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My apologies! In my haste I read "It worked in Cambodia" as "I worked in Cambodia"! Kind regards.

The Engineer, Once again, truly appreciate you taking the time to have a read (also pleasantly refreshing to be able to discuss something aside from the religious posts). Firstly, very glad that you agree with my sentiments. I agree completely with your last comment also - while I don't think...

Religiosity versus spirituality - adherence to a world religion and some sort of holy book, versus a sense of the transcendent. I feel a sense of transcendence and human connection looking into the wondering eyes of a tribal elder, the hairs on my arms stand up when I listen to John Coltrane or...

Refer to my three sequential posts on page 4, first one dated 2nd September 2012, 10:39 PM (regarding your metaphysical model of truth as contrary to any commonly accepted correspondence theory, and a few other points).

PS: stay tuned to my blog! I'll certainly be posting on non-religious topics, potentially of interest, in the near future.

Touche :) I guess we'll agree to disagree, neither of us finding the other person's arguments convincing (we'll both be beating our head against the wall attempting to elucidate our own points any further I think). In closing though, just a couple of points for us both to consider - if I don't...

Is there anything you don't believe in, even though you have found no reason not to? Have you found a reason not to believe in Apollo?

I'm not sure what to make of much of this post, as much of it seems overly abstract (to the point where concrete meaning is hard to discern). Having said that, I'll do my best to address a few key points I'm able to pull out. When I speak of co-existence of the belief in god with "your" belief...

I completely endorse this response - a bizarre sequence of non-sequiturs (assuming that the individual statements have any semantic quality in the first place). God simply cannot be reasoned. This argument, like all arguments for god's existence, fails flatly. As I've stated in other threads...

Indeed - or maybe one of the other three dimensions of the space-time continuum. I think probably height, but depth and width have a divine ring to them also!

Yes sir!

In fact, I'd implore you to do so. Having just re-read your last paragraph, it strikes me as unnecessarily condescending, considering I did my best to respond to this in my last reply to you, and you don't seem to have addressed my arguments in the slightest.

Regarding my understanding of the history of Buddhism, I'm happy to stand corrected on abbreviation of its geographic spread (the only historical point I made). Regarding your argument (at least your implied argument in light of your quotation) with my summary of meditative practices between...

Neither, of course, being appropriate for contemporary understanding in any capacity! And the Roman-era author's of which were not great Roman thinkers (a la the great Stoics like Marcus Aurelius), nor were they heavily culturally influenced by the West (except where writings were...

I think that such a summation would have been lazy itself say in the bronze-age, where man knew no better than worship; I don't think any of us atheists would deny that religiosity is a manifestation of some sort of 'misfiring' evolved psychological requirement. However, ignorance in an age of...

By the way, 'the seeking out and practice of truth' to which our discussion of truth referred was prescriptive, regarding virtue in all fields of objective truth, as well as descriptive (as per the topic of this entire discussion) pertaining to 'truth' of god's inexistence. The debate for god's...

I also re-read/obsess over previous posts - completely understood. I think perhaps to compare proto-existentialism (Nietzsche), existentialism and other forms of what has politically incorrectly been dubbed 'continental philosophy', with contemporary analytic philosophy is confused. Subjective...

I think this is progress of a kind! I certainly won't argue over the soothing nature (or otherwise) of meaninglessness - I agree entirely that everybody's reaction will be unique. I also won't argue against the existence of freedom; I think our best current approximation of the age-old...

Re. my 09:29 PM post - references to paragraphs are slightly redundant seeing as Nooj reformatted his original post. The essence of his comments remain unchanged though, so my response still stands.

Stay tuned!! Thanks for having a look, hopefully I can offer something up (although a justified absence of belief 'x' is certainly not predicated upon an analogous all-encompassing belief 'y', at least not in the sense that I'm assuming you are using the word 'belief' - as stated sporadically, I...