because humans and the cosmos are one; to imagine that inside humans is a "special thing" that can "do what it wants", outside of causality, is to...
We have no reason to believe that what we call our consciousness and what we call our physical reality are different. It's a chicken and egg...
It might hurt on one level but be pleasure on a different level. Sex comes to mind, or professional fighting/sports. Think emotional pain too,...
I'm an atheist and I have no wish to have you be in fear; just the opposite. I think that faith based and superstitious thinking is rooted in...
That was my understanding of your post, hence the question mark. Why don't you clarify what you meant by: It sounds like you are saying "It's...
you're big on rhetoric but small on ideas. your post can be condensed thusly: "Some scientists were once not good at science. It took good...
The motivations of religions? Some of them, maybe. Others are all about obeying the wishes and whims of a Super Person. Some, like...
Invoking god makes sense as long as you explain yourself because then you know you're in agreement with god?
It sounds like you are experiencing a cluster of anxiety and depression symptoms. The best way to treat this is good diet (honor the divine...
There's more serotonin receptors in your gut than in your brain . . . any psychedelic can cause vomiting, heck, even mxe/k
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It's a phenomenon akin to an optical illusion; our minds were not designed "top down" with a grand plan in mind; they were built incrementally...
This is a platitude I come across far too often given how plainly wrong it is. What is the common basis of all religions?
Do they actually have free will to believe the ideas they believe? Do you chose to believe what you believe, or do you simply find yourself...
Well between Chinacat's third alias now added to my ignore list (and he lectures me on being attached lol!) and a guy who wants us to believe he's...
The universe being deterministic does not mean that everything has an influence on everything the way you are thinking. For example the warmth of...
You're actually mistaken, as were several people in this thread. This is not what determinism states. It says nothing about our ability to...
I said it appears integrated when we chop it up into pieces and then marvel that the pieces appear to constitute a whole. I don't see what this...
Truth is under no compulsion to be compelling to you :) It may be, and seems to in fact be the case, that the truth of the universe is wholly...
My career plan is still to get an MSW one day; though I wouldn't be surprised if that never happens and I do something completely different. I...
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