The Philosophy Now Forum

God and Consciousness: The Seat and Source of All Power I’m calling the name of our Creator ‘God’, only to avoid using names attributed to him by others. God by any other name is God. In considering the experience of consciousness, I see only two possibilities. I’m sure there may be more, but I see ...

THE COMFORT AND FEAR OF POETIC JUSTICE There is both horror and comfort in knowing that we will judge ourselves. God withholds His final judgment in favor of a self-judgment that ensures a fairness not to be found in our courts. The war being fought in Heaven is more than a war for power. It is a wa...

I do indeed cherish the experiences I had that were considered as me sinning. Without these most cherished memories I would now be incomplete. I can now, not only understand my acts that shaped my Christian personality from an intellectual viewpoint, but I am also freed from speaking of sins in vapi...

by Mortalsfool A strawman is more generally misrepresenting your opponent's argument usually as being more superficial than it is. I think that some of these posts come from people who are incapable of commenting on the points made in an article. Seeing that true philosophy requires thinking more s...

Wow! I am amazed at how pussified some of you human trolls can act. You are so insecure in your skin that when you open an article to read, you don’t really do it to assimilate its content. Your attention is attracted to, and distracted, by a pronoun that is not one you would have liked to see. Don’...

When I use the terms ‘man’, ‘mankind’, or ‘he’, they are generally meant to be applied equally to the female gender as part of mankind! If these terms are seen otherwise as exclusive or offensive to the female, my apology must exist; that as a male, I feel neither qualified, nor inclined, to express...

WAR IN HEAVEN The Plan, the Battle, and the Choice Between Fear and Love There is a question about prayer that has interested me for some time. If God exists outside the restraints of time, as I believe, then how does our prayer reach Him? And what does it mean to ask God for something to be changed...

SELF-EVALUATING MY DOPAMINE HIGH I consider myself one of those who has become addicted to the dopamine high that YouTube is particularly efficient at supplying. It is a real drug as surely at those we can take from the pharmacy. Our brains chemistry creates it to make us feel good, literally, and a...

When I posted this premise, I didn't post it with any intent to argue its validity. I merely presented as I saw the possibility of Jesus posing an action that would indeed have caused a major headache for the Roman's ability to rule a populace that rejected the use of Roman coinage. The number of Je...

I was going to post this in answer to a question asked in another post. I didn’t because it was not relevant to the OP. I proposed this argument a few years ago. So, I ask the forum, does it pose a logical enough answer to the mystery of why the Romans agreed to use the punishment, crucifixion, used...

THE CALLING I was thinking about what my message would be if I were preaching as though we were living in the last days. Since I am eighty-nine years old, it is more than a possibility that I am right. My last days are here. But I am not thinking about those “last days.” I am thinking about these la...

That's a major hypothesis with scant evidence, and like most postings in this thread, not linked to the OP. Trust me! Evidence is everything but scant. I have a lifetime of seeing men who had absolutely no idea how to treat a woman. I have found the consensus of opinion among women is, and I have a...

Hey Guys, I would never have entered into this weird interchange going on now, except that its taking place in my OP so I had to read the posts. I don’t know if I’ve misread or misunderstood some of the exchange, but it seems as though there is a lack of understanding of womanhood. I’m not even sure...

Walker, you asked, ‘How can there be secular explanations for Biblical miracles ... explanations other than the divinely inspired, who delivered the word of God, were lying, which is what Mortalsfool proposes.’ Mortalsfool wrote: Is it so hard to believe that something was created with supernatural ...

Lacewing, to you and others on this site, I've yet to 'relearn' how to form replies using the quotes for posting. Sorry, I'll get to it. At eighty-nine it seems like I'm always too busy doing nothing. I do gain some comfort in believing God has a plan that is above my paygrade. I say that because of...