Tue 19 Jan, 2010 09:21 am - [QUOTE=Krumple;120998]That knowledge must have evaded you because capitalism is not a political system. It is an economic system, which is not political, or well it shouldn't be. But through... (view)
Tue 19 Jan, 2010 06:50 am - Does anyone else feel our place within the ecosphere or Gaia as it is commonly known, is as a cancer?
We reproduce out of control and consume everything we can, destroying the ecosphere and most... (view)
Mon 18 Jan, 2010 07:39 am - Are we all agreed then that our western philosophical view is not equipped to deal with a question such as 'what is matter?'.
We should follow the Eastern mystics and meditate under a... (view)
Mon 18 Jan, 2010 02:37 am - I can agree that this child may experience a form of consciousnes, probably the sort that animals experience. Self consciousness, I would suggest, requires a dialectic between the material realm... (view)
Sat 16 Jan, 2010 03:26 am - So you say the aforementioned child would come up with its own intuitive version of [I]'cogito, ergo sum[/I]' in your sophisticated possibly panpsychist way. This seems,[I] a priori[/I],... (view)
Thu 14 Jan, 2010 03:44 pm - We know of that objects relationship to our perceptions. It is impossible for us to observe an object in and of itself with no relationship to our senses. What does the object that is in a pitch... (view)
Thu 14 Jan, 2010 02:32 pm - Common-sense states that things exist when not being observed. However, as you show, if a person believes an object is existing somewhere that he is not observing, an occurrence could have changed... (view)
Thu 14 Jan, 2010 01:41 am - They both happen together so it's not possible to divide and analyse. It's probably like when you put 2 mirrors together and you get infinity. (view)
Wed 13 Jan, 2010 09:05 am - Hope you find some of what you are searching for on this forum. I too have suffered from the throes of existentialist crisis unfortunately I don't believe the answer usually lies in logic... (view)
Wed 13 Jan, 2010 02:12 am - I noticed that alchemy was mentioned (still not figured out how to quote) and I think this is a very relevant. Was it the Chinese or the Egyptian alchemists or both that said 'All is in the... (view)
