Janus

Yes, via the incarnation He was transformed from a great distant authority, or a broker of covenants, into the loving father who manifested the spirit...

I know, but i felt like taking it seriously, just for fun ;) If Heidegger thinks that makes Being (a word that is capitalized only on account that all...

Yes, the fossilization of the arch-conservatives! 8-)

It seems to me that the belief or intuition that life continues beyond this life, and that events here have a significance that cannot be expressed wh...

Change is experienced, and movement is one aspect of, and/or way of conceiving of, change. So it would not seem reasonable to say that movement is not...

OK, having said that I don't want to indulge in slanging matches; I'll try to address what you write here, without doing that. It's true that I have c...

You didn't bite on my previous response, so I'll elaborate. The capitalization of letters usually indicates that there is a notion of hierarchy at wor...

Dali; now there's a connection I never would have thought of!

The reason I find much of what you say repugnant is because it seems to be hopelessly mired in politics. The result is that you come across to me as b...

I'm sorry to say it Agustino, but I find most of what you say highly disagreeable, even repugnant. I cannot see anything in it that persuades me you w...

Can he see them, you know, being dead and all? Why would I care in any case? Being is the being of beings, so how transcendent? No, the dialectical po...

It makes the letter look bigger.

I would say there's faith and then there's Faith; if it can be misplaced then it is not Faith but merely faith.

I love Whitman. For some reason when I read these poems now (which I have read previously several times too) I was reminded of a poem I wrote five or ...

Pure supposition on your part.

I don't think it makes sense to speak about the passing of time between moments, and no passing of time within the moment, rather passing of time is a...

Perhaps that's true; I don't know. I think it is probably more the 'slow insidious creep' of determinism which is undermining belief in free will and ...

True, I think Jesus does call for repentance, but if the woman went and sinned again, he still would not judge, but patiently urge repentance again. R...

I haven't said that he declared any of his writings to be wrong, but merely inaccurate, in the sense that there can be no accurate description of the ...

I'm still not clear as to what it is you find unseemly.

Right, so what do you want to say is the sgnificance of that?

I think it is far more likely that he came to think that it was not an accurate description of the reality of God, as that was revealed to him by his ...

No, C is the claim that what we perceive and think about it is equivalent to what we can perceive and think about it. This, if true, (which you have n...

Because C is the claim that A and B are equivalent, and although you now say you agree with it, earlier you claimed that when I expressed myself first...

How could you know that something could not be possessed by something else if you don't know what the "something" is?

I can't see a difference that makes a difference between the idea of becoming God and becoming one with God. The idea of apotheosis may be aligned wit...

Apropos this, Wittgenstein: "Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."

For me this is an extremely facile point, There are many things which can be "experienced and encountered" for example, love, truth, beauty, hope, fai...

Maybe he would have come to see God as an absolute immanence, and thus to have come to think that his writings about the transcendence of God were "as...

I would agree, obviously, that forms are immanent, but not that any forms have objects in this world; they are objects, or modes of being, in this wor...

Can you name some of the mystics you are referring to here? If St Thomas cast aside the Summa on the basis of a mystical experience, then we may concl...

For me, you are performing an incoherent separation here. "Meaning, love, hope, value" are not in things in the sense of "being contained' by them, bu...

But that is not the point. I don't care whether you agree with claims A and B. You claimed that they were not the same, i.e. that claim C is not corre...

Voegelin, if I remember right, believes that the transcendent God cannot be known, which is contra the Gnostics and the whole Hermetic and Theosophica...

I haven't read much of Eliade; but I have read quite a bit of, and about, Voegelin several years ago now. I don't agree with his characterization of H...

But, you were claiming earlier that I had changed what I was saying. Of course, since we have come, historically to perceive and think about more and ...

I would say that what we perceive and think about it just is what we can perceive and think about. And of course scientific instrumemts are either dir...

I think you identify as a realist, so tell me what kind of reality you think is there apart from the kind we can perceive and think about.

Ha ha, that's a nice story, but I think it just comes down to disposition; people who prefer not to think too much are attracted to Zen instead of Hua...

Idealism (subjective at least) proposes that reality is exhaustively constituted by ideas. I haven't said that, nor does anything I have said entail t...

"The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality". This what Hoffman claims. But if our perceptions of the brain are nothing like...

I actually really doubt that dogs have to be forced to lick vaginas and/ or to penetrate them. Nonetheless it is disgusting. Why is that; if it is not...

I consider myself a realist but I wouldn't claim that colours exist apart from perception; only that (some of) the conditions for perceiving are not t...

Yes, I agree, what is considered unlawful is usually only what harms another; but certainly not always. What about fornicating with animals, for examp...

I don't know what you mean by "perception independent"; do you?

Hegel made this kind of point also in a somewhat different way. Freedom, he said, is impossible without discipline, which is achieved by habituation, ...

Yes, of course murder has greater effects on others than gluttony, that is just why it is worse. It also would have greater effects on oneself; and th...

Certainly murder is worse than gluttony; I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

No, they are just two different aspects, in two different contexts, of what you see. Why must one be 'correct' and the other 'incorrect'?

Gluttony may lead to obesity and other severe health problems that place a tremendous burden on those who must care for the obese person; or his famil...