Hello everyone, sorry I haven't been on for almost a month. I've been really busy, but I want to share this with all of you. I've been feeling increasingly hopeless about life in general over the past weeks. That's not to say I was unhappy or life felt like it had no point, just that I started...
I was reminded of this paradox just today by a good philosopher friend, so I figured we should have a thread about it.
This paradox's origins are in the story of the Ship of Theseus. Plutarch said the Greeks maintained a ship they held belonged to Theseus, and philosophers started asking the...
It seems that a lot of people have a sense of wonder and mystery from being alive. A sense of wonder and awe toward the universe. Let's call this the great mystery, and am I wrong to say many theists define this mystery as God?
My question is why call the mystery God? Lao-tzu did not believe we...
I'd like to see what others might think about the power of words. I think words are important. We should address others with respect toward them as members of life, looking beyond whatever flaws the ego self may show.
Does it not seem so, that good and productive discussion will never come from...
I am of the opinion that the idea of free will has problems to begin with. That said, Abrahamics often claim that evil needs to exist for free will, and thereby they believe the problem of evil is nullified. I do not believe it is. I would put forth that an omnipotent deity who could not create...
Greetings all. I found this forum through Google and decided to sign up. I'm an agnostic atheist and philosophical Taoist. I hope I can bring something to the forum, and take something from it. I also enjoy reading the I Ching.
Peace.