How would such a view be reflected in how people communicate with eachother? Could you please illustrate this with two short dialogues on the same the...
How do phenomenologists conceive of the hierarchical nature of interpersonal relationships? Normally, when people communicate, the implicit assumption...
More real reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2XMgNL3sZY Please, Blue Fairy, make me into a real live boy. Watch the film and notice the use of ...
If I were to put aside a Euro for every time someone told me or every time I heard or read who I supposedly "really am", I could easily pay for a luxu...
*sigh* It's Christianity as it is real for me. I've always been clear about that. A problem with religion (and a lot of other cultural forms) is that ...
And it makes you feel all giddy inside to say this, doesn't it. Dude, this is a philosophy forum, even if this is a religion thread. Get your thinking...
Any such criteria would be liable to the same criticsm you put forth to begin with, because they would be set by a person. You solve nothing by focusi...
I believe that such delusion is not possible. Eh. For one, the number of people interested in this approach is, I think, very small. I am confident th...
I actually went to the official phone directory for the country I live in, looked up Platonism, and got no hits. Then I went to the official governmen...
Does Platonism have the type of "stream entry clause" mentioned above? Does it teach that all of one's knowledge (of Platonism) is merely tentative, p...
That's one of the perks of Buddhism: what you're talking about isn't a problem, as long as one is humble enough. Of course I strive to have the correc...
Exactly, you were born into a Christian culture, and as such, the decision as to which church to prefer was made for you by external circumstances (ho...
That's because he wrote the Meditations as a series of ready-to-use arguments that Catholics could use to convert other people to Catholicism. He says...
You gloss over the problem of religious choice and the implications thereof for Christianity and the prospect of eternal damnation. An ecumenist still...
Never said I was. Sure. I thought it was a thing of the past, a "dead religion" as they are called. If there is no living tradition with unbroken cont...
That's your projection. It's quite ironic that you project this on me, given that you show you clearly don't know the scope of my interest in Buddhism...
Is there a church of Platonism? If Christianity is to be seen as the direct heir of Platonism, then reference to Christian doctrine matters. In the fi...
No, on the ground level, when one approaches actual Christians and actual Christianity, this is exactly what it is like. Are you an actual member of a...
For illustrating the emic-etic distinction, how come you're using only examples of people giving up on an insider status? You completely ignore exampl...
So says the Preacher: Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils...
The Church is God's fully empowered representative on earth, it functions that way. Nobody gets to God except through the Church. The only catch is, w...
Christianity is, basically, telling you to throw the dice, and if you don't get the number they tell you you should get, they think you deserve to suf...
Numerous Christian schools make it clear: if you fail to pick the right religion and fail to become its member, you're destined for eternal suffering,...
In my experience, this is actually not a problem. I've had the opportunity to interact with some people who focus primarily on the Pali suttas, some o...
And on this account, you dismissed some of my most insightful posts. The shoulds in them are really not controversial, but are well-meaning truisms. (...
This is wrong. The direction of my quest is, "If the other person knows X, and I know X, what else does the other person know because of which they th...
I don't see it as "fundamentalism" in the sense of some kind of abuse or perversion of the genuine teachings. I see that simply as part of their doctr...
There is even a book, explaining via linguistic analysis that the Bible doesn't actually talk about eternal damnation. My knowledge of this is a bit r...
You think taking failed insiders, who are therefore not insiders (anymore) at all, are the best source of insider knowledge?? That's like saying that ...
The outcome of a war is not necessarily predictable. If the prospective parties to go to war are unequally powerful, then going to war to settle a dis...
And what use are those other traditions? Unless a person feels "in their heart of hearts" that one of those other traditions is the right one, why on ...
You misread my tone. The topic was Westerners who went East and what they have to offer being an enhanced feeling of inner happiness and peace (and pe...
Christianity threatens with eternal suffering -- eternal suffering -- everyone who fails to pick the right religion in this lifetime. It takes more im...
I never understood that. To me, India has always first and foremost been a country of cholera and poverty. And cholera. A dreadful country I hope I ne...
*sigh* Maybe you're the kind of person who just likes to know things for the sake of knowing, someone who enjoys knowing. I'm not. Knowing things shou...
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