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Post by kesh »

Why cant philosophy not just go without having to mention God :?: -- or some higher goal.
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Post by Kajun »

It's a good question. Every philosophical debate will at some point either incorporate a discussion of the existence of God, or doubt about the existence of the universe. These two things seem to have emerged as the core existential underpinnings of the other fields such as morality, but I don't know why. Without religion, is the idea of God still a logical outcome of philosophy? (that is to say, if we never had any faith/information about a higher power and tried arguing about something) Is philosophy the art of doubt, and therefore we doubt ourselves, which somehow leads to a vast expanse of possibilities, the most likely of which being that there is a Controller?

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i think its reason that creats doubt. and reason that finds it nessesary to find
some thing higher or profound meaning, to give us a false sense of security.
its just about impossible to talk about philosophy without going in to detail on the transcental part of the mind. I think myths and religion in someway are just fundimental ways of explaining the idea behind dreams (as in zeus visiting some greek in his dream,- thus he becomes a prophet).
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Post by Hanohtep »

Kesh's signature wrote:Each thing evokes its opposite
Those who seek answers from within will also create those who seek answers from elsewhere.
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hanohtep is saying is that the material world doesn't work that way
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kesh wrote:i think its reason that creats doubt. and reason that finds it nessesary to find
some thing higher or profound meaning, to give us a false sense of security.
But reason by nature wouldn't do that. Pure reason wouldn't fake it. Do you think we're therefore controlled by something, perhaps even the kernel of DNA, much of which controls our mind? To what end?
its just about impossible to talk about philosophy without going in to detail on the transcental part of the mind. I think myths and religion in someway are just fundimental ways of explaining the idea behind dreams (as in zeus visiting some greek in his dream,- thus he becomes a prophet).
Perhaps. But perhaps dreams are just chaos - ways of assimilating data into the endless flow of consciousness. It's a tricky business, pattern matching on such a scale: the mind is bound to find it tricky. That doesn't prove there's a God.
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