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Well said! And it is true that the duality between the dreamed entity and the Dreamer is the problem. How to resolve it? If all is Existing Consciousness, then in reality there is no difference between the dreamed entity and the Dreamer. It is a matter of waking up from the dream and uniting the ent...

This article is an excellent exposition by Tony McKenna on the historical theories on Being. Augustine’s perspective of Being as essentially Wisdom comes closest to understanding what is Being. The other approaches whether theological or philosophical start from the human perspective and end up conv...

Anything that is experienced is experience and we need to learn from it and often we do. The author of this article favors the naturalistic framework over Kant’s transcendental noumena. The empirical is often favored over the theoretical. Although the theoretical often kickstarts the empirical. Mayb...

As humans we need more than experiences, we need to analyze and learn from experience. Whether truth is both necessary and contingent, as Hume saw it or necessary only as Kant saw it understanding is a bridge between contingent truth and necessary truth. “With all thy getting get thee understanding.”

According to Kant knowledge is transcendental when it is occupied not with objects but “the way we can possibly know objects, even before we experience them.” We can “possibly” know, have the possibility of knowing. We experience objects, as experience only, before we actually know them. We are not ...

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Touché!

No one you know has that belief. Good to know. You know some smart people, learn from them.

If God is, as claimed in the East: Existence, Consciousness, Bliss then our existence is borrowed from that. We have existence, we are conscious and although not blissful we have sensation as a substitute. If there is no God then everything is something from nothing and that may defy logic. What do...

If God is, as claimed in the East: Existence, Consciousness, Bliss then our existence is borrowed from that. We have existence, we are conscious and although not blissful we have sensation as a substitute. If there is no God then everything is something from nothing and that may defy logic. What do...

If God is, as claimed in the East: Existence, Consciousness, Bliss then our existence is borrowed from that. We have existence, we are conscious and although not blissful we have sensation as a substitute. If there is no God then everything is something from nothing and that may defy logic. A God t...

We have this erroneous belief that our ancestors were drooling idiots! True. And consciousness evolved out of matter. Another "misconception" or error some might say. Yes. Or else matter has extraordinary powers if it evolved consciousness, in addition to creating it to be evolved in the ...

If God is, as claimed in the East: Existence, Consciousness, Bliss then our existence is borrowed from that. We have existence, we are conscious and although not blissful we have sensation as a substitute. If there is no God then everything is something from nothing and that may defy logic. A God t...

If God is, as claimed in the East: Existence, Consciousness, Bliss then our existence is borrowed from that. We have existence, we are conscious and although not blissful we have sensation as a substitute. If there is no God then everything is something from nothing and that may defy logic. A God th...

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:14 am Context is contigent on context thus context self-references leading to a singularity. This singularity is obscure and unable to be sensed given there is nothing to compare it too.

Would a singularity be a singularity if there was anything to compare it to?

In his essay ‘The Ancestry of Fascism’ Bertrand Russell had this to say about Kant: “The philosophy which has been distinctive of Germany begins with Kant, and begins as a reaction against Hume. Kant was determined to believe in causality, God, immortality, the moral law, and so on, but perceived th...

“Spinoza spoke of Jesus as Christ and he wrote in Latin for a Gentile audience in part because he had no other options.” The above is an assumption. If it was in Spinoza’s character to go along, not to be true to his understanding, he had many opportunities to do so. He need not have been banned fro...