TheMadFool

:lol: :up: On a serious note, I've always been drawn to the ineffable. I'm one of those people who enjoy looking up at the night sky filled with twink...

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Infinity has an attribute - boundlessness. Plotinus' One has none.

What puzzles me is that if the One possesses no attributes at all, what is it then? After all, a basic requirement for comprehension is attributes of ...

Sorry to hound you like this but I desperately need someone to give me a well thought out response to what I believe raises an important issue regardi...

:up: I feel like I committed a fallacy when I said I could become an optimist by not caring what happens. Can you spot it? Are optimism and pessimism ...

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I don't know about you but I'm particularly fascinated by so-called saints, how each is a patron saint of a particular virtue or divine attribute- thi...

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You took the words right out of my mouth. Entropy is a pain. There being innumerable ways for thing to go wrong and usually only a handful of ways for...

In my humble opinion, philosophy, being, above all, an approach to issues, a method of discovering truths, refined over many generations of practition...

Thanks! My issue is with the general tendency among people to define/describe reality negatively in the sense that it's always in the form of a warnin...

A philosopher who finds truth in religion is what you should keep an eye on. The believer who uses philosophy to further a religious agenda is not as ...

Indeed, a theist who turns to philosophy with the sole aim of justifying his/her beliefs is guilty of rationalization but this doesn't devalue philoso...

I suppose it is; after all we can make a distinction between innocent pain - accidental - and evil pain - deliberate. Not all pain is evil because it'...

I don't know but your coffee preference - you thinking it to be the most delicious drink in the world - is subjective and the word on that is "De gust...

Depressing! Any way you can make it less morose? :chin: Is there a silver lining in the sense there's more to reality than needing to be in touch with...

I'm not using people as bridges to my personal fantasia. I'm offering you a possible direction humanity, as a whole, might take in the coming centurie...

What about a garden of Eden built here on Earth is impossible? I agree that things like natural instincts, human and animal, technological hurdles, an...

I think the Buddha would've remained silent if he were asked this question. I wonder why? I suppose, if I were to second guess the Buddha, this questi...

Sorry to bring this up. If you're not interested, kindly ignore this post. If you are then, I'd like to ask you why you think emotions are, well, non-...

Not to defend religion or anything - I don't wish to swell the already formidable ranks of those who do that - but to take your approach to the relati...

What's the difference between "wrong" and "inaccurate" and "imprecise" to add? As far as I can tell, you're on a path that takes you to meta-ethics, a...

If there's such a thing as innocence then, pain can't be used as a metric for evil for the simple reason that the innocent can cause pain, accidentall...

Look, if I didn't know better I might've said that the game is rigged. We're intelligent for sure, we can learn, gain knowledge and skills, and use th...

Please visit the wikipedia page on Paradoxes and scroll down to Double-slit experiment A contradiction is the linchpin of the refutation of the obviou...

I aksed how can you use a word "properly" without knowing its definition? All I can say is that many different kinds inconsistency tolerant logics hav...

So, you want to run with pain as your yardstick? No one is innocent then, not even the bunny that accidentally tips over the kettle of scalding hot wa...

If one believes animals are innocent and incapable of evil then, it follows that there is no evil in the world - all is good whether there is pain or ...

I'm not assuming anything. Something happened to Adam and Eve that made them go from stark naked to strategic parts covered with fig leaves. That some...

Indeed, the surface area of a sphere is directly proportional to r^2. Ergo energy density assumed as energy/r^2 should decrease to the same extent. I ...

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Good question @"Benj96". Got me thinking...and the results...more questions than answers. Starting off with electric charges, all I want to say is tha...

I suppose emotions add another layer to experience, over and above basic comprehension. I don't see how it's related to empiricism though? By the way,...

I have no idea what you're talking about. I'll look it up when I get the chance. If you have the time, I don't mind a few pointers.

How can you use a word properly without knowing its definition? By the way, as far as I'm concerned, we've sailed past that port. Just as a side note,...

A model that only accepts concurrence between reason and observation should work well enough to save the day.

I'm going to juxtapose my view on empiricism with my view on rationalism and what better way to do that than with a paradox. Zeno's Achilles and the t...

:ok: :ok: The problem with your argument is that first, you claim, rightly so, that animals are innocent, that "they are not capable of doing true evi...

Human There are differences between humans and animals, that's obvious but there are also similarities. One unifying motif that brings together almost...

This is the heart of the matter - the notion of logical possibility. If logical possibility is part of the concept of omnipotence then and only then c...

My take on this is very simple. Adam and Eve underwent a change - that change has to do with the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In essence, there...

:rofl: :up: So, equivocation is about definitions, "right"? Well, indeed it's true that "some sort of application of logic" is necessary; that's true ...

There lies the rub. I think the paradox is rigged to quash the notion of omnipotence. There is no necessity that god should find it impossible to hand...

Well, give us an instance of equivocation then. A tangible and concrete example would go a long way in clearing up matters. P.S. Please don't use anyt...

I remember starting a thread titled Homo suicidus, my attempt at an unambiguous as possible reference to the fact that only humans commit suicide. Ger...

How about looking at it like this: The argument begins by offering us a tautological choice - either God can create a stone that he can't lift or God ...

Absolutely superb! An authentic breath of fresh air. :up: It turns the tables on the likes of Hume, Hitchens, and Sagan who, in this setting, appear t...

Quite a self-centered definition I must say. It seems to go against the grain in my humble opinion. People seem to be in search of something, let's ju...

Yes, but I'm talking about aliens, not time-travelers and also there's no guarantee that we could call each other the same species, in which case cann...