Philosophical Speculations

A house is built in simple steps, one brick at a time. Eventually, the building is done: it is simple and functional. Or the owner can refuse to accept it, adding extensions, ornate turrets, decorative finials, running scrolls and fancy motifs. He can inlay it with gold and encrust it with diamonds....

But we don't only exist in that thin slice, but also in the sub-sensory and supra-sensory depths. We have desires, impulses, feelings, passions, etc. that bubble up from the subconscious and ideas, ideals, virtues, etc. that trickle down from the supra-conscious. The only way we know of either the ...

AshvinP, your post is thoughtful but contains an assumption I question. The idea of Heaven is a human idea – it is an abstraction from reality -as if reality could be other than what it is, better than what it is. It says that God could be other than what it is. Consider how this works in humans: a ...

The idea that God is morally higher than Nature needs to be de-obfuscated. Since Nature is purely God’s self-expression, how can God be Good and Nature be Fallen? Failure to answer this question clearly and sensibly has contributed to the near-extinction of Christian mysticism and the rise of materi...