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Name: Rusty Morgan
Username: emorgan@islandnet.com
Subject: human potential
Date: Fri Jan 9 16:47:22 EST 1998
Comments:
for those who have the equipment but not the operation manual,
here's one free online:
Operation Manual For Human Being
http://www.islandnet.com/~emorgan/om.html
reactions and comments welcome
Name: Yael
Username: whitediabolo@hotmail.com
Subject: Afterlife
Date: Fri Jan 16 06:54:35 EST 1998
Comments:
I would like to believe in the afterlife, but my logical mind rejects the idea. The thought of all the knowledge that I have learnt during my life rotting away with my body is an unpleasent one. How do you prove that our minds and souls don't die with our bodies? All view points welcome.
Name: anonymous
Username:
Subject: afterlife
Date: Fri Jan 16 06:55:57 EST 1998
Comments:
Name: High Priestess of C.ism
Username:
Subject: afterlife
Date: Fri Jan 16 07:05:28 EST 1998
Comments:
I think Hell is a place invented as a means of controlling people. Threat of an unpleasant afterlife will prevent people doing wrong on Earth. People like to think that people who do them wrong will suffer horribly, even in a different life.
I like the idea of reincarnation. I believe that regression is proof of reincarnation, but we have Lethe water in the underworld to help us forget the pastlives. I think that our souls break up into little bits, like our bodies do, but I have not studied philosophy before. The bits of soul become bits of other souls, as the bodies become bits of other bodies. I think that everything in the universe has a soul, like rocks and things. If they're made of matter (bodies), why not have souls too?
Name: Maria Blanco
Username: blango@ceu.es
Subject: mind and body
Date: Sat Feb 14 12:13:09 EST 1998
Comments:
I want to know if somebody can help me. My research is about the relationship between the history of economic thought and the history of psychology. The question is that William Stanley Jevons, one of the main mathematical economists, and a disciple of Alexander Bain, justifie the use of mathematics in economic theory using an argument very similar to Fechner and Wundt psychophisical theories, but when Jevons wrote, Bain had no relation with tese theories. Perhaps somebody knows if Jevons had any relation with Lewes or Carpenter. Excuse me if my question is not very interesting for psychologist or philosophers, and thank you for your help
Name: stuart morton
Username: bmorton2@julian.uwo.ca
Subject: function of memory
Date: Mon Feb 23 13:15:24 EST 1998
Comments:
I am presently doing an essay on the function of memory within the two novels The Dead (james joyce)& fugitive pieces (Anne Michaels)my research ha led me to William James his Stream of Consciousness Technique is claimed to have brought about the change in the authors use of the mental lives of the characters within a novel and how they are revealed.
does anyone have any thoughts on this subject?
Name: Sheryl Loughrin
Username: bailey@axisnet.net
Subject: mind/body issues
Date: Tue Feb 24 10:15:07 EST 1998
Comments:
I am trying to help a college student with a paper that's due Thursday for philosopy. The topic is: suppose that you were in an accident and vital organs were damaged and replaced with bionic parts. One there would be physical structure changes and would you be a different person? Then you would have to argue either that you agreed with Descarte's position of mind/body that they are independent with one another or your own opinion. I've looked up Decarte's Error, which talkes abt. the mind/body being interdependent. I don't understand any of this talk or how to write a 5pg paper as this theme. Does this make any sense to anyone? If so, please give me some ideas on how to write this paper. The student is talking with the TA today but both of us are confused with the topic. Please help!
