What is mind? What is real? Can I know when they are not? Mary...
58425
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 26, 2012 3:20 pm
Developing the no belief attitude? [ How and when did you come to develop this no belief attitude of yours? ] Huh ! I have never been asked that question...
58426
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 26, 2012 4:13 pm
And to expand just a bit, I think that what are called hallucinations, altered states, and even dreams, should challenge our standard definition of ordinary or...
58427
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 26, 2012 4:27 pm
How would you place limits on human experience? And why would you want to do that? Which bits would you allow and which bits would you not allow? There is no...
58428
William
bhvwd
Oct 26, 2012 5:55 pm
As we have explored the cosmos, so far, we have found no other life.It appears life evolved here ,slowly , building up from the elemental, through the phyla,...
58429
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 26, 2012 6:38 pm
Bill, The problem with science is that its nature is to normalize knowledge, but you can't normalize experience. If experience is constrained by knowledge, an...
58430
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 26, 2012 6:46 pm
Studying Oneself? [ You mention enough times about studying oneself and mentioning about people being at where they are at. But how would you suggest going...
58431
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 26, 2012 7:06 pm
I suppose another perhaps better way to say this is that standardization of knowledge allows for the non-standard to influence and change it. The normalization...
58432
William
bhvwd
Oct 26, 2012 7:12 pm
... The obfuscation attempts used to discredit global warming took the form of polling. Poll the scientists and they will tell us. Most were not...
58433
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 26, 2012 8:15 pm
Bill, I agree there's a problem with politicizing science, but it's no worse than power using science and/or religion to control society panoptically. Science...
58434
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 27, 2012 6:13 am
Running Wild? [ You mentioned in your book about the latch door kids and a kind of running wild or feral when young, and also about having initial mystical ...
58435
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 27, 2012 8:07 am
When the World Ended? [ The part of your exegesis in which the world ended seems to me to be perhaps the major key or switch to the transcendent ground of...
58436
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 28, 2012 6:03 am
What constitutes the good life? [ There has always been so much talk about the good life, but to me it seems that this must be relative to the individual...
58437
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 28, 2012 6:10 am
Integration of the Trinity? [ I read something once along the lines of the integration of the trinity; but I cannot remember where it was. Something was also ...
58438
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 28, 2012 11:58 am
The Mid Winter Festival? [ What is the mid winter festival for you? I realise that you call it the yule tide. ] It is the celebration of a bank holiday and two...
58439
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 28, 2012 12:50 pm
Were all religions invented nonsense? [ Do you think that all religions were and are invented nonsense? ] I doubt if ALL religions were politically motivated...
58440
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 28, 2012 2:34 pm
Angels in the Eternal Paradesium? [Are there any angels in the timeless eternal paradesium Merlin? ] Yes, of course there are. I was one until I got the boot...
58441
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 28, 2012 7:24 pm
The love in eternity? [ Try and find anybody talking about the love in eternity on the internet. I looked and found nothing. Gurus and mystics don't seem to...
58442
gil_serrano@...
gil_serrano...
Oct 28, 2012 7:56 pm
Consciousness is a property not a "thing" or an object. NDE are not subject to the material sciences though they are of interest to the psychologist. NDE are...
58443
gil_serrano@...
gil_serrano...
Oct 28, 2012 8:49 pm
Many of these sorts of questions are more easily addressed by examining exactly what is our criterion for truth or for what is "real". Maybe a better approach...
58444
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 28, 2012 9:25 pm
Reasonability is a social or legal criterion, whereas truth and reality fit psychological and phenomenological criteria, in other words, philosophical. Some...
58445
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 29, 2012 7:05 am
Psychic Phenomena? [ Consciousness is a property not a "thing" or an object. NDE are not subject to the material sciences though they are of interest to the...
58446
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 29, 2012 8:16 am
A Devotion To? [ These are interesting points. Why is somebody devoted to the study of what it is they study. A temporary or lifelong fixation for analysis on ...
58447
gil_serrano@...
gil_serrano...
Oct 29, 2012 8:34 am
I would say that reasonableness is all that can be justified in an epistemology. There is a sort of continuum in which on one end we have absolute disbelief...
58448
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 29, 2012 9:16 am
Big loves and devotions? [ And what have been your big loves and devotions Richard? ] Oh bloody hell mate ! My wife and kids. Life. Psychology. Physics. ...
58449
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 29, 2012 10:23 am
The Content of Broadcasting? [ Consciousness and its content must be much the same as broadcasting and its content. Or a good analogy at any rate. You cannot...
58450
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 29, 2012 12:55 pm
Absolute Disbelief? [ There is a sort of continuum in which on one end we have absolute disbelief and on the other complete commitment to the truth of a ...
58451
Dick.
somerset_2
Oct 29, 2012 4:51 pm
Jealousy? [ It is said that jealousy is one of the major human problems. How do you find this? ] I am no expert or authority on it :- ) Never really had it....
58452
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 29, 2012 10:19 pm
The reasonable proposition, state or case in the world is the number of people who say they've experienced an "afterlife." It seems that a religious context is...
