A noble way to look at God's omniscience and how it relates to privacy but a coupla points that seem germane. 1. If it's not WYSIWYG then people, ever...
:ok: You seem to be in a not-so-good mood. I'll leave you to cool off, if that's even possible. I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm on your radar but do...
Neo: Whoa, deja vu. Trinity: What did you just say? Neo: Nothing, I just had a little deja vu. . . . Trinity: Deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matri...
Who doesn't? Everyone is in it for something - a prayer answered, improving the circumstances of one's future reincarnation, a heavenly slot, improvem...
I thought belief was key to salvation. That raises an important question in ethics :point: Belief In God Necessary For Being Good. The related issues ...
It depends a lot on the risk. Let's take a look at (Blaise) Pascal's (founder of probability with Pierre de Fermat) wager. .......................God ...
What if all serial killers are psychopaths? I've always wondered which is more insulting, all men are fools or all fools are men? In the former case, ...
The world when viewed from Nietzschean power game lens leaves no room for a benevolent God of the Christian kind. The weak, if only they realize how m...
Bullseye, Jack. You taught me something today, not your first though. I finally got Camus' Sisyphusian analogy of the meaninglessness of life. Let's t...
Loneliness -> Depression -> Suicide Extreme suffering -> Depression -> Suicide I guess there's not much of a difference between loneliness & extreme s...
The accent, huh? That's both amazing and scary. Amazing because, an accent is like a ID tag that, the moment you open your mouth, gives away to the ot...
Could you help me out? I need a reliable/trustworthy web resource - (an) alternative(s) to Wikipedia whose credibility seems to be declining precipito...
Oh sorry! Didn't read your question properly. My bad. Firstly, I could be a brain in a vat and ergo, whatever I perceive could be an illusion includin...
I'm disappointed that we don't see eye to eye on this. Pandeism = pantheism (animism) + deism according to web resources. That's what I was trying to ...
My conclusion has nothing to do with "...thoughts are always inseperable..." Even if that were true, thoughts can be nonphysical. Mind you, just becau...
I feel you're conflating Animism and animal. Same etymology (from Latin: anima, 'breath, spirit, life') yes but completely different concepts. Rock, r...
Anthropomorphism of some kind. Life in general and humans in particular attempting to bring the rest of the natural world into its fold - an extended ...
A brain in a vat means our senses (the witness) can't be trusted. A brain in a skull = a brain in a vat means our senses can be trusted. You do the ma...
Thank you for including me in the discussion. I was going through your post when I read the above line. I tried to mathematize Anselm's exact words, "...
If you had only reason and no passion, you would be a computer. If you had only passion and no reason, you would be an animal (sorry animals, I couldn...
Humans have by and large viewed and treated the non-human (plants, trees, animals, rivers, seas, the very earth itself) as a resource, erroneously as ...
A brain in a vat is a scenario that is, thank you for reminding me, simply an upgrade of Descartes' deus deceptor thought experiment. It's aim is glob...
So, you wouldn't be sure about being a brain in a skull just because you look like a brain in a skull! Right? But then you claim brain in a vat = brai...
Regarding the firsr paragraph of your post. Yes, the brain can independently generate conscious experience. I mentioned hallucinations. Regarding the ...
There's a difference. In the brain in the vat scenario, conscious experience is no different from an all-modality hallucination. Suppose I'm a brain i...
The brain = "us" The skull = The vat What's the essential difference??? :chin: :chin: If I'm a brain in a vat, everything I perceive is an illusion ge...
Lazy :point: Global Energy Consumption. We're lazy more or less and so we use machines. Machines consume energy and the earth is more active than ever...
The easiest route out of this quagmire of whether the biblia sacra is true/false is to avoid objectivity completely. Objectivity doesn't tolerate inco...
Shhh! :zip: :smile: I hope I didn't offend you! I beg to differ. Existence is poorly defined. Either that or physicalism is under the (false) impressi...
Good point! Your question takes me back a coupla weeks to this thread :point: Proving A Negative/Burden Of Proof. Related stuff: 1. Argumentum Ad Igno...
A couple of statements that one might (might've) encounter(ed) in one's life. 1. It was completely out of character for him to have done that. 2. It's...
:heart: Let's agree to disagree. I'd just like to share this with you without the intention to argue. Illness leads/might lead to death. The most comm...
Why? Because... Doesn't putting the pressure on religious moderates like 3017amen and others probably amount to terrorism? That's what I call the Gree...
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