism, or what have you, is an instinctive stance we have nowadays. It is the air we b...

I think that's a bit fundamentalist itself. Sure, we can't proscribe the absolute but again, it doesn't mean there is none. I know you have recommende...

I took this statement to have a quasi-religious view: It's true to an extent - but then, people are cured by placebos, purely because they believe the...

I never said there was a single absolute - which is why I take a pluralistic approach. But I believe there must be a genuine vertical dimension, somet...

I think what you're reacting against in all of what is said, is simply the word 'higher'. And why? Because it connotes religious authority, so it hits...

No, I don't think so. There are a number of Jesuit intellectuals and philosophers for whom I have great respect. Pannkar is one. There was a Jesuit wh...

Seemed unequivocal at the time - that my 'style of popular perennialism' has a 'fatal shortcoming'. Didn't seem a lot of room for interpretation. The ...

It was because of remarks like this: I took that is pretty condemnatory of my entire approach to the Forum, but please feel free to set me straight.

I reckon the Gillespie book - Theological Origins of Modernity - is far more important than the Gregory book.

I'm going to look into it. I'm of the view that the advent of scientific materialism can be understood in terms of the difference between Eriugena and...

Pannikar is great. It surprises me you'd recommend it, considering the criticisms you have often made of my attempts at cross-cultural comparisons in ...

Even though it's obviously an abstruse topic, 'many worlds' and 'multiverses' are actually different ideas, that's what I'm saying. Incidentally, in m...

The extent of my knowledge of such matters is bounded by New Scientist and other such sources, but one thing I do know is that 'multiverses' and 'para...

No it doesn't, not in the least. There are huge controversies raging in basic physics about the nature of matter, how the Universe originated, whether...

Explaining irony is pointless, isn't it. I was trying to drive home the point of the inherent implausibility of the so-called 'Everett Interpretation'...

Thank you. Perhaps one of them has indeed gone through the looking glass.

So - two 'Alices'?

How does that obviate the apparent fact of 'action at a distance'? If the measurement of this particle here, fixes the spin of that particle over ther...

'radical' means 'of the root'. So, yes, I suppose from the perspective of Catholicism, Calvin was radical, but in the context of US culture, Reformed ...

You can keep spouting crap, but don't expect any further response from me.

Click on that abc.net.au link above your post. It's gone viral overnight. Nails it. It's not the media that's fake. It's the person occupying the offi...

It's an historical issue as much as a philosophical one, but understanding it takes a lot of study.

it's pretty normative where Beebert comes from, which is the problem that he's wrestling with. And it's had an enormous impact on conservative Christi...

What Beebert is referring to is the Calvinist doctrine of pre-destination: that, aside from the Elect, the vast majority of mankind is destined for he...

Nietzsche was undoubtedly brilliant and prodigiously talented, but I wouldn't call him wise. Also I really don't think he had any grasp of the spiritu...

A tip: you need to get over that. Grew up in a very secular environment, Australia in the 60's, non-religious parents, but went to a Church school. I ...

I think it's inadvisable to fall into the 'theist vs atheist' dichotomy. Žižek and Feuerbach are both atheists. But the problem with atheism is that i...

Trump 'Satisfied' with Putin Assurances' Paraphrase: "Vlad's such a nice guy. He's sincere, he has a good handshake. And he looked me right in the eye...

The introductory paragraph of the above source states: I wrote that:

I did, Agustino. Those citations were from http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/10/1.aspx. It is not a matter of equivocation, I am simply citing an authori...

Which was: I quoted the Catechism of the Orthodox Church, which states that it is a sacrifice, in response to which you declared the source dubious. B...

Indeed you might, and a very important question it is.

The most important commandment, from the standpoint of philosophy, is 'know thyself'.

A long time back, I was fortunate enough to have attended some self-awareness training. One of the things I observed is a lot of people who had had tr...

I think we are responsible for ourselves - but I suppose this can seem a daunting prospect. The Buddhist view is that one's condition is a consequence...

As you've referred to Lewis, with whose writings I am not terribly familiar, I think it's is valuable to think over Lewis' saying 'the doors of hell a...

If you're interested in Buddhism, take time to read up on it. I myself have benefitted greatly from studying Buddhism and practicing Buddhist meditati...

Which begs the question, i.e. assumes what it has set out to prove. Because it is known that sub-atomic particles do not exist in the same sense as do...

I think those two points are in conflict. If the particle is said to be 'real and to behave in a consistent way independent of observation', then it's...

I feel for you. Do know, there are wonderful and compassionate Christian teachers, from many kinds of schools. Have a careful read of this title.

I think it's a misreading, although a very persuasive and deep-seated one. It comes from generations of Christian preachers, for whom 'God' is the ult...

Right. It's like, in the American legal system, 'taking the fifth'. ;-)

What I meant by 'withholding the truth' is not saying anything - maintaining silence. That is not lying. Of course there are 'white lies', I would be ...