God is Universally Loving? Have you talked to a Haitian lately? Have you read my "Justification of God's Violence" thread?
http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye/browse_thread/thread/7601a92a5b211336?hl=en Care to revise your statement? On Jan 16, 10:49 am, Twirlip <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm searching for philosophical forums where I can perhaps start to > study things more systematically. As well as this > one,http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/andhttp://www.philosophyforum.com/ > look promising, and there are a couple of others to look at as well, > although I haven't yet approached any except Minds Eye. > > Athttp://www.philosophyforum.com/, in particular, there is a forum > for New Member Introductions. I am vaguely thinking of posting > something like what follows below. It's a very rough first draft, so > please be charitable even while being critical! > > I believe in a God who is immanent in each of us, universally loving, > and an absolute moral authority. I have no > knowledge or opinion as to whether this God created the universe, or > is omnipotent. > > I don't think I have ever believed in any supernatural events, not > since I was a child and believed in Santa Claus. I think I have > always, since then, been inclined to believe that no supernatural > events occur or ever have occurred, > although, as with creation and omnipotence, I don't claim total > certainty about this. I do believe in paranormal phenomena, and I > think that Jung's concept of synchronicity provides ample room for > such phenomena to occur, within what is called coincidence. > > Philosophically, I believe that human beings are minds, not bodies, > and although of course human minds /have/ human bodies, I think that > it is not only a gross error, but causes incalculable harm, to imagine > that any amount of knowledge of human bodies will ever give human > minds even the smallest knowledge of other human minds or of > themselves. This belief is independent of my belief in paranormal > phenomena (which is an intellectual embarrassment). > > I haven't studied philosophy formally, but I think I would like to > learn something about about Plato, Meister Eckhart, Locke, Kant, > Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Emerson, Bergson, William James, Mill, > Freud, Jung, Merleau-Ponty, Gabriel Marcel, Heidegger, Sartre, Popper, > Feyerabend, and Chomsky. > > I'm pretty much open to suggestions, although I'm chronically and > quite deeply depressed and it's quite a struggle > for me to get through any books at all. What little education I have > is in pure mathematics, although even that is incomplete. I have also > done a fair amount of unsystematic reading, over the years, on the > subject of mental illness (so called) and psychotherapy. > > In a word, I suppose I'm a mystic: a budding one, an extremely > undeveloped and confused one, lost in a world that has seemed dark, > strange, and threatening for a very long time.
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