TheMadFool

:up: :ok: I was actually hoping Buddhists would understand me better with their middle-path philosophy. Surely Buddha would've seen that anything omni...

I don't know. I'm not concerned so much about whether we can balance the influence of power+knowledge+love as I am about their magnitude - their infin...

Like "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"? No meaning? I though proofs need to be meaningful.

I would've agreed if it weren't for the fact that hell is a destination not just for doing evil but also for simply not believing in God.

Isn't it possible to form an opinion of a person from his qualities? After all it is the qualities that people like/dislike isn't it? Actually meeting...

Why would you add when you can delete and get the same result?

What if all paradoxes aren't real? Anyway a book on how to read can teach us how to read - there must be an optimum method right?

How do you fit global nuclear winter in your belief system? Isn't nuclear war evil and, if the experts are right, it spells certain doom for the whole...

I think people are bored with reality or just aren't happy with the chunk of reality they live in. A little mix-and-match of things that are real give...

"Relateable" is the right word here. Correct me if I'm wrong. Very very few will watch or like a movie about the life of number but the movie "A beaut...

Me too. :joke:

I don't know. It seems impossible for a person to choose his/her race or the circumstances s/he is born into. Shame involves some degree of responsibi...

I don't know what you mean by coping tool but to my knowledge this term involves avoiding truth. Stoicism, au contraire, is about living with the trut...

Choice 3 is the best solution in terms of having raised the awareness of the people concerned. They would know why their actions are good/bad, a knowl...

Please read the comment below As you can see hate can be caused by injustice. Injustice has moral implications. It's this I'm referring to.

I wanted to start a similar thread but you got there first. Evolution is usually spoken of as a competition between organisms and thus survival of the...

It's strange how the whole trend-thing works. I see trends as memes coming into existence in the minds of few and then getting the right amount of exp...

Hate, as you might have already guessed, has something to do with morality. In a very loose sense what we hate are morally prohibited. Do you think th...

I am you and you are me How can it be? We are three A country has a head which by it, it is led yet when we number by 1 the count higher surely this i...

The trend will depend on the size/place of the window opened like a roller coaster sometimes higher but also down yet I sense no frown because everyon...

This is at once sad and joyous. Sad because reality is not compassionate. Nature is red in tooth and claw they say. Yet joyous because even through th...

In a very loose sense you've earned x when you fully appreciate the value of x. This doesn't in any sense imply that you have to possess what you earn...

I think God created man in his own image, gave man free will and after seeing how bad man can be became so ashamed, even afraid, and simply ran away, ...

Reminds me of Peter Parker handing over Tony Stark's glasses to Mysterio. To vote one must trust. We can only betray those who trust us.

Peace is required Thus so many aspired In its ground All flowers found Those who find it carefully tend it If it hides unseen It means a past unclean ...

Good question. I really like it. I'll ask you a better question. How about the rapist raping someone else's (not yours :joke: ) wife. Would you hate t...

Why hate when you can mate? :joke: Hate grows on inequality. There's an imbalance in the relationship between individuals or groups. Why should the st...

The self is either an illusion or not. If it's not an illusion then the self is real. If it's an illusion then what is it that's being subject to illu...

Thank you very much for the reading tips. I see a paradox though. If you don't know how to read how can you learn it from a book which you, obviously,...

I think planning and living aren't separate things. As it appears to me all plans are about how people want to live.

Thanks. Why does evil, no matter how small, taint everything a man does while the good, no matter how great, fails to achieve such a feat. a small evi...

The quintessential possesses all that is typical. At the risk of sounding sexist, being graceful is typical of a woman and Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fay...

While not to downplay the seriousness of raping children, however defined, I think the laws that cover such crimes are an admission on the part of adu...

Rationality is a broad term encompassing a whole range of ideas from the laws of thought themselves to the methodology of science. The cardinal rule i...

1. Humans valuing something doesn't make that thing moral 2. Therefore humans are NOT the subjects of moral values 3. Reason determine moral value 4. ...

The line between pessimism and realism has blurred enough to leave optimism all by itself - feeling foolish and utterly dejected. Yes love fades but w...

You're reifying Reason, even going so far as to call it a she. I can understand why though. You need a subject for moral values. However you deny subj...

96% positive results should put it beyond the region of mere coincidence but something else behaves similarly - bias.

Good point. However, notice that the issue is: 1. Zeno's argument. Ergo motion isn't possible 2. We can see it move. Ergo motion is possible In both c...

Induction is a weaker system than deduction and what is justification in the former is proof in the latter. However note that the utility of inductiom...

:up: :ok: Thanks

0 This is truly a great observation although I was hoping the theories themselves constituted subtleties that are missed by the novice like me. Howeve...

Did it hold out to your scrutiny? After careful examination of the evidence did it establish the fact that birds can aid in decisions? If the answer t...

Ethics, for all it's made out to be, is, at heart, a selfish being. It came into existence only as a tool to maintain a fragile balance within the col...

What would the broader sense be? Why?

What you've revealed is a painful truth about humanity. Movements are born out of injustice but injustice prevails within such movements themselves. A...

There can be no flat assertions. Put differently every statement must be justified or should be an argued position. Therefore: 1. We go on forever, ju...

The logic maybe correct. The background beliefs definitely differ. People who behave in the way you describe are working from a set of beliefs that th...

I see. I understand now why moral values can't be determined by humans - our valuing x, whatever that may be, doesn't automatically make it moral. You...

Sorry. Didn't mean to divert the topic. Anyway... You want to prove god exists by way of demonstrating that a god is a necessary subject that values m...