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Greta wrote: Nick, you talking about people being "open" is weird since you yourself subscribe to unchanging dogma. I guess it makes sense that those who are more impervious to reason would decry it. Would you please explain this unchanging dogma that I subscribe to. I'd like to learn what...

Reflex wrote: Thanks. There's a lot to take in at that website. Problem is, I don't speak or read French. I have to say that I am a little surprised how similar the excerpt is to to what I've been saying, though not with as much elucidation. At the top right of the link you have the option to click ...

uwot wrote: As the great Richard Feynman pointed out, all we know is what is wrong. Like many scientists, he took Popper seriously. We know, for instance, that the biblical account of creation is wrong. Even if god did create the universe, he didn't do it in the way Genesis suggests. There was no gl...

Reflex you seem to be the only one here open to the idea that fragmentation which science concerns itself with obscures meaning rather than revealing it. This is the beginning of the moral project for C I R E T which I previously linked to but will do again. I find it hopeful that there are those wh...

D P wrote: There is thought and there are things. That is a firm base. Do you disagree? What else is next to certain? But what if the origin of thought and things is what Plato called the “Good.” How does reason reveal it other than theoretically? Even more important, how does a person experience i...

Reflex wrote: I don't think that's much of an exaggeration. I think that some form of Neoplatonism will eventually become the world standard for philosophy, though I don't think I or my grandchildren will live to see it. I agree that we are in the infancy of this possibility. The good thing is that...

Hi Dee Perhaps you have knowledge of God but are yet to remember it as you are? Your question is part of Plato's philosophy as Meno's Paradox: Meno's Paradox and the Immortality of Soul: how will you know what you are looking for if you first don't already know it (and thus have no reason to go look...

The solution to this question of choice rests on an attractive woman in a bikini. Nothing can reconcile a true male philosopher’s mind torn between excess depression and exultation and bring a man’s mind back to earth like a good bikini. Put a centerfold in the magazine and all problems will be solv...

Reflex wrote: What Nick and I are saying (correct me if I'm wrong, Nick), is that facts are relatively stable, but life is fluid, dynamic and indefinite. Science deals with facts while religion is concerned only with values. Through philosophy, the mind endeavors to unite the meanings of both facts...

Reflex wrote: uwot wrote referring to Einstein: He also said: "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Absolutely! I almost used that quote myself in the context of a willingness to explore new and unexplored realms of thought. Curiousity...

Progressives exposed themselves as being anti black. Notice that they didn’t attack green olives. No they only attacked black olives as soon as someone pointed out that they matter. Bigotry is everywhere. These bigots refuse to accept that both black and green olives have their place in society. I’m...

Dam wrote: No cult here, I have my own ideas about reality thanks...it's called imagination...how the heck is that harmful and to whom? you are talking absolute jibberish... Have you actually tried having a proper coherent conversation with the guests posting on your thread about the topic title, or...

Reflex wrote: I think Einstein said it best when he said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift" and "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has...

Uwot wrote: Nick_A wrote:The Law of the Included Middle expresses a vertical triune relationship. If you understood it, Plato's ideas on relative being would make sense to you I understand Plato very well, but as Aristotle pointed out, the measure of how well you understand an hypothesis is the cla...

Reflex, you do seem to sense that there is something wrong with our thinking. As much as we celebrate critical thinking somehow it gets lost in wars of opinions and many people feel empty. Do you believe people can learn to feel the attraction of opening to higher ideas of a specific kind and sharin...