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- Sat Sep 10, 2022 12:12 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 171
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Re: This forum
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...
- Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 171
- Views: 5363170
Re: This forum
. 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...
- Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 171
- Views: 5363170
Re: This forum
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...
- Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:31 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Psychic phenomena
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22143
Re: Psychic phenomena
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...
- Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:31 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Psychic phenomena
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22143
Re: Psychic phenomena
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...
- Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:14 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
- Replies: 171
- Views: 5363170
Re: This forum
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.
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3381
Re: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
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 ...
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3381
Re: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
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'...
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3381
Re: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
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...
- Fri Oct 29, 2021 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3381
Does idealism lead to more compassion ?
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...