How is young Jordan, I wonder?
— Banno

I expect he is still making profitable use of the vacuum in many people's lives, like L Ron Hubbard, Ayn Rand and many others before him. — Tom Storm

... the biology of males [ ... ] Simply put, the necessity for governors, administrators, military, and more for a society to function calls upon the male biology of a hierarchical structure. The female biology of gathering and caring for children [ ... ] gender roles arise naturally ... and women are meant to be the homemakers and child caretakers, while men are meant to be the organizers [ ... ] Most women are simply not capable, by biology ... — ButyDude

Yes of course I have religious views, does not everybody have a view on religion and God? — ButyDude

... get over my religious beliefs

I highly recommend The Dawn of Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wingrow. — Joshs

The only possible way is if the multiverse is true, if all probabilities has their own branch, but then there's no point in going back in time to do anything as you cannot change the future you came from. It would be closer to traveling to other universes rather than specifically traveling back in time. And any change would only just fraction into new branches ... — Christoffer

Difficult physics and math subjects are not esoteric in my book, they are just difficult. — Janus

I hold that our metaphysical beliefs underpin the way we actually live our lives. — Pantagruel

science makes metaphysical presuppositions. — Pantagruel

I do really enjoy philosophy and the exploration of new ways of seeing and framing 'reality'. The mysteries themselves are part of the adventure. — Jack Cummins

If you could go, would you go? — BC

The worst possibility is to become so burdened by the nature of philosophical problems as to be incapacitated or dysfunctional. At an an extreme point, it would be possible to become so overwhelmed as if one needed answers in order to live. — Jack Cummins

[T]he limits of our knowledge and as such is not a problem, but a demarcation or delimitation. The absolute nature of things is an intractable mystery in one sense, but in another it can simply be seen as a matter of definition: that is that we cannot by mere definition see beyond our perceptions, experience and the judgements that evolve out of those. Anything that we project into that space must be confabulation. — Janus

... esoteric thought as a way of going beyond literalism. Esotericism was also a way of going beyond the fundamentalism of many other religious ideas [ ... ] focusing on the idea of God, life after death and free will. Such ideas are answered so subjectively because there is no proof.  — Jack Cummins

... unreasonable expectations ... As if by asking a question there must then be an answer. — Fooloso4

Metaphysics [ ... ] the question shifts somewhat from what is the nature of the world to: "what is it that can we say, given the creatures we are, about the nature of the world." — Manuel

I was thinking more of the back and forth between different metaphysicians over history. — Count Timothy von Icarus

Tell me/us why "exoteric" philosophy is not sufficient or in principle, if not practice, fails to do what it sets out to do. — 180 Proof

Would it be fair though to say that such a project requires positive metaphysical assertions that they might be either rejected or granted a stay of execution? — Count Timothy von Icarus

It seems to me that metaphysics, like other disciplines, must be dialectical.

[W]hat is your  best description of Metaphysics? — Rob J Kennedy

It would help if he chose another VP this time around. Gavin Newsom, perhaps. — jgill

Hegel is often seen as obscure and disregarded. — Jack Cummins

:mask: 30Jan24 predictions:

• US courts will deny that a president or former president has "absolutely immunity" from criminal prosecution. — 180 Proof

Whatever immunities a sitting President may enjoy, the United States has only one Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong 'get-out-of-jail-free' pass. Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability. — Judge Tanya Chutkan of Washington DC Federal District Court

I don't know if philosophers are elitist. — Tom Storm

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan

If someone claims to have mathematical knowledge it can be demonstrated. Can the same be said of someone who claims to have mystical knowledge? — Fooloso4

Folk trying to do physics without the maths, again. — Banno

So what is 'mind'? AFAIK, basically mind is a recursive (strange looping, phenomenal self-modeling) aspect of More/Other-than-mind – a nonmental activity (process ... anatman), not an entity (ghost-in-the-machine ... X-of-the-gaps), that is functionally blind to its self-recursivity the way, for instance, an eye is transparent to itself and absent from its own field of vision. — 180 Proof

scientific materialism — Wayfarer

This post outlines why I don’t believe there’s any specific conflict between idealism and science.

First please demonstrate why idealism implies anti-realism in the first place. — Wayfarer