TheMadFool

As far as the POE is concerned Buddhism differs significantly from the Abrahamic religions. The shared concept of a reward-punishment schema in morali...

I remember vaguely about how any statement can be rephrased as a NEGATION-OR combination. What about abbreviated truth tables? Then there's another me...

This raises an interesting question. What is normal? After all the whole panoply of mental disorders is defined as deviations from the normal. That OC...

What a fascinating insight: A delimiting boundary but freedom within those boundaries. Thank you. This, as you said, is the laws of nature viewed nega...

That sounds like you've made a decision on the matter. Scientifically, claims "that cannot be objectively verified" are to be regarded as a waste of t...

Only one aspect of the laws of nature is of concern - that they are universal in scope. Shouldn't then any other pattern, law if you will, derived fro...

I read the wikipedia article on neurosis and I was wrong but not completely wrong about what neurosis is. From what I read it appears that neurosis is...

The video about the soldier was supposed to just provide a starting point, a context. Besides I think people appreciate actors on their ability to por...

I'm focusing on one particular aspect of how nature works, universality, and inferring, rightly or not, that it should pervade al levels of reality. G...

NOTE: The rather dull picture of knowledge I've painted only applies to the deductive branch. Knowledge derived with INDUCTION, as far as science is c...

I understand but the practical solution, if you can call it such, is check for the veracity of what is being said rather than the honesty of the perso...

This is a good point. All the known exceptions to universalizing attempts are mental objects. The mind is what's disrupting the pattern, that of unive...

This is what I forgot but Godel's theorems simply say that some truths are unprovable whether we have axioms or NOT. It's not relevant to my point tha...

I understand what you're trying to say. I'm not a psychiatrist but I think there's a reason why they created two categories viz. neuorsis and psychosi...

:rofl: I got tired of fighting with my phone's auto-correct. Thanks though.

Maybe you set the bar so high that practically no one will be able to accomplish this so-called optimal life. I guess a difference between being reali...

Your two lines = My ten paragraphs.

As I understand religion there is a verificatory process i.e. there exists a method by which "the teller is personally verified". It's called miracles...

I don't understand why you framed your question like "what triggers hate?". It implies that you know what is hate. I'm struggling to understand the em...

You went to great lengths to explain your point of view but I'm afraid it went over my head. My fault. Not yours. Anyway the reason I said what I said...

I'd like to know what you mean by Does the ability to predict a set of moral values confer objectivity to morality? I agree that predictability indica...

:up: We need, as you said, "rational voters". Absent that, democracy is nothing more than the tyranny of the majority. An oxymoron apparently but brin...

and run contrary to each other. To my understanding "objective" implies "fixed-ness". If moral principles can change then that would be admitting it's...

The experiment reveals the nature of the relationship between power and the powerless. The experiment deserves attention for breaching ethical codes b...

A square is a 4-sided figure if I remember correctly. So calling a 3-sided or 5-sided figure a "square" is tweaking with the definition - keeping the ...

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I have to admit that collective neurosis is real and people need to be aware of how they may be unconsciously influenced by those who are in the know....

It's a pet theory of mine in the sense I believe it but it may have origins in some great/not-so-great philosopher. The problem with morality is the p...

if you leave knowledge bereave if you stay like light, bring day so stay join the fray of wisdom, speak, tell dark ignorance dispel make us laugh life...

Well, the way you directed the discussion I'm led to believe, true to the term "neuorsis" whose definition you kindly provided, that collective neuros...

Well, it's not climate change per se that's the issue.Man-made climate change is. Climate change from hereon means man-made climate change There are p...

I had a faint idea where you were heading with "collective neurosis" viz. this: "corporations that create and/or cynically utilize neuroses". You're r...

I'm having difficulty expressing myself well. Anyway... You have seen similar situations in horror movies. A soon-to-become werewolf makes his friends...

I wonder though which choice is the correct one? 1. Call everyone neurotic (collective neurosis) or 2. Call everyone normal I personally don't have a ...

I agree. It's just that cultural practices are excluded from neurosis as a diagnosis, just like belief in god is excluded from the definition of a del...

I think you've overstretched the definition of neurosis. It's not a cultural issue. In fact neurosis is defined in terms of not being part of cultural...

:smile: I realize that but I spoke in terms of what is common sense - one is poor judge of oneself. See Cognitive Biases

It's the tip of the iceberg problem isn't it? Frank psychosis stands out like Gulliver in the land of the liliputs and we have learned to diagnose and...

The necessity for psychopathy may be explained in terms of evolution. We need variety in the gene pool for better chances of success as it makes adapt...

The most important element of this story vis-a-vis euthanasia is that the poor woman resisted. This is the reason why you've posted this story as resi...

Indeed. I wonder though if the CCTV and other technological inventions will eventually make crime without being caught possible at all. If, as you say...

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The majority must not just want, they must want what is right. :joke:

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Yes, I had to fit the argument within the limits of my comprehension ability which is average/less. It was extremely difficult so I had to ignore some...

I have a very basic conception of math. I think the relationship is a ratio which looks, walks and quacks like everyday division. The fundamental assu...

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Well, I'm definitely not enjoying this ride. The territory is not familiar and the guide (you) is either too knowledgeable or himself/herself perplexe...

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Are you changing your argument? "If moral values are my valuings then if I value something it is necessarily valuable" The above statement is incohere...