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Ok. Thanks for the opportunity to brush up on Diogenes & Alexander. They were both maaturbating in their own way I suppose.

The 21st century version of the OP's title should be, in my humble opinion, Nietzschean argument in defense of robotics.

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What nonsense! :snicker:

Diogenes could've been a solipsist. Other people? What other people? :snicker:

From a naïve utilitarianism perspective, if pain is objective, morality is/has to be too, oui? :chin:

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The million dollar question: If veganism is "good", why did carnivory evolve? Does mother nature make (silly) mistakes? Does God make boo boos? Someth...

We need to update our definitions!

:snicker: That's why, I suspect, verum, bonum, and pulchrum were designated as transcendentalia; they describe an ideal or best-case scenario. It woul...

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:chin: So, 1. Truth 2. (True) goodness 3. (True) beauty 3017amen (profile) Maybe, just maybe, Truth = Good = Beauty. They're the same thing?! My analy...

Yeah! Sorry, my wild shots (in the dark) has found an unintended victim it seems. :grin:

If wages are so stipulated that input (pay) = output (for bare necessities with nothing left over) then that's the modern incarnation of slavery. The ...

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Yeah, reminds me of the famous Arthurian round table - order of importance is N/A. The riddle of the Sancta Trinitas maybe the same idea (to block att...

What was God's reply? if I may ask. Collateral damage?

I suggest we "think outside the box". There was a thread not so long ago on how people tend to understand ideas/concepts/phenomena/whathaveyou in term...

So, if the speed limit is 60 mph, and I drive at 59.999 mph, I'm not speeding. There is no slavery in the modern world they say but that's only on a t...

My hunch is capitalism piggybacks on (the promise of) freedom. Liberty is so god damned important that we don't mind becoming slaves so long as we're ...

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Are you aware of any myths where people put gods in the dock?

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Münchhausen/Agrippa's Trilemma Also, Hello, hello, 911, T Clark just shot himself!

Yeah, it can be done but it's not exactly something an untrained person can pull off. The lower pleasures tend to, well, give more pleasure for a give...

Great post. The question: Why do we need/want (a) god(s)? As per historians religions were simply the, how shall I put it now?, complexification of ho...

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Will the simple biconditional statement below contribute? I am anxious \leftrightarrow I care! A motto of mine which, unfortunately, I haven't been ab...

:lol: Suit yourself.

Muchas gracias señor. The shoe is on the other foot, eh? The judge is on trial. This is a significant development insofar as god & humans are concerne...

Your post, if accurate, shows how little I know of God and our relationship with Him. What I find really intriguing is how the Jewish Elohim seems har...

Really superb points. G'day.

Thanks a million for the advice! Will get on it asap! Yuval Noah Harari says so in his book Sapiens that what we tell ourselves is progress is actuall...

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Moses! :snicker:

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Evolution is laissez-faire. Look at the mess we're in! Just a baby step away from ecological collapse unless...this is part of the Divine Plan. :snick...

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You'd better do some reading then.

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Well, @"Gnomon" and I discussed this in another thread. Assume the role of God, a creator deity (Bruce Almighty). Your task is to bring into existence...

A get-out-of-jail card for God. Again, a theory that explains everything explains nothing, oui?

Good question! Much appreciated. Excellent point! I could not make sense of that which is, in a way, nonsense! How dumb of me! However, I feel there's...

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As we can ourselves clearly see, we are, we remain, utterly baffled by ourselves and the world! It is this, it is that, it is both, it is neither: :co...

Ok. Will do what you asked. Au revoir! A word of caution: Etymological Fallacy

The mind's natural habitat is the quantum world. Lao Tzu was onto something i.e. his mind did know about whatever the hell quantum vacuum is. Have you...

Poets should be arrested and put away for a million years...for rule-breaking at such scales and severity. Wouldn't you agree? Where's the language po...

There are things far more important than truth? :chin:

Substance? Sorry! File not found! Searching auxiliary memory... True, information isn't a substance like, for instance, clay or paper is. If it were m...