I can't help being philosophical

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dividedforlovessake
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I can't help being philosophical

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Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments when other people say they don't need it.

My biggest interests are in religion and sex. I would like to be able to one day read Kant so I can finally be relieved of the need to find a philosophical justification for belief in God.

I also like Freud, Jung, Structuralism, Marx, continental philosophy, etc.

I wish English philosophy was deeper but then I wish continental philosophy was clearer.

Recently the religious implications of Quantum theory and synchrinicity theory of Jung have picqued my interest.

I think too much but I tried hardcore zen Buddhist meditation for a month in Plum Village with Thich Nhat Hanh and it did noohing for me.
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dividedforlovessake wrote:Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments when other people say they don't need it.

My biggest interests are in religion and sex. I would like to be able to one day read Kant so I can finally be relieved of the need to find a philosophical justification for belief in God.

I also like Freud, Jung, Structuralism, Marx, continental philosophy, etc.

I wish English philosophy was deeper but then I wish continental philosophy was clearer.

Recently the religious implications of Quantum theory and synchrinicity theory of Jung have picqued my interest.

I think too much but I tried hardcore zen Buddhist meditation for a month in Plum Village with Thich Nhat Hanh and it did noohing for me.
Don't run away with the idea that there are any religious implications for QM, there are none. That sort of "philosophy" is for the coffee table and the Fortean magazine.
As far as I can tell the only justification for God in Kant is that he found it hard to conceive of a moral world in which there was no God. I feel that if he had known Darwin, Kant would have moved towards a Spinozan God or gone to atheism.
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dividedforlovessake wrote:Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments when other people say they don't need it. .
One of the most intelligent statements I have read in a while. Or do I mean I think it's intelligent just because it chimes with my own world-view? Hmm, that'd be a bit arrogant. But in any case. Totally with you on that one :)
dividedforlovessake wrote:Recently the religious implications of Quantum theory and synchrinicity theory of Jung have picqued my interest.
What Chaz Wyman said.
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I, for one, surely can relate to the header! Welcome to the Philosophy Now forum! Cheers! :D
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I would list all the thinkers in Quantu
Theory that believed in it's religious implications but it would be too tedious. Most of the founders of QM found religious implications in it.
chaz wyman wrote:
dividedforlovessake wrote:Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments when other people say they don't need it.

My biggest interests are in religion and sex. I would like to be able to one day read Kant so I can finally be relieved of the need to find a philosophical justification for belief in God.

I also like Freud, Jung, Structuralism, Marx, continental philosophy, etc.

I wish English philosophy was deeper but then I wish continental philosophy was clearer.

Recently the religious implications of Quantum theory and synchrinicity theory of Jung have picqued my interest.

I think too much but I tried hardcore zen Buddhist meditation for a month in Plum Village with Thich Nhat Hanh and it did noohing for me.
Don't run away with the idea that there are any religious implications for QM, there are none. That sort of "philosophy" is for the coffee table and the Fortean magazine.
As far as I can tell the only justification for God in Kant is that he found it hard to conceive of a moral world in which there was no God. I feel that if he had known Darwin, Kant would have moved towards a Spinozan God or gone to atheism.
chaz wyman
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dividedforlovessake wrote:I would list all the thinkers in Quantu
Theory that believed in it's religious implications but it would be too tedious. Most of the founders of QM found religious

Yes, far too tedious!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Okay name ONE scientist that thinks QM has any religious implications!!



implications in it.
chaz wyman wrote:
dividedforlovessake wrote:Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments when other people say they don't need it.

My biggest interests are in religion and sex. I would like to be able to one day read Kant so I can finally be relieved of the need to find a philosophical justification for belief in God.

I also like Freud, Jung, Structuralism, Marx, continental philosophy, etc.

I wish English philosophy was deeper but then I wish continental philosophy was clearer.

Recently the religious implications of Quantum theory and synchrinicity theory of Jung have picqued my interest.

I think too much but I tried hardcore zen Buddhist meditation for a month in Plum Village with Thich Nhat Hanh and it did noohing for me.
Don't run away with the idea that there are any religious implications for QM, there are none. That sort of "philosophy" is for the coffee table and the Fortean magazine.
As far as I can tell the only justification for God in Kant is that he found it hard to conceive of a moral world in which there was no God. I feel that if he had known Darwin, Kant would have moved towards a Spinozan God or gone to atheism.
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Bible Study Boy wrote:I am very religious and therefore philosiphical, if that is the word. I love reading and studying the bible. However, I am not like most Christians. I have what many call an extreme view on the bible. However, through my studies almost anyone can see that what I believe has a very valid basis. I also love to debate, especially when I am right. So hello everyone.
Okay expert.
What was gentle JC meek and mild talkin about here in Matthew 10?

10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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