He's a crypto-atheist. So is Hegel really. Marx was a true Hegelian. By sophistication, I mean the idea that what we see is roughly what exists. That'...
Religion isn't the problem, corruption of religion is the problem. All of the Abrahamic cults are corruptions of goatherders from the bronze age who h...
That's how the scientific dictatorship works. When you don't respect the sacredness of the planet, of life, of the universe and you don't respect the ...
Ideally, society and the whole world would be ran by natural law. Just as the rest of the Omniverse is. Animals don't need to be told what their natur...
No. It's a question of whether those groups are lead by a central principle. What's called the Dao, the Logos, Dharma, natural law. If society all wor...
I don't say that, science is methodological. It goes on without God, if you're interested in philosophy of science on the other hand, then yes, you ne...
Sure you would. Doubting something by itself doesn't lead to nothing, only doubting that's untempered by being realistic about what you can and cannot...
Uh, no. Socrates wasn't a sophist. Socrates questioned beliefs, which is correct, but he wasn't a skeptic for skepticism's sake. That's not Socratic, ...
Obviously. Everyone has a bias, that's part of the contingency of knowledge. You can't escape your culture, history, etc. when you are making claims o...
Okay, but then making things even more unclear doesn't help anyone solve those problems. This is one thing Wittgenstein is right about. Trying to conj...
Because it's true, they are not-self. There's the false self (ahamkara) and the true self (atman). It is true that the aggregates of sense perception ...
Yes, Buddh-ism says that. Buddha only said it's because those things are impermanent, never said what the nature of those things was. He refused to, a...
True, but that's not the only thing our philosophy teaches. Four Noble Truths, the yoga system, which the Buddha effectively revived, the impermanence...
Have you read this book? I just finished it. https://www.4evangiles.fr/pdf/Wilber/1984%20-%20Quantum%20Questions%20-%20Mystical%20writings%20of%20the%...
No, you're 100% right. Buddha's teaching was to focus on the teaching of the Four Noble Truths, he was not willing to talk about atman or anatman beca...
I cited the article, the article has scholars in it. Of course it's not an illusion. Right, Hinduism teaches impermanence too. Emptyness is a later fo...
No, I don't accept the Bible. I don't believe the Buddha was mistaken, because I don't. His teaching on impermanence and the Four Noble Truths is tota...
This is just a way of finding an "ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance." Finding excuses after excuses in order to deny what the actual state ...
There's no need to support it's pretty generally accepted that the Buddha was a Hindu philosopher, and that Buddhism was created by King Ashoka, and t...
That's certainly not what we say. Religious authorities, especially in Hinduism, are typically frauds and liars. We go by the Vedic method of knowing ...
Yeah, that's right. Because it's only one process of change to the next, there's no enduring self. Just the fleeting aggregates that arise from depend...
No, change is the essential feature of Buddhism. In our system too, the gods (except for the Supreme God, Vishnu) are material beings who are under ma...
In Parmenides' system, change is merely illusory. In the spectral world, that's how change operates. The spectral world is non-different from God, and...
No, it doesn't. Parmenides went over this a long time ago. The Buddha wasn't wrong, certain things attributed to the Buddha are wrong, Buddh-ism is wr...
No it isn't. There's a false ego and a true ego. Within the material world, all is transcient. But in the world of Forms, the spectral world, Vaikunth...
I'm doing whatever means I can. This is also for my own growth, I am doing Socratic dialogue. But I have a Youtube channel coming up, and I'm also wor...
That's right. There either is a Self or there is no-Self. But the Buddha himself didn't teach non-Self. It's a Buddh-ist doctrine. The Buddha's teachi...
This is, of course, true. As long as we're bound to the prison of materiality, the three modes of material nature, then this will always be the case. ...
I'm just here trying to find those very few souls, as God says, who are beloved by him. I'm not interested in most people. I know most people aren't i...
Are you really going to argue that a brain stem without a cortex or hemispheres is a brain? You're free to do that, but that's very reaching. You're f...
Well, I know there is a Post-Keyensian explanation for it. I think they'd say that if you'd had taxed the money out of the economy, then prices would ...
My practice is inclusive. This is a philosophy forum, I'm simply debating. If you accept my view, fine, if you don't fine. I'm not trying to convert a...
I can explain this discrepancy, the reason is simple, nihilism is created through ideology. Modernism is an ideology. Modernism was created via Christ...
LOL Right, here we go. Materialists reinterpreting scientific evidence to fit their false paradigm. Go ahead and believe what you want to believe. Lor...
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