It isn't, and that's the point. Actually, we set it up. For what it's worth, you don't have to play. No matter what you do, you will still die, same a...
I think the simplest way to discuss this is question what equal means. Too frequently, it looks more and more like sameness. Same amount of money, sam...
Of course it can be read that way, but it isn't anti-work: if anything it's the opposite, we need to work now because of our sin (injustice) but there...
What's funny about this is there is a strong Judeo-Christian connotation to your stance, and as such I'm inclined to agree but in a way you would most...
There is no "trivial" about it. If you reject the modern system, a lot of work goes into keeping food safe without the modern practices of having a ho...
It is technically work to put the food in your mouth, chew, and swallow. And then sometimes food has consequences on our digestive system and it is ad...
The word "life" means many things. Do you have a heartbeat? You're alive by one metric. "Get a life" is a saying directed towards people who aren't al...
I personally don't see the need for work as wrong, but I focus more on how government forces us to use more and more time with it. We regulate things ...
What is the opposite of Benj96? There are many people who are different from you, but that doesn't make them opposites. Not everything needs an opposi...
Partially yes, but there is also a crucial intellectual component to it. It is simultaneously a choice and a feeling, sometimes the feeling leads to t...
I partially agree with this, except it is a little too us-centered. I'd reverse it and say our conscience takes a part in this far greater conscience,...
I also think there is a strong argument to be made for this existence having a creative component, which gets us closer to the standard idea for God. ...
I will stop the quote here because it isn't about the nonexistence of something. After the discussions on this thread I've decided maybe a better word...
So there are 3 possibilities, but what about 4, 5, or more possibilities? And out of the many possibilities, what determines a specific one will come ...
Bits boil everything down to black and white, they don't allow grey area. I personally view this as the knowledge/understanding distinction. Knowledge...
This does seem to be a problem with computers, they are linear. I noticed in math there is a curious way to bypass the linear using imaginary numbers,...
Don't forget what you discussed with me on my discussion, x=x and ~x, so therefore the government is the solution and the problem, we should promote i...
So you confess this discussion was worthless from the beginning, then proceed to blame the worthlessness of it on someone else? Maybe you could at lea...
Logic is in short supply, and only getting worse. Perhaps a detour, but I can't help but think the universe is like a giant processor, performing infi...
I personally like these kinds of storms, probably because I view them as revealing the crap we had buried. We'll probably come out of this crappy stor...
Nobody is free from death, but we can be triumphant in it. Socrates, Jesus, early Christian martyrs (the famous first Stephen)--their names and storie...
It's kinda like the "black face of white supremacy" thing, the words don't mean what the words mean. It's just a tricky deceitful way to discredit peo...
Perhaps a certain arrangement of atoms, yes, but the underlying matter, no, and the underlying space, also no. The sophist doesn't believe in an absol...
You've obviously never met people who live in the country, there's a lot out there to kill someone, but doesn't stop them one bit. I've met a guy who ...
I never really did the mask thing, used it a few times in Walmart and some other places but it quickly became unnecessarily to wear it. I think they g...
Not exactly. The energy released by the sun is many times less then the energy of the big bang, but as that energy dissipates smaller creations can co...
She is the best teacher, let her do her thing. I'm all about government stoping the waist of the wealthy, one flight in a private jet consumes more fu...
Alright fine. You're already on the side of saving the planet from climate change or it hurts people, so from now on in order to not hurt people with ...
You can justify anything on that basis. Our country permits a lot, and sometimes it bothers me also. But the things that bother me would probably piss...
Worth mentioning you are starting to sound like a prophet preaching to people who would not listen. That being said, we're all going to die eventually...
You say I draw illogical conclusions without tearing apart any of my logic. You are quite the sophist, like I said you argue with emotion. Perhaps you...
I've been thinking about this one, I'm not in a place to be too verbose in my response but I'll throw out a few possible arguments in promotion of the...
Maybe I can make this part more apparent: "Just a statement of beliefs" = beliefs presented stand-alone without logical connection. While I might beli...
I actually used a reductio-ad-absurdum argument there, but it is becoming apparent to me that many on this forum don't understand this form of argumen...
Here you get it wrong, the universe is in every way like a magnificent mind, performing many trillions upon trillions of calculations instantaneously ...
I would eventually like to write a philosophical/theological book on these ideas, but it is hard to move forward without criticism. Being criticized i...
Perhaps the best way to demonstrate how silly this sounds is to present the opposite. "Philosopher presents novel argument he doesn't believe in." Of ...
We can own the idea or concept even if we don't own the manifestation of said concept. This is what philosophers do. Questioning why someone would own...
Good to see you joined the conversation again. Using the word to say something doesn't exist in the world of ideas is very tricky because language ope...
I hear a statement of belief, not a logical argument. What is this "it" and and what are the arguments for it? Or is it just a statement of your belie...
Perhaps I should give an analogy: A glass full of water is different from a glass which is empty, even while the water has no direct effect on the gla...
I'm doing a bit of a play on words here. Not timeless, all time, not changeless, all change, but these operatives don't necessarily have to leave a di...
Can a God who encompasses all time be timeless? Or encompass all change and be changeless? These words operate differently on different properties, an...
Scientist deity to some, teacher deity to others. This "adventure" without him could be a lesson or it could be a show. It could have a point, or it c...
If the cube moves, then the space inside the cube moves also, thus it is not technically the same space. It is the same amount of space, yes, but not ...
A precedent isn't the same as a law, a law on the federal level could overturn this, or it is technically possible for the supreme court to change it'...
The big problem is there isn't much in the way of federal law regarding abortion, so much of what the supreme court decides on this matter is more of ...
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