SatmBopd

I was considering: As basically a truth claim. It's tentative, sure, and I respect if you did not mean it as a powerful assertion or conclusion in an ...

But how do you know that this is required of "nothingness"? If nothingness is something (or nothing, I guess) that we (by definition?) cannot encounte...

Why?

My current understanding is that it is better to be good than to be happy. If you're happy because of the safety of your situation, that's volatile, b...

Hey, didn't see this reply for a while, sorry. I'm definitely still intrigued by/ trying to comprehend this methodology. I was introduced to "Ode on a...

If there was no good reason to believe anything, then we wouldn't believe anything. When you say that a person's ideas "are the result of the individu...

Religion was already in decline (in the west) beginning with the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment on the order of two to five hundred years ago...

Maybe we could make the conversation better by changing the language a little. Obviously complete "equality" would mean everyone is a clone, had the s...

With all due respect, this whole question is just stupid. It would be much better if we were still mortal but we overcame our fear of death. I'll try ...

I see. I guess what I mean is that human beings posses a (probably) unique awareness of our own consciousness that causes us to reflect upon and quest...

Humans rebel. No other animals or systems in the world I know of rebel. If a machine rebels against the nature of its code, the way we lament our mort...

It would be a cowardly act and there is something fundamentally valuable about courage?

I am intrigued by the notion of increasing the quality of review discussions, but somewhat skeptical and do not fully comprehend the idea of removing ...

Hmm. Well if soul mates exist, maybe some of us just don't happen to meet them.

Yeah. I at least hope some of that helped. Maybe stoicism has some potential there.

Just for the record, if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, it absolutely does not make a sound. Rather, it makes a series of vi...

Two things. First, I do not think we can be certain that thoughts follow each other linearly, one after the other. Spoken and written words seem to do...

Eve offered him the apple, and he said "lol ok".

We're right over here

God never said to Adam, "Humanity is free". Eve did. Lets assume there is no freedom of the will. This is not problem for those who believe in free wi...

Not appealing to Nietzsche or his relativism as a whole to support my argument. It's just that the specific concept of "The Last Man" also sort of imp...

I offer a respectful rebuttal: Firstly, I believe the categories are delineated by (more or less) objective measures. Creative, Variable things have a...

Hmm. That is a good point. Does the variability generated by the fascinating study of war exceed that which would have been generated by all the peopl...

Okay. Went and actually familiarized myself with the Gilgamesh story (probably a good idea). I just get the impression that he's really human. I feel ...

I don't think social media is designed to propagate human well being. I think it's largely designed for commercial purposes. As such, I don't think we...

I think Gilgamesh is definitely wise. One consideration is the standards of ethics at Gilgamesh's time. If we apply our own standards of morality (inf...

(Those things within the realm of variability which also contain a destructive quality)'s wake.

Must admit to not understanding the Anaximander/ Cronos reference. I think you're saying something really interesting but I can't quite wrap my head a...

Okay mostly, the point of this thread is to have fun. But I also kind of think that the whole point of life is to have fun... so I'm proposing a scale...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKEVRKEoms&t=2792s One of the most interesting lecturers I've ever heard. This is one of many of his videos that stoo...

I think I'm pretty okay with subjectivity on this. After all, subjectivity is variable. So if you think something is "worth doing", or "interesting" a...

To your first point, interesting/ variable things that serve as existential threats would be categorized as "destructive variable things" since non-ex...

Only if they leave a stasis in their wake. At least according to my argument.

The morally charged part of my argument is the least important part. I'm trying to gauge... I guess potential fulfillment from doing certain things, a...

Yep lol. All things are things. So as long as it's a thing.

That is, logical "argumentation" is "boring". If that premise AND the premise that boring (static) things should not be engaged with are true, then it...

Oh. Yeah I didn't mean for there to be moral baggage on the word "worth". I think the question of weather something is worth engaging with precedes th...