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“Absolute is not the sole defining characteristic of religion. There are places of worship, holy books, holy orders, holy days, chants and/or prayers, rituals, images and trappings. While each religion has a central philosophy; secular philosophies have none of the other characteistics.” You sound ...

What does "altruist democracy" mean? A tendency towards equality in all spheres of life? Not sure that is the most appropriate term. I could, for wholly-selfish reasons, furiously seek to bring about equal pay for equal work, and equal purchasing with equal satisfaction in what is bought, ...

Only puritanical peoples would imagine such a death desirable. Or, perhaps pseudo-intellectual South American Catholics. How much better is the death of the nihilist Mishima? Death as a work of art written on the meaninglessness of human being. The most painful possible!!! Writing a beautiful poem o...

Philosophies are religions without an Absolute. What purpose is served by misusing the word "religion"? Just trying to stir a little controversy? This is not so wild if one says, as has often been said, that Buddhism is not properly a religion. For the reason that it is wholly personal, a...

Harris is mistaken because by "literal" he can only refer to the judgment. I look, and I say, there is the wafer. He doesn't move in the interpretation of beings that includes ousia . The Catholic judges himself to see a wafer, a wafer that has for its substance the body of Christ. It woul...

Mistake with posting. Please remove.

It's been said (and I don't want to be a sexist) that women are more emotional then men. But maybe evolution gave them strong emotions because men don't listen to a woman's logic. However, why does it not happen the other way? Are you claiming women have a greater inclination, by nature, to hear lo...

“Troll, it is evident that your emotions are standing in your way of a rational discussion of emotions.” What does rational mean here? If one said the most intelligent thing when in a great rage, that would be no defect of the thing said, would it? I think you are under the spell of a defunct usage...

"The short answer is events cause experience through the brain to consciousness. All three are required for there to be experience. Matter is necessary to be events. So is time." Asinine prattle with no content. One has to take the question of the meaning of one's terms seriously to say a...

"So what is your answer to OP. Do you believe that matter creates experience? Why?"

One has to sort out the question concerning what "matter" means.

"The problem that I am raising is that you see motion in everything. It is a single motion since everything is connected by forces." It's not necessary to think motion causally. That something causes something. Cause is an answer to the question: "Why?". The question can be with...

"I just want to point out that emotions are required by evolution;. That's why we have them." What does emotion mean here? Electrical impulse? That just avoids the question in the OP. Besides, why do you bandy about these vapid claims with no arguments? What in Tartarus does the slimy bod...

Humans lack the bravery to stand under the great Redwood of their own must be. We Trolls look upon them with vacant eyes, not because we are dreaming, for only humans dream, but it is natural for us Trolls to see nothing where humans are. Troll eyes are not lacking!

The shadow body of Scientism should be destroyed. I don't call it an ideology, since that would imply it were, in part, rational. Ideology is a specific account of facts, essentially irrational, but appealing to some persons. Yet, can anyone believe that a representative of Scientism is capable to t...

“...unthinkingly complacent about the political and social status quo?” The way of thinking is normative in your provocation. Such a cheap and thoughtless objection is in each nook, and each corner, of the planet, holding its fingers crossed. All over people are making the objection, here, in this p...