Predict disasters, cataclysms, catastrophes, armageddon, the apocalypse and you've basically established yourself as an authentic seer! Entropy will m...
I've heard of Job's tragic story. I didn't know Job's tribulations were visited upon him & his family (?) on a dare by Lucifer. No spirit of reciproci...
Don't be so quick to judge. You might owe your existence to a an avaricious ancestor! Greed existed for a reason, but, in the modern world, in so-call...
Even among deer (picture Bambi), the males are violent (during the rutting season), fatal injuries have been reported. What hope is there for apex pre...
We need good ideas, really good ideas and soon! The Doomsday Clock is ticking and I believe, unlike garden variety clocks, it makes sudden jumps: One ...
:ok: Progress! Reminds me of Gödel's incompleteness theorems: In system x1, problem p1 arises. We then develop system x2 to solve problem p1. What hap...
Good points! Kudos for the nobility of the sentiment. Two issues 1. Sometimes, the tool is the problem. Fossil fuel based engines for example. 2. Some...
:snicker: This is not the first time you've killed my vibe! Knock some sense into me whenever you feel like it. Gracias. A coupla points: 1. A real wo...
Nice! All I can say, for the moment, is that morality is objective and appears to be subjective. The purported subjectivity is simply an artifiact of ...
I think this has been tried before! It didn't work out. Perhaps I'm wrong, but then so are most of the people I know. The world has a way of taking pe...
It seems that morality is objective. What explains the convergence on such acts as murder & theft? The fact that there's a divergence on other issues ...
Nec quid nemis. The proposal - abolish money - is too extremist. A bad workman blames his tools says the old adage. Necessity is the mother of inventi...
Why, indeed, don't aliens try and get in touch with us? You maybe right, but I listened to a lecture in which a bona fide philosopher claimed that Ans...
Kurt Gödel, no less, was convinced there was something to the ontological argument. He, I was led to understand, developed his own version of it. Goog...
Did you know... According to some scientists, (parasitic) worms rolled back on nervous system development (they lost their minds :snicker: ). Zen Budd...
:snicker: We're basically tubes, fancy ones but essentially tubes (mouth - guts - anus). Brains are, the bottom line, an organ that works for the tube...
Well, by metaphysics, I refer to what Aristotle kickstarted (the fundamentals, the first principles of all under the sun). What intrigues me is the pl...
No offense judges, but in my humble opinion, the police should be better paid than you gavel-wielding madcaps. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound...
My take on fallibilism: The idea is not not to make mistakes, but to know ? you're committing them? The former is impossible and hence absurd, the lat...
Amazing how you're the very picture of clarity, señor! 1. Truth (Logic & Epistemology) 2. Good (Ethics) 3. Beauty (Aesthetics) How do you explain the ...
Documented and confirmed! A vicious cycle: Anxiety leads to irrationality and irrationality leads to anxiety. From a Darwnian point of view, I don't q...
Perhaps I/we commit what I call the omniscience fallacy which is basically arguing from the false assumption that we know everything there is to know ...
To appreciate beauty, a quality listed among transcendentalia, is, I think, decidely not shallow! Even the Hindus, as outlined in the OP, made a big d...
:point: I agree wholeheartedly that hedonism (pursuit of happiness & avoidance of suffering) isn't a philosophy we can afford to be flippant about, as...
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