You're just playing with words. To get right to the point what did Socrates mean when he said ''I know that I know nothing''? In my humble opinion his...
Perhaps I am but surely you do not believe that a person would engage in an activity that didn't in some sense give the agent a degree of happiness. T...
Well, to the extent I know, we are in the dark or is it that I'm not fully abreast of mankind's ''progress''? Whatever the case may be the question is...
This question, if you consider history, is a pervasive (irrespective of culture or geography) preoccupation of the human psyche. Many have probed this...
To me it seems obvious that people have "difficulty'' answering your question - I'm no exception. What I'd like to say is that there's a certain impos...
No it isn't. It's giving due weightage to what many define as ''progress'' - to reinstate (so to speak) the element of time to its rightful place in o...
These are questions which I hope people with the resources to investigate are asking. Speaking for myself I think there's a ray of truth in those subs...
If this is true why preach pessimism, as the OP is quite obviously doing? You do ''live in a specific and concrete situation'' but you contribute to t...
You seem to disregard the general trend and point to specifics that contradict my view on the matter. However, note that pessimistic philosophy speaks...
To be frank, the placebo effect is still explainable in terms of chemistry. It doesn't do the job of creating that sharp distinction between mind and ...
The pessimistic philosophy is a static one. Life, on the other hand, is dynamic - it moves (so to speak). The present is drastically different from th...
In psychiatry depression is considered a chemical perturbation and is, obviously,treated as such. How much philosophers will subscribe to this interpr...
But philosophy is defined as love of wisdom and love is an emotion which, as far as I know, brings happiness. I think no person would engage in philos...
So, you're saying it's a matter of opinion - of a subjective character. Then why all the fanfare about philosophy? Why take the uphill road towards wi...
Well, since he was executed at the ''ripe old age'' of 33 I don't think he got to the point where he could impart his core teachings. That said I thin...
Coming at this from a biological perspective, we're the apex predator on the planet. To add, we're also the apex pollutor of the environment - from th...
Neil deGrasse Tyson — 'The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.' It might seem odd that religion is bothered b...
The basic principle, touted with much fanfare by philosophers, is to be *rational* - the bottomline being an ever-skeptical attitude. Well, there is o...
For what it's worth I'd point out that when it comes to emotions and life in general, the Buddhist middle path notion seems apt. One must strike a bal...
Philosophy is a twisted mess so far as emotion is concerned. It hasn't been able to define what happiness is (yet). Also it considers most emotions (a...
Imagination is a powerful tool. It, by nature, is designed to tackle what we may call the impossible. Your average person struggles with advanced conc...
As far as I know viruses are made up of DNA and a few proteins and lack the other cellular apparatus to be independent living things. So their MO is t...
I believe ''life'', is sufficiently vague to scuttle any attempt to define it. We, some animals and plants are obviously alive but viruses and some ot...
Some may disagree. I think everyone suffers from pangs of ignorance - we have an inclination for knowledge. Ignorance is suffering. Isn't that the ver...
Indeed science is doing a great job - destroying myths - but take note of the nature of what you call myths. They're trivial, almost childish, compare...
As funny as it sounds, this may be actually true. Of course I'm talking about the very beginning of the universe itself - the right sort of natural la...
You've mistakenly(?) laid an unfair(?) emphasis on physical appearance. I'm not saying we shouldn't. I think it's quite a normal to go by appearances ...
Difficult to answer your question. You're not talking in minutes but in terms of billions of years. I think the distance of time has obscured importan...
Well, one way to go for theism is to latch onto what appears as design in our universe. There may be other routes that lead to god but I find none as ...
If you look at what's happening now (with humans) is we're slowly discarding instinctual behavior and replacing it with reasoned thoughts. I think tha...
Remember I'm speaking of the omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent (OOO-god). The OOO-god is conscious while the laws of nature is not. I don't se...
Answer me this: 1. If you believe in god what evidence do you have? 2. If you don't believe in god what evidence do you have? I'm near certain your ar...
Well what do you think of the order that our universe evinces? In other words what is the source of the laws of nature? One answer is God. I thought t...
I understand there is a similarity between god and the laws of nature in that both exercise a form of control over all matter and energy. However, giv...
Well, my logic is simple. There are two parties engaged in debate - theists and atheists. As fate would have it they both inhabit the same world. Yet,...
What you're saying is belief in god is coded in our DNA. I haven't found any evidence that it is or it isn't. How would you explain atheism then? Shou...
Yes I understand. What is most important here is the unverified nature of the god issue - we don't know if god exists or not. So, rationally, we shoul...
Yes there it is. Some of the reasons that tip the balance in favor of either theism or atheism, depending on what can be loosely translated as hope, f...
The laws of nature are significantly different from the OOO god of religion. The former have been fomalized mathematically and are used to make correc...
So you do wish for that other something - there's a hope for a better(?) world. Perhaps this fuels the desire to wish God into existence even if it me...
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