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Can the human race, or the Great Beast in Plato's terms, evolve to a greater conscious understanding of Man's connection with its Source? To many there is no connection since it is all imagination. This thread deals with the human potential to consciously bypass the results of imagination with cons...

Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in. Religion is about faith and worship. Science is about the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Religion has an abstract foundation about existence. Science has a f...

Sleep does not bring happiness. Only an unhappy man will get some relief. You are unhappy so you should get some sleep. You know nothing, absolutely zero zilch nothing about me. So on that note, I think you should just f*** the f*** off with your retarted opinion. I know that "hell berates&quo...

Even the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer born 22 February 1788 ..knew the hard cold truth of reality. Men have always known it. “Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment of his falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his waking. Human life mu...

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven" Heaven is not on Earth according to the Bible. Fine. In a few generations we'll be off this planet. If we don't get off we already ...

There is no evidence that heaven exists. Whatever you say about "heaven" is conjecture. Does the future exist? Yes it does. Could the future turn out really terrible for humans? Yes it can. That's hell. Could the future turn out really great for humans? Yes it can. That's heaven. Our choi...

"an omnipotent (and "All-Knowing") Being, might actually have a logical reason for allowing evil to exist." Of course, but the logical conflict is this: if god is, as stated, 'omnipotent' - which means able to do and/or make happen whatever is logically possible (circulatory the...

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 7:43 am

jayjacobus wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 8:22 pm Knowledge can be contradictory and is many times only conjecture.

I assume you mean what is taken to be knowledge.

Knowledge requires understanding. Misunderstanding precludes knowledge.

But then just intelligence indicates a lot of cognitive processes. IOW experience is not enough , one has to do things with what one notices and lives. One must make a lot of choices, to repeat, to study, to compare, to contrast. There's pattern recognition. There is often mentoring which entails l...

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 3:57 am knowledge = the concurrence/intersection/conjunction of evidence

All of those do a good job, but i think concurrence does the best work.

Knowledge can be contradictory and is many times only conjecture.

Believe what you want but I wouldn't call concurrence knowledge.

Walker wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 2:33 pm A woman loves her child more than a man loves his, because she knows for sure that it's her's.

Based on your knowledge and wisdom, what does this sentence mean to you?

It means that incognizant is unknowing and trust is often needed.

DPMartin wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 5:28 pm

jayjacobus wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 5:14 pm

DPMartin wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 2:21 pm

why? you get a lot of interaction with ghosts, do you?

You're being evasive.

ghosts have nothing to do with the OP

Neither does evasive.

in the case you speak of if you're living the life the source of life has given you, then how is it you wouldn't know the purpose of the life you're living. isn't the life you would be living the revelation thereof? Life doesn't reveal its purpose anymore than ghosts reveal their purpose. If you th...

life is to live but there are many things that serve life, such as your body has the purpose of providing you a place to be in the earth, but life doesn't seem to serve the purpose of those who are alive seeing that life is being alive. therefore life isn't required to have purpose to be alive. The...

If something serves no purpose then its not valued, or valuable. If a person serves no purpose, then is that person of no value? Are we locked into the need to be valued? what if a person had no need to be valued, would that person be free to be at peace with himself and the world around him, even ...