180's own "woo-of-the-gaps" is the metaphysical belief that Matter (clay) can create Mind (idea) by rubbing atoms together. — Gnomon

↪180 Proof seems to think that Whitehead and Gnomon are disguising primitive Animism and Spiritualism under the more sciency label of Process[ghost in the machine] — Gnomon

[Energy] its insubstantial substance

... you ever teach before? — DifferentiatingEgg

... some book recommendations?

e.g. "Water is wet and wobbly. Therefore water is wet." — bert1

Eternity or Block-Time — Gnomon

My worldview is both immanent and Transcendent ...

Enjoy it while you can. — Tobias

And thus spoke the little old woman: You go to women? Do not forget the whip! — Thus Spoke Zarathustra

It delights me to note from year to year how long it takes for much that happens to one to become inner experience. It is only in old age that this process is completed, and for this reason it is right and proper to grow truly old, despite the less pleasant reverse side in the shape of infirmity. It seems to be that this is true even in matters of the intellect, not only in the emotional life. — Letter to Freud

Read Stenger and Dawkings[Hawking] and 180 Proof and Poetic Universe! — PoeticUniverse

'Nothing' cannot even be meant.

All philosophies & religions have postulated some First Cause or Prime Mover ... — Gnomon

But the God Hypothesis is a Causal explanation — Gnomon

Re: legacy of absentee / abusive fathers reinforced by pervasive religious-cultural misogyny — 180 Proof

Is there such a legacy really? — Tobias

The pervasive religious and cultural misogyny I understand, but what happened to the fathers in your opinion?

There may well be a link. Before the second world war fathers were regularly absent, drinking in the bars. I do not know what happened in the 1960s or 1970s. There might well be something there, but how have the sins of the father [& the mother] influenced our current state as men and women?

Why would someone [@Gregory] that studies philosophy go off into such an odd absolutist reading of femininity and masculinity?

Well, people are strange, when you're a stranger...

.. that doesn’t mean we have to tolerate dehumanizing statements. — DasGegenmittel

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin

Many great[MALE] thinkers thru history have warned men about females. — Gregory

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There's no joy without suffering, no life without death. The entire reality we exist in is formed around this cyclical dual phasing. We are part of this reality, this nature as all beings, only we are aware of this cycle in a way no other animal is.

But that also gives us a responsibility to handle this knowledge; it is both a burden and a blessing to have it. Not to see the suffering of others, but to form a balance and harmony with the reality of it. We can't reject our existence in that sense, we need to harmonize with it. With all concepts of it. Life, death, the cycle; entropy perceiving itself. So... perceive it and don't waste this experience of being. We can fight for all to experience it as well, to gain the well being of experiencing reality; but we cannot disconnect anyone or ourselves from death itself, or their part in the cycle.

We are all food for nature, in some form or another. Like the bacteria in our guts slowly eating us through life only to fully consume us in death. They've cultivated us as their cattle, nurtured in symbiosis until the final feast of their lives. — Christoffer

I wish I never existed. — Truth Seeker

I think about suicide every day and have done so for 37 years. The main reason I haven't killed myself is that it would cause suffering to my family and extended family. I would love to be happy. I would love to be cured of my CPTSD, Bipolar Disorder and Chronic Nerve Pain. — Truth Seeker

I [am] assuming an existence that doesn't interact with the physical world in a way we can detect. — TiredThinker

... if our thoughts on the origins of the universe shift a lot each time we get a new telescope resolution

Without a clear purpose what can we know, and with our lifespans being virtually nothing compared to the duration of the universe how can we even determine themes and patterns.

What would you say that "physical space" is made out of? [ ... ] The ancient Greek atomists limited the capacity to divide physical substance by positing fundament particles, atoms. The atoms would be indivisible. — Metaphysician Undercover

But Aristotle demonstrated ... why the dualism of matter and form was required.

To reach the finish line, the tortoise must first cross half the distance to it, then half the remaining distance, then half of the remaining distance again, and onward infinitely. — Metaphysician Undercover

Not always. — Gregory

If you can prove[demonstrate] that the universe is self existent ... — Gnomon

My only point was that ideologies whether religious or not, being based on some dogma or other, are one of the main problems which plague humanity. — Janus

Yet our perspective is not the full picture and it lacks finality. We do not know what comes after this life. — BitconnectCarlos

What is hateful (harmful) to you, do not do to anyone.

[A]ren't all universal moral systems inevitably going to be flawed in some way ... — Dorrian

... and therefore rendered futile?

... the concept of "goodness."

If its a true[ly] universal moral system, it will be objective. Not saying it can't be improved upon ... — Philosophim

They're not futile systems as much as incomplete, but necessary (in spite of their incompleteness!) ways of thinking. Or suggestions. — Moliere

All postulated explanations refer to something antecedent or transcendent to the Bang itself. — Gnomon

My point is that faith is a poor way to arrive at truth because there is nothing it can't justify. Which is why I've generally said if you have good reasons for believing in something, you don't need faith. For me faith is best understood as the excuse people give for a belief when they don't have good reasons. — Tom Storm

I don't see reason as a disembodied thing — Janus

I'll work hard to set aside any jokes about onanism. — Banno

As my fundamentalist friends often say, "Don't think, don't reason, have faith." — Tom Storm

Teleological explanations ... — Hanover

And when I,
I wanna kiss you, yeah
All I gotta do
Is whisper in your ear
The words you long to hear
And I'll be
kissing you

And the same goes for me
Whenever
you want me at all
I'll be here,
yes I will
Whenever you call

Spiritual, philosophical, mystical... — Gregory

faith or science

belief in the impossible — Fire Ologist

When the body dies and decays, everything about me, everything particular to “me”, is gone.

The division between self and world is itself part of what the brain constructs. — Wayfarer

The most generally accepted scientific hypothesis for the beginning of space-time is the Big Bang theory — Gnomon

And some believe that I am what I remember. Hence, no remembrance, no Self ...

Truth is always seen. — Gregory

It's not always reco[gn]ized

That knowledge-of is a construct of mind. — tim wood

[W]e experience the world but can't truly understand it. — Gregory

Kant's use of the antinomies was to demonstrate that we do not know such things -- we can rationally argue for both the assertion and the negation, and both will appeal to reason, and they can be put side-by-side and end up in contradiction. For Kant this shows a limitation on reason's ability to answer some questions. — Moliere

I rather think contradiction is certainly a necessary part of logic. Or, maybe, if not a necessary part, then at least the fundamental ground for the validity of logical constructs [reason] . — Mww

Kant's great idea: that science is the science of appearances, and that appearance always entails the subject for whom it is appearance. — Wayfarer

And while it is fashionably modern to be dismissive of many of his [Kant's] ideas, at close look, they still hold! — tim wood