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Advocate wrote: Epistemic meaning is a technically correct definition. Axiological meaning is desire for things to be other than they are. There's no inherent connection. But what most healthy humans seek from their lives is their futures, when they will eat more or better, enjoy themselves a bit mo...

I was indoctrinated from birth to be a liberal follower of Jesus. This has been my main motivation towards socialism. A socialist maintains that universally and without exception everyone is or should be equal in rights and needs. I and many others have concluded the only way to adore the good, the...

A self would be a self-contained unit, an independent existence, which is quite impossible. Yet each of us experiences selfhood and most take it for granted. Spinoza concluded that Nature is both the things of nature such as selves (Natura Naturata) and the workings of Nature (Natura Naturans) This...

Change itself is integral to existence in this world of time and relativity. This world of time and relativity is all we can know, as we ourselves are temporal and relative beings. The baby does not breathe because he chooses to do so but because he must; he is immersed in change. Biology presumes ...

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 10:18 am All meaning is dependent upon personal subjective experience, as knowledge and meaning, that the subject then bestows upon a meaningless world.

So , apart from the meaning we bestow upon existence, existence means nothing?

yeah the concept 'self cause' is kinda sketchy anyway becuz if u are the cause of yourself, u have to exist to cause yourself, so you have to exist before u exist in order to make yourself happen. I'm like wuh. nothing to see here but paradoxes and antinomies. fortunately there wuz no beginning of ...

God, then, is immanent and in no way transcends nature. Can you explain how you reached that conclusion? Thanks again. I was indoctrinated from birth to be a liberal follower of Jesus. This has been my main motivation towards socialism. A socialist maintains that universally and without exception e...

As I stated, the earth and the cosmos play biology like its instrument, which includes its biological circadian rhythms/internal momentum. And as I responded, your metaphor is giving the cosmos the role of agency. Now here you are acknowledging internal rhythms. Those are PART of the organism. If t...

Then He is not even as efficient as your local hospital. Here's a reminder of the constraints of the scenario: For this example, God is conceived of as very powerful but not omnipotent, and very knowledgeable and prescient but not omniscient. God on this conception lacks omniscience to the extent t...

Has anyone here been a seventeenth century ship's rat?

As we know species are not immutable. Darwin The Origin of species By Natural Selection

yeah the concept 'self cause' is kinda sketchy anyway becuz if u are the cause of yourself, u have to exist to cause yourself, so you have to exist before u exist in order to make yourself happen. I'm like wuh. nothing to see here but paradoxes and antinomies. fortunately there wuz no beginning of ...

God's intervention is not whimsical but rather is consistent and thus just, leading to an eventual minimising of suffering. When? Oh, I didn't mean to imply the passing of time. Please substitute for "eventual", "overall". Then He is not even as efficient as your local hospital.

It's against seeing us as passive until stimulated. It may feel that way to our conscious self sometimes, we can sort of pretend that internal causes and flows are not us. But the organism is active, not just reactive. Like so many things, it seems like the best description depends upon which level...

God's intervention is not whimsical but rather is consistent and thus just, leading to an eventual minimising of suffering.

When?

No. There is unpredictable but nothing is random. It does not matter what a dictionary says. The dictionary has many definitions of other fantasy concepts like god. But it is up to us as practicing humans to sort out the weeds and the chaff. I've never anyone try to deny the concept of freewill by ...