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How does the idea of Identity in Christ fit within TST?
TST respects religious self/non-self teachings, but treats them as personal meaning frameworks rather than as rational truths.
Why is it so difficult to get someone else to understand what seems so obvious to you?
After sharing new information, if someone is still not convinced, let it rest. Belief is often tied to identity and worldview. To their way. Respect ...
Did Berger and Luckmann really say reality is just made up?
You inherit your culture, understand it, but you are not bound to it. You get to choose to live within it, or choose beyond it.
Do my people and culture help or harm my critical thinking?
Your people and culture give you a big leg up, a great starting place, but it is not a final place to stand still.
Is Trump simply wrong when he says no one knows what a magnet is?
In certain materials like iron, nickel, and cobalt, magnetic domains line up to form a magnet.
Is Trump simply wrong when he says water destroys magnets?
Water doesn’t weaken a permanent magnet, but time eventually does.
Can you explain quantum entanglement simply?
Quantum entanglement is when two particles share a connection so deep that measuring one is tied to the outcome of the other, even across great ...
What does superposition tell us about metaphysics?
Superposition turns quantum mechanics into a metaphysical troublemaker by forcing us to ask whether reality is made of fixed things, potentials, or deeper hidden layers.
Has belief in determinism influenced science?
Belief in determinism has deeply shaped science by encouraging thinkers to search for order, causes, and laws beneath nature’s surface.
Is Homo affinis erectus a direct human ancestor?
A new fossil can be exciting without being decisive. Right now, H. aff. erectus is best understood as an early European hominin with erectus-like traits, ...
How does Schrödinger’s Cat relate to wave-particle duality and the multiverse?
Schrödinger’s Cat turns quantum weirdness into a visible drama. It takes the strange logic of superposition and asks what it would mean if that same ...
Does Agrippa’s Trilemma Disprove the Idea of Ideas?
Agrippa’s Trilemma does not break the Idea of Ideas. It helps show why we need a clear split between reality itself and our human ideas ...
How does TST Ethics handle the trolley problem?
When an ethical problem feels impossible, slow down, weigh options intent and use the good intent-good result formula to choose the option that causes less ...
Were dinosaurs Jurassic movie smart?
Dinosaurs were probably not movie-raptor smart, yet 170 million years of evolution and a badly incomplete fossil record give us good reason to keep an ...
What is cognitive dissonance?
Cognitive dissonance is conflict of the mind. What happens when two things do not fit. Emotional conflict often means something in your life is out ...
What happens when identity and loyalty collide?
Sometimes the hardest moral conflicts are not between good and evil, but between two loyalties a person cannot fully reconcile.
What inspired Orwell’s 1984 and Orwellian thought?
Orwellian thought grew out of Orwell’s early experience with empire, poverty, and class. It sharpened dramatically in Spain when he saw propaganda and betrayal inside ...
Is Philo’s interpretation related to the split in the Idea of Ideas?
Practice allegorical reading of the stories you encounter, including scripture. Allegory deepens your thinking ability. See the deeper awareness under the text.
Is red an empirical idea?
Empirical ideas describe the material world through direct experience, while rational ideas describe it indirectly by organizing, interpreting, and extending what direct experience reveals.
Do we experience reality directly?
As you go through life, remember: your first impression is not the whole of reality. Flourishing begins when we stop confusing our interpretation with reality ...