In either case he clearly lacks the kind of dispassionate critical intelligence that is needed to discharge his responsibilities as a moderator of com...
I agree, Augustino. Mr "Streetlight X" stands indicted by his own testimony of intellectual corruption ! I hereby call upon him to either defend the c...
Baden...philosophy is not a frivolous game; not a kindergarten playground for humanity's faint- hearted, sensitive plants. A true philosopher must alw...
Your opinion that the tone of my feedback post (above) was "histrionic" is not only unwarranted but is also, ironically, insulting in its own right (?...
Are you seriously suggesting that "open dialogue" can extricate a pyschiatric patient with a severe psychotic disorder like schizophrenia from the jaw...
You say, in the context of your concerns about technology in the modern era (at the end of your op), "In a way the question comes down to, "What diffe...
I agree that America has long abandoned the pursuit of any genuinely Christian vision. There is a conspicuous typo in the nation's official motto "In ...
Your belief that "ALL things are apparently transitory (fleeting, ephemeral, evanescent) in nature and THEREFORE lack an(y) inherent identity or exist...
Praxis As this is a philosophy forum, please enlighten us as to what precisely your intellectual understanding of our true human nature might be accor...
That is pure "eyewash" and you know full well that it is. The first of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths is that all existence is "DUKKA" ( "suffering", ...
Dear Wayfarer Thank you very much indeed for your link to the introductory essay on the topic of the Buddhist notion of "emptiness" which I have now r...
In answer to your question, what I mean by "absolute truth" is THE truth. The ONE, unchanging, eternal , absolute truth of God the Father Almighty. Do...
If you are referring to that labyrinthine corpus of semantic waffle promulgated by certain Western intellectuals who endeavour to differentiate the Bu...
Emptiness = nothingness. Nihilism is, by definition, a philosophy of nothingness ( Latin: "nihil" = nothing) therefore , you are, logically, and for a...
" I am not a nihilist and I didn't claim to make a definitive commitment. I said that MY BELIEF advises a definitive commitment SHOULD be made." Your ...
Maw, Newton was a deist and Kant an agnostic. To "cut to the chase", both Kant and Newton denied the notion of the revelation of ( divine) supernatura...
Praxis, You claim that... "Everything in life is fleeting and provisional ( empty), and for Buddhists and people like myself it is THIS belief that ad...
Bitter Crank, I must thank you. I have just read your "sage" advice to Intrapersona (above) and the sheer comic foolishness of your "Impermanent Meani...
Maw, I agree with Augustino insofar as Trump has the integrity to stand up for what he believes in and ACT not talk. What comes out of his mouth is wh...
Dear WISDOMfromPO-MO, You emhasised that you would like a simple, straightforward answer to the question you posed at the start of this thread, namely...
Modern Conviviality, So...tell me what happens to you after die? What does your illustrious, daring human reason with its pristine rationalism, its ea...
Samuel, With reference to the Christian God, I have tried to emphasise in my posts above that mankind cannot have any knowledge of God AS HE IS IN HIM...
Sir2u, It was not "God's fault" that humanity screwed up. Remember that it was God Himself who chose to endow human beings with the gift of free will ...
Sir2u, In answer to your question, there IS, in fact, a way that we (human beings) can know God, but it must be emphasised that the particular knowled...
Sir2u, With respect to the God I am referring to - the Biblical God - AS HE IS IN HIMSELF, that is, as what orthodox Christian theology refers to as G...
Mad Fool, According to St Anselm and yourself THE perfect button exists and it is something that human beings can conceive of in their mind, that is, ...
Samuel, You are presuming that the essential nature of a button MUST be defined in utilitarian terms. What if my friend Mr X insists that the essence ...
Sir2u, But there are lots and lots of buttons that do their job properly ! Iam only interested in nature of THE perfect button and apart from doing it...
Mad Fool, You assume that we can describe God. I disagree. Let's put God aside for a moment and focus our attention on buttons, like the buttons on a ...
Mad Fool, Saint Augustine said of God, "Si Comprehendis non Deus est", - ( If you understand Him, he is not God). Augustine means that If we (human be...
I got it from God who (mercifully) gave this knowledge to me Himself through - to give one of many examples in the Scripture- the prophet Isaiah, whom...
Mad Fool, With regard to God's transcendance, Karl Barth - who was arguably the 20th century's most influential Christian (Protestant) theologian - ex...
Mad Fool, The "stone (omnipotence) paradox" is merely a problem in semantics. That is, questions such as "Could God square a circle ?" or "Could God c...
Fishery, The contemporary Kalam cosmological argument as it is presented and defended by academics like the Christian theologian/philosopher William C...
Mad Fool, Regarding your initial post and the matter of God/s and omnipotence, I can only comment in refererence to my understanding of how the omnipo...
Chany, I agree with what you say about the Kalam argument and the "cutting edge of science", it is noteworthy, however, that in a sense, the history o...
Fish fry, Thank you for your detailed and very interesting response, though I do not want this thread to be diverted too far into the domain of the ph...
Fishfry, What you are presuming is that actual infinities really exist. Actual infinity, however is merely an abstract notion , or, if you like, a fic...
NB: with regard to why the creator of the universe was (a la the Kalam argument) a PERSoNAL God, I'll explain that for you in detail tomorrow when I h...
You say, "Why not say if the universe has a cause, that cause must be an effect of an effect of an effect" ? Here you are challenging img premise two ...
Beebert, My claim is that the Kalam argument is, to date, very strongly supported by philosophical reasoning and hard experimental, empirical scientif...
Mad Fool, In your opening post you claimed that the justice, by definition, requires fairness. Fairness, you said was the principle that "all are equa...
I agree with Augustino. Neitzsche is still automatically granted status as one of the modern eras most profound and influential philosophers, but he w...
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