Complete awareness or what Buddhists call mindfulness is paramount. You never know when or where an opportunity for nirvana might present itself. You ...
:up: Good that you cleared that up for me. In my defense though, I wasn't looking at immediate inferences like you are; rather I was trying to see if ...
I believe there's no need to rack our brains on such a simple matter. 1. Some Ayes are Bees. 2. All Seas are Bees. No conclusion follows. 1. Some colo...
Global Warming & Chaos I think the OP's on to something. Remember chaos theory, how it began? Weather! The long and short of it is that small differen...
IF A week = 10 days A month = 30 days A year = 360 days THEN 3 weeks = 1 month 36 weeks = 1 year 12 months = 1 year Wouldn't that be great? Each cycle...
The present can be any "thickness" we want: 1. An instant (0) 2. A year (365 days) 3. A decade (10 years) . . . An instant though is useless as change...
No plan is the plan! :chin: I have no idea why philosophy (religions inclusive) are riddled with paradoxes like this. I agree with the rest of what yo...
Time is measured in cycles. - daily cycles, monthly, yearly. From what I know of the history of mathematics - has a lot to do with astronomy (agricult...
:ok: The golden rule (GR): "What you find harmful, do not do to anyone" - @"180 Proof" There are 2 kinds of harm. 1. Psychological. 2. Physical. If th...
Thanks a ton for the explication. I was thinking along the lines of how nirvana becomes like any other objective humans set for themselves e.g. aiming...
His relevance can't be overstated. Whenever somebody starts a thread on the guy upstairs (God), people ask "which God?" In fact all there is is what W...
You can't make any decision as a thorough skeptic. Decisions are based on the truth/falsity of a proposition, something skepticism categorically denie...
@"Banno" :up: You don't/can't say anything. You clam up. EITHER 1. There's nothing to say OR 2. There's something to say but you can't say it As long ...
It all depends on what we mean by knowledge. Clearly, the difference between before seeing red Mary and after seeing red Mary is all qualia. Qualia ar...
You mean to say that cases like flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers are desirable and to be encouraged? Flat earth and anti-vax are a way of looking (at th...
Your future is your children's past. The same goes for your children and their children and so on. :smile: Someone on the forum, can't recall who, sai...
I think this has been said before, but I'll say it again if only as a reminder. First off, it's clear that the foundations of ethics (the OP's target)...
Some things, once is enough (visit to the dentist). Some things, we want more and more (horizontal dancing). We don't ever want to see our dentist, di...
If I were a male criminal with conviction guaranteed, I'd make one request: A beautiful judge, A-list models for a jury, and a looker of an executione...
Sancta Trinitas Unus Deus: Non-set: There may be more than 1 identical particle (a proton, another proton, one more proton). In other words 3 protons ...
Identity & Mathematics/Numbers (1 & others). A, B (2) A, A (1/2? :chin: ). Set theoretically, no element may be repeated in a set. Sancta Trinitas Unu...
We need some standard of measure that's 1. Universal (accepted and understood by all). 2. Objective (calculations possible). 3. Subjective (personal v...
To add to what you already said, time (also) helps us to keep track of and compare change. The Greeks, 2k years back, had a very sophisticated view of...
Imagine you're a cop and about to enter a dark room D. There could be someone in D or there could be no one in D. You're uncertain. If you assume ther...
Yep, that - ontological explosion - could be one of the drawbacks of ad interim philosophy but that's only if theism is the best PD. Is it? Come to th...
Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Philosophy is the ultimate form of self actualization or so I'm told and it sits at the top of the pyramid. In short, to ...
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