Wow. A thread in a philosophy forum with something like a constructive conclusion! Thanks again.
To reiterate in different terms: it seems to me that throughout history certain individuals have pushed the boundaries of or (secretly or openly)...
Shrug. :)
Yes. I have had similar experiences, though they have been more random and unintentional than rigorously guided as yours seem to be. Right here...
"What I saw was fact from my perspective." What we percieve is the only approximation to fact we can have, and we must inevitably accept it as a...
Sorry, man. I think you are full of shit. Period. I think you are trying to convince yourself of your own sage-like wondrousness, or at least...
I have an all-too-keen understanding of mental illness from my own bitter personal experiences which I documented in a post in the Politics forum....
Actually, acquiring such scientific validation is the point. Science is but a method, and a long and arduous one, but, it at least builds...
The ambiguity of the term God is my problem. We need to take it to indicate a supernatural being, and do away with it. Breaking away from that...
"Perception is not knowledge." ???? This is exactly the type of nonsensical jargon that I am attempting to point out in all of your replies....
So by your theory, if someone is a known rapist you shouldn't warn others of the fact? Or, if you do, you're just wasting your breath? You are...
Nothing is required. And when nothing is done, nothing is achieved. I make no claim to special knowledge. I sense that you are getting...
If God has a good reason for not sharing the certainty of God's existence with all people then I would like to hear it. Especially since God's...
Also, as an afterthought before sinking into sleep: this is not necessarily a hardline linear progression; there are regressions; and there are no...
This is of course just the sort of mystic mish-mash slave drivers and jail wardens love to hear, by the way.
Applespark is on the right track, but it's not quite that clear cut. Various philosophies seem to indicate a hard distinction between, shall we...
Ah. So we're back to stoic serenity. No, not for me. I suffer (make an effort beyond what is called for) to create. It is a choice, and one I do...
Also, as an addendum, theories of God like Deism and Pantheism make God, and God's existence, sort of irrelevant, don't they? I think it was...
No, I do not have Assburgers. :) People often think they share subjective experience because we are so adept at picking up on each others body...
It does not seem to me that the ratio of affluence to poverty is getting narrower.
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