What is this all about? The pursuit of Happiness. What makes you happy? Learning, for a while I went around with full force trying to discover the sim...
Before technology, I think it's fair to say it was a lot harder; forcing people into a choice between strive or die (I'm no biology major, but I think...
I do think the reasons change but this must, for me at least, be the main reason. It is absolutely a matter of instant gratitude. But, there's sugar, ...
Just as easily as the 'right thing' could require us sacrifice, so too could it bring many more gifts. I agree with you and try to hint at it near the...
We wouldn't have reached our conclusion if the questions we were asking weren't interesting or important to us. So whatever conclusion you reach will ...
This one time in the woods. I went off trail, am lost, am jogging bc of knee-high grass, slowly it dawns on me I've been here for 6 hours now and my w...
In the case of a bank robbery you get inside and immediately with your super-human level of perception and objectivity you suspect this man is about t...
In the real world we see tons of people follow the western culture path and, on the surface at least, they're happy. We read a few dozen philosophers ...
One would think those on a Philosophy forum wouldn't be so attacking. He gave you his opinion. Without any resentment or anger towards you or anybody....
Good. If you could not imagine a greater 'you' why keep living at all? To become worse over time? The key here is defining what makes you happy. Once ...
If one were to participate in some evil-doing I hope they would at least like to understand why they feel that way and maybe even make it okay for the...
That argument would be just one of the many ways one could resolve a traumatizing event in one's ego, I agree with you. But, even if people don't real...
Have you ever thought of what is within our control and what is outside of our control? All the events that happen to you in life that initially cause...
Thanks for sharing, I think lots of younguns such as myself can take away a lot from your experience. That feeling. I think I get that feeling because...
You've(humanity) been forced to play forever. It's not just society. It is arguable to say that society has made it worse, sure; but it's also probabl...
What put me on the path to become greater must have been reason. Reason put me here, and reason also tries to convince me daily to leave. Sadly I thin...
The OP and your recent post show very different tones as if one was a devil. So happiness from a bad location doesn't amount to a lot of good. In OP t...
I don't think you could have compassion without first having some understanding of the harm or situation that the person is in. By having a clear unde...
Seems like everyone's equating compassion with suspending their better instruments of reason automatically. Buddhism provides a step by step deconstru...
With people, as they are fallible. Theism-Atheism are just thoughts that we throw around to see which one is more truthful to our own opinions. Only o...
Just from my first few pop-ins with this forum, this conflict definitely crossed my mind. It's not the worlds fault, nor is it logics. Most of us, whe...
You in starting this discussion have already agreed to framing "these two concepts as belonging to radically different categories" Just like I have wi...
I read a book once by a really mathy person. Its called a Strange Loop. He uses the analogy of a pool table. He posits very small particles that bounc...
"our reality is simply experience" Ah, but now Whose experience is it? For there to have been an experience we understood someone or something experie...
Your experience is simply equivalent to God's experience. The table is there for you because it is there too for God. This relies upon a world entirel...
I had an example of heat transfer but really all it says is that mental events are just a series of physical events inside you. Your attributing a dis...
So eating the fruit of knowledge is equivalent to man doing violence? Disobedience perhaps, but violence I think not. I don't see how all of man's wor...
Perfect. The "Know thyself" team Xenophone's Socrates 'on making friends' S: Are you a good person yet? R: Most likely, not fully. S: Then how would y...
God is like an angry ex-gf that slashes your tires after you told her you were gonna go hang with that other smexy bihh? So all people who believe in ...
And I agree. Thank you for your insights. I could drag the question further with a thought on all desire is suffering, but I might make a seperate thr...
If we change the moral theory, the virtuous man can do good? or If the current moral theory remains and like before the virtuous man continues down hi...
If you believed Truth would lead to a greater form of happiness than the happiness derived from falsehoods; You would be seeking Truth out for your be...
If you were to go back in time, and stop the Holocaust from happening, when you came back what would you expect? If you wanted a separate reality with...
I'll agree to this. If you were a carpenter and 60% of your work was being thrown away, you still get paid; Is your answer still yes? And if so, where...
What then is God, if not the thing that produced us, the cause to our own effect. Humans inherently seek to understand this, none more greatly wanted ...
If u had soccer balls on a hill, you'd find the soccer balls would clump together at the bottom of the hill. Imagine being the soccer ball. That hill ...
Could you explain that, all mythology is the work of satan? Humans see it is necessary for a scapegoat. Historically, true. Under the assumption "God ...
It seems fairly straightforward to me that humans take whatever action they deem to produce a greater good for themselves and the people of importance...
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