TheMadFool

1. All A are B 2. All B are A 1 and 2 are not equivalent. That's what I want to say. A) Jesus is human = All things identical to Jesus are humans B) A...

Believers seem to prefer the statement "Jesus is a human being" over "a human being is Jesus". The former statement allows for divinity in Jesus even ...

This makes sense. Indeed one is trying to privilege one of two things in the dichotomy, in this case human and divine. I'm just amazed by how meaning ...

The mind must be active

Death. Hmmmmmm

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I guess you're right. People buy different stuff from the same market. I don't think there's a real contradiction in it. After all one must first calm...

What you're saying is that the mind has to be active. Why then the emphasis on stillness?

Use three vertices of a triangle, A, B and C. Move point B relative to A. This can be done in two ways, translation (slide) or rotation (turn). If we ...

I think this is a distinction that isn't real. If the source is corrupt then what ever follows from it, including the emperical, is necessarily corrup...

Oh ok. I think we need to understand a few things here. Evil is a problem for God. One thing that strikes me as really odd is the magnitude of evil. I...

:lol: How'd you do that? :chin:

Are these gurus onto something important or are they psychiatric patients employing some Freudian defense mechanism to escape the hard facts of life?

This very deep. I don't know why but it means something very important.

This is very interesting. We decide what is obligatory and what is optional. However, what determines these choices? Are we free to choose our prefere...

I like to think of the situation as an extension of how we already function. Things like walking and balancing ourselves while walking are subconsciou...

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A very good point. After all who controls this little being inside us? Another homunculus? Can you expand on this a bit. Thanks

There is no offender or reduced to lowest terms the offender is not responsible.

I'm in one of those situations which would greatly benefit from divine intervention. I've been thinking about God for the past 5-6 years and I still h...

From a relativistic sense absolute zero is meaningless. As I said absolute rest is impossible.

Thanks for pointing that out. What if we assume, in fact it's true that the distance between the earth and the sun keeps changing, that it's the dista...

Not really. I'm only pointing out that most of the time we operate mechanically - indulging our unchosen inclinations. It's like self-driving cars tha...

Do you think that's healthy? I don't have anything against rich people but it's the way the system works that even the havenots share the belief that ...

I'm concerned about the consequences. If value is measured in terms of money then everything is on sale. All you need to do is agree on a price. If I'...

Why do you think the alternative to robot is air-head? Self-awareness draws the line between man and machine but it's not necessary that self-awarenes...

I don't want to expand the scope of coercion here. According to what I see there are two types of forces that affect our decisions. One is internal an...

Well, you can only get so far with a MadFool. Anyway if one considers logic we usually don't invent new names for a negation of a statement. To negate...

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I agree because the negation of x is simply what is not x. But not x consists of not one but many alternatives (nuances) and so must be named. For ins...

:up: thanks for the info.

I know but *shrug*

Can you describe this in words? I was thinking about. Motion doesn't mean simply a change in distance rather a change in position too qualifies as mot...

Pray, pray and pray and pray even more.

Very kind of you to bring Zeno into the discussion. I didn't expect that but I think Zeno is ignored by science. Whether that's right/wrong is another...

I meant to say that, hidden in our psyche, there's a part of us that wants God to exist. The times when we're distracted by the many pleasures of worl...

Yes I'm aware of moths. As I said my entomological knowledge isn't at expert level but I was once told that butterflies fold their wings vertically wh...

That's a good point but are your hands moving relative to your keyboard when you type something. I think we can begin there too.

Yes you're right but think about it. Consider language to be a circle One semi-circle consists of all "positive" words (lacking the vocabulary here so...

Isn't it strange that fear makes us pray? Kinda makes you think about who's at fault here?

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You may be right. Our memory could be different from a hard drive. Do you have any idea on how different the two are? Ever notice that no person can b...

I guess one could make a distinction, that between true reality and normal reality. The former is inaccessible as some posters have mentioned but the ...

https://youtu.be/gqdNe8u-Jsg :rofl: :rofl:

:lol: Thanks

No apology necessary. Any arguments against lefties?

If rationality, which is hopefully everyone's goal, is a picture of a group of models, science is basically the most beautiful one among them. Why? Th...

Very interesting question. We all work, some work harder than others but the bottomline is we work which here is contrary to laziness. However, why do...

I think you need to work on your argument because not to give a fuck "comes" off as too strong an assertion. To not give a fuck about anything, if mov...

You've just proven my point by saying "...is actually the opposite of "right"". My entire OP has been about this prejudice against lefties.