Getting Back into Philosophy
- Burning Giraffe
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Getting Back into Philosophy
It's been quite some time since I really studied philosophy. Over the last few years I've reread a great deal of Hume and Nietzsche, but I'm currently starting back at the beginning with the pre-Socratic philosophers.
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Enjoy !!!
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- Burning Giraffe
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Yeah. Will do. Thanks for the welcome.ontologic_conceptualist wrote:Welcome & glad to add, a new perspective can never be a bad thing !!!
Enjoy !!!
BTW, A most interesting name...perhaps you should go to...
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Re: Getting Back into Philosophy
Welcome and please feel at home!
You have a very interesting background, so please share more of what you believe.
"If you know the why, you can bear any how.'
Nietzsche.
- Burning Giraffe
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Re: Getting Back into Philosophy
I believe that truth is understandable, as opposed to knowable (the difference being the concept of absolute certainty when it comes to knowledge). I believe that truth is uniform, that nature follows very specific laws that are scientifically quantifiable. I believe our sense perceptions give us accurate information about the world. I believe in God and in Christ. I believe in freedom, independence, self-reliance, self-discipline, respect, and honor. I believe in a constrained will; that the imagination gives us the freedom to act according to our own will. Inasmuch as I can imagine any number of possibilities, I create those possibilities in my own mind and therefore serve as my own stimuli upon myself. Thus, the will is not totally and utterly free, but it is not utterly dependent upon external stimuli either.ape wrote:Hi Burning Giraffe!
Welcome and please feel at home!
You have a very interesting background, so please share more of what you believe.
"If you know the why, you can bear any how.'
Nietzsche.
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Re: Getting Back into Philosophy
Ape: I believe in your creed!:)Burning Giraffe wrote: I believe that truth is understandable, as opposed to knowable (the difference being the concept of absolute certainty when it comes to knowledge).
I believe that truth is uniform, that nature follows very specific laws that are scientifically quantifiable.
I believe our sense perceptions give us accurate information about the world.
I believe in God and in Christ.
I believe in freedom, independence,
self-reliance,
self-discipline, respect, and honor.
I believe in a constrained will; that the imagination gives us the freedom to act according to our own will. Inasmuch as I can imagine any number of possibilities, I create those possibilities in my own mind and therefore serve as my own stimuli upon myself. Thus, the will is not totally and utterly free, but it is not utterly dependent upon external stimuli either.
Thanx for sharing.
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.I believe in God and in Christ
There are varieties of belief in God and Christ from the mainstream Anglican trinitarian creed, to liberation theology, to snake handling , and more, including the belief that God is not objectively real but is a human construct and is the sovereign good for all that.
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True. I believe in a personal relationship with God and that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are either one and the same as God, manifestations of God, or in some other sort of relation to God. It really doesn't matter which as far as I am concerned. Dogma exhausts our spirit.Belinda wrote:.I believe in God and in Christ
There are varieties of belief in God and Christ from the mainstream Anglican trinitarian creed, to liberation theology, to snake handling , and more, including the belief that God is not objectively real but is a human construct and is the sovereign good for all that.
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