Agent Smith

I see! According to some sources...the idea is to surrender one's freedom (free will). Islam translates as "surrender" your will to Allah!

I believe I got you. My intuition also concurs. Shannon's definition was tailored to address specific technological issues; don't ask me for details. ...

@"Banno" has said, more times than I can count, that logic is a language! Well, we could treat the laws of (natural) deduction as syntax and as far as...

Well, my take is Shannon's mathematization would have to add precision to the definition (of information). Am I wrong?

@"Jack Cummins" Maybe There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the n...

I dunno! :snicker:

Pro-choicers please kindly inform pro-lifers that choice is so important to God's vision of humanity that he permits the most horrific atrocities to b...

I suppose what I'm actually talking about is the famous problem of evil.

:up: Spiderman let an armed robber escape and it ended badly - beloved uncle Ben was fatally shot! Life, if it is a game, is in hardcore mode! No seco...

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Language doesn't give a damn about logic!

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I feel you're wrong. I know you're (probably) right! :smile: :sad:

Maybe there's a silver lining to all this senseless killings - the most violent members on both sides of the border are slowly offing each other. Only...

Hasty/Sweeping Generalization.

No, that's the piper. He wants his money! :snicker:

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:grin: Wikipedia has more. If memory serves, the name was taken from a movie - Gaslight - in which the rapscallion husband makes his wife think she's ...

I concur! Maybe my logic, my premises, possibly both are a bit off if you catch my drift. Thinking is so hard! :sad:

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Ok.

Ok.

What's the difference between skepticism and gaslighting?

Be practical-minded! Get the hell out of ivory towers!

I don't know! It just looked interesting to me - I can say things I can't mean and not just in a mundane way like empty promises, etc. but in an extre...

:ok: How would you describe Leibniz? Too... :grin: When you put it that way, it's quite embarrassing to go the Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Dani...

The area of a square is 4 cm2. What is the length of its sides? x^2 = 4. \therefore x = \pm\sqrt 4 = \pm 2 -2 is what we call an extraneous solution. ...

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So, public onanism was simply Diogenes asking a question (on social norms)? Reminds me of so-called divine madmen (theia mania). Take The Socratic Met...

Food for thought: We humans are mistakes (re random gene mutations)! Intriguing, si?

Bullshit = Rhetoric then?! Maybe there's a very good reason for why we all bullshit so much. Like authentic bullshit (manure), it may act as a fertilz...

The look but don't touch policy adopted by some springs to mind!

The age-old subjectivity vs. objectivity debate pops up every now and then. Here's food for thought. It appears, as far as I can tell, that the brain/...

Belief Creating Reality

On self-fulfilling prophecies and god prophets. https://youtu.be/035JfHSoG70

@"Gnomon" We could, you know, define information as pre-Shannon and post-Shannon. 1. Pre-Shannon: Vague, unquantified, concrete (easily graspable) 2. ...

Shutter Island (2010) I'd rather lose my mind (theism/psychosis) than live with the awful truth (atheism/dystheism)! :chin:

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(No) help is on its way! I'm on my own!

Ok! :grin: Ok Mr. Sir! I bookmarked your site for later!

I have my fair share of problems and I do pray for help. No divine grace has come my way. I tell myself "He must have more important issues to deal wi...

:up: Makes sense but I may have commited the false dichotomy fallacy, no? Sadist OR Fiction OR... (say) Divine Retribution for collective sins OR...po...

I edited the title. Thanks for the heads up!

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Also commanded...crimes against humanity! :groan: Then, either God exists not or God is evil! :sad:

Life sans choice is pointless! Choice sans life is nonsense! We're screwed, thoroughly I might add.

The Jews suffered, yes, not by the hands of god, but by the hands of man. Homo homini lupus. :groan: Life, aah life, it is its own worst enemy! We cou...

Going by the way the two sides of the abortion debate have decided to call themselves, pro-choice and pro-life, I'd say the anti-abortion brigade wins...

Thanks for the helpful reminder! I owe you one, 180 Proof.

Gracias. I have a fair grasp of what you're getting at señor/señorita. I'm quite satisfied what I (think I) know of your system. Possibility space. 1....