What we refer to as objects are really repeating patterns of events. For people used to thinking of the world as permanent objects with inherent properties the process way of thinking takes some adjustment and getting used to. Objects are repeating patterns of events and properties are relationships between these events. There are no fixed objects with independent properties. Everything that exists is in the process of becoming (not being, there is no static being) and everything depends on its relationships to the rest of reality (no independent objects with inherent properties). — prothero

Atoms are mostly empty "space" and subatomic particles can display both properties of "waves" and "particles". These are really just fluctuations or standing waves in quantum field theory. The distinction between matter and energy is somewhat artificial.

Faith in God requires belief without reason-based thought.
— DifferentiatingEgg — T Clark

This one:

Faith in God requires belief without reason-based thought.
— DifferentiatingEgg — T Clark

I firmly believe more than one mind can occupy a body... — DifferentiatingEgg

I don't like Anselm's and Aquinas' and Descartes' or any arguments purporting to demonstrate the existence of God. They can be shown invalid and/or unsound. — Fire Ologist

And we need to have faith in our senses to navigate crossing the street, and faith in our logic to navigate a conversation.

Therefore using reason-based thought for God is necessarily a showing of a lack of faith in God. — DifferentiatingEgg

Without faith, we go nowhere, and without reason, we cannot find the way! — MoK

20th century cosmology has found evidence that space-time had an inexplicable beginning point. — Gnomon

↪180 Proof tell me how. — Benkei

As I understand it, ↪180 Proof's worldview — Gnomon

In my Epicurean-Spinozist (i.e. p-naturalist¹) terms [ ... ] — 180 Proof

A fulfilling life consists of purposeful, positive and pleasant participation in life. — Truth Seeker

Husserl himself in "The Origin of Geometry" gives us the tools to get out of the enclosure when he speaks of ideality as something constituted by repetition and reactivation through tradition. This repetition, however, cannot occur by means of an epoché. We interact with things in a theoretical way but without the need to leave the natural attitude. — JuanZu

Perhaps you did not like that i used the word "idealism"? — punos

Russell portrayed he of the moustache as [ ... ] — Banno

Nietzsche remains the [twilight] idol of post-pubescent males. Someone to consider and grow beyond.

Now I go alone, my disciples, You too, go now alone. Thus I want it. Go away from me and resist Zarathustra! And even better: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he deceived you… One pays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. And why do you not want to pluck at my wreath? You revere me; but what if your reverence tumbles one day? Beware lest a statue slay you. You say that you believe in Zarathustra? But what matters Zarathustra? You are my believers – but what matter all believers? You had not yet sought yourselves; and you found me. Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to so little. Now I bid you to lose me and find yourselves; and only then when you have all denied me will I return to you… that I may celebrate the great noon with you. — Also Spoke Zarathustra

chaos — Wayfarer

Metaphorically, we're maybe ripples that fall in on themselves and disappear - but it's all water. — Dawnstorm

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde

Critical awareness has never been our long suit. — Vera Mont

Have you read Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo? — Maw

[Trump] is literally enacting fascist ideology, as it was formulated by a celebrated fascist ideologue.

Perhaps this crisis of democracy is really ... — Pantagruel

Now this is a problem, not an explanation. — J

I ask again, if two people disagree about the terms, how can they resolve the disagreement? — J

Afaik, only better, more sound, arguments can resolve rational disagreements. — 180 Proof

Joe offers a particular doctrine about existence, Mary offers a different one. Is there anything either can appeal to, in order to determine whether one is correct? Let's just pick "conceptual definition" from your list. Would Joe and Mary be able to consult such a definition in order to resolve a disagreement between them? — J

Let's just pick "conceptual definition" from your list.

The primary beneficiaries of alt-right politics are members of the 1% / ruling class. Their rag-tag army of supporters and voters are not material beneficiaries. — BC

White workers bear the double burden of recognizing how they themselves are the victims of discrimination (as wage slaves) and how they may discriminate against other workers. Don't feel guilty about it; just recognize reality and do better in the future. Blacks are not your #1 enemy: it's the 1%, the rich man who is your enemy and the black man's enemy alike. Unite in solidarity. — BC

This assumes that the only way to be "mine" or "yours" is to be embodied, doesn't it? — J

[energy is] a property of space from which particles emerge

The question of how experience, or subjectivity, can be "in the world" if the world is understood physically is currently unanswerable. — J

MoK, the problem with your argument is that it ignores basic science about the brain. Your mind is caused by your brain. That's a pretty well established fact at this point in history. Philosophy has to be constructed on the science and current understanding of the day or else its just logical fiction. — Philosophim

Assume that the physical in the state of S1 has the caus[al] power to cause the physical in the state of S2. Physical however is not aware of the passage of time. Therefore, the physical in the state of S1 cannot know the correct instant to cause the physical in the state of S2. — MoK

Either the argument a person presents is logically sound or it isn't. — Philosophim

My request is not a red herring. — MoK

I think we cannot make any progress. — MoK