That's quite an interesting statement there! What if you could develop an IQ test consisting of only jokes, a rich variety of jokes (from slapstick hu...
In case anyone's interested, Lagrange points (aspects of the so-called three-body problem) are points in space at which the gravity of two masses canc...
Correct me if I'm wrong... Materialism is the position that all that exists is either matter or energy, the two being equivalent E = mc2. Dualism espo...
A stronger argument for God would be if the universe were impossible in which case chance would be completely eliminated from the list of candidate ex...
The OP's query is deep! Are there people (mayhaps there's only one among us) who wake up in the morning, perform the customary ritualistic ablutions a...
My favorite theologian is Frederic Brown (1906 - 1972) Short Story: The Answer (Frederic Brown, 1954) Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connect...
Why would we need to do the explaining? We had no hand in creation. Is it possible to be good when the way the game has been designed is such a way as...
Alternatives modes of expression (recommended): 1. We're bound to rerun in the universal domain eternally. Again and again and again... 2. We're bound...
:fire: Confront! Explain yourself, God/priest/cohen/mullah/lama or whoever the hell you are! Words, words are all I have, to take your heart away... K...
What I find puzzling is that our lungs, or more generally our respiratory system, seems to have evolved to operate at even higher concentrations of CO...
The President of the United States of America is the counterexample to utilitarian ethics of numbers. The USA will send its entire army to fight to th...
Democracy, whatever it is, seems to provide the right kinda environment for healing of a society (people can vent their frustrations. Important! Talk ...
Simply connected the dots, you know a result of doing the math, adding 2 and 2 together. However, I'll attempt a rough proof: The Greek fascination fo...
@"Banno" Is it a profound idea? It doesn't look like one to me. :chin: 1. To be is to be perceived 2. To be perceived is to be. 2 is problematic for t...
Well, well, well! The PSR: Everything has a cause. 1. Uncaused 2. Self-caused 2 seems to square with the PSR, 1 is contradictory. 2 doesn't imply all ...
Even for realists, existence is predicated on perception (seeing is believing kinda deal). For a realist, perception (sense-and-instrument-based detec...
Are so-called mystics neurological patients with subclinical TLE (temporal lobe epilepsy)? :chin: Could be a brain tumor or perhaps a parasite (t. sol...
Desolation, everywhere I look, it's desolation! I need to make an appointment with the ophthalmologist. Why does everything look gloomy grey and death...
How does it all hang together? We have to work for it i.e. we need to earn our place in heaven here on earth, a place where being good is, well, "impo...
It has to be, oui? How else did it grasp continuua? The question is did the brain actually comprehend continuua? Infinity enters the scene, all hell b...
The last time I read a book on physiology was 2 decades ago. Times change, things do. The dynamic nature of life seeps into all that it touches, inclu...
Deus, sive natura: God or Nature. Not an offer of choice, a statement. Spinoza at heart, eh! Ataraxia: Equanimity via, inter alia, aporia (bewildermen...
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