I’d said: . . You replied: . . Yes, I express that by sayings that they’re parts of your experience. . I suggest that the person and hir (his/her) sur...
Yes, .as affairs are now, there are definitely timeless abstract facts. There never was just Nothing and never could be. Well,some people want to say ...
But, if logic and mathematics are the same for everyone, everywhere, anytime, even in other universes or possibility-worlds, then doesn't that mean th...
You only named 5. Did you leave out Heaven? My understanding is that Heavens and Hells are said to be temporary experiences before reincarnation. I do...
The deep sleep at the end of lives is an arrival into Nothing (but we never experience the absence of experience). ...comfortable, restful, peaceful. ...
I regard inevitable abstract facts as the basis of metaphysical reality. (...but not of overall Reality, which isn't explainable, describable discussa...
Sorry about the delay, but I wanted to be more specific this time. . I’d said: . . You replied: . . The feeling that’s behind the allegory. . (…a feel...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Dictionaries report common usage. No one believes dictionaries to be the ultimate authority on right and wrong usage. ....
1. The "if" premise and "then" conclusion of an if-then fact aren't necessarily facts. If the "if " premise is a fact, then the "then" conclusion is a...
I’d said: . . You posted a definition: . . Very good. That’s an improvement, because you’re saying that OED’s definition is your definition of Theism....
No. For one thing, as I told Bloodninja, facts, logic, physics and metaphysics don't cover, describe, or govern all of Reality. In fact, even in the m...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . No, I haven’t been talking about that time. The time when you’ve completely shut-down won’t be experienced by you. For ...
Pseudo says: . . Pseudo can draw conclusions about (specified) Theisms that he’s heard stated or asserted,. …but should tell specifically whom or what...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Alright. You’d said: . . That’s your interpretation, explanation, of the objections that you’ve heard from Theists—thei...
Tell us your perfect answer. Anyway, with any metaphysical proposal, there are numerous questions and objections, from various people, to be answered....
No, I did. You remembered that. Sure, something in life. I demand a recount! :D Some say that there's something positively good about the absence of t...
\ Space isn't nothing. It's part of the physical world, a physical quantity, an attribute of the physical world. And physicists tell us that "empty" s...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . I just meant that the end of lives, when we approach Nothing, is a time without those negative things that you mentione...
I’d said: . . You asked: . . 1. There are abstract if-then facts. . People can debate whether they’re “real”, whatever that means. (I don’t take a pos...
No, because genuine science limits itself to the study and description of the physical world, the relations and interactions among the components of t...
I’d said: . . You said: . . Incorrect. You offered a theory to explain their objections. . I’d said: . . You replied: . . So it’s a reasonable conclus...
Yes, and Vedanta, and Hinduism in general, too. I claim that there's no memory of past lives (and that, in fact, they're completely indeterminate), an...
What I was saying yesterday, I was saying because any discussion about what was before (leading to, resulting in) birth, needs some metaphysical frame...
Earlier today I said: "What was there before, and how and why did this life start?" "Before" can be taken to mean "leading to" or "resulting in". So i...
What was it like? No, I'm not asking for your experience aferwards, when "it feels like no duration has transpired." I didn't say that you don't exper...
Correct. It's the metaphysics that I've been describing here and there. I described it in the post that you're replying to.. You're referring to the "...
Agreed. I don't say it quite the way Mark Twain did, but it's of interest. What was there before, and how and why did this life start? More in a few m...
Ii doubt that. To me, that sounds pessimistic. Loss, lack,and dread are all firmly part of the world of things and events. As for angst, that's just a...
Obviously we should try to explain as much as possible in verbal, discussable terms. Metaphysics is the verbal discussion-topic that takes verbal desc...
I’d said: . . Where have I said in my post that theism is undefined? . Just here: . I’d said: . . You commented: . . So you were referring to an “act”...
Harry Hindu says: . . I quote that first, because it establishes Harry’s politeness-level, and behavioral-level. …a behavioral-level that’s common amo...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Not clearly defined to you. You’re criticizing an action/activity without a definition of what is believed. . If someon...
You said: . . I quoted part of your post because, along with Harry’s post, it was what I was replying to. . . Please note that I didn’t evaluate your ...
There's a Mark Twain quote that I like: "I was dead for millions of years before I was born, and it didn't inconvenience me a bit." I like it, but it ...
Aggressive public-arguing Atheists tend to be devout believers in the religion of Science-Worship, and in the metaphysics of Materialism (though, acco...
What it amounts to is that you're just espousing Anti-Realist metaphysics, as do many of us, including me, ...a metaphysics that is about individual s...
About whether the mass-density in a black hole is infinite, here's a quote from the Internet. Of course I should state the source of the quote, and it...
Even during death, you never reach a time when there isn't experience. You don't experience the time after your complete shutdown. Only your survivors...
Starting point? A metaphysics should be based on, start from, something inevitable. No brute facts, no assumptions. I suggest that abstract if-then fa...
Sometimes it seems to me that there's a bit of exaggeration of science's needs and goals. Though I'm not anti-science, I don't support everything scie...
— Starthrower Why should metaphysics depend on physics, scientific information about this physical universe? Definite uncontroversial things can be sa...
You know that not all Theists believe that God is a "creature", right? A creature is something or someone that has been created. In fact not all Theis...
I'd say you're right. Yes, that (probably unconscious) bias, and primarily rhetorical, argument-winning-no-matter-what, purpose seems to always be pre...
Sure, there are a small minority of scientists who have allowed themselves to be bought, and hired to say that there's no human-caused climate change....
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