Philosophy Now Forum

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 7:38 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:28 pm Love doesn't require contracts.

How's that working out for women these days?

Love is not the same as sex. Are you talking about sex?

Free love... love the one you're with... peace and love... I found all these in my parent’s record collection (actual vinyl). You didn’t mention this arrangement . I used not to like this era of music. Now I can’t help but see how talented these people were. Although it was before my time, I discov...

The sexual revolution wasn't about "more marriages." :lol: What are you getting at? That it was never about love. :lol: Free love... love the one you're with... peace and love... oh, yes, people were learning about new levels of love beyond conventional and superficial structures. You oug...

One can drop the mythological picture and story that IC is so conceptually wedded to. It does not actually serve even his ultimate metaphysical purposes. Rather it dis-serves the moral processes in which humankind is deeply involved. The real picture is much more demanding really. It is the differe...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:55 am Ultimately nothing matters.

Still, we dance.

The more I learn, the more I realise how little I know. (Oh dear, this is all too true. There must be reasonable limits to all truth. :D ) Yes! And how wonderful! Would any of us REALLY want to experience life in a rigid, static box of only our knowing? I believe that claims to absolute truth are a...

...the world is crumbling in front of us and all those who tried to make it better obviously failed to make it better. The world is what it is. We've all contributed to it. Are you attempting to impose your crappy-ass attitude onto ultimate reality like a Christian who imposes their beliefs onto ev...

I strive for balance while trying not to forget about movement. Yes! Maintaining balance and movement are a wonderful dance. :) And if anything life is wonderful because it gives me this opportunity. Agreed. God is the straw to which the drowner clings. It might be quite cruel to try to take it awa...

So you think dictionaries should come in various versions according to what religion you are? No. But I do think that you can't get a precise definition of some things from a general dictionary. Here you go... New Dictionary of Theology This classic one-volume reference work has been appreciated fo...

accelafine wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:44 pm Harbology: The art of sucking up

That is nonsense. Sucking up is the exact opposite of anything that Harbol does.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:00 pm The sort of definition that cannot help us distinguish between Scientology and Mennonism, or between Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Sufism and the Solar Temple Cult...

So, again, you acknowledge that theology encompasses varying beliefs.

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:18 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:08 pm MW tries to be non-sectarian and non-commital to any particular view in its definition

You can't expect anyone else to make a special case out of your theology.

Exactly right.

God's creation is so much bigger than I.C. and what I.C. thinks and believes.

That's the sort of definition that will only satisfy somebody agnostic/Atheistic It's the Merriam-Webster definition. The MW is not premised on any belief that any "theology" is truthful. It's based on a sort of "uncommitted" stance on that, either way. Of course. Otherwise, it ...

You deleted the most important part. 1: Theology: the study of religious faith, practice, and experience especially : the study of God and of God's relation to the world Folks refuse to say or write God for various reasons. What's your reason? If that were the most important part, it would have bee...

All it "encompasses" is anything that's accurate about the one God that exists. Theology is the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; a theological theory or system. That's the sort of definition that will only satisfy somebody agnostic/Atheistic It's the Merriam-Webster def...