My theory, if you could call it that, is to not to be misled by the minority abd focus all our firepower on keeping the majority happy! How many masoc...
The question is absolutely mind-blowing! As far as I can tell, definition is objective, but, for better or worse, meaning is subjective. There's a def...
I recall playing a space strategy video game and part of the gameplay was dispatching scouts/probes into unexplored territory to find resources and ma...
The existing (scientific) paradigms, especially the Theory of Evolution, can't be used to make sense of altruism (re The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins...
The transitivity property of equality doesn't hold. So, if F = The Father, S = The Son, H = The Holy Spirit, and G = God then, 1. F = G 2. S = G 3. H ...
What's your opinion of the following? 1. In life there's potential for suffering and joy. 2. It's impossible, at the moment, to ensure the actualizati...
The Hydra Riddle The Hydra, a mythical polycephalic beast, was considered as one creature. Quite unlike how the dicephalic parapagus twins Abby & Brit...
Well, in that case, we could start from incontrovertible truths, these being hedonic judgments, in re morality, oui? Let's keep things simple and begi...
Paraphrasing Spock (bleeding): I'm pondering upon the meaning of life. Dr. Leonard McCoy (applying compression to the wound): Feeling philosophical, e...
Taking into account the fact that only the empirical is useful to us in any way at all, would you agree that metaphysics is useless. I'm taking a prag...
It looks like, quite naturally, we see people as having 3 components: 1. The Mind: A person must be rational (IQ) 2. The Heart: A person must understa...
This is a profound statement in my book. Perhaps we're talking past each other. All I can say here is that by common sense I mean the ability to detec...
Do animals experience so-called profundity? Does a chimp go "That's deep, dude!"? Does an ant stop dead in its tracks, food in its jaws, and ask "Why ...
Do you ever wonder why inanimate matter obey the laws of nature to a tee. As per Laozi, simplifying Taoism, we're supposed to emulate the nonliving: g...
In my humble opinion, I've never asked any deep questions; so I wouldn't know what they are first-hand. However, I do recall reading up on how some qu...
You're free to disagree, but don't do it just so you can. I, for one, am sold on Thomas Carlyle's idea about how only a few thousand or so men & women...
Possible vs. Actual dichotomy? Unicorns are possible (don't entail a contradiction), but they don't actually exist, do they? In other words, n(the set...
I can't wrap my head around the so-called is/ought problem. An ought is meaningless unless there's an is that it's designed to correct, oui? An ought ...
To each his own I suppose. It's either literalism or flights of fancy. In other words, it's either incoherence, allegedly, or fantasy. They say...all ...
Most idols tend to have attributes the idolizers lack. I suppose they complement each other - making up for each others' defects. An alloy is better t...
I like where you're going with this. :up: I haven't outgrown either-or thinking as of yet. In my defense though I'd like to bring to your attention th...
What do you make of the fact that (empirical) science can be verified i.e. we can, with certainty, tell the difference between empirical truths and em...
What isn't...a trap? It's my suspicion that we're all prisoners, held in mental and physical goals, and what we believe to be freedom is nothing more ...
Possible! I, nevertheless, like my interpretation which, to my reckoning, is literal and so not open to multiple interpretation which would, I feel, o...
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