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Perhaps different paths, but to the same end Wow. I wouldn't think so at all. What does personal Nirvana (soul-extinction, essentially, and certainly disembodiment and destruction of individuality) got to do with resurrection of the body, Divine Judgment, life after, restoration of the physical wor...

IC, You still didn't answer my question. I'm sorry...I'm not seeing that I'm not. Can you pose it again? You have told us the most important aspect of ethics is the judging of conduct. This being the case then it is at odds with Legalism (theological). An overemphasis on judging conduct. You appear...

Indeed. And the conclusion that Descartes draws is that whatever the source of the phenomena that he is experiencing, or thinking, as per the Cogito, it is self-refuting to think he isn't thinking. Yes. But what he did NOT say was that these thoughts were something one could know were being produce...

I really don't think you do understand the Cogito. Actually, if I may be so bold as to contradict, I would suggest it's rather you who has misunderstood the Cogito . They realised that Descartes was right that the only thing we can be sure of is that there are phenomena. Incorrect. "Phenomena&...

It's quiet..so quiet...

No authority for ethics.

In other words, no duty for any person to perform any ethical precept you may specify.

I'm still waiting, prof.

It is if you understand the Cogito. I do. But if you require all knowledge to be as firm as the Cogito , then you shall have no knowledge at all, save that you yourself are thinking. You will not have any science, and not even an external world. So that doesn't look promising as an epistemological ...

I did and you ignored them, because you were ill-equiped to "tackle" them. Nope. You have no idea, old sock. I Just haven't got the time to track down the one relevant criticism you may have offered from twenty you shot out scattergun style. You will find that I'm not in the least perturb...

Thanks for sharing this. It's quite an entertaining history, and it does set me to thinking. What appears to me as a similarity is the Buddhist desire to achieve enlightenment, being similar to the Christian desire to establish a relationship with God. This is actually a really good point upon which...

Oh, baiting? Gosh, I've never seen that before.

If you have some point related to the topic in hand, make it. If you have a coherent question, ask it. If you don't, then suit yourself.

most Christians I know do have images in their possession, Interesting. Opposite to what I know. In fact this is one of the main tenets of the church I attend, that we, as Christians, do not fulfill all that we should, but only do as well as we are able, but we still call ourselves Christians. That...

Sorry, Spheres...you and I seem to have very different ideas of what we're doing here. I'm not playing "boxing" with you, swinging wildly at provocative nonsense delivered in no particular order and with no particular focus. I find that boring and pointless. To quote the Godfather, "F...

Almost by definition, Agnosticism is a personal position.

"Almost"?
When it's rational at all, that's all it ever is.

To go beyond that, it has to convert into a faith position...which is, as you point out, quite ironic.

Have you considered the possibility that theism and atheism are equally stupid belief systems? On the face of it, this would not seem possible. Basic laws of logic rule it out. If we take bare-bones Atheism to be the declaration "there is no God," and bare-bones Theism to be the contrary,...

Most have no images at all. The problem is the word "Christian," really. Not everybody agrees about what a real one is. Is it enough to say the words, "I am a Christian," or to be born in what others call "A Christian country"? What about having been sprinkled as an in...

Yes, I do know the difference because I did read your wikipedia quote. This is why it puzzles me as to why you claimed that the most important aspect of ethics is the judging of conduct. Judging conduct is, of course, what ethics is designed to do. Judging character is another thing it sometimes at...