Let me clarify something that I said, and post a better reply to Terrapin Station: . I’d said: . . I’d like to clarify that a bit: . Any meaning for “...
(Maybe I should apologize that this reply couldn’t be brief. Often it just isn’t possible to adequately answer briefly.) . Proof, or good reason to be...
To answer the question in your subject-line: No, but, where you live, it isn't a good idea to say things like that, because it could get you in troubl...
I've flagged Terrapin Station's most recent post for two reasons: 1, It uses a falsified quote: ...becomes: 2. After that, the message consists only o...
...but I've just noticed that I left a word out of a recent posting, and that should be fixed, as I do below, writing it as I intended it. (I erased t...
What I mean to say on this matter can be said briefly: 1) Can anyone show that this physical world exists or is real, other than in its own context (....
No metaphysics is provable. Lots of contrived metaphysics can be irrefutable, in the sense that they're unfalsifiable. Various metaphysicses have been...
Note to moderators &/or administrators-- I flagged Terrapin Station's recent post in this thread because it consists entirely of namecalling, with no ...
No more replies for Terrapin Station. When don't reply to Terrapin Station, it won't mean that he's said something irrefutable. It will just mean that...
No more waking experience. Eventually no more experience or knowledge about worldly waking-life, with all its concerns, or time or events, or even tha...
Mr. Station is describing the experience of his survivors...their experience of the eventual already-shut-down condition of his body, and its eventual...
...simplistic confusion between your own experience and that of your survivors. From the point of view of your survivors, your body will entirely shut...
Eventually the sleep at death is final (...at the end of this life, if you don't believe in reincarnation, or at the end-of-lives if you believe in re...
Whatever you call the topic, you might have gotten discussion if you'd approached the matter with a lot more humility and modesty, and a lot less arro...
It isn't a matter of objective correct and incorrect. It depends on what someone means by "religious". To me, intentiionality, teleology, in Reality i...
Evidently you can't find any Theists who are interested in debating Theism with you. Congratulations! You win your debate by default. Oh wait--I alrea...
1. No one is claiming that all evidence will appear to you as evidence. Evidently it's necessary to repeat to you again that the convincingness of evi...
...but guess which one unparsimoniously assumes something not experienced. ...and Materialists pride themselves on being "empirical" :D Michael Ossipo...
But there's no reason why you should. People usually don't live exactly the same kind of life again. At the end of a life, your subconscious attribute...
Barbara Ehrenreich said something to the effect that death doesn't interrupt life. It's just that life temporarily interrupts sleep. Sleep, because of...
Then there wouldn't be a next life. And that would be as it should be. I emphasizes that it isn't a matter of personal choice. It isn't up to the indi...
For one thing, if for no other reason, I wouldn't want it because it isn't natural. In Eastern traditions (which I agree with on this), we live, in su...
What did I say about evidence? Let me repeat it yet again: If someone wants to debate the matter with Mr. Station, then they can tell him about some e...
As I've said several times, evidence isn't, and needn't be, proof. The convincingness of evidence is subjecttive, individual, and a matter-of-degree. ...
Yes, because we’re used to things happening for inanimate reasons in the physical world, some people have a natural tendency to want to assume the sam...
Sure. But I didn't say that this universe formed for no good reason. I said, instead, that this universe consists of the setting in your life-experien...
But you agreed that France exists within Europe. France's history and culture can meaningfully discussed in the context of overall European history an...
Of course it can. The country of France exists in the larger context of Europe, to give a spatio-geographical and cultural and historical example. MIc...
Maybe you mean that it's meaningless to speak of something's existence and real-ness in its own context, because anything is real and existent in its ...
Materialists claim that this physical universe has (in some unspecified sense, by some unspecified meaning) existence and realness other than in its o...
Yes, though that was considered heresy when the Gnostic were saying it, all the way back to Medieval times, and maybe before, and of course is still r...
I just mean that though likes can be called preferences, that word sounds unnecessarily neutral. "Likes" more fully expresses their positive nature. M...
Yes, but, there are things that we like, and that stronger word is appropriate too. And I suggest that likes are what our life is really about and for...
Sure, there are broader requirements that people have in common (...such as survival and its requirements), to achieve their diverse likes. ...but ult...
The first brief answer that occurs to me is to quote Kentucky Buddhist Ken Keyes...his statement that we have likes, which needn't be called "wants" o...
People make trouble for themselves by calling likes or preferences "wants", or even taking them to be needs. Did we need to be conceived? Did Schopenh...
...self-made strife. Often we do, but we needn't. If Schopenhauer said that, he was speaking only for himself (...and admittedly for a lot of other pe...
Wants could better be called "preferences" or "likes". We achieve our likes as well as feasible in a world that isn't custom-made for us. No problem. ...
You said: . . …and then: . . Objective existence is the opposite of only-contextual existence. So the 2nd statement of yours that I quoted above contr...
Fair enough. If you don't ask what I mean by at least one passage, word, phrase, sentence, etc., that's your choice, and none of my business. But, say...
If you mean spatially, this universe (...which I mean to include the entirety of any physically-inter-related multiverse of which our Big-Bang-Univers...
. None. None needed. I’m not saying that any of it is real or existent in any context other than in their own inter-referring context. . I assert that...
. Because, though debates and rhetoric can be of interest, just for their own sake, discussion-space is unnecessarily cluttered if people argue for po...
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