Agent Smith

A thousand thanks for the link. What I'd do is not refute the thesis that numbers count; let's grant utilitarians that it is a mathematical calculatio...

There's a thread on just war, does it exist/not. In a confrontational/threatening situation, there are 3 options: 1. Fight (to the death) 2. Flight (r...

I'll get back to you later. Sorry, I have a lot on my plate. Good day.

Help me then! God said "don't kill" (people, animals, perhaps even plants). He never said "save" (people, animals, or plants). If God's plan is real, ...

For theists to maintain the Islamic position on God (there's nothing in us or in the world that could be used to get a handle on God hence Islam's har...

I'm reminded of the time when I started a thread on die roll and coin flip randomness. As you said, true, each roll/flip is completely determined (if ...

:lol: Hell, even Aristotle made mistakes!

Did you follow the argument? It uses Aristotle's views on time, the conclusion is mine though. :smile:

Aristotle's time puzzle: The past doesn't exist, it's gone; the future too doesn't exist, it is yet to come; the now is an instant, it is nothing! Exi...

No, no I meant how does a moral code being preset diminish or invalidate the moral code that is (preset)? You mean to say major good for the greatest ...

:up: The point of the theism is to push God out of our line of sight so that we can't see Him at all: 1. God's nonphysical 2. God is beyond space and ...

If that's the main quest of your OP then here's my shot at disentangling art from science in re God. Science is about, as the late Stephen Hawking all...

I don't quite get the descriptor "preset". Anyway, here's the deal. if you don't quite like the idea of a code, you're really rejecting all of ethics,...

Materialism is the claim that everything that exists is material (matter & energy, the two being equivalent, E = mc2) (\forall x) (Mx), where Mx: x is...

@"L'éléphant" Can the commandment Thou shalt not kill be rephrased, salva veritate, as Thou shalt save. God's plan? How does not killing fit into it w...

Atheist public figures like Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett have gone on record that their lot is a bit impoverished in the art sector...

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Not easy! Here's a riddle. I hit P hard with a wooden plank and, in an unrelated event, save Q from certain death. I get charged for assault and am gi...

If nobody falls ill, doctors would be unemployed! :lol:

We can pin that on Jesus being semiconscious, ethically speaking. I think there's some truth to the resurrection story: X was zombieish compared to fu...

At this rate Shwah, you'll have no one to converse with in (say) 2/3 moons! :smile:

That's the reason why Buddhist monks have to literally turn their backs on friends and family, the preferred mindset for a bodhisattva can be reduced ...

Human agency? Capabilities + Constraints, how exactly does the two link up art, science, and God to produce a pleasing/satisfying, or not, picture (of...

Can you provide a link to a reliable resource? Forget it, our conversation, as it seems to me, does nothing to advance the OP. That said, I was hoping...

Well... What's this new system (of comprehension) you have?

It wasn't me, it couldn't have been me! I was dead! I was on the moon! :lol:

First off, comprehension and logic go hand in hand; eveey schoolboy knows that. To say "I understand" is to claim I can see how the propositions in qu...

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Then explain this apparently novel way of comprehension to me. It, as per you, has nothing to do with logic. What could it be, I wonder?

You mean to say you don't understand how you understand? :chin:

What is then?

Too logically? Explain that to me, please. How can one be too logical?

So, you're being illogical, but then how can one understand something, even if that thing is simple? Logic is the essence of comprehension, oui?

Jizz! :lol:

Are you saying that you too can't understand it because "it's so simple"? :chin: So our powers of comprehension hit a wall as it gets both simpler and...

Well, you claimed that "it's way simpler...". I wanna know how and why, it's that. I'd like to know what complexity and simplicity are, you seem to ha...

Why is that simple? :chin:

I hope so. Can you show me how with a good example, please?

Transcendentalia 1. Verum (truth): Science (probably not the whole truth, but definitely a good start) 2. Pulchrum (beauty): Arts 3. Bonum (good): God...

I never said that. Figuring out assumptions is not a walk in the park, something I learned the hard way. Granted that I'm wrong, what's your take on t...

The main premise of the Doomsday argument: There's an upper limit to how many humans can live. If N is that number and the current population is n, we...

What is philosophy? :grin: Western philosophy: Dominate nature (become king, there's no king) Eastern philosophy: Submit to nature (become subjects, w...

Expand and elaborare...please. :smile:

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No, you didn't. Where is it then? Links would help.

:up: If there are 1,000,000,000 lottery tickets and you buy one, the odds of you winning are \frac{1}{1000000000}. If 1,000,000,000 people buy one tic...

Neitzsche comes off as distincly anti-ethics (ethics as a stumbling block for humanity and ergo, bad for us), in no small part due to Darwin (re evolu...

I like the OP, an unexpected question as far as I'm concerned and thus that much more interesting. The way I see it, true that art was more advanced t...

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