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Humans have been humans for a period of time that's 0.2% of the dinosaur age. Look how much we've achieved but among all that one particular ability s...
November 08, 2021 at 03:17
Oh! I see. Is the following correct then? For F = ma (Newton's force formula) A) If m = 2 and a = 3, F = 2 × 3 = 6 B) If m = 2.1 and a = 3.1, F = 2.1 ...
November 08, 2021 at 02:59
Why? Give me a crash course on signficant figures.
November 07, 2021 at 19:42
Conspiracy theory? Old wine in a new bottle. See :point: The Matrix Film Series
November 07, 2021 at 19:23
:blush: :grin:
November 07, 2021 at 18:52
Dlxt kmqt tsr!
November 07, 2021 at 18:45
:lol: Hi there 180 Proof. I just thought I might as well take the linguistic turn Wittgenstein initiated a long time ago to its logical conclusion - p...
November 07, 2021 at 18:44
Münchhausen Trilemma/Agrippan Trilemma I suppose I can lend my support to the OP, as best as I can that is. 1. Not everything is a cause. I once tried...
November 07, 2021 at 18:20
:lol: Good one! :up: What do you mean by "nature itself is imprecise" vis-à-vis QM? There's wiggle room at the bottom but not so much up here at human...
November 07, 2021 at 17:28
https://youtu.be/nq0_zGzSc8g
November 07, 2021 at 15:53
Hi Bitter Crank. Good to know you're alive & well. I'm, as mathematicians say, merely extrapolating the results. I don't know how familiar you are wit...
November 07, 2021 at 07:59
No problemo. Here's something funny :point: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself!
November 07, 2021 at 05:46
November 07, 2021 at 04:44
:flower:
November 07, 2021 at 04:43
Now, I understand why the Buddha is, in a sense, above the gods or even God himself because the Buddha is empty or is one with sunyata i.e. the Buddha...
November 07, 2021 at 04:16
@"schopenhauer1" - we must all be mad "or you wouldn't have come here."
November 07, 2021 at 03:49
I defer to your better judgment 180 Proof. A sentence no doubt but also more than just a sentence. :up:
November 07, 2021 at 03:43
The predator-prey relationship is more complex than it seems when viewed under the moral lens. I think Nietzsche had similar thoughts as me in this re...
November 07, 2021 at 03:40
Evolutionarily speaking, draft and reared-for-meat animals are to be considered successful - they outnumber any wild animal, solitary or social, by a ...
November 07, 2021 at 02:55
There's more. https://youtu.be/LrHTR22pIhw
November 07, 2021 at 02:40
:up: Keep it coming, keep it coming! I just want to bounce something off of you. Have you ever noticed how justice and evil seem indistinguishable? Th...
November 07, 2021 at 02:33
@"schopenhauer1" From what I know, we have a "better", comparatively exquisite in detail, description of hell in religion than heaven. Take any religi...
November 07, 2021 at 02:31
All I can remember about the so-called 1% is that they cause more environmental damage than the rest of us bottom-feeders. However, I don't know how e...
November 07, 2021 at 02:17
I like Parmenides, especially because he was the first Greek philosopher - as per Wikipedia - to have made nothing a subject of study. Since ex nihilo...
November 07, 2021 at 02:10
Grotta del Cane & Nirvana. Expect the CO_2 situation to worsen in the coming century. Avalokiteshvara, the thousand-armed one, did make a promise. htt...
November 06, 2021 at 12:48
Why not? A cat is a domesticated small species of feline. These are the essences of a cat. By the way naming is an act of referring. That said, there ...
November 06, 2021 at 09:23
Cave Of Dogs
November 06, 2021 at 03:04
The Plant Paradox Of Climate Change The reason why we're in this mess (climate change) is because we've neglected the plant kingdom (deforestation). O...
November 06, 2021 at 02:50
@"Banno"@"tim wood" :lol: Now, I see why :point: It's as if pain makes it real. See below the definition of have to pinch yourself Used for saying tha...
November 06, 2021 at 02:10
So nature has no bearing on our freedom? I believe Schopenhauer said something to the effect that we had no choice on the matter of what type/kind of ...
November 05, 2021 at 11:12
Suicide?
November 05, 2021 at 11:08
So, we create knowldege? :chin: Hmmmm...
November 05, 2021 at 11:07
Probably? How exactly?
November 05, 2021 at 11:06
I thought once you lose an essence, you stop being that which the essence is a feature of. So, once you're not a wolf, and you aren't domesticated, yo...
November 05, 2021 at 06:11
Sorry, you'll have to figure that out yourself. I'm :confused:, remember?
November 05, 2021 at 04:09
How am I not a Pyrrhonist or a skeptic when I doubt the existence of the evident? Perhaps I'm taking the notion of skepticism too far, so far that it ...
November 05, 2021 at 04:08
Your claim is debatable, that's all.
November 05, 2021 at 04:05
Never mind!
November 05, 2021 at 03:48
All I'm saying is I doubt the reality of the evident.
November 05, 2021 at 03:47
We're going round in circles. I question the claim that there are evident things.
November 05, 2021 at 03:46
If everything flows from omnipotence then how come this: What about this too :point: Lex Luthor (evil genius)?
November 05, 2021 at 03:44
What then helps you decide whether to believe a given claim or not? Perhaps there's a distinction to be made between trust simpliciter and trust won.
November 05, 2021 at 03:34
Suicide?
November 05, 2021 at 03:26
God & Free will Paradox One of the main reasons why we doubt our free will is our nature - our preferences not something we chose. God is seen as havi...
November 05, 2021 at 03:18
Update 1. Having a headache: An experience, private but with public physical correlates (frowning, rubbing the temple region, etc.) 2. I have a headac...
November 05, 2021 at 03:04
:smile:
November 05, 2021 at 02:45
I concur! :up: Well put! :up: :up: Excelente! Count me in, Pyrrho! Whoa! Hang on! Of the non-evident, I believe we're on the same page - Pyrrhonists w...
November 05, 2021 at 02:44
The standard albeit controversial definition of knowledge requires belief i.e. there has to be an intelligent being (read observer). Ergo, reality def...
November 04, 2021 at 17:41
Frankenstein was, in some sense, a natalist - he was, at the end of the day, father to the "wretch" and it (the "wretch") was the culmination of his l...
November 04, 2021 at 17:28
Gravity is dangerous. It makes us go round in circles. By the way, people seem to enjoy merry-go-rounds! Odd that! :chin:
November 04, 2021 at 17:22