theRiddler

So no compassion for unskilled laborers because just because Hitler was an unskilled laborer doesn't mean he deserves compassion. OK got it.

I hate to be that guy, but with Russia's history, both past and present, why wouldn't NATO be set up at its borders to defend against exactly what is ...

Consuming their own cheap product and calling it the best. Still cheap and tasteless.

What about greed, sloth, and cheap product, I say. Cause that's what really keeps American factories in business. Honest, pragmatic men must suffer fo...

If animals had no reason at all, dogs would be knocking over trash cans non-stop.

Yeah, but I don't dwell too hard on it. Something like that, even if it's Star Wars' mystical Force binding all things.

But I think the universe at large is this superintelligence, that everything is one, and, truly, nothing is completely subjective.

Omniscience would be fairly intelligent. Though I think it would be picking straws if it even just had something along the lines of super intelligence...

Belief in God needn't predicate the existence of an afterlife either. But anyway, there's nothing wrong with everyone exploring completely diverse are...

A creator is a valid theory for the origins of the cosmos, one which many happen to believe. And you guys get angry, because you disagree, but how can...

I think our attitude towards death is scarier than death itself. If you want to explore life extension, fine, but death is not the enemy. Just look at...

Evidence hasn't pointed anywhere as yet. The truth is, we just (even with our complex brains) just can't comprehend reality from this lowly dimension....

That's a possibility, too, and a good one. Though I would imagine some kind of primeval collision of worlds. And when you think about it, there is a d...

@Joe Mello Why should I listen to you and not me? Television shows? I don't get it.

Says you. But if God was not the only resource from which to create, even if God has the power to make imagination tangible, then technically God did ...

Never read Ayn Rand, never will. There's something disingenuous about trying to turn the very uncomplicated act of being a reasonable person (within r...

I think everything is occuring at the same vibrating time, so effects can be causes. And God must be everything, or God couldn't have created everythi...

I think what Garrett is saying and suggesting is that the brain is amazing. But we don't even know how amazing it is.

Dishbrain's whole awareness is pain. It is all Dishbrain has ever known.

Stanford does a thing with random number generators and intent. Supposedly certain people and events can cause patterns to form or something of that i...

I'm not even against the role of the brain in, at least, regulating consciousness. I believe it isn't just some useless thing. But do I determine that...

It's sociopathic to try and force people to believe all that they are is an organ in the vat of the body. We are whole people, found out here, out of ...

The brain and the body are so codependent that the brain is a part of the body. This attempt to dwindle people down to a singular body part sounds lik...

The abstraction of the body can't be found inside of the brain. In fact it's barely aware.

We are whole bodies, out of our minds. We're not just a nervous system, as is self-evident

The brain manages, not governs.

The body cogoverns with assistance from the outside world. The brain isn't just some powerhouse that wanted a cool body. The flesh keeps the blood war...

The only "woo" is hardline materialism: the equivalent of thinking the Earth is flat.

I love my daughter Sally and talked to her about riding bikes while flying a kite yesterday. The physical world is only as strong as the string. The t...

Pages like this are so enticing to narcissistic know-it-alls. Many of you are a fucking joke.

Explain how the brain functions if you're going to insist it functions in such a way that everything is perfectly as it seems (to you.) You're a littl...

I choose my thoughts, but find it strange that this act requires no thought. I'm gonna think something silly now, orangutan pie. Does anybody else thi...

Okay I'll stop blurting. Blurt blurt blurt

The faculty of reason isn't a person, though you could argue that the person of God is flawlessly reasonable. But we know for a fact God is a person, ...

No, God is a person.

So, fundamentally, we don't know what the brain is, how it does what it does...at all...yet we know all there is to know about consciousness. History ...

It's greed/lack of imagination. It is cruel, if not malicious. The people at the top just want more and more money, influence, and prestige. People at...

I think Bartricks saw one too many George Burns movies.

What color is God's public hair? Or does he wax.

God doesn't denote a person, but a being, a being which is the living universe, which meets the criteria of the definition of God. Jesus is sacrilege.

Who are you to say, though, really. God is everything, whether you agree or not. Who am I to say? Someone special.

God has all power which exists, because God is the sum total of all things. Nothing more, nothing less.

Spiritual energy is derived from the energy of the body, which is always extant, as the contemporary idea of time and entropy are an illusion.

He said it to be provocative and make pretense to having some noble, unseen cause, talking out his ass as scholars do.

With what we're doing to the planet, how can we be anything but dumb. It's really, really grotesque and really wrong. There are way, waaay too many of...

It's all in the parables. They seem to have come from a speaker rather than a writer. But, then again, we can't give people enough credit. There were ...

Neuroscience hasn't explained jack, and consciousness relying on a brain means jack when that brain is subject to nin-linear time, as has been proven ...

Death is only imagined as worse because it's associated with the visage of ugly, stiff, rotting corpses. It's the spark of life, the ephemeral beauty ...

I personally don't think it's completely and entirely unreasonable to believe something profound occurs at death; that, perhaps, the essence of who we...

I said no. It's just Joe being Joe, trying to be dangerous, being cocky. But with his massive audience, he has to understand that the-powers-that-be w...