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  1. lovemuffin

    An Open Letter to RF

    DS please do seek out professional help if you're feeling suicidal. If I can do anything at all to help please contact me.
  2. lovemuffin

    Did Jesus actually exist as a historical figure?

    1 Cor. 8:6 ;)
  3. lovemuffin

    Levels of reality

    Windwalker, I think we are saying similar things, just from slightly different angles. I suspect we don't really disagree very much at all, but just hear certain phrases or sentences in slightly different ways. I was also attempting to address this in distinguishing between chair as human...
  4. lovemuffin

    1 Corinthians 13

    I think you might be slightly confused, because it's all one word (agape) in the chapter. So there's no intention by the author to compare two words, because only one appears. I would say rather it's that in early 17th century English charity is a good translation, and in modern English love is...
  5. lovemuffin

    Faith is that openness by which we approach the fullness of what we have not yet become.

    Faith is that openness by which we approach the fullness of what we have not yet become.
  6. lovemuffin

    Levels of reality

    While I think it's useful to disentangle "chair" in all its conceptual and even symbolic richness from its usage as a simple sign ("that chair"), I think it's wrong to say that apart from the subject the chair is nothing. It is true of "chair" as concept and as symbol, but not entirely true of...
  7. lovemuffin

    Levels of reality

    You definitely did mention the same ideas. :) You ever get excited and just have to say something in your own words? I'm probably guilty of that, and in so doing of not quite addressing your post :P We do tend to think very similarly about all this
  8. lovemuffin

    Levels of reality

    I think the point is well taken that the subject is also part of the very reality that it is aware of as "object", but I'd probably prefer to say both that objective realities are part of subjective ones, and also the other way around. Subjective realities are also part of objective realities...
  9. lovemuffin

    Meister Eckhart, St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross,,

    It seems maybe like more of a comparative religion topic than a catholic DIR topic, but my opinion is that there are definitely parallels between the experiences of Christian mystics and those described as Advaita. There are also certainly important differences in belief and theology and...
  10. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    The reason the so-called hard problem of consciousness is a useful example is because, if you credit the philosophical argument, then it really isn't a question of "we don't have an answer yet". The argument is not that it's just something that science hasn't explained yet, but that it's...
  11. lovemuffin

    Meister Eckhart, St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross,,

    In terms of foundational Christian understanding, they are certainly not opposed to each other. As far as their writings about the spiritual path, I think you have to allow for the individuality of their approaches, the symbols and metaphors they use, their individual focus, and etc, but if you...
  12. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    ImmortalFlame, what you wrote initially, which I was arguing against, was this (emphasis added): My understanding of what you wrote here is that it is impossible to ever state any theoretical limits on science, because science has no fixed definition. I don't see any way to read this other...
  13. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    And no reason, a priori, to assume that there are no such questions. There are actually reasonable abductive arguments for physicalism of course, but this thread is about "scientism", and basically in this context the word means to imply a somewhat exaggerated certainty in philosophical...
  14. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    Insofar as the discussion is about the possible limits of "scientific" methodology over against other possible methods, it seems like question begging to define "science" in such a way as to make it mean "any methodology that proves to be useful". It's a useful point that science is not a fixed...
  15. lovemuffin

    Questions about baptism

    I haven't heard this before, so I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the idea of "baptism in the Holy Spirit"? I would think of baptism as a sacrament performed by people and not by Jesus, and as a symbol of Christian transformation following the same pattern as Christ's death and...
  16. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    It might be asking too much to expect anyone to read this, but the synchronicity of events amusing me. I wrote a blog on this topic a few days ago. It's probably not as good as this article, but it captures how I think about it: Thoughts on Biblical Interpretation | Ἐν Αἰνίγματι
  17. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    I think you're too pessimistic. There is a fairly extensive body of literature that speaks about mysticism or religious experience in similar ways as windwalker does, and a fair amount of philosophical development of those themes in comparative religion. It's true that much of the language is...
  18. lovemuffin

    quia ignoro, adoro

    quia ignoro, adoro
  19. lovemuffin

    Help with a filthy limerick

    There was a man of the tribe Tohono Oo'dham whose penis was renowned as a totem at 10 feet it stood a fine piece of wood from the tip and on down to the scrotum
  20. lovemuffin

    Scientism

    I don't think myths are ever universally taken at face value. I think the presumption that the literal or historical mode of understanding is primary is itself in part a function of our modern and scientific myth, and by "scientific myth" I mean the set of values and ways of thinking that...
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