Tom Storm

Indeed. One of the fascinating things about Christianity is so often the more ardent the faith, the more ignorant the believer. Faith holds everything...

There seems to be significant difference and disagreement amongst the positions held by phenomenologists - Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty. I unders...

It's simple really. We do it all the time - we look at nature and find the impact it has on us ineffable. As soon as you try to use words to describe ...

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Mysticism I am familiar with but I have no idea what the rest of what you say means but will read it again later a...

Good point

You can take this in various directions. Not being able to comprehend God does not mean you can't talk about God, it just means that when you are, you...

What a tantalising response. Can you say more about experience itself being noumenal?

Bart being anti-theist has no bearing on my point. We were talking about how he views Jesus the man and I have seen most of Dr Ehrman's recent intervi...

Does individual awareness survive the death of our avatar? Discuss.

Yes, and that particular world is often a patchwork quilt of words and emotions. In his mid 90's I asked my father what he thought about Jesus. His re...

It's only a problem for concrete thinking. There's a vast and venerable tradition of allegorical understanding of Christianity, Judaism and other reli...

Yes, Hallmark is, of course, the ancient Babylonian triple-breasted goddess of schmaltz and self-satisfaction. She bites the heads off misanthropes.

I used to ask this question. I think the answer is complex and hard for literal minded people like me to comprehend. The gospels are not 'disposable' ...

Well yeah - this is part of the problem with many subjects. The Baptists down the road from me see a very different figure from the Catholics next doo...

Saw your correction - Bart Ehrman specifically does not belong to this group - he disagrees with the mythicists, as they are known and specifically de...

Thanks, some very useful perspectives here well summarized.

I like what you said, but couldn't it be countered that these ostensibly defeasible disciplines also develop their orthodoxies and may be resistant to...

To be honest, before I started this OP, I had a view that enlightenment was probably understood just as @Apollodorus has so succinctly described. The ...

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I always find it sad (OK and a bit funny) to see theists contort themselves in an effort to prove the reality of a creator. Theism is an irrational wo...

Kant Bxxvi-xxvii.

Sounds promising. Well, if you're willing to do the research on this, great. This to me seems to be the gap we've been wondering about. It'd be good t...

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Sorry, it's my default setting. But I am getting better. :pray:

Human beings cause great harm, period. :wink: But this doesn't change the nature of religious harm.

It's interesting when you work alongside palliative care services, where people are dying, how many religious people no longer believe in anything at ...

What about all those hideous crimes, from bride-burning to mass murder that are initiated by religious belief? Seems to me religions are often a benze...

Yes, I see the issue. This is a much deeper account of what I was initially wondering about and why I was hoping for more information on the proposed ...

Cool. That's more than enough. I'm not a detail guy. Appreciated.

Thanks ILS but I am not really sure what that means. Can you try this again? I'm sure it's my fault. From the Oxford Reference: On a different view, t...

Good little primer. Thanks again.

Thanks, will read the article as soon as I can. I have, over time, read a number of papers on Kant and some slabs of the Critique. I am left with some...

They are not bored. They are dealing with depression and post-trauma reactions, or an overwhelming situational problem - a crisis which temporarily ha...

Wow, a rich load of replies, thanks all. Thanks and very interesting. Welcome. Cheers - will try to source this. A problem for me is time for reading....

I understand the point you are making, but your argument doesn't resonate with me. Part of my role involves working in the area of suicide prevention,...

Nicely put, I appreciate your perspective. :pray:

I agree. But I am putting it out there as it seems that for some it could be the logical next step from antinatalism.

I wonder then if the best thing to do then is find a way to nuke the entire planet and kill all life. We would, perhaps, consider this one giant mercy...

Yes, I was just merely bouncing off what others had said since I am unable to follow your argument. I'm sure it is my fault for not reading closely en...

Now don't go being rude about the millions of literalists around the world. :wink: Just because you went to university doesn't mean you can look down ...

I think this is a fair assessment. Personally No 3 doesn't concern me much, I'm been nonextant for most of 13.77 billion years already and it didn't b...

People act, so my take is that if a person has to ask the question, it's unlikely they are going to do anything about it. So I figure they can just ge...

Maybe a digression, but I have often wondered why god or no god makes any difference to absurdity. Isn't the idea of god in a world such as ours absur...

No.

I make no such claim. I made some jokes to @Banno. I simply believe that this nomination is justified on the basis of potentially making this institut...

It's neo-Marxist manipulation... bet the Rockefeller foundation is behind it all.

Exactly, and there'd be the additional benefit of a lack of racism.

Well, remember Ronald Reagan made a similar pledge in 1980 and delivered the first female SC judge - Sandra Day O'Connor. Court nominations are always...

Did no one say consciousness?

I'm not a QM junkie, but didn't we end up with (amongst other things) the Everett interpretation or (thanks to DeWitt), the 'many worlds interpretatio...