TheMadFool

Too much of everything is bad. Ergo, Too much of too much of everything is bad is bad too.

I agree there's a distinction to be made but look at it this way: Imagine you see a person complying with another person's instructions. Can you tell,...

I like to call Aristotle's notion of the golden mean Too Logic Of The Golden Mean. Whatever else the word "too" means, it carries a distinctly negativ...

You're committing the status quo fallacy.

You have no idea about the impact dreams and daydreams have had on the world. Also, mind remodeling isn't the same as a body makeover.

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Are you saying some people are unworthy of the truth, orthodoxa (right belief), which is just another way of saying some people should suffer? Whateve...

All I can say is that we're discussing validity, about the form of an argument and inasmuch as that matters, the conclusion follows from the premises.

Well, I'm acquainted with some Tibetan monks and they have a concept of luck and they believe that it can be accumulated just like good karma by perfo...

:up: I just read a book a coupla weeks ago and below is a quote from it, Science has always been about a clockwork, deterministic, universe and, from ...

I compare transhumanism to buddhism. Both are on the same page - abolition of suffering - but their methodologies are poles apart - buddhism is about ...

Affirmation (yes) is what inanimate, non-free, objects do. They follow (comply with) the laws of nature - falling, flowing, breaking, etc. - and our w...

How? It seems all the more important, given how karma works, to, in this present life, take measures through good deeds to ensure our next life is as ...

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Nicely put! :up:

The ability to negate/say no to is the key to freedom and thus, by extension, also free will. To comply/agree/say yes to means one has surrendered to ...

If a certain group is under the impression that its belief system is the right one (orthodoxa = right belief), that group will also consider it a duty...

3 has to be true; no possible world exists where 1 and 2 are true with 4 false. As for temporal aspects of sufficient and necessary conditions and cau...

So, there's no difference between an evil person and (say) a bodhisattva - the difference in their deeds, one cruel, the other kind, means nothing and...

If you have to ask that question, maybe I should be getting along.

I maybe wrong of course but, if there's a chance factor in all this, even the best laid out plans for nirvana that span many future lives would be a w...

Harmony, socially, means everybody getting along with each other. Simple. I don't see the difficulty in grasping that concept in the setting of a grou...

Rather than waste time breaking our heads whether morality is objective, we should, I suggest, focus on its objective as in its aim/goal. We want a ha...

It appears that those who deny mainstream views/official explanations are of the same breed as people who have the so-called God Gene put forth by Dea...

Bingo!

Thanks. My take on karma is that it determines the circumstances of our birth and life till the very end, all things that depend on it - which is a lo...

The basic idea is to find out how the world works and align one's thoughts/speech/deeds to those discoveries. "Be realistic," the philosopher says and...

I say that buddhism doesn't have the notion of orthodoxa (right belief) thanks @"Wayfarer" because it doesn't have an active proselytizing wing/arm un...

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@"Wayfarer", I seek your counsel. Indeed, causality is central to buddhism as it is in other religions. The law of karma (moral causation) along with ...

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Time to drop the bombs,

I want to disagree, I tried to disagree, but I can't help but agree! :up:

Yes, it is.

Xing fu - was there the other day. The company was top notch - a judge, an environmental engineer, a surgeon, and two businessmen, and a lady with her...

Well remove the self-reference (reflexivity) and check if the paradox still exists 1. That sentence is false (liar paradox). 2. If that sentence is tr...

:up: Self-referential paradox: A person saying, "I don't exist." 1. Reflexive (implicit) affirmation: To say "I don't exist", I must exist but this is...

In my humble opinion, high recidivism rates would mean we have no control over our preferences (here desire to commit crimes) and that we can't, most ...

Psychologists study how we think. Philosophers study how we ought to think. Psychology is about what turns us on and what turns us off, our fears, our...

:lol: I reckon the grear Lao Tzu is referring to what I suppose is some kind of God-like entity or a Cosmic Principle that's behind all there is, ever...

Not all paradoxes are self-referential is all I can say.

IF this sentence is true THEN, Germany borders China.. This conditional is logically equivalent to (p -> q = ~p v q): This sentence is false OR German...

Oh! Well, if you want my opinion, I'd say that self-referential statements are prone to paradoxes because, it can be a part of itself (Curry's paradox...

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I stand corrected! Thanks again.

Yes! Thanks for making me look up Curry's paradox. I had heard of it but never really took time out to study it until you brought it up. It seems Curr...

Wittgenstein, it seems, was especially affected by the word "game." He realized that, in truth, no one really knows how to define it but then everyone...

Information is that which reduces uncertainty, quantified as the number of yes/no questions required to pare down the possibilities from (say) n to 1 ...

There are many more unwanted pregnancies than can be explained by failure of contraception. Irresponsible, lazy, careless, idiotic, heartless men...an...

I suppose we shoudn't be too hasty in our judgment of Islam, it's the youngest religion there is. If all goes well, Islam should produce its own Desca...