Hi, coberst, Last year I posted an entry in Philosophy Forums (The mind and the brain: Philosophy Forums) on this topic. I repost it here as a...
greymare, I am honored by your request to be friends with me. I look forward to our conversations. Dr Free
Levels of Interfaith Commitment Hi, Gregory, Yes, you are right that some people of almost every faith believe that people of other faiths are...
Thank you. It has been a long winter. But signs of spring are already popping up. I look forward to our conversations.
Hi, juantoo3, Nice talking with you again. When my wife died last year, I fear I lost interest in the adversarial tone of the forum. But at...
Nick, I've read and reread your reply, and am still uncertain what you are trying to say. The only paragraph that seems to make a somewhat...
An interesting distinction, Nick, but it seems to have led, both in this thread and others, to a polarizing interpretation, as though people...
I am one of the things I perceive. You are one of the things I perceive. I am more than what I perceive about myself. You are more than what I...
Hi, Bandit, Actually the form of the faith that seems go along with the Gaia Hypothesis is panentheism, not pantheism. Pantheism is the belief...
Hi, all, There are important differences, especially between Santa and the Jesus/God that has emerged through two millennia of Christianity: God...
Is Sin Real? Hi, SE, I can understand your reluctance toward the word 'sin'. Historically there has been a strong element with the various...
Thanks, Wil, for a very interesting perspective. I wonder though whether a relatively simple method that has the appearance of greater fairness...
The Fermi Plague Stanley Cramer offered one answer to Fermi's question in his editorial in the October 1998 edition of Analog, written a year and...
You already are God every day... Actually, you are a god, already, 24-7. You were created in God's image with the power of choice. (Sorry,...
Hi Quahom1, Maybe, but not necessarily in our generation. And it does depend a lot on what you count as imagination. Escher was quite...
Hi, jiii, You captured my skepticism quite well. Seems like there are a number of weaknesses in the multiverse theory: It sounds like abstruse...
Hi, mee, The hypothesis that truth is somehow natural and that untruth is man's perversion of the natural, is based on what I think is a...
The whole of creation is God's text. Anything less is a perspective that may mislead man's mortal mind. Pick one part at your peril. Namiste
Hi path_of_one. I like your answers to cyberpi's questions. I especially like this answer: In a pluralistic society that's growing more...
Re: Selecting the President By a Vote of the People Good question, though it is a question for Congress in writing the enabling legislation, not...
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