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  1. lovemuffin

    It's said Jesus' sacrificed himself to save us...

    We're likely in agreement re: mysticism, but I figured I'd not reach for the stars in that post, since it would require more than just a brief thought on one verse ;)
  2. lovemuffin

    It's said Jesus' sacrificed himself to save us...

    It seems worth pointing out that I'm not sure the Greek teleios has exactly the connotations that the English "perfect" has. We tend to hear it as implying a sort of immutable flawlessness, and no doubt insofar as the comparison is to God ("be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect") it is...
  3. lovemuffin

    Destroying your myth; Finding your path?

    This suggests to me that you see it as at least potentially a temporary state of affairs. Paths may be forged? I have a tendency to see this in terms where the "old mythos" is failing, it's no longer believable (and rightly so, in many ways) to many, but there is not quite yet something to...
  4. lovemuffin

    Destroying your myth; Finding your path?

    what about that spiritual experience you had a week ago? :P
  5. lovemuffin

    Destroying your myth; Finding your path?

    One thing that interests me, and this is just a personal observation, and not one that has anything to do with you, is that often-times people find certain ideas of "sin and salvation" (for example) offensive, but don't realize, or are uninterested, in the fact that there is more than one view...
  6. lovemuffin

    Destroying your myth; Finding your path?

    That's fair enough, as far I'm concerned, but probably not quite what I was trying to get at. I'm not presuming that even someone who moved off in a new direction wouldn't retain negative attitudes about at least certain aspects of a previously held belief system. It's more about the process...
  7. lovemuffin

    Destroying your myth; Finding your path?

    This isn't going to be a really coherent OP, so lets just get that out of the way. In RF chat the other day, there was a short conversation, out of which came a couple questions (which I'm rephrasing, apologies to their originator) which might be interesting to talk about, or might require a lot...
  8. lovemuffin

    RF Radio : The Beatdown

    Dave: well done this week. I didn't get to listen to it live, so just catching up. it's fantastic
  9. lovemuffin

    Sutras on Mystical Experience

    Sometimes the oblivion of history is amusing. By which I mean for years I had heard of this sort of "subject/object nonduality" and first thought of it as a new-agey thing, and then an advaita vedanta thing, but basically always an eastern philosophy thing, exclusively. So anyway last night I'm...
  10. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    I know!
  11. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    Heidegger would be a good topic for his own segment. I'm not familiar with Lacan. My excuse to every question of this sort is "omg it's 5 minutes aaaaaaa"
  12. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    Episode 2 - Identity Continuing on with my motto that there are two types of philosophical questions: ones that can be presented as the opposition between two positions, and ones that can't. (I only tackle the ones that can). - The show deals in great part with a contrast between a view of...
  13. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    Episode 1 - Free Will The first topic was basically the distinction between Compatibilism (SEP, Wikipedia) and Incompatibilism (SEP, Wikipedia). - Daniel Denett might be the best source to read on compatibilism. There was also a conference from 2012 that includes him called Moving Naturalism...
  14. lovemuffin

    Radio RF - 5 minute philosophy - segment notes and discussion

    Radio RF is the new sensation that's sweeping the nation (see the Discussion thread). The Radio RF show is hosted by Iti oj and DreadFish from RF, includes guests from the forums, interviews, and various topics. It airs Mondays and Thursdays at 6:30pm eastern time in the US. Check it out! I'm...
  15. lovemuffin

    Radio RF Discussion

    Thursday's show starts in a little under an hour, set your alarm clack! Put a sticky note on your monitor, or even your phone! You look so goofy with a post-it note on your phone! Dreadfish is going to talk about his trip to Malaysia, Iti about gardening, Lewisnotmiller is probably going to...
  16. lovemuffin

    What book(s) are you reading now?

    I started reading this a few months ago but got stalled and need to pick it back up. It would be fun to discuss it with someone. Any interest in a thread in the philosophy forum?
  17. lovemuffin

    Sutras on Mystical Experience

    Brahman, God, Ground of Being, Sunyata, Being, he would say that in some sense these are all homeomorphic equivalents, without thereby meaning that they are all exactly the same. But yet, I think both his conception of divinity, and mine, and even the eastern Christian theology, is more...
  18. lovemuffin

    why is being gay forbidden ?

    ekklesia semper reformanda est!
  19. lovemuffin

    Wondering About Faith (Ephesians 2)

    Sure. And I don't think "faith" is a bad choice of english word in this context. And I think something about belief is certainly implied by Ephesians 2:8. What I think is probably a mistake is to hear the exhortation to be only a matter of belief, in the kind of technical way that some...
  20. lovemuffin

    Why is LGBT "assimilation" such an inherently negative thing?

    I'm hesitant to make value judgements about assimilation or tell those who oppose it that they're wrong, being an outsider. I do suspect in a lot of objective ways it is a "good" thing, and represents the progress that has been made, but it seems reasonable to me to think that opposition in part...
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