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What I oppose about materialism is that it is exclusively the domain of what is real; of reality. — Bret Bernhoft

By "reality" I mean that which we encounter and can verify or measure.

Going out and drinking and catering to one's impulses in the moment is a life without purpose. Family and saving Grace gives one's life purpose and this might be better than indulging one's impulses at the moment. — Athena

Good reasoning requires following some laws of logic and your post is not a good example of that. — Athena

What are the differences between ma[tt]er and energy? — Athena

Sounds rather Stoic and, therefore, preferable as such things go, to me at least. All that acts or can be acted upon are "bodies" and therefore part of Nature, or the Universe. There are different kinds of bodies, though. — Ciceronianus

All materialists believe that matter moves around, right? And matter requires energy to move and interact and change directions and so forth, right?

I've never met a materialist who doesn't believe in energy. — flannel jesus

It is mind-blowing to me that we are still materialists. Everything is energy. — Athena

I might be playing the same game as theism, by looking to "a beyond" for something better. — Bret Bernhoft

I am not a materialist. — Bret Bernhoft

More simply, reality is mind/mental.

I would say that the type of existence is ‘mental’, which just signifies a nice shorthand for ‘everything that exists is mind’; but, of course, someone could point out that existence itself is mind-independent and is ‘physical’ in that sense. — Bob Ross

... everything is mind-dependent in the sense that everything that exists is mind-dependent, but not ... existence itself, taken up as an entity itself, is mind-dependent. — Bob Ross

I don't see how that's slavery. — RogueAI

... another comment that made me think that the poster had not read anything in my essay [my entire, overly long, OP]. — Brendan Golledge

I do not think that 'being' unfolds from a mind, as that mind would be 'non-being' then, which makes no sense to me. — Bob Ross

Instead, there exists, fundamentally, one mind (at-large) of which we are minds within it.

This is what I think objective idealist theories tend to purport, but of course there are theistic accounts that posit God as some sort of producer of even existence itself.

'the universe' is like a Möbius loop – an eternal cycle – wherein the topological 'twist' (ouroboros-like) corresponds to big bangs/big crunches (or white holes/black holes) Q-tunneling between bi-polar (i.e. positive-to-negative / matter-to-antimatter), quantum gravity manifolds consisting of strange-looping (or fractal-like) configurations (entropy gradients) of variable mass-energy densities ...

Well, (your) mind is nonmind-dependent unless solipsism obtains (which, of course, it does not).
—180 Proof

I don’t believe that is true at all. — Bob Ross

All that is required for idealism ... is that existence itself is mind-independent

... not that there exists any mind-independent entities within it.

... idealism (and solipsism I might add: not that they are similar at all) ...

completely reasonable — Bret Bernhoft

You aren't the only one here being stupid, but you are the worst offender — ToothyMaw

Why do you think this happens? — Vera Mont

Is it confined to a related group of cultures or is it world-wide?

Do you do this yourself - follow the procession on screen, or leave flowers and messages at the site?

What do you think about the practice?

How do you feel about it?

How is this not property dualism? — Bob Ross

Are you, then, a necessitarian?

Since I seem to be misrepresenting you, let me just ask for clarification: are you claiming that these promises are moral facts because (1) they are mind-independent (as biologically embedded into us as organisms) and (2) also obligations? Is that the idea? — Bob Ross

So I am failing to see how I misrepresented you ... — Bob Ross

To suffer is also to desire help to reduce my suffering; but there are only other sufferers who can offer, and effectuate, (some) help. This desire, or need, for help, however, implicitly promises to help others to reduce their suffering. This promise is natally prior to reciprocity, contract, cooperation, etc; it's implicit, fundamental, and inheres in each of us being individual members of the same species with the same functional defects (re: physical & psychological homeostasis) which if neglected or harmed render an individual dysfunctioning or worse [...] — 180 Proof

I am misunderstanding what 'dual-aspect' means in your use of 'monism'. — Bob Ross

What is modal-ontological determinism?

It seems clear to me that Jesus has anticipated the self-defense/just-war question: What if someone attacks me? Do not resist evil ... I don't know how you can read Jesus's teachings as anything other than total pacifism. — RogueAI

'Spirit' comes from the Latin word 'to breathe.' What we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. Despite usage to the contrary, there is no necessary implication in the word 'spiritual' that we are talking of anything other than matter (including the matter of which the brain is made), or anything outside the realm of science. On occasion, I will feel free to use the word. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. — Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark