Philosophical Speculations

As for Cleric's diagram of the Peter and John streams progressing toward and ultimately converging in the omega point, I'm a bit confused as to where this image is coming from, as it is not what we have discussed . This has been a rather extended conversation (for which I am grateful!), so it might ...

There is a congregation where I live and I have been attending on and off over the last few months. It is very small with perhaps 10-15 people attending on a given Sunday. The service is highly liturgical. Compared to my former evangelical church, there seems to be little emphasis upon greeting ...

I discuss the IK metaphor previous to this. Do we finally have definitive evidence that Ashvin=Cleric, something many of us have suspected? The linked post belongs to Cleric. I have been thinking that Ashvin's posts and essays have increasing evidenced a familiarity with scientific/mathematical ...

I discuss the IK metaphor previous to this. Do we finally have definitive evidence that Ashvin=Cleric, something many of us have suspected? The linked post belongs to Cleric. I have been thinking that Ashvin's posts and essays have increasing evidenced a familiarity with scientific/mathematical ...

Cleric, Sorry for the delay in replying - I've had successive overseas trips. Of course any response to what is meant by particular words in the bible has to be prefixed with the question of provenance. Critical scholars generally agree that few words in the gospel of John can be ascribed to Jesus ...

Cleric, I have not said I find SS unconvincing, at least in its core ideas. Rather I am yet to be convinced of attempts to connect it to Christianity as broadly understood. In terms of what you have outlined above, my attention is drawn to points 3 and 4, the depth structure of reality ...

The continuity between the old faith and the perspective of SS is something I still aren't seeing. This seems to be a common result with the various interactions I've seen here. There is quite the leap from "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved" to "Strive for higher cognition ...

Anthony, Can you just say a few words on what significance this has for you? If there is a progressive transformation in humanity's understanding and relationship with the Divine, which I would say could not be made more plain for anyone who examines the whole corpus of OT and NT without modern ...

Again, this is all well and good if by Lord one has in view the ground of reality which Christian theology, particularly classical theism eventually landed on. But in popular piety, Lord is the OT figure who had a keen interest in the status of flesh on penises, the mixing of fabrics, slaughtering ...

As a sort of quick and dirty phenomenological approach to this question, one could start by experiencing their current linear sequence of thoughts. For ex. right now I have thoughts condensing related to 'how to phenomenologically illustrate the Lord to Anthony'. These are linearly experienced as ...