Agent Smith

:up: Is Wittegenstein relevant? p-zombies? Does a computer that displays the string "I'm not thinking" or plays the prerecorded message "I'm not think...

When your common sense goes AWOL. :up:

:lol: Reminds me of Socrates' Apology (not an apology; rather a demand for compensation to the gadfly of Athens for all the trouble he had to go throu...

@"Enrique" Good job! :up:

@"Enrique", excellent post!

I didn't/I don't. The two are equivalent. In both cases the persons in question die, oui? :up: Like the tower of Babel story shows, God doesn't want u...

@"Enrique" Good post!

. Human folly at its best, perhaps worst!

Here's what separates genius from intelligence: Upon being told mulgere hircum (milk a male goat), the intelligent one exclaims "male goats don't prod...

Rule following paradox (re Ludwig Wittgentein)? The pattern, though it extends for both us, it does so divergently - soon we'll experience a break dow...

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It's a MAD, MAD world! :up:

Magick seems to be a combination of 1. Dexterity (all body parts, not just the hands). 2. Technoloogy (gadgets, machines, prosthetic arms, etc.). As t...

Lesson to be learned from the Nato-Russia standoff: An extremely effective way to prevent all-out war, by extension violence of any kind, is to make i...

True! The rest of your post: Muddled, but that's human! Who wants to be Mr. Spock? Anyone?

:rofl: No offense Bartricks.

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I took it a little too far. Thanks. You mean shit happens! You can say that again. Too often. :sad: Not necessarily, but :ok: Nature's bloodlust! Soun...

:chin: That doesn't make sense to me. How do I know you're not misreading me or, more accurately, projecting your own thoughts on my text? Pareidolia/...

Deduction at its best. Just wondering though, wouldn't it be easier (on our egos among other things) to simply give up the idea of God, come to terms ...

The notion of hypothetical consent, its invalidity to be precise, would need to refute the position that any person, compos mentis, given the info ava...

Have you noticed, perhaps it's just me, how the so-called laws of nature aren't really life-friendly or well-being oriented. If morality were actually...

Are you sure about that? It never works for me and I daresay there are others like me who're in the same boat so to speak.

Divine command theory is basically dumping the (hard) work of reasoning for yourself on to an authority figure, here God. Appeal to authority is a fal...

@"180 Proof" One can't decide what to think, but we can, it seems, decide whether to act out our/those thoughts or not. There seems to be a filter of ...

We can let ourselves know that we don't (fully) comprehend God by the existence of apophatic theology, the way of negation/denial (via negativa). It s...

Nuance and subtlety, not my strong suit. There's a difference between "I'm shit scared of death & dying" and "there's got to be more to life than just...

Speaking from my own personal experiences, I'd say blame only enters the picture in the presence of a free agency (someone who's free to act as s/he c...

:up: :up: Why is it people are so susceptible to ego-fantasy? The other day, I watched a David Suchet (British actor from Agatha's Poirot TV series) i...

I don't think there's any shame in anger, one doesn't become less of a person if one loses one's temper. Ire is as natural to emotions as sneezing is ...

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Yep, it is. How could I have missed that?! How did you put it? Align expectations with reality and all will be well, oui? If that doesn't work, one ca...

I half-expected you tor reply eudaimonia which I understand is to flourish. Is the good life not eudaimonia?

No comment! Just "contribute" in your own little way, yes! A gun merely increases the number of successful attempts (at offing someone).

1. Life + Agent Smith = Happiness + Agent Smith 2. Life + Agent Smith = Happiness + Agent Smith (Cancel Agent Smith who appears in both sides of the e...

Yes, been mulling over this a while. Suicide, for instance, give it some thought, isn't actually suicide in the sense a person killed himself/herself....

:up: Yet, beware of the man/woman who never makes mistakes, eh? I don't know why I feel like that. Some say having a smart person on a team saves a lo...

Sisyphus reminds me of how poor I'm at reading. I start at the beginning of a sentence, then word by word I work my way to the end. Then I realize I d...

:clap: Self-criticism. Feeling blue lately, o philosopher true? Warning: Philosophizing is injurious to health.

Kant's idea: 1. The thing in itself (noumenon) 2. The perceiver/subject/consciousness. The two interact (perception/phenomenon) Question: Is it possib...

Ok, so we have a fairly good handle on the philosophy in religion. What of religion in philosophy or to what degree is philosophy religion?

God: That than which nothing greater can be conceived.

The house (always) wins! Re: Pascal's wager.

So, all the arguments for God's existence are rationalityization at its best, perhaps worst.

Surety, then ruin (Eng?a pára d'ate)

Religion is philosophy to the extent it adopts & practices the philosophical method à la the scientific method which is, for simplicity's sake, use yo...

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The Trinity doesn't make sense additively because 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 (there should be 3) The Trinity makes sense multiplicatively because 1 × 1 × 1 = 1 (th...

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It's not that evolution has a telos, it's that such an interpretation is possible. It's not that you committed the murder, it's that it looks like you...