I wish that were true but, luckily/unluckily, it ain't. By the way, I'm fairly certain, out of character for a skeptic, that if symmetry is a property...
I can live with that. Broken symmetry! However, this could be just a phase in the cosmic tango - antimatter may show up and do its thing whatever that...
That's his take on empathy. This is going to get depressing! He was contextualizing human psychology within Darwinism. Nothing wrong with that but...h...
bert1 is close, close enough for government work. Take a fair, six-sided die . Randomness, in my book, simply means all six possibilities are equiprob...
Spot on! I agree whole-heartedly but that opens Pandora's box. Now, we can't be sure of anything at all. We were smug about deductive justification - ...
Well, that's not what I said. Insults constitute ad hominems i.e. dishing out insults when an argument is underway is ad hominem. That's what I think ...
I don't recall calling him that. I vaguely remember calling him that. I'm not sure why? Ouch! :cry: What if I were to tell you that what you said is r...
The Taoist in you speaks. I'm all ears. Fortunately or not, you haven't said anything we don't know already. What looked promising turned out to be a ...
This is the key premise! How does an individual deal with faer own problems? Not very intelligently as far as I can tell. Can we blame the world then,...
I went all the way. I think I get it now, more or less. Justification L: Question: Is ? 1. Yes. There has to be a justification for J. However, if the...
Justification is basically proving/demonstrating the truth of a claim. It's the hallmark of rationality but there's a catch. If rationality is so toug...
I humbly beg to differ. The entire notion of ends justifying means is premised on the means being ethically suspect (verging on the bad or evidently b...
I'm in two minds about this but the matter, luckily or not, boils down to whether or not the ends justify the means. Suppose, for argument's sake, end...
Terrorism, to my reckoning, is simply a struggle carried out with arms. The struggle maybe fully justified but resorting to arms is an entirely differ...
One very wise person once told me, look at life one way (the bright side) and life is too short and look at life another way (the dark side) and life ...
Indeed, true or not, I feel that Synergy is applicable to some systems and that, Though biology sees us as "sacks of chemistry" as Neil deGrasse Tyson...
Given the way God's defined, incorporeal and such, God is unverifiable and if one defines meaning(fulness) as only that which is verifiable, God is me...
I can't wrap my head around one thing. God, according to theists, imbues our lives with meaning. Without God, they claim, life/lives is/are meaningles...
This is a very profound statement. Wisdom has always been the philosopher's holy grail and that, to my reckoning, includes, not as an auxilliary but a...
Agree 100%. I've personified life and just as it makes sense to ask, "how are your classmates treating you?" I feel it makes the same amount of sense ...
I was, as they say, working backwards from Darwin's own statement, which I quoted, and what appears to be a general consensus among the intelligentsia...
I'm going to focus on only one argument that Richard Dawkins makes in his book The God Delusion. Theist's argument 1. Complex things require a creator...
I reckon that's a good thing. Prima facie, eternal hell seems to gum up the works. Death isn't as bad as eternal hell. Why did our ancestors think dea...
To put it succinctly, if you decide to reject Agrippa's trilemma argument, Agrippa's trilemma argument is sound (infinite regress, circularity, axioma...
Food for thought: we're not described as evil rather we're all sinners. The notion of original sin is intertwined with mortality/death. Point to note,...
The Bible is, inter alia, an anthology of the lives of prophets (messengers) - their genealogy, their historical roles, and above all else, their mess...
I'm uncertain as to what the OP is getting at but smacks of reductionism (the whole understood in terms of its parts). That's what going down the rabb...
As per idealism, God is reportedly the all-seeing eye! Nothing escapes God's notice. Panopticon. See also CCTV and Police, to name a few possible mean...
First off, this is a tautology because existence is defined as that perceived and "to be is to be perceived" is actually the statement, to exist (to b...
Yes, I thought about it but it falls under the organic category and psychiatric disorders are inorganic. Mind you, I'm probably using some outmoded id...
:sad: but hey, nothing is better than sex! :lol: I'm having a Zen moment here. Just a second! Why do some people get excited/anxious about nothing? An...
Who wants to be a millionaire? Lifelines: 1. 50:50 (Fifty-Fifty) 2. Ask a friend 3. Ask the audience OR Wisdom of the crowd OR POLL: Is morality - obj...
The nub of the issue is you need good people to speak but for that to happen you need to let bad people speak (free speech) and, conversely, if you do...
To All There seems to be 3 states of consciousness we need to be cognizant of: 1. Awake 2. Asleep 3. Dead They all differ from each other in terms of ...
I did consider that side to the issue but it doesn't work like that. If my thought about Aphrodite is energy then that energy should be able to move s...
Non sequitur?! You said "...the brain is always on." Consciousness is assuredly not always on. Ergo, the brain state and consciousness correlation coe...
Let's not get bogged down. I hope to extricate the two of us from this bog ASAP. First, if the brain is always on, what happens to consciousness betwe...
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