Name: Jahwa
Username: Soulove1@aol.com
Subject: Non existance of evil
Date: Thu Mar 12 17:29:43 EST 1998
Comments:
Evil exist because good people let. We must be accountable and responsible for all of our actions and thoughts and that is the reality we create and the karmic implications we shall reap. To transcend karma we must act from the deathless non self with all causality absent by transcending selfish desire. I'm tired of knowledge being used to depreciate the value of life. What good is science if it allows us to further exploit our Mother Earth and her children. Everything boils down to how we treat ourself and eachother, and when true realizations occur we realize we are not ourself but the universal self, or non self. As the Buddha said belief in a self is the source of alienation and is the cause of humanities suffering. It is now survival of the emotionally expressive and mentally transcendent, not the fittest. When will humanity get beyond the illusions of physicality. See the unseen nature that is the cause of the physical manifestations. If science seeks to disprove the existance of Ultimate Reality or God, then one has not been humbled by the miracle of this exixtance. THE UNIVERSE IS OUR SELF, PEACE. Email me at Soulove1@aol.com for comments and check out www.art4tibet1998.org for implementation of love and true usefullness!
Name: anonymous
Username:
Subject: On site remark
Date: Tue Mar 17 09:35:07 EST 1998
Comments:
Robert, Great site insight. A triumph! Sebastian Morris. London 98.
Name: James
Username: wmeyer@seidata.com
Subject: Psychologist
Date: Thu Apr 30 17:16:20 EDT 1998
Comments:
I would like to know about Phychologist and what they do and what colleges they would have to go to.
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:01:58 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:01:59 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:01 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:04 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:05 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:06 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:07 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:08 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: elohim
Username: adonai_el@yahoo.com
Subject: names for forms of life and definitions of there behavior
Date: Mon Jun 8 14:02:09 EDT 1998
Comments:
The question of why a form of life recieve a name from other form of life is so interpretate that people are very confused in the understanding of a definition. Trying to conect words like cretion and evolution the way wiil go to same question "WHY" and the answer could be Yes "GOD" or"Big Bang"
but no one wiil say sure until the person from our time(space) or other time will have(or had)such experience with concret aparitions and disparitions and asking again "WHY" First about God with infinity of names
and our creation , like a child that was adult with a memory(again child)
I'll ask O realy God was so alone that created us to do a experience with himself to see what?, if his own creation was good or bad(names)?,for evolution from names like explosion at the Big bang it needs a force to keep toghether a form of life and autogiving a name to saying first name
ONE(nr and name).It's nice to speculate with all name and combinations but even in the case that we don't have an answer(maybe) the way of explanations is to teach the truth that we know,and maybe other generation wiil not be confused anymore in there search for "THE TRUTH".
Name: Abbas Yousefian
Username: likesea@direct.ca
Subject: Brain chemistry & Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam
Date: Sat Jul 4 13:56:12 EDT 1998
Comments:
This is a study of the art of concentration.
You will learn that brain chemistry under certain condition will allow the
person to feel & actually experience the touch of the hidden power
reflected in Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam. I compare this divine state
of mind in nature as a dancing bee reflecting the location of the flower to
other worker bees, a touch of a fractal mathematical state of being in
science, an opening & closing of red sea in religion. Please note that it
is not something that one can learn in few minutes, it needs a patient
thinker.
More at http://www.beedance.com
Name: MARK
Username:
Subject: god
Date: Sat Aug 1 00:42:43 EDT 1998
Comments:
PERHAPS WE ALL NEED A LITTLE BREAK. ALLOW ME TO PERHAPS GIVE A THEORY ABOUT GOD. I GET THE IMPRSSION THAT GOD IS THE UNKNOWN SUPER-UNIVERSE AND THAT WE ARE A PART OF HIS GENETIC MAKE-UP.LET US PRETEND THAT WE OURSELVES ARE GOD AND THAT OUR BODIES ARE MADE UP OF MANY UNIVERSES AND THAT ALL THE LIFE THAT IS IN IT ACTS LIKE BRAIN WAVES(THAT IS TO SAY THAT WE AS HUMANS ARE PART OF A MASSIVE NEURAL NETWORK) THEN THAT COULD POSSIBLY STATE THAT GOD HAS CONTOL OVER US (TO A CERTAIN DEGREE!)EVERYTHING IN LIFE HAS A BALANCE AND NOT EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS CONTROLLED. SO PERHAPS SAY THEN THAT WE ARE A PART OF GOD THAT IS STILL FORMING, AND THAT WE ARE HELPING TO CREATE WHAT GOD IS. IF WE LOOK FURTHER THAT SCIENCE HAS DISCOVERSED THAT A SINGLE CELL IN ANYTHING HOLDS ALL THE INFORMATION TO RE CREATE THAT ENTIRE ANYTHING THEN PERHAPS WE ARE LOOKING FOR ALL OF THE ANSWERS IN THE WRONG PLACE. ANYONE LISTENING?IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS SEND A LETTER TO MR CHRISTIANSEN AT 76 GLASGOW STREET, WANGANUI,NEW ZEALAND
Name: Alex
Username: kreychman_al@sirus.commnet.edu
Subject: NEW IDEA HOW TO MEASURE INTELLECT
Date: Wed Aug 5 13:23:39 EDT 1998
Comments:
Hi, frends!
I know you very busy, but first of all I'd like you to visit one of my page "Measurement of Intellect":
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/1941/Intellect/Intellect.htm.
As a matter of fact I am trying to make available for big Internet audience the revolutionary hypotheses, which has enough mathematical background to be a complete theory, but can't be proved now due to lack of human, funds and other resources.This is my rather awkward translation of a very brief description of one interesting idea. of Russian professor - V. Brandin .
Anybody who is interested can E-mail to me:
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your time.
Sincerely
A. Kreychman.
Name: Scott McDaniel
Username: MAK1960 @aol.com
Subject: Reincarnation
Date: Tue Oct 13 12:44:16 EDT 1998
Comments:
Hi, my name is scott, i was born on april 23, 1960. I have several vivid memories of what i`m sure is a past life dating somewhere in the mid 40`s to mid 50`s. Most of the memories involve a woman, a man, and a redheaded teenage boy. My mother has known of these memories since i was a small child, and seeing that she was the only care provider for me and my five siblings agrees that they must be from a past life. I feel that these three people were my family, but i can`t remember any names or places. I would like to know if it`s possible through hypnosis or something to somehow find out more about the people in my past life. I believe because of the time period that some of the people involved could still be alive. Anyone with any imformation, contact me at mak1960 @ aol.com. thanks.
Name: ed massey
Username: massey@mailexcite.com
Subject: mesmer/gurdjieff
Date: Wed Oct 21 20:17:20 EDT 1998
Comments:
Has anyone researched Gurdjieff's refernce to Mesmer's experiments in hypnotism? Please reply to massey@mailexcite.com
Name: jessica
Username: jessicahkg@netscape.net
Subject: philo
Date: Wed Nov 4 10:32:59 EST 1998
Comments:
I am a 1st year Human Mind Philosophy student in Hong Kong and this website has immensely clarified my perception of the mind/body problems.
I would like to thank the person who put this exhibition on the site.
Name: N
Username: nth1@ukc.ac.uk
Subject: Why it does not matter whether or not God exists
Date: Wed Nov 4 13:56:00 EST 1998
Comments:
Sartre explains in "Existentialism and Humanism" why it does not matter whether or not God exists as His existence for the individual depends on whether or not the individual CHOOSES to believe in Him. We simply cannot KNOW whether or not he exists as we are not capable of knowing any objective truth. What is true is what corresponds to the facts (correspondence theory of knowledge). However, we can never know all the facts as all we know is the ideas in our own minds. It makes more sense to try to accept a subjective truth: that there are degrees of truth which correspond to the ideas in our minds. When what appear to be truths confront us, we interpret them and choose whether or not to hold them as certain. Therefore, if we are ever confronted by the angel Gabriel, whether we believe him to be real, a hallucination or a dream, we will be CHOOSING our belief. We cannot be certain that what appears to be the angel Gabriel is not the devil in disguise. I conclude that God can, and indeed does exist subjectively, but we can never know whether or not He exists objectively. I challenge somebody to criticise this theory.
Name: Nicki
Username: nm7@cant.ac.uk
Subject: de Beauvoir ?
Date: Thu Nov 5 11:50:05 EST 1998
Comments:
Hi I'm a very confused philosophy student who has been elected
to present a seminar on de Beauvoir, specifically on whether her
work can be seen as existentialst. Any comments??
Name: michelle
Username: mledoux@mindspring.com
Subject: Ethics & sexualtiy
Date: Mon Nov 9 14:01:56 EST 1998
Comments:
I am a psychology major but unfortunately I am required to take an ethics course. This class is really more of a philosophy class and I have been thoroughly confused the whole semester. Our next topic is sexual morality & I'm trying to get a jump start. We are to write a paper on "What does it mean to say yes to my/our sexuality?" Can anyone give me any pointers on how to go about this? Any help would be appreciated - THANKS!
Name: peach
Username: Gapch001
Subject: God vs. Science
Date: Sun Dec 27 16:47:14 EST 1998
Comments:
I have a master's degree in education. I have studied philosophy extensively in order to DECIDE...all it takes is one experience with God who will make Himself real to you to KNOW.
Name: Benjy
Username: glasscoen@hotmail.com
Subject: afterlife
Date: Mon Apr 19 10:07:44 EDT 1999
Comments:
Oh please, the afterlife is not INVENTED, in order to control through fear and threat, merely it is an essential intrinsic force in any society through which morality can be justified. Nobody would truly claim that society without some form of common morality which as it turned out was determined by a universal belief in judgement is possible.
Name: anonymous
Username: Musicfrak@yahoo.com
Subject: The Point of Know Return
Date: Wed May 19 12:50:26 EDT 1999
Comments:
I think the meaning of this is that we are still trying to figure out why in the hell are we so into what everyone wants you to do and not doing your thing. So,my theory is this the Point of Know return is about finding your needs and keep doing your dreams and if the people around you are idiots and don't about your dreams I say,Leave that eviroment and find your own.
Name: Baruch Spielmann
Username:
Subject: My Super-Intellect
Date: Mon Jun 28 23:04:25 EDT 1999
Comments:
Hello. My name is Baruch, and I believe that I have the highest IQ on earth. It hovers someplace around 210. This is much higher than that
Mrs. Savant bitch that Guiness is always blabbing about.
Anyway, my point is that all of you are more stupid than I, so don't bother trying to figure out the Mystery. I am working on it, and I'll let you know what I come up with. Just sit back and watch some TV, because you are not capable of answering (or even understanding) your own questions. Sorry.
Name: anonymous
Username:
Subject: One more thing...
Date: Mon Jun 28 23:10:36 EDT 1999
Comments:
A few comments back, Benjy mentions that "the afterlife...is an essential intrinsic force in any society through which morality can be justified". Or something along those lines. This is pure crap. For those of you interested in understanding (with defective intellects like yours, I use this word figuratively) the rational basis of "morality", I suggest you go to your local library and look up "game-theory" and "the prisoners dilemma". In fact, there is alot of justification in saying that the rational solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma is the logical/mathematical foundation of ethics. Go back to your television set and let the chefs cook dinner...
Name: anonymous
Username:
Subject: One last thing.
Date: Mon Jun 28 23:25:44 EDT 1999
Comments:
The user N, some messages prior, claims that the "objective existence of God" can never be known, and uses some passing reference to the Correspondence Thoery of Knowledge. I would just like to point out, that the CTK is based on complety circular reasononing and leads to total idiocy. Anyone willing and able to look at this theory closely will see this as obvious. In passing, the non-existence of God, at least as the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition conceives Him, has been logically proven with almost total certainty. I refer you to the book "Quantification Theory" by David Lamb. It is simplistic, but should get the point across to you jabbering idiots.
