You want to ignore time? I’m not sure that’s possible tbh. If things exist in space, they must exist in time, as far as we understand time in both physics and philosophy. You could argue that objects are arranged in space while events are arranged in time, but aren’t all objects actually events...
Iif Plato were to meet Nobel Prize winning mathematician and physicist, Roger Penrose, they could discuss the nature of the Platonic realm. Here’s Penrose’s conceptual representation of his three world theory, in which each arises from another
Aren't material things activities also? Even something as solid as a rock or a steel girder is really a whirling mass of sub atomic particles, convergent fields and forces in temporary equilibrium, always evolving into something else...
So anything you can’t measure can’t exist? That doesn’t sound right.
How do you measure a thought? How do you measure beauty, truth, love? How do you measure the entirety of your own experience, here and now?
In what way has intellect moved beyond that of the Ancients? These people were in every way our intellectual equals.
We may have outstripped them in the sum of our knowledge, but it would be hubristic in the extreme to conclude from this either that we are enlightened beings of superior...
There are debates which go on for pages and pages, with nothing new being said by either party. The longer it goes on, the less the participants hear each other, and the more entrenched they become in their respective opinions. No one can possibly win those.
Presumably your dad took a vow? That's what an old friend replied when another friend asked him why he stayed with his wife despite her being a (seemingly) hopeless drunk.
The beloved is closer to me
Than my own self
The problem is this:
I am far from Him
What am I to do?
Whom can I tell about this?
The Beloved is so close to me
and I
am far
far away
Sa’Di
I think the answer to this poet’s question, is to heed the words of the Psalmist who said, “Be...
@Madsaac , see also
On participatory realism
“Participatory realism recognises that there is a world out there, it simply insists that we participate in building it. Because the process of inference it describes is still constrained by the structure and states of the target system, it is still...
“At certain times, the alcoholic has no effective mental defence against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defence. His defence must come from a power greater than himself.”
- Alcoholics Anonymous, chapter 3
That power can be...
If you hold back anything, I’ll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill ya. If you forget anything, I’ll kill ya. In fact, Nicolarse, you’re going to have to work very ****ing hard to stay alive…