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I'll keep that in mind. Great observation! Sad but (probably) true.

I've bolded some important words/concepts and what I feel is the essence of all your recommendations. These words/concepts are FREE & MONEY. You want ...

On a more serious note, I believe there's an important issue underlying @"Bartricks" question, "Can God make mistakes?" Let's call the witnesses, shal...

Yes! Religions, by and large, seem to be non-pharmaceutical modes of treating pain (to some degree) and suffering (to a greater extent). Mental reorie...

I must admit I didn't see it that way although I suppose a paradox is by definition an inconsistency. Buddhism - a treatment for depression?

You're right but, as some say, we seem to have run out of options. Thanks though for the word of caution. I'll be more careful in the future.

Good point! I'm so glad you pointed that out. However, it doesn't seem to add up. It's like this: 1. To kill an innocent person is wrong 2. If you pul...

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I was referring to myself!

As far as I can tell, psychology basically carries out experimental studies on how people think i.e. their raison ?d'être is to check for generalities...

This strikes a chord!

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I don't think you're on the right track here. The conditional example you provided don't seem to have anything to do with language itself; it's more a...

Like I think women say to each other, "Men have only two things on their mind, sex and no sex."

Remember, the Trolley Problem is there to expose a dissonance between what utilitarianism demands that we do (kill 1 to save 4) and our intuition that...

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Very good question in my humble opinion. Why? There seems to be an asymmetry therein. Our emotions give the thumbs-up to rationality (there's no way s...

Yes, I've been told that but I never got around to exploring those areas - I find them too unnerving not to mention complicated for the likes of me. I...

Spot on! For those who disagree, there's a thin line between adventure and misadventure.

I'm gonna stick my neck out and disagree with this statement. Logic is, as you said, a "searching truth engine" - it's designed to take truths as inpu...

I've thought about this very briefly. Too briefly. I dunno.

Standing still, I move, Moving, I stand still.

Christian take on morality: Fall Of Man Innocence Four possibilities in re knowledge of good and evil (morality) and free will (saying NO = DISOBEDIEN...

:up: Good news & Bad news.

I suppose, from one angle, your question boils down to that of the difference between a generalist and a specialist. The usual way it pans out is the ...

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Art & Math go a long way back I believe: Proportio Divina. Jack = 4 letters Cummins = 7 letters 7/phi = 4.326 = 4 (7 + 4)/phi = 11/phi = 6.799 = 7 The...

:rofl: :rofl: Jack's eulogy for 3017amen https://youtu.be/M3FtlKHZXhs :rofl:

Pythagoras' theorem. :up:

Glossolalia is simply a set of symbols (here sounds and their combinations) begging, entreating, for a referent. When the two (symbol & referent) fina...

I feel the noose tightening around my neck... :chin: :fear: :cry:

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Side length of first square = x Side length of second square = y Side length of third square = z x² + y² = z² 3² + 4² = 5²

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes Jack a grasshopper.

If anyone's interested in just tinkering around with geometry try Geogebra. It's a free app and comes complete with lessons in geometry (on the websit...

@"frank" We're in the same boat! I hope you're in first class. You'll find me smoking on the deck! :lol:

:up: Yes, negation/refusal/denial seems to be the key to freedom. 1. Preferences 2. Do X & Don't Do Y 3. Yes to 2 4. No to 2

Mathematics. Relations (Philosophy). Relations (Math). Apropose my previous post, mathematics is ultimately about, as the quote says, PATTERNS. All in...

:up: That ultimately boils down to human nature in general and how it shapes a unique individual nature in particular. Human nature seems to be real -...

How unfortunate for the good - they don't get credit - and how fortunate for the bad - they're blameless. Most people would be jumping with joy then a...

First port of call - find out if we have free will!

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Good questions. It appears you're broaching the issue of agency (free will) vis-à-vis morality. The answer then must be obvious - we're if not truly f...

Indeed, how right you are! IF everything is permitted THEN, IF contradictions are permitted THEN everything is permitted & some things are not permitt...

It's functioning, it's functioning! :smile:

Opposites: Endpoints Continuum: Flux (between endpoints) T

Everything is permitted must, in my humble opinion, include that contradictions are true. That, in classical logic (categorical, sentential, and predi...

:up: Nothing doesn't need an explanation and it's as simple as simple can get (?) i.e. Nothing is/has to be the simplest. Ergo, I posit that the expla...

Food for thought: 1. Something OR Nothing 2. If Something then explanation needed(why is there something rather than nothing? @"Jack Cummins" Naughty!...

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been assumed in the way we "explain" stuff. A certain thing/phenomenon is deemed explained if it's reduced to some...