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  1. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    No, we are not born into a material world. I reject that. When you enter into a dream do you say "I was born into a dream world" The "material world" you speak off is just the waking world. Right now, my consciousness is here present in this waking world manifesting it through the vehicle of the...
  2. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I am reminded by the definition of ignorance given in the Yoga sutras "Mistaking the untruth for the truth, pain for pleasure and the not-self for the self" and this sums up the delusional world of the materialist. They mistake the world to be matter, they mistake less suffering and misery to be...
  3. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    You have not proven anything here beyond that scientists have been able produce a compound of chemicals, and then from that you make a giant leap to "therefore consciousness" No I said impossibility, not possibility. You have not shown me how and why under any condition an arrangement of...
  4. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    This all just an elaborate fairy tale. You still have in your fairy tale at some point a bunch of atoms forming into arrangements that suddenly become self-aware. Whether that happened at the ape stage, the fish stage or the bacteria stage is irrelevant, you are still proposing an illogical...
  5. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I think we should be careful not to conflate morals with civil laws. I agree civil laws are like state imposed morals, but not all ideas of morals are state enforced, in many countries in the world for example emotional abuse like bullying is not protected by law. There are law against certain...
  6. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    The difference is, you have something to look forward to provided you are good as per your religious theology, heaven. Materialists have nothing to look forward to. Consider this life: One is born ugly and have a sibling who is born beautiful. The beautiful one gets favourite treatment by family...
  7. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    This is methodological materialism as opposed to metaphysical materialism, or as I put it, materialism as a worldview. However, even here the assumption that the stuff of the world you are dealing with if "matter" is not necessary, I can also call it "sense data" or "idea" or "content of...
  8. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I think hate and dislike are just basically synonyms, but hate just has a stronger sense to it. I think it is fair to condemn the worldviews you do not agree with, rather than the people who believe those views. It should be condemned for some reasons cited above the implications of such a...
  9. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I absolutely agree with this. The moral relativist ends up becoming a hypocrite, but nobody can be a consistent moral relativist. There are few moral relativists, as you said, that would agree with Nazism. The same problem is with a subjectivist. If a subjectivist has the right to decide what...
  10. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I can confirm I am talking about philosophical materialism, materialism as a worldview. And no, science and materialism are not the same thing; materialism is a metaphysics/ontology and science is an epistemology.
  11. Spirit_Warrior

    Do Aghoris have a plausible take on Hinduism

    Again, you don't get to decide what "Aghora" is and what it isn't. It decided by convention. Aghora is not just a philosophy it is a living religious tradition that is a part of the wider Tantra tradition, and it has integral practices like meditating on dead corpses. Furthermore, you can't be...
  12. Spirit_Warrior

    Do Aghoris have a plausible take on Hinduism

    And is this view itself right? You do not realise, as I have pointed out many times, postmodern garbage statements like this themselves make a truth claim about their own truth being true. I really don't even understand why you would have even a problem accepting Aghora as a school of Tantra...
  13. Spirit_Warrior

    Do Aghoris have a plausible take on Hinduism

    Right, but some will be right and some will be wrong: Kaula-Tantra.com - On Aghora and Aghoris You differ with everything Aupmanyav, that's the problem. You do not accept that there are accepted conventional definitions of things. Aghora is an accepted school of the Tantra tradition.
  14. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    This is also my understanding too. Selfish hedonism is implied by the materialist worldview, for several reasons 1) If you believe you are only material bodies, then the material body has only material needs and no other needs. Psychological needs like the need for love, the need for...
  15. Spirit_Warrior

    Do Aghoris have a plausible take on Hinduism

    Aghora is a subset of the Tantra path.
  16. Spirit_Warrior

    Anti-Materialism

    I have noticed there are quite a few people who self-identify as anti-theists, expressing a strong hatred for theists and religion in general. So, I thought why not self-identify as an anti-materialist, expressing my strong hatred for the view that all is just matter. That mind and consciousness...
  17. Spirit_Warrior

    Scientific monism

    Well not quite --- because there two models that describe physics and ends up with different fundamentals that make up physical reality. GR ------ Particles, of which there are 61 or so elementary particles, meaning they cannot reduce further, a photon is just one example. They have spin...
  18. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    Sure, but then this becomes survival of the fittest which is another implication of the materialist worldview. I can kill you and you can kill me, and if I am stronger or have better weapons and strategies I have a better chance of killing you before you kill me. In my example, it an...
  19. Spirit_Warrior

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    Sure, but you are not getting my point, the Hindu has a belief that though the consequence is delayed, it will actually come. What they don't know how it will come, but they know it will. This deters a Hindu with sincere believe in law of karma from doing bad things. I certainly think twice and...
  20. Spirit_Warrior

    Do Aghoris have a plausible take on Hinduism

    Sure, but what does this question have to do with the topic thread "Do Aghoris have a plausible take on Hinduism" We are now discussing "Is UDHF consistent with Hinduism"? Just find it confusing how that discussion became this discussion. Anyway, to answer your question, I think that a genius...
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