Beauty, for me, is an attractive force. I suppose that's the reason why attractive is synonymous with beauty. I guess we could view/define beauty as a...
A little something to ponder upon: 1. We don't know the answer to "are we alone?" but, 2. If there are aliens, we know the answer to their question, "...
Yes, yes, we see eye to eye, on the same page we are. So, by your logic, tit-for-tat strategy given its due, it's not permissible to eat either plants...
I repeat, this is not my logic. Yes, groups vs individuals logic which you kindly brought to my attention. Given that you seem to be in the know, how ...
This actually describes me - I'm a middle-aged person, agnostic and trying my best to formulate a coherent worldview which, I'm told, involves testing...
I understand where you're coming from 180 Proof but my question is about the tit-for-tat strategy, its moral aspects, our dietary recommendations, and...
So, you mean to say that if plants could think like humans and they eat animals, we should give the nod of approval to the tit-for-tat strategy and ea...
How do you make decisions when you don't know (something)? Say you don't know whether it'll rain tomorrow or not. How will you plan for the morrow? Yo...
Food for thought. Gypsies, if they're still into wandering about from place to place, the quintessential nomadic lifestyle, and if they aren't subject...
The fundamental problem with agnosticism seems to be that it can't be used to guide our actions, make decisions, to name a few. Take prayer for instan...
Once you're poor, you get some concessions - you can be a thief, a liar, a scammer, even a murderer and people will cut you some slack. Motivation for...
Hi Jack. How have you been? As you seem to have already realized, if we take humanity as a single organism, a person let's say, it wouldn't be wrong t...
5.2k Can you ethically justify eating meat?— Kaz1983 :fire: :fire: :fire: Excellent point! Eating each other to the point of even cannibalism is a fac...
Well, if we're going to reduce God to a Search Engine the likes of Google, I'd ask Google...er...God, How did you (God) become omniscient (How? Ancien...
And? Tit-for-tat is a strategy in game theory and while non-humans may exhibit that behavior e.g. herbivores eating plants and then plants evolving to...
The best science done in the last 100 years indicate that the universe came into existence around 14 billion years ago - that beginning derisively lab...
Creation & Evolution In Public Education The difficulty, as I see it, is if religion is presented as an alrernative to science. It can't be helped sin...
I'm rather intrigued, puzzled, and wonderstruck by how evil and justice seem to be mirror images. Suppose I, god forbid, torture and kill someone. Jus...
The artist, by nature, pushes the boundaries of the possible using faer favorite tool, the imagination. All the impossible objects that appear in this...
:chin: You're right but not completely. The words "impossible" and "contradiction" are different from the words "possible" and "noncontradiction." Whe...
Science makes no bones about what it's about - study of matter & energy within a mathematical framework as far as possible and physics is its poster c...
Update For Those Interested Assuredly there are ways of conceiving death, many have offered their own methods and I'm grateful. Nevertheless, the mind...
Resonates with me, this idea of mind being information and that information is neither matter nor energy. A very simple proof, in my humble opinion, t...
You might've hit the nail on the head there. However, my question was, if it's not too much trouble or too close for comfort, about your problem solvi...
:up: Problem solving app. Either I don't have one or it's outdated. I never seem able to solve problems. What's yours like? Can I have a look at your?...
The Philosophy Of Covid-19 All here seem acquainted enough with viruses and how they work. Nothing more than the basics is required for what I have to...
@"jorndoe" Jorndoe Trilemma 1. Q knows X 2. Q doesn't like X 3. Q can prevent X Ergo, 4. Not X But, 5. X Ergo, 6. Q doesn't know X OR Q likes X OR Q c...
This should be right up your alley OP. If I've been reading authentic translations of the Mahabharata, there's this cute sub-plot in it where Draupadi...
Question: Why is the expansion of the universe accelerating? Accepted answer: Dark Energy Real answer: We don't know I suppose we're so desperate for ...
Let's delimit the boundary of futorology between harming and curing. Everything else should fall in between. The past. We harmed each other with sword...
That was my point exactly. Extreme sports is defined by the level of risk to life and limb. If you ask me, they're at the leading edge of technology b...
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