Name: anonymous
Username:
Subject:
Date: Wed Jun 30 18:08:26 EDT 1999
Comments:
I'm hung like a bull, too!!!
Name: N
Username: nth1@ukc.ac.uk
Subject: Dear anonymous (2 comments back)
Date: Thu Jul 1 16:35:23 EDT 1999
Comments:
Err...Hello?
I have found a belief in God - probably a Christian one. I hate to tell you, but you cannot know God through intellectualisation. Science doesn't actually claim to be able to measure that which is immeasurable. Also, logic has to start from a premise which may or may not be true. You could use logic to prove that premise, but even trying to prove logic ends in circularity. Logic itself is an assumption: a Cartesian foundation if you like. If you are reading this and understand what I have gone on about so far, you obviously know what is wrong with Descartes' theories, foundationism included.
Let's face it. Our brains do not have the capacity to process all the information we receive correctly. It takes mental short cuts: uses categorisation and schemas etc. We cannot 'know' in the sense of being certain. We can only 'know' in the sense of understanding.
If you think you're clever, try giving Christianity a chance. Keeping an open mind, ask God to make himself known to you and He will.
'Jesus said, "Listen, I stand at the door and knock. If anybody hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into his house and eat with him, and he will eat with me." ' Revelation, chapter 3, verse 20.
Name: anonymous
Username:
Subject: meditation
Date: Wed Sep 15 17:56:04 EDT 1999
Comments:
Name: victoria
Username:
Subject: meditation
Date: Wed Sep 15 17:57:58 EDT 1999
Comments:
can anyone help me to understand Descartes Meditation 1 & II
what is he saying...is there any web sites to better understand..besides the translation ones
thanks
Name: Alex Mitchell
Username: alexmitchell.headland,uk1@TINY
Subject: A Road Less Travelled
Date: Sat Oct 9 12:03:43 EDT 1999
Comments:
The one feature common to all religions is the belief in an afterlife; that life continues in some form after death. It is easy to see why we might want to believe in an afterlife, but wanting to believe in something, from the tooth-fairy onwards, doesn't of itself make it true.
Our notion of truth since the Enlightenment has been that propositions or hypotheses are true only if they can be verified or proved to be true, by means of obervation via the five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste & touch, plus systematic experimentation and testing, in combination with our intellectual powers of reason and logic. This is the whole basis of science, of scientific knowledge, as against simple faith or belief. We believe that water boils at 100C because it can be proved, over and over agin, as often as we like. We no longer believe that illness can be cured by the application of leeches, because that theory or belief has been disproved or invalidated.
It is not possible to prove that there isn't a life after death, but firm evidence to the contrary is lacking; there may be a life after death, but there is a distinct lack of convincing proof or evidence to that effect.
Obvious questions would arise as to the nature of an afterlife. Is everyone "up there", or only true believers? Are people as they were at the time they died, old and sick, or as they were when young and in their prime? Will our favorite pets be there? If so, will other animals be there? Will all the animals that have ever lived be there? Wouldn't it get a bit crowded?
People have believed in all kinds of things at different times, or in different places and cultures - female circumcision, bodily mutilation, cannibalism, human sacrifice, burning witches, binding up little girls' feet, slavery, tormenting animals for entertainment and so on.
The fact that people have practised or believed in some bizarre or irrational thing for, say, the last 4,000 years, or that it has become "part of their culture", is not a good enough reason for continuing with it for the next 4,000 years. It is surely possible for humankind to progress, to move on to better things and more enlightened times.
Name: Kate
Username: kayaoco@cs.com
Subject: Developmental Psychology
Date: Mon Oct 11 05:05:42 EDT 1999
Comments:
I need to do research on 3-4 important child development theorists. I have chosen Piaget and Erikson, who is another theorist who is well-known in child development and would be easy to locate a lot of information on.
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