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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
It is one thing to originate an idea, and it is another thing to live according to this idea. Example: The Founding Fathers deemed it self-evident that all men are created equal, but they did not include black people or women in the category "men"....
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Silver1wun
POLLSaw this and it reminded me of so much more than mere religions.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 12, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still have in our Western societies, even among people who call themselves atheists and rarely miss an occasion to rail against Xtians. One prime example is...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 11, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by KateOahu
To Have or To Be? and The Art of Being In the mid-1970s, twenty years after his influential treatise on the art of loving and four decades after legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead turned to him for difficult advice, Fromm became interested in ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 10, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Jolanta
Paulo Coelho. The Winner Stand Alone. An interesting book with lots to think about.
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by rainmanjr
LINKJoshua Knobe - What is Intentionality?
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Advin
The sky according to Islam😁😁😁
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 8, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Partyhawk
Our Home is actually in the Milky Way Galaxy, one in a 100+ Billion Galaxies. I've been lately watching a bunch of "The Universe" different documentaries on YouTube. I'm thinking we are no more then a particular Germ inhabiting a grain of sand. I ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 8, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion. Nevertheless, this metaphor is correct from a purely historical point of view. First, what we call science today was born in a thoroughly religious...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 7, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Word
For as long as people have been seeking knowledge, they have sought after and philosophized about the secret or hidden knowledge that has and will always elude the pursuit. However, an understanding of the secret knowledge has been revealed to ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Jun 1, 2022Jun 2022

Posted by Matias
Why the Golden Rule is overrated. Whenever I write about morality in this forum, or that a society needs something like a social glue, I am always lectured that this is just religious rubbish, and that the Golden Rule is quite sufficient when it ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 31, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love. This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by skado
A little Spinoza for your Memorial Day from Will Durant’s “The Story of Philosophy” published in 1926 “The essential principal of is that the language of the Bible is deliberately metaphorical or ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
We in the lucky countries of the West now regard our two-century bubble of freedom and affluence as normal and inevitable; it has even been called the "end" of history, in both a temporal and teleological sense. But this new order is an anomaly, it's...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 30, 2022May 2022

Posted by Julie808
What are your thoughts on the idea of "collective consciousness" as something we absorb not necessarily through religion or formal education but through the shared real world experiences of humanity? By that I mean as told through stories, ideas, ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 29, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
To borrow an expression from novelist Margaret Atwood, I'd say that we are "doomed by hope". Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 28, 2022May 2022

Posted by puff
When there is more action done regarding restricting access to books in schools when compared with restricting assault firearms, something is severely awry with society.
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 28, 2022May 2022

Posted by Matias
Question : Is something morally wrong, reprehensible, because individuals , or a whole society, judge it so, or is something intrinsically wrong, no matter what people think? Example: Imagine a world where slavery is ubiquitous and universally ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
May 27, 2022May 2022

Posted by MizJ
LINKWabi-sabi
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