TheMadFool

:ok: How did it come to pass that they "determined it (nakedness) was bad" if not by some criterion of morality? In other words, they had, at the very...

Aliens eating us would not qualify as cannibalism. I'm trying, in some sense, to make the case that all predation actually is - we're all equals.

I'll put my money on God's one approach that seems to be the cause of much consternation for the faithful and also a source of vindication for many at...

It doesn't make sense to people who think they're at the top of the food chain.

I'm still in a fog but not in the dark about your position. In other words I think I have a partial grasp of your view on the matter. Firstly, I don't...

Ok. :chin: The instant an hierarchy is developed, we'll have a place in it and I wouldn't count on us being in the upper echelons; somewhere around th...

It may look ridiculous - the thought that an ant/mosquito is of equal value as a mother or child - but, forgive my stubborness, it isn't. If a pecking...

In a world of only two people, X and Y, X can't be sure Y is real and Y can't be sure X is real. There are two relationships to consider: 1. Reflexive...

This premise seems problematic. Either creatures exist eternally or they come into being. Either way, it's impossible for God to force existence. In t...

What I did would qualify as an equivocation if and only if I used different definitions of falsehood. I didn't. The actual definition is important for...

You're conflating two things: 1) Equality of life-forms and 2) Equality in the eyes of God. Definitely, we're all not equal - some are stronger, other...

Yes, I agree, differences must exist to give distinct identities to things and no better contrast for a thing's distinctness can be provided than by i...

If the trail ends there, so be it. What, if anything, is wrong with it? You're approaching the issue with a preconceived notion viz. that one of the t...

This is right up your alley, mate: Boredom If boredom is a pain and if it means "...time passes tortuously slowly." what can be said of immortality wh...

My approach the matter of clothing will be from a moral perspective which I surmise is your intent here. Of course clothes are necessary for basic sur...

I must confess I don't quite understand what you mean here but you made an important observation - the underlined bit above. Free will is about not be...

Then you've answered your own question, right? For sacrifice to be a meaningful concept, there should be no afterlife and, as far as I can tell, no ev...

You're conflating two things. The definition of truth/falsehood and the falsity implied by an inconsistency. These are two different things. The forme...

There may be a good reason behind what you're saying but I think you have it backward. The notion of sacrifice involves a loss. If there's an afterlif...

Well, put it in whatever context you wish but the fact that you're cutting off the very branch you're sitting on remains unchanged. :chin: The concept...

How so? He applies the math used by, we could even say, prehistoric hunter-gatherers, , which, by the way, is also the foundation of modern number the...

A contradiction is "bad" because, to give an analogy, it's like writing down a proposition on a blank piece of paper and then erasing it. If I say P a...

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The way I formulated the notions of selfishness & selflesness allows some of their nuances to be captured 3. Think of someone's welfare = Think of you...

My two cents: First, ought implies can: If there's a moral injunction that demands selflessness, it's absolutely necessary that it's possible to be so...

Like a breath of fresh air Tithonus Ring any bells?

A very crucial observation in my humble opinion. There's no such thing as a second chance once we die, no reconsidering the decision to die - death is...

I am serious. Hell is not meant literally but is a metaphor for suffering - nobody would want to live forever if it meant one has to suffer while doin...

In what sense does the presence of another change our experience?

Suicide? Immortality isn't the be all and end all, you know. Eternal life is only a means to something else which is happiness on most occasions. Hell...

It's a weird question. The idea of a forum, other similar platforms, is to exchange ideas; to be precise, to care what others think and, let's not for...

There are other reasons, reasons that are compatible with omnipotence, for the possibility that the universe couldn't have existed: Tiger Spares Deer'...

Consistency is important for the reason that if an inconsistency is detected then, there's a hidden contradiction and that's bad, right. Let me give y...

I don't think I can make it clearer than that. There's no reason why physical laws have to be such that the exact same mathematical relationship holds...

I don't know what a power set is and I don't see anything "unusual" like that going on in Hilbert's hotel

Surprise your instructor or whoever will assess your work by using all the colors in the rainbow. White, after all, is a fusion of all colors. White g...

Thanks. I didn't word it well. I meant nothing that happens to the naturals in Hilbert's hotel can change the cardinality of the set of natural number...

I remember writing about purpose sometime ago in another thread but it doesn't show up in the forum's search. I'll repeat it here if it's of any inter...

My fault entirely. I assumed, erroneously it seems, that bringing out the similarities between your thoughts and known philosphical ideas would shed m...

Good post. The psycholigical aspects of it are very intriguing although I haven't a clue what they actually are. It reminds me of the game - Rome Tota...

That's a lot to take in. Think of it this way. Math is more of a language than anything else - I think Galileo made that remark. The laws of the unive...

I think I get what you're driving at. No "one" implies everything predicated on the "one", its existence, its reality, becomes, how shall I put it, un...

As far as I can tell, the only mathematical concept applicable to god is infinity. Time, to my understanding, has to do with real numbers and while re...

Let's review the whole thing for clarity: The tetralemma as it stands: Only one but necessarily one of the following obtains for any given proposition...

Well, let's go with our favorite definition of god - omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. These attributes form both the sufficient and necessa...

Indeed, if the preconditons at stake are sufficient in nature, they would have to have been absent. This is like asking a blind man about what he sees...

That's the odd bit. As per Cantor, infinite sets can differ in cardinality i.e. one can be "greater" than the other. The only instance of that I'm fam...

To be, well, brutally honest, it all boils down to the physical. No matter what's said about men and women being equals, the patent truth is that wome...

An old thread resurrected from the depths of the forum's archives. Anyway, giving it a second look, the notion of catch-22 popped into my. Catch-22 is...

When I said "who's not dying?" I meant that death itself could be an adaptive response. Lebensraum is at a premium - has been, is, always will be. Dyi...