TheMadFool

Is it sex or is it power? I'm confused:(

Death is immanent Nothing is permanent Learn to enjoy life Even when in strife I don't think that's accurate. In ethics the primary concern is good ev...

The golden rule is perfect It's we who suffer the defect

I guess we're amphibious in a way, having the best of both worlds. Somehow we're made to serve the community while still trying to achieve our self-in...

The only way I can make sense of this is that human beings are in a transition phase between being solitary predators and group hunters/farmers. It se...

I completely forgot about domination winning mating rights. A big ego does confer survival advantage. I guess the paradox here is the reverse i.e. why...

Assuming I understand you correctly, what is your standard for truth and meaningfulness? And how does religion fail?

Don't be so quick to judge. Perhaps there's a grain of truth hidden somewhere. You're right but I try to be truthful.

Are you really sure? Are you sure?

Are you sure? How so? Do you have a grander, truer (not sure if that's a word) view on the issue?

Yes, we can be mistaken about our experiences. Isn't this fact the basis of philosophy? Also, what of masochists and sadists? A warped view of the pai...

Extremes are life-threatening. Heard of homeo stasis? Therefore, I think that while suffering is patently bad, we're blind to the dangers of pleasure.

Of course there are differences between the two. Actually I think the relationship between the two can be described as below... Philosophy is the ques...

Sex is a primordial instinct-even bacteria engage in it. Is it surprising if it dominates most, if not all, of human interaction?

Religion is an attempt by the rational mind to make sense of life, the universe. Isn't that philosophy? Vice versa

Tao Te Ching No matter how beautiful and perfect One cannot fly with one wing A diamond with a defect

Take 5 extremely good basket ball players Individually they can't do much. However...with good co-ordination the 5 together can play basket ball i.e. ...

Love is a paradox...the one time where native selfishness is subdued for the good of another. And where there are paradoxes there are things poorly un...

I wonder what evolutionary advantage a big ego has? It's a turn-off (unsure) and yet is widely prevalent in the gene pool.

Morons in Congress? Who put them there?

Here's what I think... These so-called laws of nature have a fatal flaw. Which is...the problem of induction. We cannot be 100% sure that there are an...

Hasn't all of history, include science, been about there being more to something than what appears at first glance? To give an example consider cosmol...

Well done! However you are still using binary logic in your clever example

Science is overrated and religion is underestimated.

Isn't this the age old problem known commonly as ''bias''?

The world is on the wrong track but in the right direction

Religion is a type of philosophy... And vice versa

In my humble opinion the liar's paradox is a problem when we combine two parameters... 1. Self reference And 2. Binary logic If we refrain from any or...

Given that top predatory dinosaurs and the herbivore dinosaurs both died out and became extinct I don't see how humans can make it in the next extinct...

I gather that climate change, even drastic ones like ice ages, are ''regular'' events in earth's geological history. That so even without human involv...

When I'm false I'm true When I'm true I'm false Oh what should I do? Ride a camel? Ride a horse?

''If you're not with us, then you're against us'': G. Bush As the above quote clearly demonstrates there's something fundamentally deficient in binary...

Think of the self as a knife and thought as the act of cutting something. The cutting cannot happen if the knife didn't exist in the first place. Simi...

The underlying assumption in this discussion being...our preferences as a determinant for our choices. I don't know but is that reasonable. Sometimes ...

Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant taste of death bu...

Was it Einstein who said ''genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration''? That makes genius a reachable goal. One simply has to try harder.

It may be a narrow outlook but I think doctors, barring psychiatrists, take physical wellbeing as more important than psychological wellbeing. Most wo...

Isn't this a roundabout way of saying that life lacks purpose/meaning - that it is without an explanantion that satisfies our desire for higher meanin...

I thought ethical issues related to genetics were primarily concerned about the perceived offense in playing God. Didn't know people's feelings were i...

To add... Sex is a normal biological function, meaning its pursuit and attainment is part of leading a normal life. Therefore, being deprived of this ...

Wouldn't the existence of god dispel the absurdity of life? God would confer meaning as in the absurdity is only superficial for we would be part of a...

It's been proven that we have a hard time doing what we, collectively, ought to do. Perhaps there's a disconnect between the individual ought and the ...

The absurdity of life cannot be a proof of the existence of god because, well, life is absurd because god doesn't exist.

I agree with you. I don't think sex forms an essential part of the highest good in man. Would you grant that it does have a contributory function to o...

The thing is we humans, in our maturation from babies to adulthood, go through a gradual process of mental development where our consciousness seems t...

Perhaps sex is like an addictive drug. Once you try it you need to keep having it! Some, perhaps those not exposed to this drug, don't think it's a ne...

A real hero has no need for fame or recognition. To him there are things more important than the celebration of victory, things far worse than defeat....

I can think of ways of torturing someone by depriving him/her of sex. We feel pain (and experience torture) when we're deprived of our basic rights. T...

I don't like the consequences of any justification that permits of the killing and consumption of animals because first of all, we are animals and the...

Each one of us doesn't actually fit in perfectly in our own societies. Our thoughts may not resonate with that of others, our values may be rejected a...