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['Member']Joined: July 03, 2020 at 12:17Last active: July 06, 2020 at 20:511 discussions13 comments

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A blend between Pascals wager but for knowledge and Newtons Flaming laser sword (I would apologise about the classification but to classify seems to f...
July 06, 2020 at 20:38
I would say I am very similar in many regards to what you describe, particularly the grounding in phenomenology helping to justify why I seek what I s...
July 06, 2020 at 20:00
I completely agree that most do, but trying to equate the majority of a time period with any kind of truth context has failed miserable throughout tim...
July 04, 2020 at 21:55
Religion as texts, are open to interpretation in many different ways using many different cultural sub-contexts. Similarly with all systems of belief ...
July 04, 2020 at 11:17
Unfortunately since I left university I've been in somewhat of an echo chamber without many others around me interested in philosophy and more specifi...
July 04, 2020 at 09:31
I don't think you can count the impossible as a choice. I think you may agree that choice would be the set of all possibilities that could be actualiz...
July 04, 2020 at 09:03
My first argument against gets very semantic and situational which id be tentative to give. The more reasonable approach would be to ask if this rever...
July 03, 2020 at 22:11
Correct by definition it is unbounded. Which is the "good" I perceive from it. I challenge you to explain any such case of progress not being novel. R...
July 03, 2020 at 21:17
I'm not and apologise if you think I'm intellectually dishonest in it. I don't perceive religious dogma as an entire package. I don't believe all reli...
July 03, 2020 at 21:12
So this is where I find the value of postmodernism. No predetermined hierarchies. No utopia. Pure choice. Historically people have needed narrow illog...
July 03, 2020 at 18:41
The many is incredibly relevant. What I'm eluding to is that non of your ideas were arrived at independently in a different sense to those who follow ...
July 03, 2020 at 17:17
I find it fascinating that with such a strong grasp of postmodernist ideas, you end up at "no where to go, nothing to do" (it makes me immediately tur...
July 03, 2020 at 14:50
Your authentic self similarly would be off-the-shelf and prepackaged to many many others. Religion offers a golden stamp of validity to many subjectiv...
July 03, 2020 at 14:45