Philosophical Speculations

Science is a methodology, a technique for acquiring knowledge of the world - as such, science can't be true or false. I think you are refering to a specific paradigm or POV (materialism) - that PSI phenomenon could bring materialism into question. This is an important distinction because there coul...

But there are people who can make OBEs happen on demand. Or so they claim. There are also plenty of "psychics" who will do readings on demand. If they do these things on demand, then why can't they be tested in a rigorous fashion? Are all of these fakes? Yeah, for example, Tom Campbell cl...

If it is a necessary feature of idealism, perhaps. Granted, I'm not an idealist so I wouldn't expect it to be necessary As in, I don't think it has to be a lawlike phenomenon necessarily. I would be wondering how such events would accord with a theistic worldview, of course As one who has experienc...

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...

The argument perhaps would be what constitutes 'evidence' Testing this with trained OBEers should be quite easy. Set up hardware/software to generate a random 6 digit number not known to the subject or the investigator. Display it on a monitor in a different room from the subject. Have the subject ...

I'd have to look in to it more (really going on J.P. Moreland and Gary Habermas discussions, but haven't read the book) This sounds like a form of the "divine hiddenness" kind, in any case. One could counter "why doesn't it happen more?" with "why does it happen at all?&quo...

The OBEs are more interesting than typical NDEs. If someone can be shown to have witnessed something they otherwise couldn't, then this would be an interesting phenomenon (I do think some of the stories are true) That said, I always remain sceptical of how much science can reveal about metaphysical...

... only trying to point out that there is an argument to be had. I can now certainly see that there is a different spin to be put on this tragedy, one of them being that player Z and his cohorts knew exactly what player P and his cohorts could be capable of, if player P's buttons were pushed in ju...

Scott, You seem to be avoiding the question of whether you support the invasion and massacre of civilians. If you do, be proud. Come out and tell us. If you think it is evil, as I do, then stop telling me I need to understand the evil-doer's point of view. Are you familiar with Robert Pirsig's four...

What I wrote is Putin's own justification for the war. Do you believe his justification? What source can you cite about rampant Nazism in Ukraine which Russia controlled most of the twentieth century as a part of the Soviet Union and now has a Jewish President? Here are a couple of Western sources:...