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What is 'Secular Spirituality' ? Would you agree with the suggestion below that it is 'the ultimate goal of philosophy'? From wiki: According to Robert C. Solomon, an American Professor of Philosophy, "spirituality is coextensive with religion and it is not incompatible with or opposed to scien...

For some "inner unity" simply means never disagreeing with oneself. Whatever 'oneself' is. "Oneself" is the "I" which separates me from you. And if you disagree with yourself, are you still not a 'unity' ? Or is there more than one 'I' to contend with. An 'I' which can...

Dubious wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:25 am For some "inner unity" simply means never disagreeing with oneself.

Whatever 'oneself' is.

You really aren't bright enough to be arguing this topic. You don't have the insight to understand the particular group you are trying (unsuccessfully) to describe. It just comes across as another one of your pointless rants against what you refer to in other threads as ''atheists''. You should try...

Sorry for this posting being so late. But the message is nonetheless heartfelt: Happy New Year! We're getting ready for the Philosophy Now Festival in Conway Hall on 20th Jan. If you're around, do come! It'll be a blast. https://philosophynow.org/festival It's never too late to wish people all the ...

Current Futurelearn courses:
'How to survive on Mars'
and 'Improve your Intercultural Competence'.

Wong: Rick, why did you lie to your daughter? Rick: So I wouldn’t have to come here. Wong: Why didn’t you want to come here? Rick: Because I don’t respect therapy, Because I’m a scientist. Because I invent, transform and destroy for a living and when I don’t like something about the world, I change...

Calm is overrated and violence is underrated. Nothing more therapeutic than playing a violent bloodbath videogame of chaos and destruction. Violence is easy to find. Different levels of power, strength; physical hurt or damage. We can see it on a daily, if not hourly or continual basis just by tuni...

Harbal wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:50 am

marjoram_blues wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:39 am
Probably not on here.

Why not?

Go for it, if you have the time, energy and inclination to start a serious thread.
I've had enough of the PN forum, right now.

Harbal wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:31 am

marjoram_blues wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:24 am
A discussion on what constitutes online abuse, causes and effects; the power and strength of words might prove interesting.

Yes, I think it would be interesting, someone should start one.

Probably not on here. There's plenty of information out there, for anyone at all interested.

He could not abuse me, for instance, as he has no power over me, He has no power in any respect, that's probably where all this is stemming from: feelings of impotence. A discussion on what constitutes online abuse, causes and effects; the power and strength of words might prove interesting. Also, ...

Marjoram-blues wrote : This reminds me a bit of the 'hidden in plain sight' Hollywood problem. Ns posts are the tip of the iceberg. A blind eye being turned to continual, carefully concealed abuse covered in a veneer of respectability. But Nick's posts are not concealed, unless he has been abusing ...

I shall repeat what's said before, only louder since you appear not to have read it: I keep wondering why Nick thinks that attacking a few outsider-type thinkers who are more or less like himself on a philosophy forum is "annoying the Great Beast". He might as well go annoy mice for all t...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:37 pm epileptics don't like carpe diem...

-Imp

Wrong.
Seize your Purple Day.

Harbal wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:32 pm

marjoram_blues wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:27 pm I was given a bottle by a friend for letting him stay over.
I sniffed it and seized it by the neck......

Please, I don't want to hear the rest.

OK, I'll leave it to your imagination