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- Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:51 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
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First I wouldn't link the supernatural with the transcendent mystery. The supernatural is linked with the fantastical in my book. So is theism lol. I guess its ok. The transcendent mystery is different as far as I am concerned, an inexplicable aspect of reality and life "something that cant be know ...
- Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:51 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
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Well thing is that I dont agree either with comparing humans or animals with equations, electrons or chemicals. And bringing these concepts as an argument for the lack of free will. There are many examples out there especially addicted people whom their bodies have been conditioned to some really st...
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:15 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 416047
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
For good or ill we are not trees. We are humans, we philosophize, analyze, observe, mythologize, fall in love and experience pain.. And after all this time, after endless pages of conversation and so many years of trying to explain to us the nature of reality and science, you come and tell me that p...
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:58 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
Erm... Sigh... So because we know that our bodies are composed of chemicals we understand reality... I dont know... Might be a sufficient answer for you. But try to understand what others are saying also. Sure there is no ghost in the machine but then again there is no machine without a ghost. And b...
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
You can say we should not we should not be reduced a simplistic explanation of a bunch of chemicals. And I agree with you. But to deny we are chemicals is to me false. We are an unimaginably complex bunch of chemicals, so complex we find higher order approximations of ourselves. We talk of psyches,...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
Then according to your logic Rom. I can say, I have a really good sense what life it is not. And life it is not a bunch of chemicals. lol Personally I dont think that transcendence should be equated with human ideals. In the same way I dont think it should be reduced to a bunch of chemicals and simp...
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
Basically in my book I promote the "all in good measure" philosophy lol. Like I said idealistic notions of the world dont fit well in my philosophy. Whether it comes from materialists or spiritualists, scientists or priests or anyone. But what can you do one person sees something in the world anothe...
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
We do things for survival and love.. Havent met a human being who doesnt need to eat, yeap that is survival. Also almost everyone will have what campbell called in his lecture "a zeal", yeap even the modern industrial civilization we have created was born by a belief that we are making the world a b...
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 6:53 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
- Replies: 252
- Views: 69579
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 3:31 pm
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Common Use of the Word, "Myth"
- Replies: 60
- Views: 27012
Well I guess the problem is not how much money you need to love someone or cats. The problem is if the cats will love you back if you dont have money. lol And I am pretty sure no cat will ever come close to you to be loved if you dont treat her something and treats need money. You're not talking ab...
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 2:52 pm
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Common Use of the Word, "Myth"
- Replies: 60
- Views: 27012
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:05 am
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Common Use of the Word, "Myth"
- Replies: 60
- Views: 27012
We can't tackle metaphysics,Rom. We can either rationalize it or go mad. Seems to me. Even arguing that metaphysics is something inexplicable is a sort of rationalization. That's why I don't argue over metaphysics. So like Schrodingers cat we rather exist in a contradictory state as long as we dont...