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  1. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    This is what you are not understanding. There does not have to be anybody imbuing the human form with consciousness. There are non-materialist worldviews which have no God e.g. in Jainism there are infinite monad or souls that are eternal i.e., there was never a time when they were not...
  2. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    Of course there is a Sanskrit term for consciousness it is called Chit. Atman is defined as have three intrinsic aspects consciousness, bliss and existence. The quality of the purusha is defined as consciousness. You can also follow the logical argument: I am not what I am aware of. I am aware...
  3. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    So let's unpick these ideas a bit. First of all, it is true that if we speak purely in terms of ideals Science and PM do not go together. Similarly, again if we speak purely in terms of ideals modernity and PM do not necessarily go together. However, there is a distinction between how science...
  4. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    This really is the pot calling the kettle black, if I ever saw one. What does this even mean "pseudoscientiic theory of spiritualism" do you even know the meaning of words you use? Dude, what I represent is an actual school of Vedanta, and I have been trained traditionally at it at a traditional...
  5. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    LOL, I was going to add "Not that materialists are criminals" but I thought it would not be necessary, because anybody reading correctly would see I did not say that. How wrong was I? :D I merely reduced your argument to absurdity with another argument. If somebody is wrong, you do not not tell...
  6. Spirit_Warrior

    Proof of The Soul (Pandora's Contraption - Part 2)

    Great Argument. It similar to the classical Indian argument that I am not my body, because the body changes. We don't need to wait for 500 years for a teleporter to find out, in fact the teleporting already happens, every moment the atoms in our body teleport, vanish from their position and...
  7. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    Sure, in your solipsistic universe. Not in any single school or tradition of Vedanta. The very word "atman" mean soul. If you are so confident that the Upanishads are preaching materialism, then go ahead and start a materialist school of interpretation by giving a materialist interpretation of...
  8. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I am responding to all these points together to basically cut this bit of the discussion loose. Your argument basically goes like this --- be nice to the materialists, yeah they are wrong, but it a part of their natural intellectual development, after all you too were once a materialist...
  9. Spirit_Warrior

    I recall what Pascal once said at the end of a letter "I am sorry for this long letter, I did...

    I recall what Pascal once said at the end of a letter "I am sorry for this long letter, I did not have time to be brief" :P
  10. Spirit_Warrior

    Good Question. I am a Shaiva Hindu, meaning I am a follower of the Shiva tradition, or basically...

    Good Question. I am a Shaiva Hindu, meaning I am a follower of the Shiva tradition, or basically what gets called Tantra. This image is a very popular image called "Ardhanarishvara" where Shiva is depicted as half man and half female. It represents a Tantrik philosophy, that the supreme being is...
  11. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    Nothing you said there really made any sense. I think you are just multiplying words. You say there is a Self, consciousness, scientific consciousness and then mix in a few Sanskrit terms Atman and Brahman. Clear up your words, and you will clear your understanding. Neuroscience only deals with...
  12. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I love how you keep vindicating everything I charge materialism with. I told you have have no consistent standard of truth. If you ask for a logical argument to prove the soul exists. We give you one, but then you say it is not enough, you want scientific evidence. Then we give you that. And now...
  13. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    Who said anything about God? Again, who said anything about God? Why do you automatically assume a non-materialist would be a theist? The "objective" ideas you are talking about(actually intersubjective) cannot be enforced on you. You still are the police, judge, jury and accused the...
  14. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    1. All matter is made up of atoms 2. Atoms are invisible to the naked eye 3. Therefore, all matter is made up of invisible atoms
  15. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    The Self is consciousness "Prajana Brahman" Why they call it the Self if it was not consciousness? Ayum Atma Brahma - My Self is Brahman Pranjana Brahman - Brahman is consciousness Therefore Self is consciousness The Upanishads constantly refer to both Atman and Brahman as consciousness. And...
  16. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I use it properly. You can use analogy as an illustrative device, to illustrate point. However, you are using it wrongly here. We are talking about how matter does not have self-awareness and therefore it cannot originate self-awareness, and you respond by saying hardware does not have software...
  17. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    This is not science of consciousness. This is science of the brain. I watched about 10 min of the video already and already spotted lots of errors of thinking. I shall watch the rest later, and point out every error the speaker makes. Seeing as your "Hindu" though I have reason to think...
  18. Spirit_Warrior

    misuse of the term 'Hindutva'

    Well, there is a distinction between gold and paper money actually, paper money is a token because it has an agreed value set by the state and can be rendered valueless, gold is not a token, because it has value itself which is not determined by the state, but determined by its rarity. It is...
  19. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    Your argument is not going anywhere because in your analogy of hardware-software the software aspect is not aware. Wheres in the mind-body, the mind aspect is aware of the body.
  20. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    Some paths are more convoluted than others. Some lead in the opposite direction. So not all paths are equal. What takes you away from the summit and what takes you closer to the summit are not both equal, it is what takes you towards the summit that is true. Modernity was premised on the...
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