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Having or being a body is delusionary. Experience includes experience of bodies however experience is relative to the instrument that detects experience. So if it isn't the case that we have bodies, what is the case? The case is we are neither bodies nor minds. We are body-minds. Persevering with d...

Why do you think the Apostles dropped everything to follow Jesus? Was it because of what they learned or did the Christ through a quality of energy, let them experience the inner direction or the awakening purpose of Christianity? Jesus was a main exponent of a trend to extend Judaism so that a man...

Why do you think the Apostles dropped everything to follow Jesus? Was it because of what they learned or did the Christ through a quality of energy, let them experience the inner direction or the awakening purpose of Christianity? Jesus was a main exponent of a trend to extend Judaism so that a man...

I can conceive of eternal states that don't involve God. Really? Well, tell me about that. People have bodies in the eternal state, actually. Is that just what God says, or do you actually understand how it could be the case? I just go with Scripture on that one. For example, Atheist Thomas Nagel, ...

I think sometimes the form and the meaning are very close together. For instance an abstract painting or sculpture merges form with meaning. The form itself is the meaning. Or for instance when language is mediated through calligraphy the form is the meaning to a large extent, and the actual perform...

Meditation is a process of subtracting every thought. Because thought is required to describe anything, existence without thought is indescribable, although as a cause the effects can be described. Meditation is something I never took seriously. Mystical nonsense is probably how I would have descri...

Invest time and resources in your education. To learn how to be a comedian? Naw... Study something you are weak in, such as science or math. Big Mike, God (or nature if you prefer )does not exist like this or that exists. God is not a very powerful being among other beings, but is being itself. If ...

Does a person learn about Christianity and devolve it into self serving indoctrination or can they remember it through revelation. It's not logical to make those the alternatives. There are better options, like studying it out for oneself. Why do you think the Apostles dropped everything to follow ...

I'd rather not have to specify "absolute". However if you read these pages long enough you will find many contributors think Free Will is synonymous with the act of choosing. Yes, but it's not just choosing, thinking is also often considered a free will activity. That is to be able to thi...

I know lots of people on a few forums, and I know people outside of forums, so why should I think that you have the "right" answer any more than any of them? My answer will be "right" only if it conforms to the truth, of course. But you can often tell when you're hearing truth, ...

I guess by "spirituality" Veritas means specific religious myths in the sense of those important stories people tell as emotive foundations for their moral codes. I have a moral code, but I am not aware of it being based on any myth. I suppose the basis for what has now developed into my ...

However, it depends on your definition of " truly free man ". If you lack free will, you cannot choose your actions. Then who or what is doing the choosing? God. Are you joking? God (or nature if you prefer) necessarily is what it is. Choosing is an activity limited to creatures who canno...

No. Man is different in kind from any other animal only on condition there is absolute Free Will Absolute Free Will does not exist. Man is not different in kind from other animals. Free will either is or isn't. It may perhaps only minimally affect our choices. But even if its role is marginal, it i...

Is untreated sewage legal as fertiliser? I thought they used bacteria partly to take away the smell.Activated sludge I think is the term for sewage subjected to bacteria. The history of sheep farming is huge worldwide.I got a book about it. It has been an extremely influential animal. Sheep for inst...

Inanimate objects don't choose anything. Sunflowers are not inanimate! But they don't reason because reasoning needs the ability to abstract general ideas from particulars, and this in turn needs symbolic language. Animals that use tools (e.g.some apes , and crows) can generalise the concept of too...