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Yes, it is possible but has never been observed, to my knowledge. How can an effect exist without a cause? And how can a cause be a cause without an effect? Everything we know of in this universe has a cause and effect relationship, except for maybe the mind and its operations, but even there there...

Have you studied Dignaga's Hetucakra? It is the Buddhist early work on first order logic, follows a similar pattern to Aristotle's Square of Opposites. You'll find trying to fit a Ontology into concepts of Emptiness is a largely meaningless endeavor. The error is less in the schools, and more in th...

"Lack of belief" is just another way of saying, "I do not believe god exists." This is obviously not the same as "having no true beliefs." The strong atheist goes further and says, "I believe god does not exist." He does not lack a belief in God -- he has a b...

This brings me a bit closer to understanding your mode of thought. I echo -1- in both of his posts, as I would have asked and said the same. Sorry for the 'brainwashing' bit, I just hate to see bright minds corrupted by the influence of numerology.

Yes and No. Intention with no act is not real intention at all, just a "feeling". A moral act without intention is not moral as it was not intended. The only real form of intentionality is the practice and manifestation of "habits". Habits are the basis of all morality, for habi...

Yes and No. Intention with no act is not real intention at all, just a "feeling". A moral act without intention is not moral as it was not intended. The only real form of intentionality is the practice and manifestation of "habits". Habits are the basis of all morality, for habi...

Sorry for the double post, but I think this is worth mentioning. To say that Atheism is a lack of belief like one is a non-stamp collector is fallacious. The opposite of a belief is not the same as the opposite of an activity. The opposite of stamp collecting is non-stamp collecting, while the oppos...

If one 'lacked a belief in God' then one would be like a newborn baby, having no true beliefs. If one is an atheist, then that atheism necessarily depends on the belief in God, and thus is a counter-belief that there is no God. If there were a teapot millions of light-years away, one wouldn't lack b...

What do you all think of racialism? I believe that every person, regardless of idealized characteristics and in spite of lack of idealized characteristics there is indeed race but it is only appearance in artistic terms, at least for me. So, when I see a person who approximates what most people call...

Silence stretches out upon the nighttime sky as the unfolding breath of "wisdom", Caught within her breast lies the heartbeat of the stars. Men's dreams unfold through her gaze, An echoing memory of what may be. Orion sings as they join, a silent tribute towards the children of creation, ...

Don't you think having a good intention is enough for morality? Consequentialists care not if they use people as means to an end, and regardless of the intention, evil or not, it would have to result in good, and not everyone is privileged enough to have right actions all the time. It may seem that ...

To me, it seems the end of the Large Hadron Collider will be the end of Quantum Physics as we know it. By the end, do you mean replaced by another collider? PhilX 🇺🇸 I heard Stephen Hawking argue that the collider needed for proving M-Theory would have to be equivalent to the milky-way. That and on...

To me, it seems the end of the Large Hadron Collider will be the end of Quantum Physics as we know it.

If I were to give two words that sum up humanity's meaning of life they would be: happiness and meaning.

Of course I prefer other sects because I have experienced them, and know some of some sects' philosophy. I can can Gelugpa because it is philosophically inadequate and practically ungraspable. There is no one meaning to it that one can set as their view and method and meditate upon it, as it is sup...