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:snicker: True, as per Chaos Theory, nothing at all is negligible...our ignore list should be a blank page. So much for simplicity.

I've been mulling over this: What if faith (religion) \to reason (science) isn't the correct order in which things happened. It could've been reason (...

The Sun & Jupiter are implicit in autarky. Nevertheless, if hair-splittining is your thing, you have a point. Would you agree that the Solar system, a...

"Taoism? Never heard of it! What are you on about?" "Then you're a taoist, you knucklehead!" :snicker:

Going by the essence of Taoism (negation/inversion), a good Taoist is a bad Taoist...perhaps not a Taoist at all. :snicker:

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Gautama, in my humble opinion, was cursed with hyperalgesia (his pain threshold was low) and hence, I suspect, his description of existence as hellish...

The aim, a noble one, is to keep us on the straight and narrow. The rationale: Maximize freedom & Minimize constraints to the extent possible i.e. not...

:ok: I was looking at God's relevance from a moral perspective, not without good reason: A favorite question of atheists (to theists): Are you good on...

@Merkwurdichliebe As far as I know, theocracy is just the present avatar of the critical flaw with ethics viz. that it ultimately ends up being a set ...

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:fire: My on views on the matter in question form: 1. Does it matter whether God exists/not? Buddha (Noble Silence, The Unanswered Questions). Gautama...

A coupla points: 1. That secular ethics converges on religious ethics is testamsnt to the power of rationality: if we have the same basic values, appl...

Well, kindly justify why...we're allowed to state contradictions?

Ok. I knew that I wasn't really going to hit the bullseye as to what EnFormAction really is. A ballpark figure of sorts was what I was aiming for. You...

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Soothing words, good person! I feel energized! G'day!

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Alhamdulillah!

:smile: You've deliberately lowered your IQ to participate in TPF haven't you? :snicker:

For your consideration: The official reason put forward by logicians as to why contradictions are a big no-no ( :heart: ) is that it, in combination w...

@"T Clark" A priori, self-evident, intuitive, obvious, and common sense knowledge If a proposition (herein that causality is logically necessary) can'...

We need to look at the Kalam cosmological argument's single/unitary cause as a sufficient cause (can be single) and not as a necesary cause (can be/ar...

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I like your style, assuming I've got a handle on what it is that you're trying to do. It's midnight, overcast, new moon, there's a power outage - dark...

:snicker: I maybe right but I'm definitely not all right! WTF? Our minds matter at the quantum level (consciousness/observation - wave function collap...

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Leprosy is a considered a disease but Buddhism is considered by some to be a cure. Both mess up our pain threshold. :snicker:

:snicker: Glitches in The Matrix aka miracles! Pythagoras was attributed with mulitilocation (being in more than one place at the same time). That he ...

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:snicker: Funny, people rarely talk about "a complete waste of space". Hermann Minkowski (spacetime) is gonna turn in his grave.

These are now reportedly dead and buried. I'm not sure though, evil memes adapt and evolve and find new ways to survive. Just yesterday I was reading ...

I thought you might say that. :snicker: Also, good ideas and good arguments are timeless in a manner of speaking. They're as relevant today as they we...

:snicker: The beauty, if it is, of capitalism is that you can lend the same money to 10 different people, at least that's how it is in the US accordin...

Danke!

Good is, by and large, pro-life (pro-choicers might wanna rethink their position because now they look bad) i.e. ethics seems to be be a faithful serv...

Misfortune can be blamed on somebody?! Marcus du Sautoy writes in a book (title forgotten) that to many of our forebears, Chance = God. I have no idea...

Judgment Day: 2060, according to the greatest mind the earth has ever known, Isaac Newton. Even his mistakes were correct! :snicker:

Apologies if I downplayed your angst. I should've known better! Just to be clear, the bottomless pit, that's my current address! :snicker:

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Human + (Supernatural) Power = Superhero/Supervillain Remember Thor (Marvel Comics)! As for an explanation for the stuff you listed: Divine wrath OR D...

3 Revolutions! 1. Creatio ex nihilo (Deus/Fluke): Nothing \to Something 2. Biological: Inanimate \to Animate 3. Psychological: Animate \to Consciousne...

:snicker: More like being under a witch's spell:

Possible existence: Entails no contradiction (not great) Potential existence: In limbo between possible & actual (not great) Actual existence: Existen...