Philosophical Speculations

No, it is just an inaccessible void, just accept it. OK. I accept it :) Let's go deeper - not in the void but into what is accessible to experience. My goal will be to clear the ground a little more. How does one arrive at an axiom? What is an axiom? It is a thought expressing certain idea. Where d...

Lou, :) I think it is time for you to present your Idealist Vision :) Everyone else has given their shots. Let's imagine that the Younger Brother takes the message of the Kogi in all heart. How would you picture life on Earth then? In what direction will it be going? Will there be some further progr...

Thanks Mandibil, I'd like to invite you to go even deeper :) When you say "there's no way for the mind to experience the black external world, the 'thing in itself'", this is an assertion. Not only that a separate world is postulated but also the impossibility of access to that world is po...

Lou, I understand your position. Of course modern man doesn't have a mind like that. Neither does he have a pure heart. These are the things each one of us should strive for. And the functional tale does not have to be "grown out of". That's exactly what I said - it becomes reality . That'...

It means having a conscious dance more aligned with reality Lou, things get much deeper than that. First, we have to differentiate between healthy imagination and wishful fantasy. The latter turns the child into a person identifying with his/her fantasies and then being crushed at every step when t...

:D Ashvin's got a point there Children are imitators, they are like sponges absorbing their environment. That's what childhood is for - they learn about the world by absorbing it into themselves. Only much later they can start to have alternative visions of the world. It would be like saying "L...

OK David, there's nothing below that first lines (which you quoted) that was addressed to you personally. It's a general discussion on the common reasons of attacks and short details about the races. I'm not here to change anyone's mind. It was only fair to present the other side to such accusations...

In relation to Steiner adulators, I wonder what 'they' make of his less well publicized beliefs and pronouncement in terms of what said pronouncements imply about his thought-feeling-n-belief-process, IOW his soul's developmental status? Take this, for example - from https://morningstaronline.co.uk...

True, and I can't help but think of veganism and Gaia-style environmentalism in the context of spirit-porn. That stuff sells like hot cakes! Somewhere down the line you happen upon antinatalism, which is the most fetishistic of them all. Yeah. Many of these movements emerge from half-understood sen...

Here's a little theorizing, dreaming and sleeping ... These things are necessary. We can't have consciousness in a physical body without them :) The important thing is to trace their origins. In this sense, one of my favorite domains of purely abstract thought is non-linear systems, recursion, IFS,...