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XanderTheGrey

['Member']Joined: September 16, 2017 at 19:02Last active: February 22, 2018 at 16:0316 discussions95 comments

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In: Beautiful Things  — view comment
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f2/01/57/f201574c8705365b2c3e182953f765f2--blue-roses-blue-flowers.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8c/75/16/8c7516b8a874c138e4...
January 23, 2018 at 00:35
In: Beautiful Things  — view comment
Mt. Lagazuoi, Italy http://1photo1day.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Averau-and-Monte-Pelmo-seen-from-Lagazuoi-mountain-near-Cortina-dAmpezzo-Italy-20...
January 22, 2018 at 22:30
In: Do you consider yourself a Good person?  — view comment
No, there is no good or bad. Right and wrong are prefered delusions for some, and prefered simplifications for others. It is no more wrong to shove yo...
January 22, 2018 at 21:33
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/xD5No_JRrZw
November 04, 2017 at 05:12
In: Has 'the market' corrupted education?  — view comment
I think its obvious; maybe I'm not offering any new prespective here, but what else do you call it when you are forced to buy new books, uniforms, mea...
November 01, 2017 at 16:06
In: The video game delusion.  — view comment
Both
November 01, 2017 at 15:48
In: The video game delusion.  — view comment
Mm, not nearly the same.
November 01, 2017 at 15:35
In: The video game delusion.  — view comment
Thats wishful thinking, and I think you optimism is out of bounds. Have you done anything before thats akin to starting over in a video game, aside fr...
November 01, 2017 at 15:26
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
Seem* Abstinence and rejection of and from suicide and homicide, both on small and massive scales; is a "common value" in our culture. Why? I'll work ...
November 01, 2017 at 13:07
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
Why make an effort to behave differently everyday? Even if I had no values, behaving differently everday would not achive any good results would it? F...
November 01, 2017 at 12:33
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
I think something people do not understand is that I'm not claiming to put 0 value on everything and anything. When I speak of random individual human...
November 01, 2017 at 11:34
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
I mean "either or" actually; 10 people here, 20 people there, and perhaps even a holocaust, yes. To me its a higher level of sanity to consider such t...
October 31, 2017 at 00:00
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/vUvGrJSJoJk
October 30, 2017 at 16:47
In: Is 'information' physical?  — view comment
I say; yes, and heres why:
October 30, 2017 at 15:06
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
I'll need to do some reading and become more familiar with "secular" philosophy, I feel I could be more familiar with the word. But yes, you could say...
October 30, 2017 at 13:31
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
Privacy is a virtue, I'd rather my family not know about my deeper veiws on things. But to answer your qeustion and clear my name I'll tell you the sa...
October 30, 2017 at 13:13
In: Does suicide and homicide have moral value?  — view comment
You all make a good point. I forgot to add perhaps; that even if I had no values, it would make sense for me to expetiment with adhereing to diffetent...
October 30, 2017 at 12:46
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Regarding my vision for humanity - I wanted to think this over a bit before offering it up, only to offer up origonal aspects, turns out that I have n...
September 30, 2017 at 17:33
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
"Because our language is old, and therefore subject to inerpritation." I agree with Jacque Fresco that we need to develope a language that is not subj...
September 26, 2017 at 06:34
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
I was under the impression that "physical" refered to anythng thats studied within the feild physics. But yes, it seems to be all encompassing, but no...
September 26, 2017 at 05:47
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
In an area of infinite space, infinite matter: enery, and time he would have to exist, in infinite forms, but he would be physical. There would be him...
September 26, 2017 at 02:56
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
Information is matter and energy yes? Therefore is physical right? Each thought is made up of electro-chemicals, and electricity; along with a pattern...
September 25, 2017 at 23:51
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
I suppose I am a physicalist then; I cannot see how anything outside of physics could exist given that physics is matter, anti-matter energy, time, ec...
September 25, 2017 at 03:24
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
Exactly, thats what I'm wondering, mechanism no matter how true it appears to me, seems to have less value to me than believing in free will. As I sai...
September 24, 2017 at 23:57
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Clearly I need to learn more about this subject. However I think we nearly agree, we both see that the world holds more than enough resources to give ...
