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Does anyone ever considered the NDE as a scientific prospect to explaining life after death? Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) https://med.virginia.edu/pe...

“Alternative Philosophy” trying to come up with a politically correct term here without sounding like a critical jerk. I’m fascinated by this topic du...

I disagree on that assessment since religious philosophy although it does center on the belief of God or Gods depending on the faith your talking abou...

1. Depends on the audience. If they care or not 2. Then there is no empathy for the painting and it becomes irrelevant. No attachment no reason to be ...

My intention wasn’t to make evolution to explain everything but it does play a role in moral conduct. Hopefully I don’t sound like I am going off topi...

Suffering is the challenge we as a species need to go through to weed out the weak and make sure only the strongest survive. The purpose evolution. So...

Morality is a form of social survival, humans depend on people to survive. And morality is a set of rules you need to follow to benefit from the commu...

Has anyone ever considered that an advanced civilization may have taken a different route and chose social and cultural advancement (Metaphysics) inst...

Is Is not about God is the insinuation that all faith-base thinkers are stupid people and stero-typing them as low intelligent individuals.

When the mystic is more logical and rational than the realist you know humanity is screwed. I am not even preaching about God or faith. I am talking a...

I am far from being religious in fact I am probably the worst Christian around. What I am advocating is civil liberty. And how philosophy can be warpe...

No, Just defending free will, and how all of you are still following the same dogmatic platform but different ideology. Always preaching about truth b...

It sounds more like a dictatorship than being opened mind to me. This type of ideology is border line of Nazism and how if we don’t think like you tha...

That is really just a personal which really is none of our business. But why do we care how others pursue happiness. If believing that the Earth is fl...

What really pisses me off is people forget religion is part of ethnic culture and heritage, part of our history. Like the Irish catholic belief is sli...

Sorry but that is a bunch of hog wash motivated by prejudice thinking. Using logic as an excuse to spread intolerance. Every person has a right to bel...

Honestly, your behavior is just the same just rehashing it with different ideals. And your perspective is flawed. Take this example:, your first exper...

I asked the question because I believe there is a more resentment perspective on faith than logical. Basing on personal bad experience because of peop...

Here is a question I been dying to ask a non-believer... Why is it okay to believe in the theory of a higher-dimensional being but not God? Aren’t we ...

To further explained why I post this question, I do wonder if we all don’t have a certain degree of psychopathic tendencies but what separates us from...

I feel you are generalizing the behavior on extreme cases. Where I was trying to point out situation that seem more reasonable and in a mild degree. L...

@"Banno" the eye of the beholder is in reference to this article on “ Evaluation of Critical Flicker-Fusion Frequency Measurement Methods for the Inve...

@"Banno" sorry, I don't go on here much unless I have a nagging idea I want to expelled from my head. To recap, this thought came to me when reading r...

Gregory - not questioning if Science works I am questioning the threshold where physics becomes inadequate because the rules changes. And I am simply ...

Banno- I’m always the type to consider the ludicrous as a possibility. This idea came to from research on “critical flicker fusion frequency” on anima...

Ok I guess I’ll stop sugar coating my words cause it sound like gibberish. So I’ll get straight to the point. Physics is depended on the existence of ...

I still can get over that the possibility of time being a smoke screen due to how the brain interpretation. For instance the fly experience time diffe...

God is a model of the perfect human being, we humble ourselves in believing because we our blind to our own flaws. And we strive toward improving ours...

Ok the subject of “Time” is a very broad subject, is like describing the Ocean as just water. And my thought maybe off topic on what I read but is jus...

Hell no. Immortality is a curse not a gift, because immortality brings apathy. Only through the cycle of life and death, forgetting and relearning wil...

Is hard to say, is something I need to contemplate about. I can only express my view of ethics as adaptive to circumstance. Each instance is unique an...

Yes, you’re absolutely correct! Thank you,

How do you recognize it as self-indulgence if the individual is blind to the effects of good or bad? If the individual self impose a denial to the eff...

Well is complicated to explain in under 250 words and to type on my cell phone. That is a challenge by it self. So hopefully I can explain myself in t...

I am using philosophy to become a better computer programmer. By not trying to find solutions but to engage in different forms of expressions that can...

~Aryamoy Mitra Is rationalizing existence beneficial to the quality of life to community and the individual? Or is it a form of self-indulgence that c...

~TheMadFool I agree with your statement, is that ok... Maybe I jumped the gun with this question because I am trying to articulate a type of expressiv...

Ok than indulge me in this hypothetical scenario Thou shall not kill.... Scenario A: Robber kills a store clerk Scenario B: Clerk kills a the Robber S...

May sound cliche but... “There is no such thing as stupid just the unasked question.” So maybe the road to enlightenment needs a dash of madness. Mayb...

Thank you for the replies, I am sort of pursuing a informal investigation of the conscious mind and what close comparison I can find to use as a refer...

That is more of a discriminatory opinion than an absolute fact. That statement has stereotypical innuendos assuming that every Church in the world is ...

I lean toward faith and hope. To romanticize a potential for a bright future in the hopes that the next generation are wiser than us. Which is better ...

How do you recognize reason if ego lies to the mind? Ego purpose is to create the illusion to preserve emotional health and consciousness. To recogniz...

You put yourself at risk of Existential OCD if you don’t give it a purpose? In other words know when enough is enough. Know your limits and acknowledg...

You also need to acknowledge things change, our environment change and that is why rules change. I guess to put it simply, don’t get to comfortable th...

Philosophy can be useful and useless at the same time. It depends on the purpose of Truth. Why you are pursuing it. If philosophy is to pursue a unive...

This may sound like a ridiculous scenario but bare with me. I understand I am transitioning away from the topic of spirituality to more like science f...

There are two scenarios here. Survival of the body or to do to stay physically alive. Survival of the mind, your conscious is a threat to your mental ...

What happen to “A cigar is just a cigar” To ask why to love is to define the purpose of Good and Evil. Best example is questioning if 1 + 1 truly = 2 ...

My teacher once told “The one who seeks knowledge let him find it. If the knowledge they seek is found they will be troubled by what they know.” That ...