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- Mon Nov 20, 2017 4:45 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38286
Re: What is consciousness?
Okay. So how does that explain all the evidence? I think the emergent consciousness theory, incomplete though it may be, does better, but I will try to keep an open mind. It grasps at how difficult it is to grasp the nature such ethereal (but intersubjectively real) phenomena such as qualia. Those ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38286
Re: What is consciousness?
Well, if I presented the idea that "there is no current theory that can hope to explain all aspects of consciousness and there very likely may never be" as a THEORY (and perhaps called it the "Undecidability Theory of Consciousness") would it "win"? Does that state the case in the most accurate poss...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:21 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38286
Re: What is consciousness?
What seems interesting to me, and implicit in your argument, is the assumption that it's always better to have a constructive theory, even with holes, than to admit a gap? Maybe it's the case that human consciousness can't ever fully explain itself? Due to that human inability to assume an angelic p...
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:49 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: urgent message for Met
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9860
Re: urgent message for Met
Okay, speaking of "urgent", here's another hoary, scary quote from the writer of my sig, Dr Ward Blanton (Drew University)! "Itching for the solidarity of a “covenant,” which would determine and pacify the emptiness of this alienating universal sovereignty (that which renders us, in Edwards words, “...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:48 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: urgent message for Met
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9860
Re: urgent message for Met
Oh, $&@!
Thx, you guys....
Thx, you guys....
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:23 am
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 61019
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Well, not all of Christianity..... I think it's a question of how "spiritualized" Torah could become? By the time of Christ, Judeah had been influenced by Hellenic cultures and empires for several hundred years, and not under its own governance, so their relation with "the Law" had changed, and many...
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:40 am
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 61019
Re: Christians and Sabbath
...the removal of hierarchy and external enforcements (ie Torah understood as a legal system) in favor of a stronger relational approach- an intensification and internalization of the essence of "law", not its repudiation - except, of course, with respect to the removal of some culturally-bound rit...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:55 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 61019
Re: Christians and Sabbath
How does Paul's spin on Christ's career "take a hatchet" to his Messianic fulfillment of the prophets? The whole thing fits with this Jeremiah passage (quoted in Hebrews) pretty good, I think? .The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and wi...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:28 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 61019
Re: Christians and Sabbath
.Okay. So are you saying that adultery is permitted but not moral? More generally, are you saying what is right and wrong under God's laws are different to what is morally right and wrong? As an aside, note that the difference between morality and legality would involve deciding what kind of action...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:53 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: Christians and Sabbath
- Replies: 39
- Views: 61019
Re: Christians and Sabbath
Are you suggesting it is the same for God's laws? They change as culture changes? They do not get updated to reflect those changes? I am guessing no, but as I said before, I do not want to be accused of misrepresenting you, so I invite you to clarify. Even though I know that will not happen. Why wo...