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[Dontaskme]

It is a human expression and there’s nothing wrong with using that expression because it’s used whenever the human is awed at some emotional experience.

None of us really know what we are doing or saying here. No one has been alive before.

We only follow the herd because we believe they know what they are doing but no one really knows what they are doing.

[Agent Smith]

"Shhh, quiet back there! Are you guys crazy?!" Tom was frustrated by the group's lack of appreciation of what they were doing in the middle of the Amazon jungle - it was a like a sauna, hot 'n' humid, but if you'd wanted to leave, it was 45 days back to civilization and air conditioning, the mosquitoes made it worse. Dick put his index finger to his lips and the others quietened down. "This is the spot, up we go and let's keep this quiet!" instructed Tom, the team leader. In less than 20 minutes they were up in the canopy. "And now ... we wait!" whispered Tom. 5 hours passed and at exactly 6:05 PM, it was 12 July 1963, the creature emerged from behind a clump of bushes out into the open where the entire group could see it. A magnificent specimen it was - 10 feet tall, its scales glistened in the sunlight that trickled through the trees, red, blue, green and purple pluamge on its flightless wings tipped with razor sharp claws.

[Dontaskme]

Philosophy isn't concerned in any direct sense with God or God's existence.

It is one part of philosophy that we study, but we're not obsessed with it. Philosophy is an activity of thought, a type of thinking.
But 'BEING' does not need 'THOUGHT' to be.

You could say that all philosophers and their philosophy are like a religion, as and through their own sense of 'knowing knowledge' as to the nature of reality.

Both religious and philosophical thinking raise many of the same, fascinating questions and possibilities about the nature of reality, the limits of reason, the meaning of life, and so on. But life does not require this inquiry to be exactly What it is, was, and always will be.

Philosophy therefore is likened to a story, within the artifical dream of duality.

Take the word Solipsism for example:
The philosophy of Vedanta, "Aham Brahmasmi" (roughly translated as "I am the Absolute Truth"), could be interpreted as solipsism in one of its primitive senses, as the world is but an illusion in the mind of the observer. However, Advaita Vedanta can be understood to be non-solipsistic when it is recognised that it does not actually deny the existence of a world 'external' to the Self or Atman.

Rather, it is asserting that the consciousness and awareness of the individual pervades all of that person's experience, to such an extent that absolute notions of 'inside' and 'outside' are arbitrary. The universe is the same as the self, as the universe can only be experienced through the self and the self is submerged within the universe as an integrated part[citation needed].

However, Advaita is strongly divergent from solipsism in that the former is a system of exploration of one's mind in order to finally understand the nature of the self and attain complete knowledge. The unity of existence is said to be directly experienced and understood at the end as a part of complete knowledge. On the other hand solipsism posits the non-existence of the external void right at the beginning, and says that no further inquiry is possible.

[Harbal]

"Shhh, quiet back there! Are you guys crazy?!" Tom was frustrated by the group's lack of appreciation of what they were doing in the middle of the Amazon jungle - it was a like a sauna, hot 'n' humid, but if you'd wanted to leave, it was 45 days back to civilization and air conditioning, the mosquitoes made it worse. Dick put his index finger to his lips and the others quietened down. "This is the spot, up we go and let's keep this quiet!" instructed Tom, the team leader. In less than 20 minutes they were up in the canopy. "And now ... we wait!" whispered Tom. 5 hours passed and at exactly 6:05 PM, it was 12 July 1963, the creature emerged from behind a clump of bushes out into the open where the entire group could see it. A magnificent specimen it was - 10 feet tall, its scales glistened in the sunlight that trickled through the trees, red, blue, green and purple pluamge on its flightless wings tipped with razor sharp claws.

You couldn't make one of them fall out of the tree, could you? I'm just curious about what would happen.

[Harbal]

Philosophy isn't concerned in any direct sense with God or God's existence.

Neither am I, but it isn't easy to avoid him round here.

[Sculptor]

Philosophy isn't concerned in any direct sense with God or God's existence.

Neither am I, but it isn't easy to avoid him round here.

Indeed, and the reason for that is that (as usual) your interlocutor is wrong. Stanford Philosophy only has over 1000 hits

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[Dontaskme]

Philosophy isn't concerned in any direct sense with God or God's existence.

Neither am I, but it isn't easy to avoid him round here.

Indeed, and the reason for that is that (as usual) your interlocutor is wrong. Stanford Philosophy only has over 1000 hits
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What's wrong about discussing the philosophy of God?

Why has this ''Philosophy Now Forum'' got a subforum called... ''Philosophy of Religion''
Is there a God? If so, what is She like?

Idiot!

[Dontaskme]

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[Agent Smith]

"Shhh, quiet back there! Are you guys crazy?!" Tom was frustrated by the group's lack of appreciation of what they were doing in the middle of the Amazon jungle - it was a like a sauna, hot 'n' humid, but if you'd wanted to leave, it was 45 days back to civilization and air conditioning, the mosquitoes made it worse. Dick put his index finger to his lips and the others quietened down. "This is the spot, up we go and let's keep this quiet!" instructed Tom, the team leader. In less than 20 minutes they were up in the canopy. "And now ... we wait!" whispered Tom. 5 hours passed and at exactly 6:05 PM, it was 12 July 1963, the creature emerged from behind a clump of bushes out into the open where the entire group could see it. A magnificent specimen it was - 10 feet tall, its scales glistened in the sunlight that trickled through the trees, red, blue, green and purple pluamge on its flightless wings tipped with razor sharp claws.

You couldn't make one of them fall out of the tree, could you? I'm just curious about what would happen.

Nope ... that's all she wrote.

[Impenitent]

-Imp

[Harbal]

"Shhh, quiet back there! Are you guys crazy?!" Tom was frustrated by the group's lack of appreciation of what they were doing in the middle of the Amazon jungle - it was a like a sauna, hot 'n' humid, but if you'd wanted to leave, it was 45 days back to civilization and air conditioning, the mosquitoes made it worse. Dick put his index finger to his lips and the others quietened down. "This is the spot, up we go and let's keep this quiet!" instructed Tom, the team leader. In less than 20 minutes they were up in the canopy. "And now ... we wait!" whispered Tom. 5 hours passed and at exactly 6:05 PM, it was 12 July 1963, the creature emerged from behind a clump of bushes out into the open where the entire group could see it. A magnificent specimen it was - 10 feet tall, its scales glistened in the sunlight that trickled through the trees, red, blue, green and purple pluamge on its flightless wings tipped with razor sharp claws.

You couldn't make one of them fall out of the tree, could you? I'm just curious about what would happen.

Nope ... that's all she wrote.

And what about your resposibility to your readers, don't they matter?

[Agent Smith]

You couldn't make one of them fall out of the tree, could you? I'm just curious about what would happen.

Nope ... that's all she wrote.

And what about your resposibility to your readers, don't they matter?

Apologies ... no disrespect intended to my readers.

Roses have thorns.