Janus

I don't think you realize how infinitesimal you have become.

Of course! Anyone who expresses an honest opinion about you that you don't like must necessarily be small, right? This is a common ploy you commonly e...

Sorry man, It's really too much hassle for me. I have no recall even of what the thread was called where the exchange took place.

LOL, who do think I am being jealous of? Not yourself, surely! To be honest, your a young guy, and it shows; I see you as a philosophical pup, so to s...

To be honest if you think your philosophical ability is superior to all of those on this forum, then I would say you are woefully deluded. I believe 1...

In a sense I agree with acosmism; I think the universe is ultimately illusory, but this is closer to idealism than to realism. The other thing is that...

I'm not that computer savvy and I don't know how to find the stuff on the old PF; which is a pity because I would have downloaded my posts for future ...

Personally I don't much miss his cryptic dribblings. But as I remember it, he certainly did occasionally come up with some original insights.

Yes, there are various interpretations of Heidegger (surprise, surprise!). But since "being-in-the-world" is primary for Heidegger and he claims that ...

immanent Synonyms Word Origin adjective 1. remaining within; indwelling; inherent. 2. Philosophy. (of a mental act) taking place within the mind of th...

On this point I think it should be noted that Hegel, contra Kant, re-introduced a kind of Spinozism by claiming that the world is God (Spirit). He per...

I have read it. I studied Spinoza for years. I eventually came to the conclusion that Spinozism is deeply and fundamentally confused. I engaged in a d...

I didn't say that experiences "take place" any where else, did I? Events take place, do experiences of events take place (in the sense of 'have a prec...

No, I am not happy. All of this incoherent and not worth the effort to respond to. The crux seems to be the claim that if God acts in the world ( whic...

To say that an experience "takes place in the world" is just a way of speaking. You can say that events take place in the world and have some idea abo...

I cannot understand any of what she is trying to say other than her assertions.

Subtlety Agustino, is obviously not your forte: the world is everything and God is not a thing.

Sorry, Willow, I really haven't a clue what you are talking about; so it would be pointless to respond.

What if it is?

By virtue of the accepted meanings of the words 'nothung' and 'everythung' :-x

You have it backwards, Shyster Eggfart; the world is everything.

How do get from "The world is in God" to "Nothing is in God"?

No, God is not the world. The world is in God. God is not exhausted by the world. So, in a sense God is both immanent and transcendent, as you would e...

Being determinate or objective means it is a phenomenon that be intersubjectively determined to be this or that. Phenomana which can be determined to ...

Or maybe Willow would get blasted to a different planet... :-O

A person can only matter per se if they matter to God, otherwise...no. For Kant, people matter per se, and should thus always be recognized as "ends i...

Not impossible. but extremely unlikely.

Awesome, would be good if it also gruesome, no?

This reminds me of the bad old joke about the sea captain's new cabin boy. He came to the sea captain's cabin to learn of his duties. After explaining...

Yes, but I would say that the thought in question is present only in the thinking of it, not in the thinking about it. And just as with perception and...

What is perceived by the intuitive intellect is not determinate or objective in the way that what is perceived by the senses or conceived by the ratio...

It means the experience cannot be parsed in terms of the ordered categories that belong to sensory experience. It has more in common with the less det...

No, it's simply a different order of experience. Read the mystics and you might get the idea.

Since for me ontology is phenomenology, that is an existential category, and since the transcendent experience is phenomenologically and existentially...

With the rational intellect we understand the outer, with the intuitive intellect we understand the inner. The outer is the immanent in the sense that...

I think it's a tongue-in-cheek corrective to the human tendency to believe in anthropomorphizations. What, don't you wash your dog at home?

Yon Dong then I guess; no need for the der; gratuitously obvious and doesn't rhyme with 'Don'. But then 'dong' doesn't rhyme with 'Young'...so...no......

It's really not of any import to me that you won't explain yourself; so nothing to deal with. And the name's John, not Yon. 'Yon' reminds me of an ele...

I like this poem! 8-)

I still have no idea on what basis you think this. It hasn't been my experience at all. It sounds a tad paranoid to me.

Why do you say so?

Once you've posted it it is effectively published. If you saw that someone had plagiarized it, it would be easy enough to demonstrate that you had alr...

How can anyone steal it once you've published it?

That's the lamest excuse I've ever heard for refusing to publish one's work! :-}

Perhaps it's a human prejudice to think that we, as linguistic beings, are the only animals capable of abstract thoughts such as 'I will die'. Can we ...

Obviously I don't know for sure, but I would say 'probably not'.

Assess its size against the pine needles.

Looks like a small white dick to me.

I think fear of death is a matter of expectation. In order to fear death I think you must be capable of explicitly thinking "I will die", thinking it ...

Yes, but looked at logically everything we think about is no longer present. So it is distinctness, not presence that matters when it comes to whether...