While I won't go so far as to say one has to be a genius to do philosophy, it goes without saying that philosophy is not for everyone; whether this is...
I've interpreted Wittgenstein in my own way, perhaps in a language game of my own invention. If Wittgenstein is right, no language game is right or wr...
Are yoy saying people are, on the whole, immoral. Only then would your statement "I disagree" make any sense at all. As for free will, realizing this ...
That's another story. All we need to look at is the simple fact that religion requires us to be good. That's the meat and potatoes of all "faiths". Pa...
A question: What can one black woman do in a group of ten white people? Will her single vote make any difference at all? She's a judge in name only i....
Pascal's opinion was the believing in God was, at most, a minor inconvenience! Thereby hangs a tale: Pascal was already a religious person and there w...
As I said, gambling is very much adult. There's a lot to lose (life is not a joke and neither is eternal torment) and the prize, irreristible (infinit...
That's what I'd call hitting the nail on the head. Bravo! Adults smugly claim that they outgrew Santa, but some never seem to be able to let go of God...
What if light waves get stretched further? Don't they become radio waves? What's an infrared telescope like JWST doing at L2? Isn't it tuned to the wr...
:up: To be fair though, we have more experience with religion than science, the former being somewhat of a neglected wife and the latter a brand-new m...
180 Proof offers a different perspective. The :clap: was for that. It is valid if, for example,there were only one religion. That's understood. Read B...
That went over my head I' afraid. That out of the way, it seems I did catch Wittgenstein's drift which is, different rules may overlap until a point t...
I don't think Benatar is/has to explaining/explain the asymmetry. He's only making an observation that people don't mind nonexistence if it means libe...
God(s), then, doesn't (don't) make sense i.e. to answer the OP, God is incomprehensible. It's got to do with His/their omnipontence - the ability to d...
I'm sorry I don't follow. It's alright, I'm not running for president (I don't have to know everything! :wink: ) As for Pascal's wager being a false d...
Sorry, I don't see your point, if there is one to begin with. Religion is strong testimony that people look at life/existence as a gamble: The expecte...
:ok: Antinatalism is not to be taken lightly or glossed over. At the very least it indicates that all is not well with our world. If one is part of a ...
Indeed! However, there's little doubt that in the case of life on earth, it's the former (taking into account the givens). :ok: :ok: The self-preserva...
I was simply pointing out that basic arithmetic operations are undefined for \infty which, to me, implies it (infinity) isn't a number like 2, 3, 1898...
Your 1st point: No explanation for Benatar's asymmetry. Suffering has more weightage than joy; people want to get rid of pain more than they want to a...
The suicider's logic is simple and clear. Nonexistence is to be released from suffering. That the suicider ceases to exist upon death doesn't concern ...
In math and physics too I suppose, it's more difficult to simplify than complexify. Thus the simpler something is, the more likely there's a powerful ...
It's just that God isn't a part of the known universe; neither is God something concrete in our cosmos, and nor do any abstractions thereof apply to h...
Nonmathematical infinity seems to be a category mistake. Infinity is a mathematical concept, oui? If anyone persists in this madness, s/he would need ...
Benatar's asymmetry is simply this: 1. Nonexistence means the absence of both pleasure & pain. 2. The absence of pain is good even if there's no one t...
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