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:sad: What is mathematics?
April 22, 2022 at 11:43
What kinda a particle would you say deserves the name The God Particle? It has to be, well, fundamental to reality as we know it, oui?
April 22, 2022 at 11:36
I'm particularly interested in miracles as evidence. As all evidences go, miracles only, for lack of a better word, support a god hypothesis. In other...
April 22, 2022 at 11:31
I was expecting nothing less from you Banno! Let me take a stab at it: 1. Woman: A certain minimum level of the hormones estrogen/progesterone in your...
April 22, 2022 at 11:25
Beyond good and evil is to ignore life, the ability to feel pain, and, most dishearteningly of all, consciousness. God, a mathematician, has laid down...
April 22, 2022 at 07:10
To me, the structure of nature is perfect (mathematical) and that, to my reckoning, is (true) beauty. What we believe is beauty though is, on that vie...
April 22, 2022 at 07:06
All I can say, based on my own analysis, for what it's worth, is that maths is a part of reality. Math, unlike a unicorn, the classic example of somet...
April 22, 2022 at 07:03
Truth be told, Nietzschesn übermenschen are actually a reversion to the animal state from which humanity had just about managed to look past in the la...
April 22, 2022 at 06:44
Time, I believe, is not relevant to the issue. We're describing, loosely speaking, behavior of matter & energy and that, for all intents and purposes,...
April 22, 2022 at 06:17
Yep, math is/should be subjective!
April 22, 2022 at 06:10
April 22, 2022 at 06:08
:up: Can you parse Haglund's claim that a parabola "follows" a stone?
April 22, 2022 at 06:07
In what sense does a parabola follow a stone? Try it the other way round: A stone traces a parabola. It makes complete sense.
April 22, 2022 at 06:06
How so? I'd say the principle that causes must temporally precede effects is derived from empirical evidence and it's held up to scrutiny.
April 22, 2022 at 06:00
Although, prima facie, Maslow's hierarchy of needs makes complete sense - it jibes with our intuitions - I found out it has many critics. That said, t...
April 22, 2022 at 05:58
As far as I can tell, nature seems to follow mathematically describable laws. I think you've got it back to front!
April 22, 2022 at 05:24
Simultaneity in re causation is actually a fallacy: cum hoc ergo propeter hoc. The cause must always be anterior to the effect.
April 22, 2022 at 05:21
:chin: Whac-A-Mole? Truth pops up randomly in an epistemic, to borrow a mathematical term, field...sometimes at an opportune moment (an example) and a...
April 22, 2022 at 05:19
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April 22, 2022 at 05:14
What you say fits like a glove with Nietzsche's Darwinian bent: Evolution wouldn't have made x pleasurable and y painful if it weren't good. Add to th...
April 21, 2022 at 16:50
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I can relate to that but only as a disinterested party; I neither wish to be the light nor the agent that turns it off. Point worth noting though is t...
April 21, 2022 at 16:46
Beyond good and evil could be rephrased, salva veritate, as beyond hedonism. Of what practical use would hedonism be to a denizen of hell? It would on...
April 21, 2022 at 16:28
:rofl: I wish I knew how, but the resemblance...it's hard to ignore. :lol: Freud's psychological theory revolves around sex, run-of-the-mill and devia...
April 21, 2022 at 16:19
Yep. This idea is very much like how a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly i.e. the larva transcends itself from simply being an eating machine (I...
April 21, 2022 at 13:38
:fire: If life gives you lemons, make lemonade? :chin: To disrupt one rhythm, one introduces imposes nothing but another rhythm, si? Play along, dance...
April 21, 2022 at 12:52
There's no causal paradox. Can I write an executable that deletes itself? Ask a coder. However, a program that writes itself, unheard of!
April 21, 2022 at 12:46
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April 21, 2022 at 12:41
More at Emotional Intelligence (Wikipedia)
April 21, 2022 at 11:05
I have no idea whether something could create itself i.e. self-creation is a rather difficult idea to wrap my head around, but I can tell you this, wi...
April 21, 2022 at 11:00
Different strokes for different folks? :chin: I'm not advocating for prayer, intercessory or otherwise. I haven't come across evidence that prayer is ...
April 21, 2022 at 10:40
Lives have been both immiserated and enriched by Luck or Fortuna. In other words...we can eliminate Fortuna and her whimsies. Not completely though an...
April 21, 2022 at 09:45
Do you see any truth in the claim that Freud's theory of mind (Id, Ego, and Superego) was a ripoff of Socrates' Chariot Analogy?
April 21, 2022 at 09:41
If one contends that miracles aren't least likely occurrences, then they lose their value as proof of God. I'm partial to the definition of a miracle ...
April 21, 2022 at 09:30
Jesus is science. God, the Father, supposedly, incarnated in the physical plane, the domain of science, as Mary's son. As for art, Yeshua was not know...
April 21, 2022 at 09:19
The rule following paradox if a true paradox would imply that every possible pattern (rule) exists in any given sequence of word usages. For causality...
April 21, 2022 at 08:54
It's said that the great Isaac Newton, after having worked on the problem of celestial motion, demonstrated i.e. proved that the orbits of heavenly bo...
April 21, 2022 at 08:13
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April 21, 2022 at 07:27
No, I'm not. My point is that God's a hypothesis, scientifically speaking. In that sense then it can never be proven true although it can be considere...
April 21, 2022 at 07:22
Looks very Mayan! Perhaps its just the combination of color and the swirling motif.
April 21, 2022 at 07:14
Aye! God was/is genuine as for as motherf**ckers go.
April 19, 2022 at 14:15
Fear, bewilderment, awe, wonder, excitement, thrill, all rolled into one! Holy shit! Oh my God! Holy mother of God! Holy cow! It's that simple and yet...
April 19, 2022 at 11:01
They're keys to survival, reducible to 3 primary goals: 1. Finding food 2. Fleeing predators 3. F**cking suitable mates 3Fs :chin: I'm bad at all thre...
April 19, 2022 at 09:54
Kant's pirmary objective is to make moral laws as immutable & universal as the so-called laws of nature. Have you seen anything, anything at all, viol...
April 19, 2022 at 09:29
:clap: Gott ist tot (Friedrich Nietzsche)
April 19, 2022 at 07:54
Once the creator gets the ball rolling - the first spark - the process is self-sustaining or self-rejuvenating (Phoenix). In a sense then, God didn't ...
April 19, 2022 at 06:25