Unseen

Strega wrote:
Hey @unseen ! The only reason we are conscious, is to give us something to entertain ourselves with so our DNA can continue to mutate and evolve without interruption.

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Hey @unseen !  The only reason we are conscious, is to give us something to entertain ourselves with so our DNA can continue to mutate and evolve without interruption.

@Unseen, please whack me headside if I’m going too far off your topic, but I just had the following Conscious Thought. And I wouldn’t mind a philosopher’s correction of my thought process here, or terminology used.

It seems that a lot of our philosophical questions, especially the deeper ones that address how we think of nature, reality and…[Read more]

@Unseen – I think it was yourself that mentioned an interesting conundrum about Christian forgiveness in a similar post a few years ago on TA.

Consider the following scenario: A depraved Catholic priest spends most of his life physically and sexually abusing hundreds of young boys. Many of the victims become alcoholics and drug users and some e…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – Jake is right – by your reasoning, Jehovah’s Witness is not a religion.

My definition was defined in this way: A religion is any belief system that claims to be a religion or self-identifies as a religion or whose members claim to be religious.

Notice the separation by “or” in the formulation. If any one item s…[Read more]

@unseen – Jake is right – by your reasoning, Jehovah’s Witness is not a religion.

Clearsky wrote:

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – “You won’t find the Michael Jackson or Dr. Who (technically, Doctor Who) Fan Clubs in an book on major religions of the world.” – apart from the dictionary definition, what attributes do religions have that atheism doesn’t have?

One attribute that Religion has which atheism does NOT have is The beli…

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Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – “You won’t find the Michael Jackson or Dr. Who (technically, Doctor Who) Fan Clubs in an book on major religions of the world.” – apart from the dictionary definition, what attributes do religions have that atheism doesn’t have?

The attribute of self-identification as a religion.

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – “You won’t find the Michael Jackson or Dr. Who (technically, Doctor Who) Fan Clubs in an book on major religions of the world.” – apart from the dictionary definition, what attributes do religions have that atheism doesn’t have?

One attribute that Religion has which atheism does NOT have is

The belief in super…[Read more]

@unseen – “You won’t find the Michael Jackson or Dr. Who (technically, Doctor Who) Fan Clubs in an book on major religions of the world.”

– apart from the dictionary definition, what attributes do religions have that atheism doesn’t have?

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen -“how about this example: “I want to start a beef cattle ranch.”” – if we process this situation using “my” formulation, Perfect Compassion, the answer would be, “go for it, but don’t build too many, because this would cause harm to the world.” (unnecessary harm.)

“…don’t build too many…” seems to miss the point b…[Read more]

@unseen -“how about this example: “I want to start a beef cattle ranch.””

– if we process this situation using “my” formulation, Perfect Compassion, the answer would be, “go for it, but don’t build too many, because this would cause harm to the world.”  (unnecessary harm.)

@unseen – there are solutions but no “proof”.  I think solutions could include:

• what the judge and jury rules in a court.
• what all parties are happy with (the best possible outcome for each individual).
• public opinion for or against.

Facts are (we hope) not in dispute.  Political Left and Right (for example) argue about what to do about the facts.

@unseen – “What is a number independent of how it is expressed?”

– you could say, if a number represents a set of instances of something, the value of the number is an exact abstraction of the amount of instances in the set, since that is a whole number.

@Unseen and Jake

There is no math inside the fabric of the universe. The laws of physics. Our math is an imperfect representation of those laws written in symbols we can understand. We can approximate it as best as possible, it may be found to be very reliable, have predictive qualities which help us and help us understand the universe…but the…[Read more]

@Unseen – your poem reminds me of this:
Memory Of My Father – Poem by Patrick Kavanagh

Every old man I see
Reminds me of my father
When he had fallen in love with death
One time when sheaves were gathered.

That man I saw in Gardner Street
Stumbled on the kerb was one,
He stared at me half-eyed,
I might have been his son.

And I remember t…[Read more]