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Michael Ossipoff

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I'd said; You replied: Goodness isn't a limitation for a God who is Goodness itself. My argument on this matter is this, which I said a few posts ago:...
August 16, 2017 at 20:33
Well, as I like to point out, the Eastern position is implied by Skepticism, the most parsimonious, the fully parsimonious, and therefore the most pla...
August 16, 2017 at 20:16
Sounds like abstract philosophy. Whether abstract philosophy is appropriate in this instance is the question. Michael Ossipoff
August 16, 2017 at 20:14
I'd said: I'll find where you said it and paste it into a post, with the date and page stated. You continued: So your God isn't really Goodness (excep...
August 16, 2017 at 20:07
From what I've read of the Eastern position, there isn't a bad Eternity, because people who have a some (or lots of) bad coming, don't reach Eternity ...
August 16, 2017 at 19:47
In an earlier post, you agreed that God is Goodness. (...as I said too.) Michael Ossipoff
August 16, 2017 at 19:41
Ok, the Dualism that you're referring to is the absence of oneness with our surroundings. I guess Advaita is the perfect and pure Monism, because it s...
August 16, 2017 at 17:35
I've expanded my reply a bit to: ...to clarify that I don't say that there's free-will. Michael Ossipoff
August 16, 2017 at 16:52
Yes. The being, the animal, has feelings and does actions based on his/her predispositions and surroundings. Michael Ossipoff
August 15, 2017 at 22:48
Google "The Council of Nicea", to read about what I'm talking about. No one even tries to deny, for example, that a significant number of books were r...
August 15, 2017 at 21:20
I'd said: You replied: Of course. We're the animal. As I was saying before, you're using Dualism with a different meaning. You're using it to mean the...
August 15, 2017 at 20:14
That Timelessness could be regarded as the more "natural" (in the sense of usual or ordinary) state of affairs, because of the (long duration) tempora...
August 15, 2017 at 18:56
At the end of lives (or at the end of this life, if you don't believe in reincarnation) you won't be aware of the world, a body, individuality, or ide...
August 15, 2017 at 18:45
"trueself;d1837"] That competitivenss, aggressivenss, is probably from our Chimpanzee ancestry. Fortunately we aren't all Primate. We have Pig ancestr...
August 15, 2017 at 02:14
In death, if the last stage near shutdown is reached, at the end of lives, the world (with its ugliness & "evil"), the body, identity, events and time...
August 15, 2017 at 01:33
As for Abraham & Isaac, you're saying that God ordered a murder, to test someone's obedience regarding violence and murder.. That doesn't sound like G...
August 14, 2017 at 19:30
I've deleted this duplicate copy of my post. When it didn't post right away, I tried again to post i t, and so it posted twice. Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 19:23
Then do you also believe that God told Joshua to perpetrate all those massacres in Canaan? Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 19:22
The Nicea re-write of the Bible doesn't inspire confidence. Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 19:20
It was described in a newspaper article. No, I don't believe newspapers to be reliable about everything, but there almost surely really was that confe...
August 14, 2017 at 19:15
I'll take that as agreement. Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 18:50
You mentioned the Upanishads. I subscribe to Vedanta, and my metaphysics can be regarded as a version of Vedanta metaphysics, though it doesn't match ...
August 14, 2017 at 18:49
Paul was promoting a social-control-system religion, eventually officially codified at Nicea around 300 A.D. God didn't write the Bible. The Bible was...
August 14, 2017 at 18:39
There's no reason to believe in the reality of Dualism. You don't like possibility-worlds? My metaphysics based on possibility-worlds is completely pa...
August 14, 2017 at 18:11
I meant to answer one additional aspect of what you said: As you said, my life-experience possibility-story includes a lot of things other than me, an...
August 14, 2017 at 05:49
You wrote: . . Dualistic in the sense that there are all those things, and us, instead of Advaita’s single Fundamental Existent. . But, in Western phi...
August 14, 2017 at 04:56
Better swimmers? Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 02:22
My apologies then. You didn't say it. Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 01:56
Not only invisible, but it's completely unnecessary (and therefore unparsimonious) for explaining our experience. Real? So you imagine....and overacti...
August 14, 2017 at 01:53
There have been objections to my calling philosophical Dualists "Spiritualists" All right, I take it back. It's unfair to the Spiritualists. At least ...
August 14, 2017 at 01:17
Before I answer, a terminology comment: "Physicalism" is an unfortunate word, because of its two distinct meanings...a philosophy-of-mind meaning, and...
August 14, 2017 at 01:00
Undeniably there are some good individuals, and some really good individuals. Undeniably there's no hope at all for humanity as a whole. ...because of...
August 14, 2017 at 00:39
Ok, so "Thanatos" besmirched the name of a philosopher, in addition to a Greek word. :) By the way, the theory that he was banned is eminently plausib...
August 14, 2017 at 00:28
"Principle" sounds too un-alive or impersonal. "Good-ness" is better. I think we all agree that good intent is felt, and is there. Michael Ossipoff
August 14, 2017 at 00:23
I guess explanation is only for physics and metaphysics. Toward God, the Principle of Good, the good-ness of what is, gratitude is all that's possible...
August 14, 2017 at 00:18
In your usage, "supernatural" is the same as "nonphysical", and so, for you then, "natural", must mean "physical" :D Newsflash: When someone said that...
August 13, 2017 at 17:34
John Harris is Thanatos Sand, right? Who else could sound so much like Thanatos Sand? I'd said: John/Thanatos says: Really? Here's a quote that I got ...
August 13, 2017 at 05:35
p.s. Disregard John Harris and Thanatos Sand. Evidently they're clones, or else one of them is a sockpuppet. Though I'm not really authorized to, I ap...
August 13, 2017 at 04:09
Does anyone really believe that God told Abraham to kill his son? ...or that God would order, condone and even assist Joshua's (alleged) massacres in ...
August 12, 2017 at 19:18
Suppose a child wants to play video-games. If he really wants to, his dad might allow him to. But who says that that dad will or should ensure that he...
August 12, 2017 at 19:11
Call it what you want. My answer is still valid. When I say that this philosophy-of-religion discussion is using a made-up term without a meaning ("ev...
August 12, 2017 at 18:31
I suggest that "evil" isn't well-defined. It isn't possible to discuss something without a good definition. It sounds to me as if you're re-ifying evi...
August 12, 2017 at 18:20
You may have noticed that Thanatos imagines himself to be the Defender-Of-Science. ...wanting to apply science outside of its legitimate range of appl...
August 12, 2017 at 18:14
So then you talk to your disembodied, distributed, Sheldrake morphogenic, holographic, quantum Mind-repository. Does it tell you what to say? I guess ...
August 12, 2017 at 17:51
The mysterious supernatural force is the one by which you believe that you act independently of your predispositions and surroundings. Michael Ossipof...
August 11, 2017 at 21:44
No. A simulation couldn't create a possibility world or possibility story such as ours. That's because they're already there, without a simulation. Al...
August 11, 2017 at 21:24
Trying again: You're right about philosophy of mind Physicalism, determinism, & no free will. But if you're a metaphysical Physicalist or Materialist,...
August 11, 2017 at 21:04
You're right about philosophy of mind
August 11, 2017 at 20:55
You're right about philosophy of mind physicalism, determinism, & no free will. But if you're a met
August 11, 2017 at 20:54
Mr. Wisdom: Human utterances have something in common with falling rocks: Both result from physical causes. (... though you're primary in the physical...
August 11, 2017 at 20:45