You're a professional psychiatrist so I can't completely reject your claims but it is quite odd to blame and treat a person who's depressed with medic...
Well, in my humble opinion you should reconsider the matter. In the theism-atheism debate we have arguments from both sides. Yes, none of these argume...
I think this thread matches with an issue raised in this thread: Complexities of suicide Psychiatry seems to exclude an important aspect, the external...
Often cited evidence for reincarnation is memory of past lives. Personality isn't used as evidence for reincarnation although I believe that in Tibeta...
:up: :ok: What is interesting about the OP's claim is that it rejects a paradigm (neurochemistry-based pscyhology) without offering an alternative. Wh...
Didn't Gandhi once say "There are enough religions to divide us but not enough to unite us"? I think this points to only one thing - that we haven't f...
Not really. I do agree that evidence doesn't point either way of the issue. Not enough to say God exists and not enough to say God doesn't exist. Give...
Well, you're right. I didn't read the article. My sincere apologies. However I did get the main point that psychiatric theories based on neurochemistr...
Well, I define ''faith'' as belief sans evidence. This is probably the conventional meaning of ''faith''. If so then you violate the fundamental princ...
Interesting. I would like to think that psychiatry has the cure for all mental afflictions. I'm sympathetic to the notion that mental states can be re...
I see. You use a specific example here. However take a mathematical statement: A) All triangles have 3 sides. Rephrased we could say: B) Triangles hav...
Skepticism basically demands strong justification for ALL claims being made. Has spiritualism and religion passed that test? No! Of course one may cit...
Inductive reasoning is probabilistic (<100%) but deductive reasoning is certain (100%). Inductive reasoning example: 1. X% of Indians are good at mart...
When we don't explicitly state a quantifier (all/some) then it's assumed that the statement is a universal. So, Cats are yellow = ALL cats are yellow ...
I think that numbers matter here. 10 witnesses make for a stronger case than just 1 or no witness at all. Multiple accounts that agree in content make...
Yes, they're all guesses but the value of these guesses come in degrees depending on what your worldview/philosophy is. For instance if you're an empi...
The problem with Theism is it's not demonstrable. People are convinced only by tangible proof by which I mean our senses must register that which is b...
Let's consider the trolley problem. Group A: we should kill one to save the many Group B: we shouldn't Group A are consequentialists and their respons...
Yes, it's circular but truth, even those claims we consider to be true, has a way of reinforcing itself. I think people call it a positive feedback lo...
I guess evil is an exclusively human trait. Animals can be naughty but not evil. So, look at humans and analyze what makes them the only creatures evi...
I don't know. I believe there's something important to note - the difference between a deeper understanding and a different perspective. The former is...
Will any amount of reasoning close the door to death? All attempts at rationalizing death are, pardon the pun, ''dead ends''. Why? Simply because fear...
Yes. It's like those toys children play with where a shape has to be fitted to a hole with a matching shape. If the shapes don't match i.e. the meme d...
You're right. Boredom isn't all that bad. It's better than falling to your death from the 65th floor of a skyscraper. Perhaps it's compared to somethi...
If you'd like to know, germs, if to spread/infect, need cellular receptors they can attach to. For example the cold virus has protein structures on it...
A text may contain many layers of meaning. There's the direct, straight-in-the-face meaning. Then there's to consider meaning in relation to the autho...
Are physical differences a sound basis to establish superiority/inferiority? In what terms would you say a particular race is physically superior than...
Racism, like all discrimination, is based on differences and like @"Baden" so kindly defined it, it's used to establish a superiority-inferiority soci...
I dunno. The word just popped in my head. I googled it and Flomot is a town in Texas. It's a portmanteau word Floyd + Motley. Floyd born 1804 died 183...
I'm familiar with the following: 1. The cosmoligical argument. 2. The teleological argument 3. The ontological argument I'd say 1 and 2, if accepted, ...
What is it based on then? Could it be that the discrimination that you condone is ultimately based on race or any other difference that you don't like...
Not really. Mathematical structures are pure abstractions I believe unlike natural language. Yet they seem to apply to the real world. I'm not sure on...
An interesting remark. I guess math began as an abstraction of reality. We started with the basics which meant math was just counting. The odd/interes...
Could it be that Einstein's theory is just another ''approximation'' of reality like Newton's theory? I mean we've reached some kind of observational ...
That is something I can relate to. Do you have any idea, since you talk of creating ''space'' for the new through death, whether death is something th...
An ant have a human-like philosophical moment is wonderful. I'm more worried about humans having ant-like thoughts. As for memes I think they have to ...
Why? As you can see the math rules still apply inside the relativistic speed calculation. I think the relativistic speed calculation is an error in ph...
2 + 2 = 4 is a mathematical statement The relativistic velocity formula that you gave is a physics statement. Anyway the internal structure of the for...
Even knowing that people don't think very well (including me) you'd still need to prove your point that such and such views are meaningless. I prefer ...
I like your Truth poetry especially the last stanza: Truth yields to lies And then soars like a lark When people's eyes Are tired of the dark. :up: Le...
Interesting thing is that influence is determined by us but I'm not sure to what degree this self-determination of influence affects free will. Do you...
Can we write science and math in verse? I'd love that. The more beautiful something is, the easier it is to remember. You say poetry is expression. Is...
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