Gennaion pseudos (Noble lie) = White lie. Those who advocate white lies should be closet/open antinatalists; truth is bitter i.e. life is suffering (r...
Time to bring out the de re/de dicto distinction. Are people in love with Ariana Grande or will any person like Ariana Grande send them into a tizzy o...
The OP's friend stands for those people who have a specific idea of what spouses should be like (submissive, loves you no matter what, etc.) I believe...
Impossibilities: 1. Physically impossible: No human, without the aid of machines, can lift the rock of Gibraltar (Long live the Queen). Time-limited (...
Indeed, randomness & determinism can simultaneously be true of the universe, but my point was that neither by itself or a combination of the two fulfi...
I'm not alone in exposing the flaws in our universe - just talk to any atheist worth his salt on the topic of intelligent design. :smile: A fact is a ...
I propose a distinction betweem absolute and relative infinities. As a kindergarten child, I couldn't count beyond 10; the numbers greater than 10 are...
I'm not Thanos! :grin: Suffering is a real problem! Luckily or not, the issue is complex enough to induce analysis paralysis. I just met someone from ...
Information on ethnically Asian Jews are sketchy but there are black Jews and racial discrimination against them have been reported (vide the story of...
Zero suffering would be the ideal we should be aiming for. I don't know if life is even possible after the abolishment of suffering (the trasnhumanist...
JTB definition of knowledge: S knows P iff 1. S believes P 2. P is true 3. P is justified There's no knowledge or ignorance reigns supreme if 1. S doe...
Despite my many attempts to grasp Wittgenstein's point, I have to confess nec caput nec pedes. Wittgenstein's right on the money when he claims that w...
I just discovered a very interesting solution to the infinite regress (of causes). Don't posit an uncaused cause; rather propose a self-caused cause. ...
It's helpful to look at life as a battle/war. Sure, there's the possibility of reinforcement, but it's better to assume there's none! Every man, woman...
The squeaky wheel gets the grease! The situation is relatively better now than in the past precisely because people like antinatalists have been kvetc...
Well, it's like this: A taxi fare can't be/shouldn't be based on time for there are too many unpredictables involved (an accident, a traffic jam, a fa...
I'm a good-for-nothing, but if you want my opinion,it's this: Take care of yourself; put the oxygen mask on yourself before you try to help others. If...
You can't tell the difference between there's nothing and there's something, it's just that you don't see it! There's no reason & There's a reason tha...
The law means hell is in the offing. Why would you say joy isn't affected? Do you mean we could be "happy in hell"? :chin: Meaning in life? Does meani...
Your thoughts don't count I'm afraid. You're up against a law - the law of (increasing) entropy. Show me how we might be able to crack the problem of ...
I don't see how the 2nd law of thermodynamics can be violated. God, ergo, heaven (bliss) has always been associated with order (low entropy). Hell is ...
Was there any doubt? The question of questions is this: Will the earth become hell or heaven? It all depends on which of these two is a high entropy s...
Whiny cowards? :smile: We (antinatalists) are only working with facts as they stand: the world is a dangerous place (for children). There's a differen...
Free will may need to be unpacked into two categories: 1. Positive free will: Compliance with one's will. 2. Negative free will: Defiance of one's wil...
I'm very pleased that you understand the antinatalist position. Part of the problem is that we need to be able to predict the future (coincidentally a...
Are you accusing @"Bartricks" & me of being prime movers? :blush: I thought there could be only one prime mover! Bartricks, please finish what you sta...
Misfits? If to care about people suffering, horribly some times, makes one a misfit, I'd gladly be one! Who wants to be a part of a group that turns a...
That's all there is to antinatalism. A lack of trying. Vs. Actual suffering. You ignore real pain for only the possibility of "immense happiness". Rel...
The only way to survive everything chance can and will throw at life is to use the exact same strategy (random gene mutations). Given this, maladaptat...
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