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- Fri Jun 03, 2022 12:58 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Looking for the Purpose of Life
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1544
Re: Looking for the Purpose of Life
Brian King says that life’s meaning is a question of purpose; but what is the purpose of human existence? https://philosophynow.org/issues/147/Looking_for_the_Purpose_of_Life There are many potential reasons for life. This makes the pupose for life ambiguous. The author writes, "Perhaps we’re ...
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:38 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The Evolution of Religion.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1119
Re: The Evolution of Religion.
Can the human race, or the Great Beast in Plato's terms, evolve to a greater conscious understanding of Man's connection with its Source? To many there is no connection since it is all imagination. This thread deals with the human potential to consciously bypass the results of imagination with cons...
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 1:23 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: more science v religion
- Replies: 123
- Views: 13870
Re: more science v religion
Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in. Religion is about faith and worship. Science is about the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Religion has an abstract foundation about existence. Science has a f...
- Tue May 31, 2022 2:01 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Praying to the Overgod
- Replies: 97
- Views: 5857
Re: Praying to the Overgod
Sleep does not bring happiness. Only an unhappy man will get some relief. You are unhappy so you should get some sleep. You know nothing, absolutely zero zilch nothing about me. So on that note, I think you should just fuck the fuck off with your retarted opinion. I know that "hell berates&quo...
- Tue May 31, 2022 12:58 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Praying to the Overgod
- Replies: 97
- Views: 5857
Re: Praying to the Overgod
Even the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer born 22 February 1788 ..knew the hard cold truth of reality. Men have always known it. “Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment of his falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his waking. Human life mu...
- Sun May 29, 2022 2:18 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 12871
Re: The problem of evil
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven" Heaven is not on Earth according to the Bible. Fine. In a few generations we'll be off this planet. If we don't get off we already ...
- Sat May 28, 2022 1:53 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 12871
Re: The problem of evil
There is no evidence that heaven exists. Whatever you say about "heaven" is conjecture. Does the future exist? Yes it does. Could the future turn out really terrible for humans? Yes it can. That's hell. Could the future turn out really great for humans? Yes it can. That's heaven. Our choi...
- Sat May 28, 2022 12:11 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The problem of evil
- Replies: 183
- Views: 12871
Re: The problem of evil
"an omnipotent (and "All-Knowing") Being, might actually have a logical reason for allowing evil to exist." Of course, but the logical conflict is this: if god is, as stated, 'omnipotent' - which means able to do and/or make happen whatever is logically possible (circulatory the...
- Thu May 26, 2022 8:25 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: a new definition of knowledge
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4704
Re: a new definition of knowledge
Knowledge requires understanding. Misunderstanding precludes knowledge.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 7:43 amI assume you mean what is taken to be knowledge.jayjacobus wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 8:22 pm Knowledge can be contradictory and is many times only conjecture.
- Thu May 26, 2022 1:11 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: a new definition of knowledge
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4704
Re: a new definition of knowledge
But then just intelligence indicates a lot of cognitive processes. IOW experience is not enough , one has to do things with what one notices and lives. One must make a lot of choices, to repeat, to study, to compare, to contrast. There's pattern recognition. There is often mentoring which entails l...
- Wed May 25, 2022 8:22 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: a new definition of knowledge
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4704
Re: a new definition of knowledge
Knowledge can be contradictory and is many times only conjecture.
Believe what you want but I wouldn't call concurrence knowledge.
- Wed May 25, 2022 7:56 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: a new definition of knowledge
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4704
- Wed May 25, 2022 6:12 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Purpose?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2010
- Wed May 25, 2022 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Purpose?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2010
Re: Purpose?
in the case you speak of if you're living the life the source of life has given you, then how is it you wouldn't know the purpose of the life you're living. isn't the life you would be living the revelation thereof? Life doesn't reveal its purpose anymore than ghosts reveal their purpose. If you th...
- Wed May 25, 2022 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Purpose?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2010
Re: Purpose?
life is to live but there are many things that serve life, such as your body has the purpose of providing you a place to be in the earth, but life doesn't seem to serve the purpose of those who are alive seeing that life is being alive. therefore life isn't required to have purpose to be alive. The...