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by seeds
Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:36 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Anti-Realism Proper
Replies: 38
Views: 2275

Re: Anti-Realism Proper

Could you imagine a situation in which the perceiver does not exist? I don't have to "imagine" it. I am a "perceiver," and I literally did not exist in the year 1942 when this scene from the movie Casablanca was filmed... https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOTVyNjE...
by seeds
Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Atheism
Replies: 1058
Views: 27548

Re: Atheism

Are you coming from Theism or Atheism? From Theism, of course. But from a more logical form of Theism - one that views the creative locus of the universe (God) as being as far above humans in scope and consciousness as humans are above amoebas or flies. I'm talking about a form of "New Theism&...
by seeds
Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:45 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Atheism
Replies: 1058
Views: 27548

Re: Atheism

https://www.theultimateseeds.com/Images/97%20page%20190.jpg _______ I like your above illustration. Can I have your permission to use it? I am interested in the human psychology that underlies all the above. Sure, V, you can use it. In what way are you thinking of using it? :shock: I once discovere...
by seeds
Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Atheism
Replies: 1058
Views: 27548

Re: Atheism

Why is there a God who is so *invisible* and so absent from the world when it is conceivable that, in a truly god-world, that everything would be made totally plain. Why such a tricky and shadowy God who sets things up in such a strange manner? Time and time again I have answered that question with...
by seeds
Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:28 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Atheism
Replies: 1058
Views: 27548

Re: Atheism

Why is there a God who is so *invisible* and so absent from the world when it is conceivable that, in a truly god-world, that everything would be made totally plain. Why such a tricky and shadowy God who sets things up in such a strange manner? Time and time again I have answered that question with...
by seeds
Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:03 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

How do you know? It's not a matter of "knowing" anything for certain. No, it's a matter of using logic to deduce that the infinite void that you, me, and Sculptor have been talking about... (as in the one and only aspect of the "boundless whole" that is actually boundless) ...do...
by seeds
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

But the whole (or totality) of the essence of life is indeed finite as well. How do you know? It's not a matter of "knowing" anything for certain. No, it's a matter of using logic to deduce that the infinite void that you, me, and Sculptor have been talking about... (as in the one and onl...
by seeds
Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

To be clear, I'm not talking about the ubiquitous essence of life itself, which may permeate the "ALL-THAT-IS." No, I am talking about the limited (finite) amount of the life essence that comprises the sum-total of the closed and personal, inner-dimension of reality of a singular mind and...
by seeds
Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:17 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

I don't think that the universe is the mind of a higher consciousness. Well, based on my "Burning Bush-like" experience described in this alternate thread,... https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?t=41452 ...I am 99.99% certain that you are wrong about that. If it is possible that...
by seeds
Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:13 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

...Now, you speak as though the Universe/the whole is made up some 'real part' relatively blue in your own illustration, and some 'unreal, or nothingness, part' and the two are somehow separate, and/or separated by some 'thing'. Which, obviously, is just too absurd, too nonsensical, and too illogic...
by seeds
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:35 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

Yes, the whole is boundless but the black regime in your picture cannot be nothingness. Nothingness cannot have a geometry or occupy room. Well, first of all, it's not "my" picture, for I nicked it from the Internet. And secondly, I told you not to get hung up on the details of the pictur...
by seeds
Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

Nothingness cannot occupy space. In your picture it does. You told me that you read the OP of my "Burning Bush" thread, in which case, you already know my stance regarding the ontology of the universe. However, coming at this from the perspective of hardcore materialism, this image we've ...
by seeds
Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:35 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

Nothingness cannot occupy space. In your picture it does. You told me that you read the OP of my "Burning Bush" thread, in which case, you already know my stance regarding the ontology of the universe. However, coming at this from the perspective of hardcore materialism, this image we've ...
by seeds
Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

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by seeds
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: The whole is boundless
Replies: 100
Views: 5231

Re: The whole is boundless

Bravo! You got the point. I only need to mention that the black part in the picture is not nothingness. It is at least spacetime. No matter may exist in the black part but that is something. No, bahman, the black part in the image does not represent the classic definition of "spacetime." ...