TheMadFool

:smile: I'm not in a position to comment.

Thereby hangs a tale :up: That's anthropomorphism. We really need to take a long, hard look at our assumptions. God as an artist in the grips of a cre...

Something is at least ONE thing.

Not everything can't be nothing because not nothing isn't necessarily everything. Not nothing and not everything can both be in something.

All I'm saying is that whether god exists or not, there has to be a way the universe came into existence. There's got to be a process to creation whet...

:up: Something is at least ONE but not ALL

To those who care What exactly do we mean by "something"? Its logical definition is "at least ONE thing" but the question then is what's a "thing"? Do...

In my humble opinion, assuming god created the universe, there are two steps in the creation process viz. 1) Telos, what purpose does the universe ser...

You say it better than me! Thanks for putting a mathematical spin to it. I was wondering about what I initially thought was a problem for my answer to...

What kind of answer are you looking for? A rational one as far as I can tell but that is a point against what seems to be your thesis - that we're ove...

Yes, I get that but there's a difference between everything and something and that difference is important when we consider the relationship of these ...

There's a difference between everything and something and this becomes clear when we realize that something doesn't entail everything.

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What's the opposite of nothing? Is it everything or something?

No, they're not saying the same thing. 1.. Nothing can exist can be interpreted in two ways: 1a. It's impossible for things to exist 1b. Nothing, itse...

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A fine observation on your part. However, you seem to have missed an important detail - that what's being asked isn't "why is there everything rather ...

A couple of things: 1. Pain and suffering are the harbingers of death. Their sole purpose is to warn living things when death is on the horizon. You c...

Thanks for the recommendation. :up: What bothers me is that causation usually doesn't have latency periods or if they do have them, the time involved ...

Although I'm leaning towards nihilism because skepticism, even the most radical ones, resonates with me, I have this suspicion that nihilism, in certa...

According to Richard Dawkins - evolutionary biologist, atheist, writer, science communicator - the whole notion of nature in harmony which your post p...

I still don't get it. What do you mean by opposites if not in a yin-yang sense?

We don't see eye to eye regarding your concept of infinite potential as pertains to nothing. For me, the infinite potential of nothing would, of its o...

To delay acting on one's choice is a form of control, no?

You said you're interested in "...science fiction and fantasy writing" Anyway, have a good day. I'll call it a day.

Is killing ethical? Is being part of the constant demand for meat that ultimately involves killing of animals ethical? Begging the question

I'm in unfamiliar territory but does the type-token distinction seem relevant to the OP? Speaking in terms of the geometrical object triangle, there's...

What do you mean by "polarity"? Yin and yang are basically opposites and covers your "...excess and deficit, being and nothingness, mind and anti-mind...

Well, the way I see it, we need to frame our two powerful abilities - memory and imagination - in a temporal context. Memory accesses the past and ima...

:up: Not to detract from the excellent recommendations you make here - they both make sense and are not beyond reach of mere mortals like us - but tha...

:up: Another angle to the issue of wisdom, given that we define it as both good and true, how do we attain it?

My question is, if quantum immortality is true and given approximately 107 billion people have lived on earth, there should be at least one or two who...

What are they?

:up: That's a fine piece of philosophical analysis by my standards. You drew a distinction between inner and outer lives and I should've immediately c...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by inner and outer lives but it seems like you're drawing a distinction between study of our minds (inner) and study ...

1. Nothing can exist can be interpreted in two ways: 1a. It's impossible for things to exist 1b. Nothing, itself, can exist The fundamental question o...

There's no formula in my post. Why is it "...a useless nonsensical question"?

Buy why does something exist?

I don't agree with you completely on this. The fundamental question of metaphysics asks, "why does the universe exist?" and implicit in that question ...

My argument is simple. If thoughts are like radio waves permeating space as thought waves, and our brains are simply receivers for these thought waves...

Well?

You can see of course but you can't be the light waves. Thoughts, in the scenario I described, are thought waves and you can't be thought waves.

Well, if you ask me, your question, " perfect question?" is itself a strong contender to the title of the perfect question. If you'd like another opin...

What do you mean by "it is tautologous..."?

I wasn't clear enough. My bad. The simplicity (of the task) of mental hygiene lies in its obviousness once one engages in philosophy and someone kind ...

P = The universe exists. My modal logic ain't that good but I think the following statement is true. 1. If P then ?P What this means is that for the u...

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Therein lies the rub. If thought waves are real, you can't be thinking

Being philosophical, I think, is orders of magnitude harder than coming up with a creation story. Many, perhaps all, creation myths predate philosophy...