So, I've read all of these rascal philosophers. I've done a degree in philosophy, I've read all of the books on the library shelf when I was in Colleg...
If you're saying what I think you're saying, then it's based on a misconception. I am not saying "I am God" the self is not what I refer to as God. "T...
Yes, Postmodern linguistic philosophy is not philosophy. It's what Socrates and Plato rightly derided as philodoxy. Lover of opinion. Philosophy is ab...
This is why I am not arguing metaphysics. It's not a logical, conceptual point. It's an experiential one. You can verify for yourself if God exists or...
You have to do the experiment. That's the only way. Scientologists would not argue the same premise. All of these fools and rascals of other religions...
Well, that isn't my view. My view is the idea that one can have access to reality is a genuine idea. It's the method that is flawed. Materiality is no...
The Vedic Scriptures give us a method. We prove logical things via logic. Empirical things via empiricism. Consciousness "things" (i.e., God, gods, sp...
So, I would say all things exist in the Mind of God. The only things I in particular have access to is the things in my personal mentation. But I'm no...
Correcto. Our access to reality is conditioned by our material nature. Making it limited, ultimately. But since people don't want to hear that, I gues...
I said elsewhere that where philosophy is traditionally about the nature of truth, reality and good, Postmodern philosophy is the abolition of philoso...
No. Because you are not the body. You are the spirit soul. The body is just a suit. A costume. A shirt. It's a throwaway. The true person is the spiri...
Yes. But the critique of Celsus, who is one of my favorite philosophers of the ancient world because he didn't buy Christianity, is way late. That's l...
Right, but the problem is justification. What we know is, gravity functions and operates. What we don't know, and what the problem of induction is, is...
There's a lot of interesting stuff on this that I haven't read. Much of this is my own theorizing. But there's Pagels' the Gnostic Paul, Robert Price'...
Well, I don't say it isn't. I say it is, but pure empiricism cannot justify the claim that laws of nature are truly real. That's the problem of induct...
Yes it can. No, Christianity did not build the contemporary world. The contemporary world was created by the Renaissance Humanists, that is to say, th...
I have reason to believe otherwise, but believe otherwise is different than know otherwise. But my hypothesis is that Jesus was a literary fabrication...
I'll answer without using a religious response. I'll preface this by saying, though I'm religious, I don't believe God "created" anything. Now, the re...
Oh, I don't believe that. The book "Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed" is the best book on New Testament Studies I've ever read. If J...
Arthur Schopenhauer formulated his philosophy after reading the Vedic Scriptures. It's also based on Kantianism which all German Idealism is ultimatel...
That's also incorrect. There's a book called "the myth of persecution" that dispels this idea. As well as the book I recommended also deals with it. C...
That's fine. You have the freedom to disagree. "there comes a point where the balance sheet shows more suffering than happiness, and then it's time to...
We made up our minds that we should live our lives separated from God. Since God loves us, he created this world for us to reside in. And by "us" not ...
He created it for our enjoyment, because he attends to our desires. But we have utilized it to our detriment, our suffering and our doom. Because noth...
Well, because we chose to live our lives outside of God. If we didn;t choose this material nature, we'd still be with Godhead. We decided to choose ma...
Um, agree with all of that except that pagans weren't intolerant towards Christians. The intolerance was all one direction. Pagans are inherently tole...
Sattva: Existence in the mode of purity and goodness. Rajas: Existence in the mixed mode of both aspects. Tamas: Existence in the mode of corruption a...
yes, roughly correct. The mathematical metaphor is imprecise, but if you intend it to mean, how one relates to materiality, then yes. You could say sa...
No, it's not that everything is illusion. That's a very common misunderstanding. The illusion is our identification with what is false. Materiality, o...
We recognize the illusion of materiality, and we go beyond it to the absolute truth of consciousness. Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Do we start in ill...
That's just not the case. The vast majority of premodern societies were idealistic, spiritistic, animistic. It's just plainly false that physicalism i...
Yes. And? It seems like you're confusing word-concept here. Ontologically, there's no distinction. If you're talking epistemologically, yes. Obviously...
It wasn't the default for the vast majority of people in history. Dualism was created after Descartes couldn't reconcile his Dark Age Christian concep...
No. That's just plainly false. The world is entirely mental. In a dream world, it's 100% mental. It's no different in the other case. There's no need ...
Because nobody does. All things are experienced from the first person subjective experience. Unless you're claiming you do, in which case, that's some...
Which is just another assumption. Cartesian Dualism comes from mechanical philosophy. Already assuming materialism. You have access to nothing whatsoe...
Because the people who believe in it haven't thought through how facile it is. Not because it's some sort of neutral position. There's no neutrality. ...
I said somewhere else that materialism means nothing. In the Wittgensteinian and Derridean sense, but also just in terms of empirical reality. What we...
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