An alternative to feeling good, there is feeling at peace — T Clark

I’d put it this way: I’m not concerned with discovering some final or objective truth about reality. The idea that such a truth lies hidden, waiting to be uncovered, depends on a representational view of knowledge I find unconvincing. My position isn’t based on logic or simplicity, but on the sense that our ways of thinking and speaking are practical tools for getting by, not exact reflections of the world. Speculative metaphysics adds nothing to that. I simply go on treating the world and my experiences as real, because that’s the only way any of us can make sense of it and act within it. — Tom Storm

... a kind of cosmic rationale for the existence of life, rather than seeing it as a kind of fluke of biochemistry. — Wayfarer

Teleology is heresy for [irrelevant to] Materialists [antisupernaturalists], but may be unavoidable for Idealists — Gnomon

Yes, the only possibility for a return to universally shared life purpose is totalitarian. — Janus

Heart is core ... the essential, central part of being — Dogbert

Conclusion ∴ All belief is irrational. — Millard J Melnyk

Believing all belief is irrational, is irrational. — Banno

strictly philosophical.
— Wayfarer

If by strictly philosophical, you mean free to just make shit up, then of course guilty as charged now. I don’t take that intellectual liberty. The facts constrain me. — apokrisis

If trans gender is not a philosophical issue, nothing is. — Philosophim

[4] Insisting on an idea’s truth beyond the limits of its epistemic warrant is irrational.

Conclusion ∴ All belief is irrational. — Millard J Melnyk

the transcendent heart — Dogbert

Our metaphysical conclusions should be derived from, and not stray away from, the whole of the pre-reflective experience that linguistically mediated reflectivity is parasitic upon. Otherwise we land in a "hall of mirrors". — Janus

fully transcends existence — Dogbert

Thus, to avoid circularity, it is necessary to posit a transcendent ground of being.
— Dogbert

This is such poor thinking it beggars belief. — Banno

Imagine a mountain that is the tallest in the world. — Dogbert

... transcendent ground does not precipitate infinite regress. — Dogbert

But, how do neurons & electrons create meaningful ideas? ... immaterial radio signals (mathematical waves ... immaterial stuff like metaphysical Minds & Cosmic signals ... the possibility that some cosmic intentional (teleological) Mind created ... all we know about the world is subjective ideas in a Mind. — Gnomon

justification for existence — Dogbert

What are male and female is science, but cultural associations with sex, aka gender, is a goldmine of philosophical discussion. — Philosophim

In modern days, "the interaction problem" is brought up as a hoax. — Metaphysician Undercover

Idealism is monistic ... — bert1

Therefore there is no reason to assume an interaction problem. — Metaphysician Undercover

... the validity of the intuition of Idealism — Pantagruel

You believe your behavior, being personal, operates freely [in] spite of deterministic events that control your life? — ucarr

I also hold that my experience of the world does not have need for most metanarratives; I am a fan of uncertainty. I am also a fan of minimalism and think that people overcook things and want certainty and dominion where knowledge is absent and where they have no expertise. — Tom Storm

By the inference of the interaction problem drawn from the intuitions of the material you mean? — Pantagruel

Since you argue for human determinism ... — ucarr

How do you explain deterministic atheism being valid whereas deterministic theism is invalid?

[T]o preclude cosmic consciousness, must embrace cosmic randomness. — ucarr

The culmination of the Cartesian ego cogito. — Pantagruel

Regarding magical_wishful_group thinking, why do you think there's a logical skein extending from you to a scale of consciousness larger than you? — ucarr

Spinoza's philosophy is both pantheistic and panpsychist ... — Gnomon

Do you deny that God consciousness is a component of human psychology? — ucarr

Do you have criteria establishing the falsifiability of ...?

If truth emerges from an identity correspondence - a=a[/u]

... theistic narratives as ... real human psychology?

The atheistic belief — Hanover

The best argument the atheist can mount against theism is claiming it’s irrational, which is true. — ucarr

Does the atheist, on principle, always shun the leap of faith?

This is the simulation of God’s uncontainable presence.

E.g., if I can only save a person from getting murdered by doing evil, then allowing the evil of that person getting murdered is morally permissible and, in this case, obligatory. — Bob Ross

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. — Isaiah 45:7

There are varieties of moral realism which suppose that moral facts are much the same as physical facts, found lying about the place. — Banno

So perhaps my position could be described as dialogical naturalism: compassion as the empirical face of a metaphysical truth - the truth that relation precedes substance. — Truth Seeker

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Thanks for the information. — Ciceronianus

In that sense, compassion isn’t an invented rule but an encountered reality - the felt structure of coexistence itself. When I harm another, I don’t merely break a social convention; I diminish the field of meaning that connects us. The “realness” of ethics lies in that experiential invariance: wherever sentient beings coexist, the possibilities of care and harm appear as objectively distinct modalities of relation. — Truth Seeker