Thank you for the birthday wishes ma'am, that is very kind of you. Sorry to hear about all that, and the pain. I too was awake early due to pain in one of my...
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William
bhvwd
Oct 30, 2012 9:35 pm
The preexistentialists were serious fellows. They came from mathematical backgrounds and demanded a rigor to their philosophical renderings. The later...
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Mary
josephson45r
Oct 30, 2012 8:20 pm
Thanks for your input, Bill. I think your last statement is most relevant. Is it really possible to build an entire philosophy from such disparate pieces. I...
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William
bhvwd
Oct 30, 2012 7:48 pm
... Now as to the reality of these altered states if you require three demensional happenings in temporal sequence for a situation to be real then most of...
58453
Mary
josephson45r
Oct 30, 2012 4:28 pm
When I wrote, "Normalizing peoples' experiences seems reasonable and has no philosophical grounding either," I meant that attempt to normalize experiences...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
