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by Belinda
Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

Christianity has a history: Christianity is a cultural process. What is all the fuss about?
by Belinda
Sat Jun 24, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: It is not possible for me to know the world outside my mind
Replies: 72
Views: 10096

Re: It is not possible for me to know the world outside my mind

It's not possible for you to know the world outside your mind because there is no world outside your mind.(And other experiencers' minds).
by Belinda
Mon May 29, 2023 9:45 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

But we can still have a strong, subjective, emotional response to events and situations. Yes. But so can a toddler, when it doesn't get its way. Anybody who's had a two-year-old knows that, of course. So we need something that separates the irrational, demanding, solipsistic squalling of an infant ...
by Belinda
Sun May 28, 2023 6:35 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Everything is Not a Thing
Replies: 222
Views: 11806

Re: Everything is Not a Thing

The Yin Yang symbol is this duality, this matching of opposites, which in Buddhism is not opposite at all. For in the one, there is a dark spot and in the other there is a light spot, meaning there are no absolute opposites, there is always an element of the other in each. "What is the differe...
by Belinda
Sun May 28, 2023 9:00 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Nothingness is All Things
Replies: 80
Views: 6527

Re: Nothingness is All Things

just as in a river no single eddy can be separated from the current’s overall motion. They say you can't step into the same river twice, but I have found that once is usually more than enough, anyway. :| :wink: DAM's point is relevant even when your stepping into the river more than once is a thoug...
by Belinda
Sat May 27, 2023 6:38 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Everything is Not a Thing
Replies: 222
Views: 11806

Re: Everything is Not a Thing

No, I do not claim that nature is unmanifested energy, in fact, apparent reality/our everyday reality is a world of objects. The world of objects is a biological simulation, a biological readout, informing the subject not of the source, but of the effects of the source upon the senses of the biolog...
by Belinda
Sat May 27, 2023 6:19 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

Is there an "objective" definition of evil that we can refer to? The answer seems to be no, there is not. Interesting. I don't find that "obvious" at all. But perhaps you have reasons for finding it obvious, so I'm ready to hear them, if you have such. It's certainly not the cas...
by Belinda
Sat May 27, 2023 9:52 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Everything is Not a Thing
Replies: 222
Views: 11806

Re: Everything is Not a Thing

Interesting, two aspects of one thing. There is only one thing, Nature.(Theists think Nature is a Person). Your claim is Nature is unmanifested energy. I get "unmanifested" but I don't understand what energy is apart from it's being either potential energy or kinetic energy. E.g. potentia...
by Belinda
Fri May 26, 2023 11:01 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

Not the primary value of Jesus, which was, as I affirmed earlier, personal relationship with a personal God . Sure, if you choose to ignore that that was Jesus's primary value, then you can frame his values in a secular context - but you then have to ignore others of them, and you change the origin...
by Belinda
Fri May 26, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Everything is Not a Thing
Replies: 222
Views: 11806

Re: Everything is Not a Thing

That which is not a thing is unmanifested energy. Perhaps then one can ask, when does a condition become a thing? Thingness and "unmanifested energy" are each ways of imagining nature. Spinoza's Latin words for these ways were Natura Naturata (the things of nature) and Natura Naturans (na...
by Belinda
Fri May 26, 2023 9:44 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

The values demonstrated by the life and work of Jesus fit well with impersonal God. Not the primary value of Jesus, which was, as I affirmed earlier, personal relationship with a personal God . Sure, if you choose to ignore that that was Jesus's primary value, then you can frame his values in a sec...
by Belinda
Thu May 25, 2023 9:12 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

AJ, I always enjoy your essays, but this... ...ignores my question. Again (rephrased): is man Grendel, or is Grendel sumthin' 'other' than man? Is Evil man's defect, or is Evil the intelligent infection that, as I say, inflames and makes malign an otherwise benign imperfection? Or: did/does man eng...
by Belinda
Thu May 25, 2023 8:54 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?
Replies: 132
Views: 10605

Re: Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?

Of course, to them he would have been an atheist, neither Jew nor Christian believed in God as nature. Christians in some places were still burning them at the steak were they not? The usage of 'atheist' is totally to denigrate. The word denotes nothing. Socrates was accused of being an atheist bec...
by Belinda
Thu May 25, 2023 8:52 pm
Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
Topic: Robot and God
Replies: 36
Views: 3158

Re: Robot and God

SOUL IS NOT THE CREATOR God gave the ability of creating robot, a duplicate human being, to the humanity to show that a human being is a created item only. The human being includes the soul, which is a special work form of inert energy. The inert energy was created by God as the first item in the b...
by Belinda
Thu May 25, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 718243

Re: Christianity

Alexix Jacobi wrote: Honestly, to get an understanding of what Satan is, one has to turn back to the Medieval Schoolmen. In simple terms, it is an issue bound up with definitions. The conceptual blending of the ‘picture’ offered by Genesis but refracted through a lens of platonism. This may be your ...