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- Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Death and meaning of life
- Replies: 106
- Views: 50303
Re: Death and meaning of life
This is my perspective: Life is creating meaning and relationship with all those things a person chooses to care about and comes their way while they are alive. In general a person can choose a life of values and virtues, or vices and codes of bad conduct. Even joy, love, and peace bring the pain of...
- Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:05 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Form is Binding Space
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10553
Re: Form is Binding Space
Everything is in constant motion and that includes space, time , matter, and energy. I don't think anything is static to even measure a fixed point. Wouldn't fractals be the best method of simulating reality? Don't patterns govern how the universe works? Gravity creates order. If our existence was s...
- Sat Mar 07, 2020 3:46 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The grand illusion that is YOU
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11844
Re: The grand illusion that is YOU
Without memory there is no awareness and without a subject of memory we can't objectify reality. The illusion is real. Reality is so real that we can't possibly experience it to its fullest extent. Perception is accurate enough to give us a reliable interface with reality. It filters out that which ...
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:34 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Imagination and God
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3703
Re: Imagination and God
I have tried to imagine what a perfect God might be like. Charity to the charitable, grace and mercy to those who have not strayed too far, Punishment toward hardened criminals, and vengeance toward those who commit crimes against humanity. :mrgreen: I also see no evidence of the God I have envision...
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Pattern Recognition and After Life
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2630
Re: Pattern Recognition and After Life
People find symmetry beautiful. For things to be symmetrical perhaps the universe is working from memory. Different patterns may or may not have relationship when they are found in nature. It's the relationship of patterns that determine the kind of cause and effect that may or may not exist. If nat...
- Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:55 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Age: God is ALL of Physical and MIND
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3629
Re: Age: God is ALL of Physical and MIND
Non existence is an impossibility. Therefore since there is a universe it must be infinite and eternal. Why? Because nothing is an impossibility within an existence. So if existence is infinite and eternal then it is the foundation for things that never occured before, but now do. The elements that...
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Age: God is ALL of Physical and MIND
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3629
Re: Age: God is ALL of Physical and MIND
Non existence is an impossibility. Therefore since there is a universe it must be infinite and eternal. Why? Because nothing is an impossibility within an existence. So if existence is infinite and eternal then it is the foundation for things that never occured before, but now do. The elements that ...
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:26 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: All religion begins with this notion:
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6183
Re: All religion begins with this notion:
Osgart - His definition can be applied to “money” or “language” too if you look closely. Generally I view it as a definition of human nature. He does write several pages of explanation. He doesn’t mention ‘controlling people’ anywhere in his book as far as I remember. Anyway, how about Eliade? The ...
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:45 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: All religion begins with this notion:
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6183
Re: All religion begins with this notion:
Something that has meaningful coherency is intended and purposed to function for a reason. The existence of a written letter 'A' demands meaningful coherency to exist and that demands human agency. So too, the existence of organized life demands meaningful coherency and that demands intentional age...
- Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:58 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: All religion begins with this notion:
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6183
Re: All religion begins with this notion:
Meaningful sense cannot come from nonsense. Therefore consciousness is in fact fundamental. If consciousness is fundamental then an eternal source is fundamental to reality because meaningful coherence cannot come from incoherence. Pure nonsense and babble, sounds like you are utterly skitzo or hav...
- Sun May 05, 2019 12:30 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: All religion begins with this notion:
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6183
Re: All religion begins with this notion:
I am not denying that there is choiceless surrender in the survival plight of life on earth. But increasingly humanity is fighting against the grains of the natural with technology. And in doing so perhaps we have more time now to discover ourselves better and see that human capacity is actually som...
- Thu May 02, 2019 11:04 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: All religion begins with this notion:
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6183
Re: All religion begins with this notion:
A pencil has meaningful coherency. A pencil is to writing as a hand is to grabbing. If the hand is meaningfully coherent it cannot come from mindless processes. Anything meaningfully coherent requires consciousness. Meaningful coherence cannot come from mindless processes. Therefore consciousness is...
- Wed May 01, 2019 9:01 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: All religion begins with this notion:
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6183
All religion begins with this notion:
Something that has meaningful coherency is intended and purposed to function for a reason. The existence of a written letter 'A' demands meaningful coherency to exist and that demands human agency. So too, the existence of organized life demands meaningful coherency and that demands intentional agen...
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:06 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Why do theists and atheists insist that if there is a God that it created the universe?
- Replies: 306
- Views: 53250
Re: Why do theists and atheists insist that if there is a God that it created the universe?
Implying God is chained to the universe, and is making the best of that by creating other life forms???
- Sat Apr 06, 2019 3:21 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: What is time?
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51013
Re: What is time?
Maybe there isnt time but there sure is a linear flow of events. Why should i not trust my senses when a wave finally does come over me and i feel it so accurately? I can suppose time is a wave of potentiality yet to realize its potential in a future now. That some fixed points of reference move fas...