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What is "heaven"? Or do you mean that heaven is equivalent to freedom from suffering?

Alfred Whitehead equated 'it is what it is', with a things essence. William Safire traced its use back to 1949 by J.E, Lawrence in Nebraska Journal. "...

There are many, many more such critical videos. Bill Moyer's just described Trump as an "open sore", a "malevolent fury."..Trump is described here on ...

https://youtu.be/AJJmgxPHqb8

There are no real infinities, every event could have been otherwise, logic trumps math in reality.

I don't like utilitarianism for the individual, but I think it plays a role in public policy. The killer robot meme is gaining strength, Tesla’s Musk ...

I think emotions are learned, not that feelings are not there from the beginning, but that we learn how to associate feelings with named emotions from...

https://youtu.be/jc3waP7syjk

I think the word "precedes" is one issue. If Descartes was right " I think. I am". If the essence of what it is to be a man is thinking, then to think...

http://alfonsodelavega.com/wp-content/uploads/x-yacente-m-angel.jpg[ The aesthetic affect of Michelangelo work its real. It is difficult to believe th...

I was being hyperbolic, however please tell me what you mean by affective realism. I looked for a general statement of position but did not have much ...

Regarding the monuments: Wikipedia They belong in museums, not as public affronts to black people (15% of US population) who were oppressed before and...

Hi & welcome to TPF. Plato in his Phaedrus, analogizes the soul as a chariot, with a charioteer, and two horses, one obedient and the other headstrong...

I saw the Michelangelo's Pieta a long time ago and then only briefly. It is his most finished piece of sculpture, he was 25 year old when he carved it...

OK is this like the difference between a wink and a blink? It is difficult to tell them apart at times. Winks are intentional (I imagine having a nice...

No, I don't think anyone can go back in time, literally or figuratively to say what reality was for the individually at various times throughout histo...

I agree with what you said. Many times I find that I make my coffee in the AM without very much thought (6 AM or so), but the first cup is very pleasu...

But not without desire, which is pleasurable or painful in some mixture (physical/ or imaginary) at some intensity, as necessary for all actions, incl...

Grounds To assume an ontological answer is to assume the reality of socially constructed norms. To be a moral realist then is to accept the reality of...

If Democracy is assumed to be inherently good, then a democratic society's 'general will' must also be good. Happiness is the highest good for man, it...

" Doesn't saying God is a "being" beg the question, since the word "being", implies existence. Alternately, you could say the idea of God has existenc...

If I saw Michelangelo's Pieta in the middle of a snow storm its beauty would still astonish me, warm me up. The whole physical line of inquiry is fine...

Isn't it a kind of category error. Sure brainwaves may indicate thought, but they are not thoughts, they are brain waves.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b6dc89cd0f68c2b346e7a8/t/5855bfd5f7e0abe6807cc379/1482017559339/Naturally_coconuts-3070.jpg Closer to these.

You are nuts

The DEMs are doing exactly what the GOP did for the last 4 years, which culminated in the denial of Obama's choice for the Supreme Court. It's legal, ...

I have to split (not in two). nice chat, Ciao.

I don't believe in his forms, and I think he ended up having his doubts about the perfect realm.

Plato is one of my heroes, but I don't believe or agree with everything he wrote.

My conclusion thus far, of course I think and read about such things.

I don't know god, I don't live with god. I live in a world that has no reason of its own, only what I give it.

'Time' as I am using it is a blunt force, unreasonable, and indifferent to stones, murder, love, hate, war...

I think of it as metaphysical, as the opposite of God, order, law, perfection, necessity.

Depends on what you think "Time" is.

Same as it was before, just time.

Time is a menace, destroys everything, fully indifferent to all that occurs in it, & wholly necessary. I don't believe in nothing.

I think the opposite of God is time...but I like your story.

What's the opposite of God, for you.

What is the opposite of God?

If both are possible, then neither of them are necessary.

If it is the 1st Cause, then isn't every subsequent caused, less.

What's "A mental stimulus"

Why bother?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/23/article-0-0EEB679200000578-561_474x256.jpg Homersapien: Scientists have found that D'Oh may have been one of...

. A beautiful work of art does not correspond to our judgement's sense of a normative concept in the referent as presented. The tree is no longer a tr...

I don't disagree, I too think that something of the original sexual physical orientation remains, it makes the new gender reality possible. Grayson Pe...

Yes, I guess so. A very good friend of mine told me recently that s/he has been taking hormones to become a women and is now going on a 2 year program...

Prior to the internet there were libraries and recorded music available in listening rooms. I remember sitting in a room filled with thousands of volu...

We can change our sex really and therefore gender, physically by taking the right hormones, having the genitals and other physical features modified. ...

Gender is a question of desire, which can be literalized. A Transsexual is not limited by a desire.