TheMadFool

How do you know this?

Is this difference consequential or not?

Please read my reply to Chany

That I'm afraid is impossible. The same evidence AND the same rational ability should take everyone to the same conlusion. That however, is beside the...

But how do we know that that is the case? I don't have access to your mind and vice versa. Limited as such how do we know we're thinking the ''same'' ...

So you're saying ''vengeance'' is a disproportionate response to an offense. However eye for an eye is evidently proportionate to an offense, thus acc...

So, are you closing the discussion by alleging the issue is too subjective to deserve further analysis?

I don't get it

Please clarify.

I think I should disagree. Modern law considers an eye for an eye (or vengeance) as primitive. ??

Well, isn't an eye for an eye ''deserved and proportional''? Yet the law seems to disregard/condemn such a philosophy.

In your case if I were to agree with you wouldn't it be considered ''same'' thinking?

You're right, in a way? I was going to ask ''do you think it's that simple?'' But realized the counter-question ''do you think it's that complex?''

:) ok

My humble opinion follows: If I may say so there are two worlds. One is outside - the physical world, the universe itself. The other is inside - our m...

One thing noting is that ''pleasure'' in humans differ from that in animals. For animals sex, food, relaxing, playing are pleasurable activities. This...

Well I wonder why there's an old adage ''Silence is golden''

I think the purported ''beginning'' of the universe 13.8 billion years ago can be easily interpreted as the moment God ''created'' the universe. There...

You maybe right. I don't know. But I thought you, as a philosopher, would make the distinction between free speech and hate speech.

Even Islamic jihadist expressions?! Treading on a fine line there Terrapin Station

Well, guilt is an odd creature. With all the evidence and his own sworn testimonies it is, in a way, quite ''obvious'' that Dylann is guilty. And if t...

I agree that there are differences between science and religion but they can be boiled down to only two issues viz. cosmology and evolution. To add, t...

Here's why the death penalty errs... If x stole some money the judicial sentence doesn't require something of same value be stolen from him. If x rape...

Good luck. I'm sure you can do it.

:D I'm being serious. He's not insane - there's nothing wrong with disliking people who are different. There's a plethora of phobias. Some abstract li...

This type of behavior is not new Dylann Roof is not insane and he's not guilty either. It's just primordial instincts

Become one!

Why not? I thought theists solved this problem long ago by arguing that the universe and its laws were God's work and we simply discover them.

Do you have an easy-to-understand conception of this ''something'' you refer to. My imagination fails me. Also ''both God but not God'' is a contradic...

Well, an orgasm is not simply a degree of suffering.

I agree with you; emotions do make life interesting. I was merely pointing out what is commonly thought of as detrimental effects on rational thinking...

Therein lies human weakness (if it is true).

This is a joke someone told me... A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel. A realist sees a train. The train d...

But isn't this a perfect description of our current situation? E.g. the ''design'' seen in the universe is taken as a product of chance on one hand an...

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That's way over my head. Anyway thanks for the new ideas you shared.:)

Sometimes a single word may describe an entire book e.g. The Bible can be represented by the word ''hogwash'' to an atheist and ''God'' to a theist. C...

and Please view my reply to StreetlightX

I'm not sure what you mean. A flat piece of paper is 2D as far as I know and anything ''written'' on it is also 2D. The depth of the letter conveys no...

If I understand you correclty what you're saying is language is far greater than the written word and communication takes place in rather complex ways...

Yes it is true that simplicity should be an essential feature of any language and in that sense the languages we use are quite efficient. I guess you ...

Good point. I see how a ''simpler (lower dimensional)'' coding system would be, well, simpler and perhaps, that much more practical or ''better''. How...

Thank you very much for the reply. However, even in your examples we are still stuck in 2D, employing conventions to relay the info that we're dealing...

Use your imagination friend

Well...I don't have to worry about copyrights then.

Well recent developments in world history seem contrary to your position (terrorism). There are plenty of things people are willing to kill or die for...

But do you think that's right or justified? Given that life is precious since it cannot be manufactured in a factory or the like do you think it reaso...

:D Don't ask me...I said I was confused

Tell that to Genghis Khan :)

And almost everything else:-}