Certainly your standards can bring you disappointment. Expecting life and the physical world to be made-to-order for your luxurious ease, comfort, and...
First, let's clarify that when you say "The Universe", you (I assume) mean what Western philosophers mean by "The World", by which they refer to all t...
So you want everything about life to be easy for you, and otherwise it's "broken". You're too demanding; you expect too much. That's the source of you...
Sure, but I wouldn't word it that way. What's uncontroversial is that there timelessly is the hypothetical logical system consisting of your experienc...
. All that you know about this physical world is via your experience. . The one requirement for your life-experience-story is that it be consistent. T...
. Most definitely. It’s astonishing that we’re in a life. …that there’s this life, and that there’s this world (this physical world, and whatever else...
Though I don't argue the Theism vs Atheism issue, because I don't regard it as that kind of a matter, I sometimes comment to Atheists about the desira...
In mathematics, logic, and metaphysics there are certainties. I suggest that vague speculation has no place in the metaphysics of the describable (......
Here's Merriam-Webster's definition of "Atheist": "One who believes that there is no deity." That meaning has been in use since the year 1551. Houghto...
I say it follows from common-sense. You express restlessness. Then why would you expect rest, final peace and quietude when unconsciousness comes, at ...
Because you aren't ready for, or inclined toward rest, peace or quietude. You've spoken of restlessness. Well doesn't that mean that you aren't ready ...
"Stockholm syndrome"? Call it what you want. But that isn't a reasonable or meaningful characterization of realistic acceptance of the situation that ...
We are? No doubt some of us are, but you're overgeneralizing. I've answered that in my other replies to you. The world isn't perfect, and neither are ...
You aren't an Atheist. You're an Agnostic. Your friend is right: There's no such thing as an Agnostic Atheist. ...as there isn't a square circle. Mich...
Obviously the only answer is for you to practice strict celibacy, because, according to what you say, sex is nothing but a violation of the female. Be...
First, of course my discussion about whether this physical world would continue to exist if all life were to vanish from it (because what would then e...
Thank you Sapientia. Actually I've heard about the doctrine that this physical world would still "exist" (whatever that would mean) even if there were...
About Classical philosophy, I recently read something interesting about Aristotle that I didn't know before. (...but it's probably well-known here.) I...
. Yes, being unknowable, Reality has, and has had, surprises, including a few big ones, for us. . Experience is consistent, because there are no such ...
That's anthropomorphic. (...but even the use of a name like "God", or the notion of "creation" is anthropomorphic too.) I suggest that even your defin...
1. Matters relating to God have nothing to do with assertion, argument or proof. Assertion, argument and proof have no bearing on such matters. So all...
You must have dreamed it.. I said that I'd give you the last word in the other topic, distinct from the ontology-topic...when you posted 2 replies, on...
I left out a reply to this statement: Let's ignore the "very complex", because I already answered that. But yes, as I said, other than that, that's yo...
Omitted word: I meant to say that "things" are what are in the describable, explainable world, and can be referred to. Maybe there's a better wording....
Part 2 of 2: As I said above, I don't believe in an ontology. I do believe certain things exist (e.g. the physical world)… . . If, as you said, you be...
Part 1 of 2: Sorry about the delay in replying. Not only do I not have time to reply promptly, but I don’t really have time for these replies, to your...
I don’t participate in the Theism vs Atheism debates, because I don’t regard as a topic for assertion, argument, proof or debate. . Besides, I doubt t...
You're the one insisting that God must be omnipotent. . Anyway, moral values are another issue, and I’d just say that most people care what happens to...
My reply to your most recent post to me will be along today, but first I just want to make this preliminary comment: The Black Death wasn't a natural ...
. Of course. Evidently I should better clarify what I’ve meant. . You say that abstract facts aren’t real or existent, and I say that I don’t claim th...
But yes, it seems to be time to agree to disagree. The topics of the ontological part of this discussion have all been well-covered, again and again. ...
Part 2 of 2: “Physicalism” (a regrettable two-meaning word for Materialism (or for a philosophy-of-mind position)) is blatantly unparismonious, with i...
. “Existence” is metaphysically-undefined. In any case, no one denies that this physical world is real in its own context, and that your life, and thi...
. But you believe that there’s some (undisclosed by you) “ontic-reality” that can’t be explained by my explanation. Alright, what ontic-reality would ...
Of course. It's what we're raised to believe, in our science-worshiping culture. That objective 3rd-person point-of-view is the point-of-view of Mater...
I’d said: . . Relativist replied: . . No, it doesn’t make any sense in terms of Materialism. . . Use it as you wish. . . From what you say, it evident...
The notion of "Creation" is anthropomorphic. An error that many make is, saying or theorizing too much about matters unknowable and indescribable. I s...
Where do you get that belief? Yes there's a complex logical system that models the events and relations of your experience of this physical world (I c...
That's largely an issue of definitions, what we mean by those words. I'd say that there's no such thing as a state of affairs that doesn't obtain. if ...
First, I’d like to change something that I said: . . It would have better to just mention that it wouldn’t make sense to speak of something else other...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Ultimate Reality would be unitary and not in relation to anything else, because there wouldn’t be anything else that sh...
. Of course it’s understood here that we’re talking about matters that all would agree might be, or probably are, unknowable, indescribable and un-ass...
I'd said: Alright yes, that's true: When it isn't known that a topic is unknowable and indescribable, then it's a legitimate topic of philosophy, for ...
. Yes, but couldn’t something also be indescribable by or to humans just because humans, by their own limitations, can’t describe it? . . …but a descr...
A few more comments about this quote from Jim Holt: . . I agree with that, in the sense that Consciousness, we the experiencer, the implied experience...
Wait a minute--Isn't philosophy about description, assertion, and argument? Can you use the word "philosophy" for matters unknowable, un-assertable, u...
Processes take place in time, and pre-suppose a universe with spacetime. So are you sure that you want to say that a process can be the basis of a met...
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