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I am so sorry that this article is somewhat longer, but philosophy is not a short cut to understanding. So I appreciate both your interest and patience. I will also appreciate it, if you would be so kind to comment and let me know if it is a subject of interest. GOD'S GIFT TO THE MONKEYS In Defense ...

BOOK OF LIFE I have discovered a blessing in my old age, one that is difficult to describe, yet deeply life-giving. I speak now as if to someone thirty years old, only to show the difference in perspective that eighty-nine years of living can produce. Memory, I have found, moves in two ways: short-t...

God’s Genetic Stew: A Heavenly Vision of Unified Humanity Let us suppose perfection as envisioned in the divine blueprint was not an abstract moral ideal but the fully matured expression of humanity itself, a physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness embodied in the evolving interwoven tapestry ...

I'm posting this article again because it covers 'happiness' as it applies to philosophical achievement. A STATE OF SELFISH CONTENTMENT Somewhere during my pursuit of happiness, I was freed from many things, and many people, about which, there could possibly be made strong argument against my ‘givin...

post_id=388243 time=1545256003 user_id=12397] Could you actually say, I wish I was never born! Re. The last sentence, yes. I am an antinatalist/antifrustrationist to the core of my being. Having said that, I am not without happiness. But the preference is still never being born. Bit late for that, ...

Not quite a universal moral. I despise (perhaps an overly strong word) life, or rather, consciousness. Mind, I didn't jump for it. Someone else did, and I got stuck with it, like it or not. I personally find it very difficult to relate to people that see life, and most specifically consciousness, a...

Mortalsfool: It was thru a simple revealing to one humble man, calling him, with his self admitted ignorance, ‘the wisest man in Athens’ … Actually, this was neither simple nor humble. The oracle said that no one was wiser than Socrates, that is quite different than saying he was the wisest of men....

Hi,-1-, I think I got it! Modifying your quote, "Cars are meaningless. Cars only gain meaning if some one drives them. ETC ETC"

INANE! Straight out of the Troll's handbook.

I can understand those who believed and prayed to Apollo then or now [?*] would have imputed the qualities of Apollo in their life. * I think it would be very rare for any one to belief in Apollo-the-God in our modern era. Veritas, I'm sometimes led to believe that, people in a philosophy forum, fe...

Agree. Age's claims are; 1. He is not a human being [by implication] 2. He does not have ANY beliefs. https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25589 He implied being human and having beliefs is foolish, i.e. an ignorant fool. Something is obviously wrong with Age rather than us human...

Books are meaningless. Books only gain meaning if some one reads them. ETC ETC I'm not sure if I'm being too harsh or not, but your post asked for it since its stated so empirically. I seems like you are saying our society would have somehow been better off, if the Gutenberg printing press had neve...

I can understand those who believed and prayed to Apollo then or now [?*] would have imputed the qualities of Apollo in their life. * I think it would be very rare for any one to belief in Apollo-the-God in our modern era. Veritas, I'm sometimes led to believe that, people in a philosophy forum, fe...

I think most of us can agree beliefs are an inherent quality of the human race. For philosophy, I like the word innate. One of Marion Webster's definitions for innate is, "originating in or derived from the mind or the constitution of the intellect rather than from experience". I say this,...

Is there something unimaginable to you now? Okay, because there is no doubt to the question IF there is some Thing that created all that exists, but WHAT is the name that we want to give to that Thing that created all that exists. Once that is agreed upon, then discovering the purpose for existence...

Recently I have this ridiculous encounter with 'Age' where he claimed; ' I do NOT have any Beliefs '. I BELIEVE the above statement from Age is delusional. I have argued the faculty of believing and its resulting beliefs are inherent within all human beings. uch thing as beliefs? Personally I belie...