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- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Atheism
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 27535
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...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:13 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:35 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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 ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:35 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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 ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:34 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
Re: The whole is boundless
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- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
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." ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
Re: The whole is boundless
My proof is based on the idea that if the whole is bounded then it is bounded by something else then what we call whole is not the whole. Just for the sake of visualization purposes, imagine that the blue bubble depicted below... https://www.listland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/shutterstock_4903...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: The whole is boundless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 5229
Re: The whole is boundless
So what? The dictionary does not tell that the whole is boundless. Your "proof" is based on the idea that if there is something else beyond "the whole" then it is bounded. My proof is based on the idea that if the whole is bounded then it is bounded by something else then what w...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: "Atheists Killed >140 millions" is Fallacious
- Replies: 282
- Views: 346020
Re: "Atheists Killed >140 millions" is Fallacious
Toddlers have insufficient judgment to make decisions. Eve clearly was capable of deliberation and of finding her own reasons to do whatever she chose to do. And she was informed of and knew the full consequences in advance, as well; that, toddlers do not do. So the analogy really doesn't fit at al...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:23 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: "Atheists Killed >140 millions" is Fallacious
- Replies: 282
- Views: 346020
Re: "Atheists Killed >140 millions" is Fallacious
Toddlers have insufficient judgment to make decisions. Eve clearly was capable of deliberation and of finding her own reasons to do whatever she chose to do. And she was informed of and knew the full consequences in advance, as well; that, toddlers do not do. So the analogy really doesn't fit at al...