Philosophical Speculations

What some members here fail to understand is that it's more helpful to state their ideas in a clear, concise fashion before delving into indepth, cryptic and protracted developments. People won't read 1000 paragraphs of cryptic messages with idiosyncratic lexicon every time some random person on th...

. But while I'm here, I might add a comment on this topic, and that is to note that since I've been on this forum and its predecessor, the main discussions have mostly been 'meta'-Kastrup. Basically, the forum draws people who get that materialism is a non-starter, and who have embraced some form o...

What some members here fail to understand is that it's more helpful to state their ideas in a clear, concise fashion before delving into indepth, cryptic and protracted developments. People won't read 1000 paragraphs of cryptic messages with idiosyncratic lexicon every time some random person on the...

Hello, there are not many people here discussing or believing in psychic phenomena so I just wanted to touch on this subject and the criticism of it (It is very late in my country so I will write a short text) "If psi is true then science is not true" If psi phenomena exist then they woul...

Hello, there are not many people here discussing or believing in psychic phenomena so I just wanted to touch on this subject and the criticism of it (It is very late in my country so I will write a short text) "If psi is true then science is not true" If psi phenomena exist then they woul...

Personally i'm not interrested by the Steiner cult. I thought the forum would be more ecclectic and stopped visiting after noticing it's just Steiner spammed everywhere.

Papanca, I like how Lou put it. I typically find that when somebody is explaining their compassion with reference to how they intellectually grasp their own ontology, that the cart is being put before the horse. I disagree strongly with Kastrup's claims about the affects of holding a materialistic ...

PS, Papanca, Short answer: My understanding is that ontology does not compel a particular practical action. One can be a charitable or self-interested Materialist or a charitable or self-interested Idealist. Interresting, i'm starting to like this guy and he does feel very compassionate, but i don'...

Hello everybody, So by lurking/scrolling a lot of topic in this forums and the old, defunct metaphysical speculations googlegroup, i often see this idea come often that the current paradigm of materialism is responsible for lack of compassion, lack of meaning etc. I wonder how true is this and i wa...

Hello everybody, So by lurking/scrolling a lot of topic in this forums and the old, defunct metaphysical speculations googlegroup, i often see this idea come often that the current paradigm of materialism is responsible for lack of compassion, lack of meaning etc. I wonder how true is this and i wan...