Let's try something else. Since a ball has to be placed on a cushion, there's a time t1 when the ball is not on the cushion, oui? Put simply, the ball...
@"Bartricks" Here's what to me is a strong argument for simultaneous causation: If a cause exists prior (time t1) to the effect (time t2)then the effe...
Well, let's look at your ball & cushion example. The ball causes the cushion to develop a depression. The mechanism of this deformation is the ball's ...
Well, if the universe is a block of 4D spacetime, the so-called now is a slice of it. Depending on the angle of that slice, I could be coevals with So...
Richard Dawkins, in an interview, makes it a point to say that on a scale of 1 to 10, his certainty that there's no God is a 7. He's not a complete at...
Chaos, in my humble opinion, as some say it is, is "order undeciphered". That seems to be the crux of chaos theory, oui? The "randomness" is an illusi...
Here's what feels like a good rejoinder to people who think antinatalists are hypocrites because they don't suicide: It's not that life is enjoyable, ...
All that comes to my mind is Socrates. If there ever was a virtuso/master of the Via Negativa, it has to be this so-called gadfly of Athens. He, accor...
:lol: One surefire way of convincing us that there's truth in these climate change claims is to make a prediction and see if it comes true. Einstein d...
You mean to say all this climate emergency hullabaloo is much ado about nothing? I would've loved to agree, but then all those papers, reports & semin...
Climate change, if a scientific hypothesis, can't be, for that very fact, the only game in town. Are there other hypotheses that are...well...inelegan...
@"Bartricks" Yahweh (the Father), "married" his own mother (Maryam) and sired Jesus (the Son). Sancta trinitas, Unus deus. Self-creation? :chin: In sh...
Well, to the best of my knowledge, mechanisms are a sine qua non to establish a causal link. In other words, it isn't enough to simply show a correlat...
I've always found Gettier "problems" to be non-issues. Take the following classic example. You're in a field. You see something that looks like a cow ...
All these sentences imply their own truth-apt corresponding statements. For instance "I now pronounce you husband and wife" means "you two are married...
I believe we can never really eliminate God as a creator of the universe. Science, as per Lawrence Krauss, is in the business of answering how questio...
There's got to be a mechanism of causation! For instance, I push you, you fall over; the mechanism here is force & energy, how the conspire to shift y...
Causation, to my knowledge, requires a mechanism. The fastest possible mechanism is an electromagnetic signal (light and its ilk). The speed of light ...
@"Bartricks" What about the cosmic speed limit (roundabout 300,000 km/s aka speed of light)? No cause can be produce an instantaneous effect then, oui...
Collectively, take the human race as a whole, what do we deserve? If it weren't for the fact that other creatures & plants are critical to our own sur...
:fire: Yeah, the point of personifying (Thanatos, Algos, Praxidice, Nemesis, and so on) nature and phenomena part of nature is perhaps a way of trying...
The OP is right on the money if one takes into account the fact religions and their popularity. Religions, sensu lato, boil down to treating life as a...
I fear that you're not quite right there. World wars have been, by and large, a Western folks thing. What about extreme/dangerous sports, where do the...
I suppose you're on target. There are some systems that the moment you dissect/disassemble them they immediately stop being what they actually are. Li...
I wouldn't use "beautiful" to describe mortality & morbidity, but I suppose that's one of the ways the Japanese were looking at Thanatos (romanticizin...
:ok: I just thought it odd and interesting that the Germans didn't resort to suicide when it seems quite justified to do so, as the Nipponese folks di...
¥€$ What's a/the God Function. Cool name nevertheless...is it like the God Particle, a step towards a The Truth? Nec caput nec pedes. Good one! I see ...
All that comes to mind is that during WW2, the Japanese had kamikazes but the West did not; of course one has to take into account the fact that the W...
Well I :grin: did say something about what kinda lowlives h. sapiens are (vide infra). https://youtu.be/L5foZIKuEWQ Nietzsche: Guys, guys, guys, we're...
That's the Treponema Pallidum talking. Zombie Insects. Who knows, we could all be zombies too. Jesus was trying to tell us something! Our brains hijac...
Perhaps Nietzsche was condemning the animal in us - low on rationality and high on emotions and you know what that does - and was suggesting that we l...
:lol: "God is", as per Anselm, "that, than which nothing greater can be conceived." Now, is something that's inconceivable (apophasis or, in vedic ter...
It's my suspicion that Nietzsche committed the nirvana fallacy. He set the bar so high that not one human could shake off the label of superficiality....
Merci beaucoup monsieur/mademoiselle for the graphical representation of my stand on the issue. Indeed, when displayed as such, as a graph, my positio...
What if that's a particle? God is, according to some, the simplest thing imaginable (re Divine Simplicity) and it doesn't get simpler than a point par...
Like Daniel Bonevac, says in a video, there are two kinds of approaches to morality: 1. The Ideal: Everything's picture-postcard perfect! The world an...
Which means...god is, first and foremost, an explanation, one could call it proto-science if you will. The late Christopher Hitchens once remarked of ...
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