September 24, 2017 at 01:40
In: Mechanism is correct, but is it holding me back?  — view comment
Meta-physics simply being "physics not yet within our understanding?"
September 24, 2017 at 01:22
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
I agree, the less meat and dairy, the better. When it comes to health, "muscles are muscles" matters not if they come from fish, chicken, cow or pig, ...
September 24, 2017 at 01:17
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
None perhaps, but that wasn't my initial impression, and as T Clark explained, "it is said that whats ethical can sometimes be morally wrong" Is there...
September 23, 2017 at 21:18
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Definitely does not mean "the pursuit of happiness through any methods yes?" Ofcourse not. The majority of human beings do not wan't sadists on the lo...
September 23, 2017 at 19:48
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Excellent question, I'm operating under the assumption that ethics and morals are not quite the same thing. With what's "ethical" being defined by the...
September 23, 2017 at 19:33
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Very well, genocide is something I have yet to see anyone from the inside be amused with, or have a desire for ever again, and this includes those tha...
September 23, 2017 at 19:01
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Depending on what you hold as your morals yes. Slavery cannot exactly be identified. It cannot be delineated at least, how do you delineate slavery fr...
September 23, 2017 at 18:34
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Define what exactly for myself? I've made an attempt to define ethics, and "identify" my "desire" in comparison with "the greastest common interest of...
September 23, 2017 at 18:25
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
The greatest precived number, forget good or bad, I'm not trying to find good or bad, I'm trying to "identify" the "desire". So the greatest desire th...
September 23, 2017 at 18:12
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
I'm not concerned with whats good or bad, I'm concerned with desire. Also allow me to correct that part if my passage; the highest "agreed upon" commo...
September 23, 2017 at 18:03
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
Thats entirely to vague for me, even if its merely a suggestion, and not an attempt to define ethics. I insist that killing can be as much of an act o...
September 23, 2017 at 17:38
In: Self-hypnotism, atheistic black magic, ect.  — view comment
No, I have not found any evidence that I am in control of my behavior. I'm a mechanist.
September 23, 2017 at 17:21
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
I might belive or fear that, but I don't "know". The entire human race could be in a streak of chance in which probabilistic mathematics happens to wo...
September 23, 2017 at 17:14
In: What is Ethics?  — view comment
So ethics is not defined by the majorities common interests? Or is it? And you must theorize and or prove what that common intetest is, or present som...
September 23, 2017 at 16:59
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
You've studied more about probability than me, but from a personal prespective your chances of wining any given hand or game are still 50/50 are they ...
September 23, 2017 at 16:44
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
The same reason anyone gambles. If you must play a game of roulette, and you have a choice between red and black on the roulette table, and your chanc...
September 23, 2017 at 16:21
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
Yes, or no. I'm saying the factors are infinite, and that should work out the odds to 50/50, right? Let say the odds of getting a winning poker hand a...
September 23, 2017 at 15:47
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
Ofcourse I would say 50/50. There is a very difficult slight in the underground legerdemain called "flippant technique"(not to be confused with the ca...
September 23, 2017 at 15:15
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
This assumes that space and time are not manipulated. The history of events is used to calculate the odds in some cases is it not?
September 23, 2017 at 14:39
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
Well if the odds are not 50/50, then what are they? You might say we would have to calculate the odds by examining all things that could effect the ou...
September 23, 2017 at 14:37
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
It dosen't matter how long your life is, its matters how long things have been going, how long the omniverses life span is(infinite in this case).
September 23, 2017 at 14:22
In: In an area of infinite time, infinite space, infinite matter & energy; are all odds 50/50?  — view comment
Well, I mean the odds of it happening at any given time, in any given place. Would be 50/50 right? In infinite space there is unlimited potential for ...
September 23, 2017 at 14:14
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Such cozy material; I remember this book, I never spared the time for much 'reading' fiction, but I think I'll get this on my iPod when I get new labt...
September 23, 2017 at 05:04
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
@"Posty McPostface" I can understand a small bit of Polish. Gaworzysz?
September 23, 2017 at 04:23
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw76XDQPWpXHV1VJUEZjNFZsaG8 Menya koshka Meishu, she loves me very much. You know you can make an awful lot of money...
September 23, 2017 at 04:10
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