Right, but the actual teachings of Jesus are more against the Sadducees' formalism than the Pharisees. The shift in named focus probably has more to d...
The NT is a compilation largely written by Jews for other Jews or for recent converts to Judaism. Had Christianity flamed out in its first 150 year or...
The Jews are somewhat unique in surviving with their own distinct culture in place as a diaspora people. However, there are other diaspora peoples, an...
There are actually n cups my friend, where n = the number of people experiencing, and thus representing the cup. From this, we can must conclude that ...
Quite the opposite. Global inequality has been going down the last decade or so, and at a decent clip. Standard of living and life expectancy might be...
There is a bit of that in Patristic theologians too. The collective unconscious is somewhat like the Plotinian "world soul," where each individual psy...
https://i.ibb.co/8jbjcM5/1698699433548065m.jpg https://i.ibb.co/rf30nS0/1698699511441599.jpg IDF progress as of half a day ago; maps seem somewhat rel...
Is your goal here to see how well you understand transcendental idealism as generally presented or how well transcendental idealism holds up to scruti...
I recently started reading more about John Scottus Eriugena. For someone so well regarded among neoplatonist scholars, it is surprising how little "cr...
This was also a big problem for medieval Islamic and Christian mystics, as they considered the extinguishment of the "self" in divine contemplational ...
Of course, it is unclear if even "victory" in a long war is in Russia's long-term interests. The longer the war goes on, the more permanent Europe's m...
This is literally an article about Russian helicopters being shot down by advancing UAF forces. It details how Ukraine has increased the air defense c...
I don't see any sort of consensus. Considerations of all the "long term effects" of migration bleed into political science as well. You end up with qu...
The whole idea of "illegal colonization" by groups of refugees is itself problematic. Jewish settlement was initially encouraged by the Ottomans. Late...
For a more straightforward example of this hypocrisy, one might consider outrage over "gentrification." There are, of course, very legitimate concerns...
The oppression of religious and ethnic minorities across MENA and Central Asia is very much a mixed bag and also shifts based on the politics and alli...
I'm going to agree with everyone that context is too important to give an answer here. We'd have to consider things like: "what are the goals of the g...
But surely physics has something to say about freedom, no? It clearly defines many things we aren't able to do. At the same time, a better understandi...
The point of the drive was take the railhead at Tocomak and cut off forces on the river in Russian held Kherson to withdraw. It's aim was cutting grou...
Not really. Shias get on with Sunnis fine in some contexts. It's generally been the Sunni majority that has spawned ideologies that are extremely host...
I'm not sure I follow. What about making change (process), as opposed to stability (substance), essential makes explanations intentional? It seems to ...
I'm not sure what a solution would look like. Perhaps the Arab states can help by offering funding as a "carrot" for peace, but they don't exactly hav...
It's beneficial for the Arab states; it's not beneficial to Iran. Likewise, any such move would likely be beneficial to Fatah, and, if it worked out, ...
Science necessarily entails elements of subjectivity. After all, it's about what we (subjects) think is going on in the world. Correct/incorrect itsel...
It seems to me like you can definitely ask bad questions. This gets at problems in the sciences re paradigms and theory ladeness. Your questions about...
The most common distinction between pleasure and happiness I am aware of is something along the lines of Aristotle's definition of eudaimonia (general...
Generally in philosophy of physics the universe is "everything that exists that causally impacts our world." The idea of "multiple universes" is that ...
Oh yeah, it's tactically useful, for sure. I just question the rationale for expending the massive amount of resources that have already been lost the...
In this case, I meant "universe," in the sense the term is generally used in the philosophy of physics and physics itself. I should have made that cle...
The continued use of penal battalions for offensive operations seems like it could be a harbinger. Once you normalize forcing men into attacks sure to...
You mean the formalism, or the entire concept of information as difference/asymmetry (being thus something that is relational and not reducible via st...
I meant that "if an alliance of Egypt and the Gulf State joined the war on behalf of "the Palestinians," they would end up occupying Gaza as part of t...
Never? You might consider how the PA lost its grip on Gaza and was able to be forced out in a violent coup. Hamas was able to gain power and influence...
I've known plenty of Muslims who drink lol. But even without that, you can blame hashish and captagon, which Hamas sort of corners the market on in th...
Certainly not positive about it, but there has been movement on the hostage negotiation front, the US is calling for a delay, and there have been some...
Gaza ground offensive seems unlikely this week, perhaps longer. Fire across the Lebanese and Syrian border ramped up, with 27 Hezbollah members and 7 ...
From Russian Telegram. https://i.ibb.co/CJCz526/1698064292232518m.jpg Russia has lost at least around two regiments worth of equipment, and probably m...
BTW: to answer the question. 1. We are conscious, although what we mean by that term and the reality of consciousness might be quite different (Dennet...
It seems to me like the problem for the eliminitivist comes up in defining what metacognitive is supposed to mean here. For to say, "consciousness is ...
Whitehead's "The Function of Reason," deals with this, the distinction for individual living entities. It's the difference between "wanting to live," ...
If you're going to move back and forth across a time dimension to relive things in any sort of concrete order, such that you relive your life after yo...
I don't think that "survival of the fittest," in its barest form, is unique to "life." You see it in the evolution of self reproducing silicone crysta...
Interesting, I didn't totally catch that the first time. To modify Hamlet a bit, "there is nothing true or false, thinking makes it so." Well, I see n...
And here is how we might consider the whole universe as absolutely simple: (something I've been trying to figure out how to phrase) It is ever changin...
You might be interested in Hegel's two Logics, which follow a somewhat similar methodology. But Hegel has the added criteria that we must start withou...
Honestly, I'm surprised no one has proffered up: "if it tells you how to do everything you want and satisfies inquiry then it is telling you the truth...
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply the Sam Harris, Hume, and Nietzsche all advance the same moral system. Obviously, they are quite different. I simply mea...
Hmm, well, I didn't mean to exclude all forms of reading for entertainment. We could say that the Book also furnishes with tons of lovely fiction stor...
Ya love to see it. :rofl: Obviously, Sidney Powell, like Barr, Tillerson, McCain, Romney, McConnel, Mattis, Espers, Miley, etc. was always a deep stat...
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