It is interesting to think how the perspectives of Christianity came together. There are probably so many influences ranging from Egyptian ideas, Herm...
As the thread began on a general approach towards the deconstruction of Christianity, I may not have followed through with a clear picture of Gnostici...
What you are saying about the relationship between Christianity and its roots in Judaism and the particular understanding of 'Jahweh' are important. I...
I am glad that you raise the question of what happened to the historical Jesus, especially in regard to the resurrection. My own interest in uncoverin...
There may not be a clear distinction between the esoteric and the exoteric as it may be more dynamic. Even within the Bible the 'Gospel of John' and '...
I have thought about your question of why I find symbolic understanding to be important. It is likely that I would not have found this if I had not be...
I have read some of Hegel's ideas and found them useful, but the political aspects emerging from his ideas are more questionable. As for Kant, he was ...
I do realise that you are not singling my topic out. If anything, I don't want my thread to be filled with the tedious, so mine is going to be given a...
The book which I have been reading has articles by Elaine Pagels. I find the tradition of Gnosticism and the Grail legend interesting, especially as I...
The Catholic Church has a large shadow of repressed sexuality. Even at age 12, when I chose to go to a Catholic school because I didn't agree with the...
The only problem is that I created a thread on Christianity yesterday when there didn't appear to be any active ones. Now, there are 4 on the front pa...
My understanding of theological scholarship is that the writings of the NT were written much after the time of Jesus. So much is the perspective of Pa...
I am interested in both the demystification of religion as a system of ethics and in the history of ideas. To a large extent, the disentanglement of p...
It does seem that there is so much out there which challenges the mainstream accounts of it. I guess that the various disagreements when I read differ...
I just began reading the thread today and smiled when I found one of the previous threads of mine on thinking about the philosophy of the Bible. It is...
Okay, I am probably asking a lot, but my rationale is that philosophy of religion often focuses on the existence of God. This is important, but it may...
The difference between intuition and other means of knowledge may be hard to pin down to philosophical methods and rigour. That is because it differen...
It does seem that most theories are not able to capture the nature of awareness itself, which is so complex an aspect of experience itself. The idea o...
The idea of self being related to embodiment is especially true and that is where the mind/body problem seems to err with some viewing mind as a 'ghos...
Cassirer's perspective seems useful. Sometimes, in philosophy it seems as if the relationship between self is almost seen as an isolated cell of consc...
What you describe reminds me of Aldous Huxley's, 'The Doors of Perception' in which the person in a mescaline-induced state of consciousness is mesmer...
I am not sure if you think that my reply makes sense, although I am unsure about what you are are trying to say in your outpost or reply to me. Semant...
I remember when I was going to Christian youth events there was so much talk of rock music being the 'devil's music. There were people speaking about ...
The topic goes into discussion about toilets and the trans issues. As a couple of people have pointed out already, gender neutral toilets are a possib...
The nature of consciousness may be different during sleep as opposed to absent. In particular, states of REM dreaming consciousness is present. During...
The performance aspect of gender is where biology and culture meet. It often results in an exaggeration of biological differences. It varies throughou...
I think you are mistaken to see transgender people as 'impersonators', meaning 'fake'. That is because as Judith Butler argued gender is performance. ...
Okay, I will offer a couple of questions: 1. To what extent is humanity on the verge of totalitarianism? 2. Is AI too heavily invested in as a solutio...
Does that mean that Noam Chomsky will only reply to questions which have been raised so far on this particular thread? I was coming from the angle tha...
I like weather that I can forget about, rather than weather which becomes a source of stress. At the moment, in England, it is almost June and there h...
I agree that theory of mind is an issue for everyone. The reason why I found it an interesting area for thinking about in the literature on autism was...
Sorry if you think I am getting off the point. One thing which I wonder about is the understanding of autism from a philosophy point of view. When I w...
I am not sure to what extent, or what people, argue that it doesn't need a 'cure'. To some extent, the approach in the post above my own may be more a...
I partly query the concept of 'cure' alongside the post above. However, at the same time understand that people who are seen to being on the autistic ...
Did you manage to get the 'Cannabis Satva', combined with passiflora over the counter or did you have to buy it online. I even find it hard to get Pas...
If you only took one tablet of CBD it would be unlikely to do very much because most antidepressants take about 2 weeks to work. I took a fairly low s...
I tried some CBD capsules and didn't notice any effects at all. However, mine came from a health shop. It is possible that some have practically no CB...
[reply="Changeling;805226" I definitely like Underworld, as well as psychedelic dance music, like Orbital and the Ozric Tentacles. I also recommend Da...
It may be that it is hard to find ideas which do not occur in relation to ideas that have gone before. There is the question of how Infinite are aspec...
That's fantastic as he is such an important thinker. I haven't written on the forum for a while as I have a broken elbow but I hope to be able to inte...
I am not convinced that the distinction between the fields of thought are simple because while people do have contradictions, there may be overlaps. F...
I am not sure that I really experienced much of a sense of 'grace' when I lived a 'religious life'. I used to go to Christian Union as a student and f...
The Sophists definitely saw winning arguments as essential. So, I sometimes think about that when reading some threads on this site, and I am sure tha...
As far as the interaction between philosophy and experience it may be complicated because although knowledge is not based on experience it may affect ...
I guess that the use of the term and approach to it is so variable, ranging from the academic to the popular. In the tradition of Plato it may have be...
I am glad that you recognise the way in which construction of views is based on social and political factors. This probably occurs in many unconscious...
I am not sure that it matters entirely whether the term pluralism or relativism are used because it is about competing perspectives. Thinking about it...
The Ark of Philosophy can be like The Tower of Babel at times. It may also be because in the information age there is so much to access and put togeth...
The line which you queried with the words, 'is reason a quest for reason' was actually a typo in my outpost. It should have read as 'is philosophy a q...
I have probably been through a lot of postmodern mazes. In particular, I found Foucault's ideas on sexuality very helpful, especially in conjunction w...
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