The Philosophy Now Forum

As long as you insist on talking about religion as a source of morality, you're failing to distinguish the ventriloquist from his dummy. There is one source of meaning in the world: consciousness. All things created by humanity are biological extensions of the nature of humanity; religion is no exce...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2026 1:49 pm Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode

-Imp

Yes, I remember that episode too!---- and it is creepy that humanity doesn't catch on to what it is doing!

It wasn't Russia that lost twenty-seven million souls it was the USSR, and about half of them were Ukrainian, not Russian. The USSR was Russia under Stalin, and the Ukrainians were fighting Russia side by side with the monster Nazi war machine. That Russia lost twenty-seven million souls in defeati...

God is the ventriloquist's dummy talking back to the ventriloquist. The dummy is the master of his fate. Now the ventriloquist believes he is the dummy, created and operated by the dummy.

Russia was the fulcrum on which the Second World War was won and paid a horrific price in defeating that monster Nazi war machine. America lost half a million souls to that war; Russia lost twenty-seven million souls and a totally gutted country. It wasn't Russia that lost twenty-seven million soul...

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What is reality, at its deepest level?
What does it mean for anything to exist?
How does everything hang together?

The real one. And I didn't say "God IS consciousness." I said "God is A consciousness." See above. You actually quoted it, just before you got it wrong. So, you're not talking about an anthropomorphic god of traditional desert religions. You've got it backward. God isn't pattern...

But God is a consciousness. So you're right in this much: absent God, the world would be utterly meaningless. In fact, it wouldn't even exist...nor would any other consciousness. God is consciousness is a really DUH response, and which god or gods might that be? The real one. And I didn't say "...

:D Too late. I'm miles ahead of you on this. In the absence of consciousness, the physical world is utterly meaningless. But God is a consciousness. So you're right in this much: absent God, the world would be utterly meaningless. In fact, it wouldn't even exist...nor would any other consciousness....

If and when the West can come to terms with a new world order, then humanity can start building something finer than the old system of violence and exploitation. Well at least you aren't purely negative and you have an idea of what you think this new world order should look like. I've always enjoye...

The secular, academic, "Encyclopedia of War" (3 vols.) is one place. But you can find out practically anywhere an honest source exists. We know that Stalin killed no less than 22 million, and Mao not less than 42 million. Add in the other Socialist regimes in North Korea, Cambodia, Zimbab...

No, it's certainly not. The only remaining question, really, is whether it even "is particular" to humans, since secularism would instruct us it is merely a delusion. Yes, it's true; you need to think about it more. :D Too late. I'm miles ahead of you on this. Nothing in the world has mea...

That's something you'd have to prove. It's not at all obvious that it's true: the world could have an objective meaning, one that people debate, perhaps, but still has a right answer. I don't think you can find a way to rule that out. But if it were true, then all it would mean is that every "...

Statistically, it's far more likely to be Socialism that kills us. May Allah bless you! You don't have to die if you believe. By the way, where do you get such statistics? The secular, academic, "Encyclopedia of War" (3 vols.) is one place. But you can find out practically anywhere an hon...