Here you've led me into the fog that's been bothering me but I've kept it on the backburner coz I thought it might clear up on its own. As you have co...
That's a fine distinction but something tells me it all boils down to good vs evil. You uphold the law because you're good and you break it because yo...
1.Change is necessary for time. I don't know if this is a misconception but time is associated with change. Look at how the stoppage of time is portra...
What I want to say is that we have no way of knowing the consequences of our actions. The May be story brings that out very clearly. And Consequential...
I can relate to this question so well. Here's what I think... In life we're endowed with senses (sight, audio, smell, touch and taste) and we, perhaps...
You make a good point but I think you're making a small mistake, not something I would've seen without your help. You seem to be looking for objective...
It's a tangled mess, our brains. So many theories floating around, some see eye to eye and others are antithetical. Morality is new on the evolutionar...
This is something I've been thinking about too. Knowledge guides our thoughts and actions but the strange fact is we may choose not to be so. By the w...
What is your definition of objectivity? How can one know that he/she is being objective? Why not? 1. It is moral to make people happy 2. It is immoral...
I've realized something. Something is objective if and only if there's observer consistency (across space, time and different observers). So, an objec...
So proof is stronger than evidence. That's right. There's always a gap in our knowledge. Radical skepticism tears away the foundations of all knowledg...
I think there's something about suffering that makes it ''beneficial''. Evolution has preserved the suffering package for all life. Every living thing...
I may be wrong but how does one test for objectivity of observations? For me being objective has two parts: 1. We must be logical in our thinking 2. O...
Experience, the little I have, has shown me that in our present circumstances there are things like power and wealth which are considered, by some, to...
Isn't that what faith is? Below is the Google definition. Faith: strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather th...
Longitudes and latitudes aren't real. They're mentally constructed frames of reference. So, is time like that? Did we invent time? I think the difficu...
The problem of evil looms over any attempt to paint God in perfect white. So, my God is a ''bit'' bloodthirsty. We can't ignore facts - there's evil i...
What's left is more important than what's taken away. I think nirvana transcends human-ness, even life itself. After all, it is asking us to blow out ...
I see numbers everywhere. Godel may want to talk to me. It's so complex. My head hurts and I just want to give up the search for anything philosophy c...
I'm interested in what this points to. Should we walk down the path with the sign ''immortality'' or is it a dead end? The problem is we can't know th...
I don't understand morality very well. What am I? If you look at the history of morality and its temporal movement you'll see: 1. Similarities - love,...
Perception at a different level I guess. Perhaps words fail to capture what nirvana is. May be it's like fire, glowing with light but too hot to appro...
Doesn't planck time preclude continuous change. The'way I understand planck time is that it's the fastest change possible. Since time is measured in t...
Others have responded this but a few things I want to say... It's true that religion has many bad directives and examples. We can't deny that. Violenc...
That's something to chew on. Thanks. I think nirvana is a state that transcends causality. To break free of the causal web that seems to be all pervad...
That's unfair to the written word. I believe, in some way, it's all about information. It's not my idea but I read a book (sorry can't remember which)...
I don't know how to respond. Speaking for myself, as of late I find death will be a relief so your post seems to lose its meaning to me. But, in the p...
Interesting. You pressed a key there. I've been wondering for sometime how one can voluntarily commit things to memory but doing the opposite isn't po...
But that doesn't make sense. Do you think morality is innate? Are we born with it? I don't think so. People from poor backgrounds with little educatio...
I'm not that clear on the issue of the distinction between nirvana and heaven. The former is to do with, as the quote says ''ultimate cessation of suf...
Well, as I said, we're free to choose, aren't we? Why can't I pick the best parts of all God-beliefs and put them together in a way that makes sense t...
Can you clarify what you mean? For me, the situation is perfect to exercise our free will, supposing that we have one. If we look to everyone as past ...
I guess to judge religion the way you have one would have to be a moral consequentialist - you think religion has had harmful consequences. The flaw t...
I was just about to have a paradeX-) Well, a non-relgious view isn't that great for the heart either. Philosophers have searched for the meaning of li...
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