A dog and a horse walk into a bar. The dog says "hey, why the long face?" and laughs playfully.

The horse looks at him with wide eyes and says "WTF A TALKING DOG!"

GM! I love the smell of #zaps in the morning!

You don't happen to know portuguese, do you? The best book I've ever read on the topic of gnosiology and epistemology is "Gnosiologia Pluridimensional", by the latvian Father Stanislavs Ladusãns, but it was written in portuguese and has no translations that I know of. This book is a gem. If you can, try to find it and ask for help translating it. It would be a great service to the philosophy world

Realism rules. Aquinas is the GOAT

Still waiting for some falsiability experiment that could disprove the premiss "only falsifiable concepts can be true", or some empirical evidence for the affirmation "only empirical evidence can be true". Choosing non falsifiable and non empirical axioms to later disprove non falsifiable and non empirical concepts seems problematic to say the least. But ok.

The study of natural reality and social structures and truths surely has it's place, but I don't see how it negates the metaphysical truths. Objectivism and other such philosophies look to reality through a certain scope (all sciences must have a scope and a proper object, and no science can comprehend the whole of reality at once). I am just saying that the fact that objectivism focuses on certain aspects of reality in no way negates these ones that I am talking about. It doesn't mean they should interest you in particular, just that they must not be simply discarded, for they have their place too in the bigger picture

The problem is that you are using the physical method to study a metaphysical concept. Physics and metaphysics are two different sciences with two different methods. Since metaphysics is poorly understood, people tend to think of it as a free for all, specially because modern philosophy started to treat it like that. But it has a strict deductive and intuitive (intuition in a proper gnosiological sense) method of its own. Plato started it and Aristotle lapidated it. Throughout western history this tradition was strong until the enlightenment rejected it

The need for the first cause of all things comes from aristotelian philosophy and was refined by saint Thomas on his 5 proofs. The reasoning is that for something to have being it can either have being in itself, which means it exists permanently and eternaly, or it must receive being, that is, it had no being one time, and has being in other, aka, it is a created being, a creature. If this "lineage" of creation had no first one, it would go backwards infinetly, and this would mean that the universe has an infinite lifespan, which means there is an infinite time in the past. But an infinite time never ends, it never passes, and if there is an infinite time behind us, how did it pass and how did we finaly reach the present time? Time would never pass because infinity never ends. From this, we can presume that something transcends time itself and exists "before" time (in quotes because without time, the idea of before makes no proper sense). This "before" is what is called eternity, and this eternity is that Being that has being in itself, and didn't get it from any other prior to it. This explanation is not perfect, but the argument goes something like this. You can look up Aristotle's physics and metaphysics for a more indepth understanding. It is not evident, but when it is rightly understood, it is de facto undeniable. There must be a God, a First Cause of all being.

The atheist option is self defeating. To affirm that there is no God is to affirm that reality is impossible. If the material world has a begining, it must have a cause that transcends it, hence there must be something non material in existence (this succession of creation cannot go on eternaly and must have a first term, and that is what philosophy and the religions call God). But, if material creation has no begining, it must be the source and cause of itself, which would make the material universe the cause of all that exists, and this makes the universe God. This is pantheism, and it is extremely (EXTREMELY) poor in philosophical terms... The worldview of hippies and new age modern mistyc gurus. Either way, a God must inescapably exist. #God #atheism #philosophy #pantheism

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Well I guess #mkultra left some aftermath