Jakob wrote: ˇ§To come to the story I told, I am often reminded of this story in situations in my daily life. When something very pleasant or unpleasant...
I wrote something and I just keep thinking about it... I wrote earlier; "you experience the Cosmos all the time, there is not a second when you are not...
tdekeukelaere
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Jun 6, 2003 3:29 pm
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To continue upon and elaborate the previous post: 1.when you experience joy, you experience the-Cosmos-as-joy, when you experience pain, you experience...
tdekeukelaere
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Jun 6, 2003 2:31 pm
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Jakob, you say "I have never experienced the Cosmos".... But, Jakob, you experience the Cosmos all the time. there is not a second when you are not...
tdekeukelaere
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Jun 6, 2003 2:05 pm
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Dear Satya, You wrote: "So the description of the Cosmos *is* a description of our experience of it. Since one can presumably experience the Cosmos in varied...
I would like to subscribe to the "The Heathen .." group. Is there anything in particular I have to do, apart from sending this email? Regards, Jochem van den...
jochem van den Boogert
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Jun 6, 2003 9:24 am
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Dear Satya, My reply to your queries. Your point: I am having difficulty with the notion of intolerance wrt religion, though for reasons other than the ones...
Dear Arun, Here are my responses to your questions. (a) In a Greek story, Persephone spends part of the year in the underworld and part of the year on earth,...
Dear Jakob: ... very problematic to me. ... are ... This question itself does not appear to make sense. Do you ... It seems to me that your question only makes...
Dear Jakob: ... very problematic to me. ... are ... This question itself does not appear to make sense. Do you ... It seems to me that your question only makes...
To Balu and others: I am having difficulty with the notion of intolerance wrt religion, though for reasons other than the ones expressed earlier on Sulekha. ...
About krishna, the EI component comes in as far as we accept that the 'world is an illusion'! How did we happen to know this? Because god said so. Once we...
Hi Balu, IN fact you are absolutely correct. I think my misunderstanding has arisen out of the assumption that you were creating this theory to oppose the...
In a Greek story, Persephone spends part of the year in the underworld and part of the year on earth, and winter is caused by her mother Demeter's sorrow at...
... Dear Shivmanoj, Where do I say that an EI account has a negative influence? According to my story, what we call natural sciences would not exist in the ...
Balu, I think I am finally getting to make your posts intelligible. Of course this is requiring a lot of para-phrasing. Most importantly the bullets numbered 5...
OK, I think through several careful readings, I might be getting to understand your explanation of the religion-theory. Having said that the question that...
Let me pursue the reflections presented in my previous post on intelligibility. (It tried to suggest that the notion of `understandablity' can be extracted...
If it is said that the epistemological claim lays down the necessary condition for anything to become intelligible, is this not applicable to `belief' as well?...
Also, the story of Krishna is not simply an explanation but an axiom, much like the 'explanatory intelligibility' theory. You and I read/accept it because...
If it is said that the epistemological claim lays down the necessary condition for anything to become intelligible, is this not applicable to `belief' as well?...
Hello Balu, In #8 you say ... "That is, in religion (and only in religion) both the causal and the intentional explanation come together and are fused into one...
Dear Members, This is indeed the place to discuss, as critically as we possibly can, some of the ideas that constitute the research programme I am developing....
Satya wrote: "Rajiv asked earlier how this differs from our stories. I don't pretend to know the answer, but let me speculate on. I think our stories convey an...
Thank you, Arun for starting this much needed discussion group. ‘Explanatorily intelligible’ in the context of religion also carries the implication of an...
The pre-theoretical assumptions of the universality of religion have far-reaching effects. By this, we define our beliefs and convictions - good/bad/ugly,...
Folks, This list is currently - 1. Unmoderated (no moderator approval is needed) 2. Anyone can join (no moderator approval is needed) 3. Members' email address...
Today, as we well know without having to be told, something is the matter with the social sciences. We have had our quota of geniuses in several domains...
As I understand it - There is an easy mapping between concepts held by Christians and Hindus - God to Ishwara, religion to dharma, worship to puja, heaven to...
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