More or less, yes. Pessimism, in fact it's actually being realistic, is an underlying message in Buddhism. All philosophies that recommend making chan...
That's precisely the problem. I once drew analogy between the belief that more observers increase the likelihood of an observation being real and a gr...
To the three of you: I'll attempt a simple proof of why we should be pessimists and why life is suffering. Happiness is, by and large, associated with...
It's not that there's failure in categorization of possible and impossible. You're using human logic to try and comprehend this particular aspect of d...
:ok: Good question. The law of noncontradiction is the right choice if the objective is to do something impossible. 1. If there is omnipotence then th...
There are more ways to suffer than there are ways to be happy. All things being equal, you're likely to experience more suffering than happiness. All ...
A Hobson's choice then. The issue is about observations, whether they're real or not. Hypothesizing comes much later on. If one must talk of hypothesi...
ask @"180 Proof" about how pessimism is the only realistic attitude to adopt. Hint: entropy. Always indebted to you 180 Proof. As I mentioned in a pre...
If you'll allow me to reframe the question: Which of the existing religions is closest to the spirit of philosophy? Perhaps the star of Buddhism's phi...
The 4 noble truths: 1. Life is suffering 2. Craving is the cause of suffering Ergo, 3. To end suffering, one must end craving 4. The 8-fold path is a ...
How do we define philosophy and religion? The heart of philosophy is critical thinking and Buddhism meets that condition in being both based on facts ...
Me to not be is to not suffer, see And to be is to suffer, me Yet to suffer is to death fear To ask not to be To be suffering free Is to ask for water...
You've gone past a checkpoint without completimg the necessary formalities. The first and foremost concern is whether an observation is real or not. U...
Pleasant, love and compassion Unpleasant, anger, hate, envy and depression Look around and it's clear to see Much to anger, hate, and envy Try hard an...
I think it's safe to say that when we talk of god's omnipotence the gold standard for that should be the ability to defy the law of non-contradiction ...
As you rightly pointed out, if you flip a real coin the chance that it'll land on its edge is not zero. The edge of a coin is part of the probability ...
This is not how probability calculus works. As far as I can tell there's no edge (third option) between real and not real. Good response! However, thi...
The word "this" suggests it is; after all, "this" is the post itself. However, that the sentence is an interrogative is interesting because it breathe...
To tell you the truth, calligraphy evolved only after the basics of writing was mastered. Rhetoric is an embellishment, a decorative touch, added to w...
I don't know. It's too early to tell whether it's true that all falsehoods are bad and that all truths are good, good and bad in re survival that is b...
Roy Davies' Fallacy or The Analogical Fallacy: This fallacy is committed when one sees something in common between two things and concluding both must...
By true ideas I mean those that are aligned to truths/facts about our world. As an example germ theory is an idea that's true in the sense it seems to...
It makes sense to contextualize ideas in evolutionary terms. After all, ideas either make or break us and that being the case ideas would naturally al...
The suicidal premise: All living things that commit suicide are humans This implies, if nothing else, that taking one's own life has something to do w...
Where is evolution in all this? In my humble opinion, evolution is the real mastermind behind all this manipulation - social media being merely the ti...
There are two truths to consider: 1. All living things that commit suicide are humans 2. Some humans are not living things that commit suicide Maybe t...
That's quite an elaborate description of how brain function has been studied. Thanks. My problem is this: the brain is a chinese room for just as the ...
Yes, it's not a complete refutation of Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles. As I said, it's a special case. @"tim wood" said something along those li...
:up: You're missing the point. It's not the practical impossibility of two objects possessing the exact same attributes that's the issue. What needs t...
Mind if I pick your brain a little bit on this matter because what you say doesn't jibe with facts as they stand? There's the general impression peopl...
I think it would be weirder if you weren't afraid . It's probably unlikely that we're the only ones capable of snuffing out all life on earth but we'r...
Death is deeply linked to justice. Apart from the fact that the death penalty is legal entity still in force in many parts of the world, religion is a...
You have a point but you do know that love triangles are abstractions - it's a pattern in the many kinds of relationships between men and women. The t...
It doesn't work like that. All that's true of X must also be true of Y and only then is 2. the identity of indiscernibles applies. The rest of what yo...
I'm no linguist but I believe there are syntactic rules that govern all languages - these are computable i.e. can be reduced to an algorithm. Semantic...
I've been relying on the wisdom of the crowd all along. It's no secret that people have the notion of premature death or untimely death. Some of us, p...
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