Thread: Transcendentalism

I don't think the goal of philosophy is it prove theories or "go anywhere".

I think it is about ideas or a line of thinking. Sometimes it may lead to paradox or back to the begining.

So your statement that we reincarnate to experience every aspect of ourselves or every possibility of our potential............I LIKE IT!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Stupified

So your statement that we reincarnate to experience every aspect of ourselves or every possibility of our potential............I LIKE IT!!!!!!

Yeah, except for the small problem that it's complete and utter bullshit and makes no sense at all

I guess I don't like calling this stuff 'philosophy' because it gives philosophy a bad name. People come to associate it with vague, zephyrous statements and half-baked pseudo-intellectual nonsense.

Philosophy can be useful, you know. It's more than an endless parade of "what ifs".

I'd agree with Gnome; this is more R/S. Philosophy usually tries not to make any wild assumptions; and makes far more sense.


To reiterate what Gnome said we can come up with any idea at all which can't be disproven [this thread for example]- but it isn't grounded in particularly philisophical thought or reason.

It sounds like it has far more to do sprirituality and religion; faith rather than reason.



Because- reasonably there is no reason to assume that we have a non-physical element to us. In making this assumption we jump into the realm of faith

and hence into Religion and Spirituality.






Real philosophy is more grounded and tries not to make any leaps. For example if you look up some of the key philisophical concepts you will see how wildly different they are to this kind of gibberish. Read up on Existentialism, Nihilism, Idealism, General epistemology. These are far more grounded.



People's ideas of philosophy have sadly been skewered by ideas such as the OP's.





Putting this thread in Philosophy would just further give the impression that it is some kind of mystical business. This could be no further from the truth.



I am not discounting the ideas of the OP; I just think it is most certainly not philosophy; anyone who thinks it is needs to investigate philosophy more.

This thread must have transcended to another topic since I left.

Good point Carousoul... I won't doubt myself on my thread placement from now on.