Prime Directive (Star Trek) The Balance of Nature The current zeitgeist of technology has been automation, an exemplar of which is the so-called self-...
Anthropology should be considered a branch of primatology. That should put some of us who're obnoxiously self-aggrandizing in our place. Temet Nosce O...
I dunno! I'd need to undergo a battery of tests to find out, something I don't have time for. I should've taken a picture pre-Covid and then one post-...
:up: They had devolved into dictatorships, cults of personality. Christopher Hitchens described North Korea as a Necrocacy, The Father (deceased), The...
To both of you If human neoteny is a fact, no one has seen an adult human! We could be juvenile chimps for all we know. We share 99.9% of our DNA. :ro...
What I find amazing about modern wars is how immensely complex they are. In the good ol' days pre-globalization, there was a clear boundary between be...
Yeah, but isn't conscious perception an inseparable part of measurement. Question: Suppose you set up a quantum experiment. You rig it up to perform a...
Can God create a stone so heavy that He can't lift it? Either He can or He cannot. If He cannot, He's not omnipotent. That means if He can, He is omni...
The trajectory of an explosive shell, a parabola, isn't affected by race, nor is the area of its kill zone, nor the nature of the injuries sustained b...
As one poster has already remarked, the question is balderdash. Suppose God can create a stone He can't lift, is God omnipotent or not? Since if He co...
According to the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, the so-called wave function collapses when an observer makes a measurement. I'm told that consciousn...
I wonder what kinda personality a soothsayer worth their salt has. Gloomy Gus-Nervous Nelly OR Dr. Pangloss-Polyanna? Which personality is more likely...
Given our poor track record in wars, even small scale skirmishes, I would have to give your pronouncements my nod (of approval). This just popped into...
So, like a business cycle, we alternate between pax and bellum. Laozi would've gone "I told you so." How about if we use a different metric e.g. the h...
Speed limits on roads? If you drive above a certain reading on your odometer or a cop's speed gun, we're penalized with a fine or a few days of incarc...
Sorry about the misrepresentation of your position. It wasn't deliberate. So, Buddhism endorses objectivity of truths. That doesn't sound right unless...
Having children is far more complex than (some) parents imagine. Filial responsibility doesn't stop at feeding, clothing, and sheltering. Parents have...
You have a very good thing going on there, monsieur/mademoiselle. Did you know, I'm sure you do, that mathematically speaking, everything reduces to p...
This, in my book, means truths are objective; the real truth is hidden from view and everyone has, well, the wrong idea about the world (us inclusive)...
:ok: I get your point. We haven't been able to produce an objective definition of beauty. Nor is there a good subjective definition we could work with...
Thanks go out to all the above posters. I'm doing this on the fly and so I don't really have a clear-cut, well-defined, position on the matter, but wh...
Wage war to make peace? Very practical advice, given the givens; the rationale being to reduce competition (the seed of war) via thinning the herd. Th...
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