John Scotus Eriugena (proud Irishman), known for dividing reality into the following 4 categories: 1. Nature uncreated and creating (God in creation) ...
Good question! The Oddball's Oddball is Paul Erd?s (Hungarian mathematician). Noam Chomsky (linguist with Erd?s number 4) is connected/linked to Richa...
Then we must part ways here. I go my way, you go yours. Sorry it had to come to this. :smile: It appears that you've missed the point. Nothing wrong w...
The beginning (only) makes sense temporally. The universe (only) makes sense temporally. Remove time and the question of a start is meaningless; unfor...
Sorry for butting in, but the universe was behaving in a mathematical way (physics + chemistry) long before humans (biology) even entered the fray so ...
One is often misled by a word. In the case of all crises that have taken place, including the one in Ukraine, that word is "democracy". Everyone these...
You're in for boatloads of disappointment! It's probably because my experiences are very unique, not quite the same as yours I'm afraid. Rose-tinted g...
So, you don't believe that the law of attraction holds? I agree. Imagine it were that simple to find happiness. As for the OP, a novel take on prayer ...
I remember making a similar statement a long time ago. Harry Hindu believes that chance is ignorance and ignorance simply doesn't qualify as an explan...
You might find this interesting: Law of Attraction. It basically states that positive thoughts lead to good experiences and negative thoughts lead to ...
A particular strain of romanticism is dangerous; whether it's the whole movement itself I'm not sure. What am I referring to? The positive spin it giv...
Is depression the default human state? Whether it is or is not seems debatable, but given that state we're in (mass hunger, stress, rampant disease, t...
It is a case of extrapolation: we have a nice thing going on here (the death penalty); If I stay the course, take it to its logical conclusion, verily...
How much does a jog weigh? :chin: Good question. I think you're onto something here. Words like "jogging" were post facto descriptions of certain bodi...
As usual, the beginning is obscured from view, We can only hypothesize i.e. speculate on such matters; quite unfortunate. It's as if we've awoken from...
Abiogenesis is not supernatural in character. It's an explanatory model that has at its heart, chance/luck/randomness. Quite possibly God is playing c...
Ok. Organ function, the mind being the brain doing its thing, is the low hanging fruit here. Nevertheless, it's the most sensible/reasonable way to lo...
Good question OP! Speaking for myself, I'd say there is (should be) no difference between the two because if there is then it gives people the (wrong)...
Boredom is a snapshot of immortality. It appears that we don't really wanna drink from the pool of eternal youth life even if we should find it! Quest...
Well, you haven't addressed the issue that something uncountable (the set of reals) could be mathematical i.e., to be precise, numerical in nature. Th...
I've been to talk therapies and, as the name suggests, it's basically a conversation - the aim seems to be vent (one's frustrations) rather than treat...
I think the right question, given how so many people have pinned the statistic in the OP to guns, is this: What would happen if all countries in the w...
We're supposed to come to terms with the way things are, miserable, rather than kvetch about it and become despondent. Much of talk therapy is aimed a...
:lol: Jokes aside, my example is still in the rational domain. Perhaps I could give an example from construction/engineering: a circular (\pi) dome li...
We must learn to count with the reals, continuous as opposed to discrete, like the naturals. What do you think of the following problem? A man invests...
The Antinatalism-Immortality Paradox Once we've solved death and we become immortal, we can't have anymore children. Where's the space? So, just as th...
Altruism is, bottom line, cooperation; cooperation is, all said and done, a sign of weakness (I can't do this alone, help me). Am I now to take selfis...
The first part of the statement is what's interesting. Just like there are computer games in which a vehicle's engine is simulated, why not let a huma...
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