That, my friend, is a point in my favor. Faith is, well, ommipresent. So, why point fingers at one particular variety (religious) of faith? I'll follo...
All I'm saying is absolute rest can be imagined. I'm taking motion as it is typical of the concept of change: space-time frame of reference. We can im...
No need to apologize. My life isn't a parade. It's a funeral. To tell you the truth I'm in a bit of a fix. I have two options before me. One is religi...
Strange isn't it? The number 1, on average, is an impotent quantity. It takes many to make a difference in this world. Yet, an exceptional 1, like thi...
This is an exception to the rule that all actions must be well-thought. As such I think it doesn't damage the rule: we must believe only on evidence. ...
You paint a dismal picture. If I may say so I think you're being too scientific. Science is great but it's not the only stuff we have to play with. Wh...
Thanks for your informative post. I think I'm talking aboit the universality of fideism - that faith is essential to all knowledge. Just thought of th...
Me too. Think of a forest in the darkness of our ignorance. The shadows take different forms, in response to our imagination. We fear and we see ghost...
There's this introductory book on logic I read. Per it knowing the truth is vital because not knowing the truth is dangerous - you lose touch with rea...
I'm challenging this rule of thumb. Rationality seems confined to what can be, well, sensed, . In short, rationality is empirical and science is at th...
I think you understand my point. Spatial sequences e.g. ball x hitting ball y and then ball y hitting ball z and so on can be understood without time ...
I thought of this too. The relational words ''before'', ''after'' require no time measurement. However these are, I think, a matter of sequentiality a...
The ultimate purpose may not be there but doesn't that kinda free us to pursue our own subjective goals? You're diminishing the value of intelligence ...
What do you think about this part of my post: ??? To me it seems we're doing nothing more than comparing some type of change with a specific type of c...
How do we measure time? Don't we use repetitive/cyclical change like a pendulum or the cycles of an atom? I don't know if such cyclical phenomena are ...
There's something wrong with this line of thinking? But humans are part of life as a whole. Our values are being changed to be inclusive (all life) ra...
That's it. Intelligence is necessary to preserve the environment, even life itself. As I said things are in motion - technology is in transition from ...
But now, humans can do something about an extinction causing asteroid. We have satellites scanning the skies, missiles and nuclear weapons. This wasn'...
You've already considered time to have independent existence in your post. I ask you to consider a world with absolutely no change - no physics, no ch...
How would one answer this question? I guess the present or any division of time for that matter has to be meaningful. Read this way then, as other pos...
Haven't you shot yourself in the foot? The value of scientific theories rests on them being falsifiable. If yes, how can an unfalsifiable claim/theory...
May be our brains aren't developing faster but our minds are. With widespread media children have access to vast numbers of experience, a key necessit...
Most of the replies have been cynical but what are we, if not aliens? My approach to the universe is that we should keep our feet firmly planted on sc...
The law must have some basis and what better than biology to legislate? May be I'm being myopic in that moral ''ought'' doesn't have to match the ''is...
That's the main point I guess. We need to facilitate and protect. Generally under-18s need more of the latter. It makes sense It's good to give under-...
In my OP I've given a rough outline of how NOTHING is useful to us; from simplifying expressions (e.g. using ''nothing is perfect'' instead of ''every...
Really? Empricism is the working principle of science. Why is it that scientists perform experiments if empiricism is a fallacy? I'm not saying g = m/...
I watched it a long time ago. I think it portrays NOTHING in a negative light - a destroyer - and that's how people generally see it. But, what of the...
Empiricism!? The unit of g is m/s^2...time! has to be measured accurately first. Science is empirical. Measurement, time, length, mass, etc. comes fir...
We, humans, are unable to solve so many real world problems. We try, yes, but all that happens is a loss of interest in the issue rather than finding ...
My problem with the existence of a law that demonstrates the regularity of a periodic process is that time, space, and other physical quantities are m...
Regularity is critical in all measurements. Consider a student's ruler. If the centimeter markings are spaced differently (the should be spaced the ex...
You're right...God simply doesn't fit in our world, at least not the interventionist God of Judaism, Islam and Christianity. This has led the faithful...
There doesn't seem to be a law that cleary demonstrates true regularity of any physical process. Every clock is imperfect. All we've done is postponed...
Take god and gravity. Even if everyone stopped believing in gravity it would still exist - objects would fall to the ground, the planets would move ar...
How do we know that? My watch's error can be detected by an atomic clock. How do we detect the error of an atomic clock? How do we know the ''1 second...
How do we know that the cesium atom's radiation is regular - that one instance of 9,192,631,770 periods (let's call this a cycle) is the same as the n...
How do you check the accuracy of your watch? You must compare it to some standard clock, say A. The same question applies to A too and so on...ad infi...
Isn't that taking it to the extreme? Perhaps not in philosophy but what about most people who simply want a useful guide to navigate the world? I thin...
What are they? I guess when one steps outside the boundaries of the rational - which seems to be based on the observable and physical - things stop ma...
Not exactly what I meant. The abstract is mental but by non-physical existence, theists mean something outside of the mind, don't they? God isn't simp...
I understand you but if I've been observant wisdom relates better with gloom, like the donkey in the book 1984. I mean the wise tend to be unhappy, to...
My example used whole numbers and the error reveals itself quite easily but what if the time irregularity is in the nanoseconds or femtoseconds? Error...
If I'm correct you don't have too high an opinion of life. If I am then you'll agree that life doesn't have the required amount of happy moments to ma...
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