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  • in reply to: Types of materialism #246028
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    Leave comments please, to this:

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245984
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    Gibbon on Christianity.

    In his monumental work, Edward Gibbon, in his chapters on Christianity, has to pay lip-service to the “truth” of the mythology, yet his brilliant sarcasm throughout, but thinly veiled, makes reading him a real pleasure.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245982
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    Tribal people are shown Carl Sagan video.

    And yet in the US and UK, where we have all this technology, we are plagued with oafs!

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    in reply to: Types of materialism #245980
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    No, it isn’t idealist.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245978
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    I know. Tell it them then.

    I wrote to Carl Sagan in 1988 about socialism. He didn’t reply, but I wrote, and I think it’s important to do so.

    And what Dawkins should be looking at, rather than at the stupidity of creationists, is WHY are people still choosing such paths.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245974
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    Yes. I have left a comment on that.
    Party members should leave comments. Even if Dawkins doesn’t see them, others watching the video(s) will.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245965
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    Some very funny bits in here:

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245962
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    A ruba’i (plural: rubaiyat)

    He was a poet who didn’t know it,
    A materialist not quite with it,
    Reliant on the old rather than new,
    and to some an argumentative git.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Thomas_More.
    in reply to: Types of materialism #245955
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    “the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are”).

    I never said that and I would be wrong if I did.

    ” I just thought you might be in view of your seeming rejection of any active role for the mind in understanding the world of reality.”

    I would be wrong to do that too.

    “Pannekoek understood material reality to be a ‘continuous and unbounded stream in perpetual motion’”.

    Something I have always said too. Even Taoism says that.

    Good ol’ Heraclitus. He is right.

    Marx too much for me? Rude!

    Well, I’ll be an Heraclitan, thank you.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Thomas_More.
    in reply to: Types of materialism #245954
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    That is correct about maps. That at last puts it succinctly.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245950
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    Thank you. I’ll be reading this too. Looks very interesting.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245947
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    I will read this, but I just wonder if many of you are so engrossed in Marx that you confuse that with everything, even the natural sciences like astronomy.

    Atoms exist, even if the word atom is invented by humans to assist understanding and converse.

    Why am I a “naive realist”?

    I’m a party member, aren’t I?
    I just don’t put Marx into everything.
    (I wondered the other day what a suspicious character who resembled him in my Asterix book was up to).

    What’s next? “A Marxian Analysis of the Planets”?

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    in reply to: Facts of both biological and social evolution. #245945
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    I only proffered the quote to elicit a discussion.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245937
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    Richard Dawkins/Mitchell & Webb.

    in reply to: Types of materialism #245932
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    You are starting to sound more and more like an idealist.

    Are you denying material, physical reality, and saying it’s all in our minds?

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