Agent Smith

I'm not questioning your ability to hold your own against others mon ami. I'm only pointing you in a direction that ex mea sententia could help comple...

Well, you seem to be on the right track mon ami. I wouldn't want to derail you from your current journey.

Seek @"Banno"'s counsel. :lol:

My God is unstable; I describe myself as a reluctant theist,

Reconsider your position mon ami. @"180 Proof", consult him and you'll realize we're merely chasing after phantoms.

Danke for tagging me in your response. @"180 Proof" is right on the money as far as I can tell. Emergence, I quite like the idea, is a petitio princip...

:smile: El Rachum!

There you go! Nevertheless, an A for noticing a correlation. Have you tried comparing Africa to Europe?

I have mixed feelings about the fact that these objects weren't alien spaceships. US has the largest spy apparatus in the world. Who do we think we're...

Superb observation. It never crossed me mind. Is it a coincidence though? Correlation dossn't imply causation, oui? Are we ignoring other relevant fac...

Interesting. So we're looking at violence in general, as opposed to gun-related violence.

I don't see it though unless you mean it in a Schopenhaurean Will sense.

I don't understand why the brain is so god damn important. When a person goes into shock, as due to blood loss, the first organ to be shut off is the ...

I see how paradoxes can extend logic, contrary to how they were traditionally viewed, as destructive to logic.

Indeed, one must say then Sophia is seeking man and not the other way round. These kinda strangeness are all part and parcel of our journey which is, ...

Me too, but I can't imagine a person, living or dead, who doesn't have at least one unreal element in his/her weltanschauung. I e.g. have an unstable ...

Si comprehendis non est deus.

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No, confusion definitely doesn't excite me! It depresses me. Anyway that's off-topic as far as the thread is concerned. I wouldn't necessarily say tha...

Well, I would've liked a comparative analysis vis-à-vis violence.

Your post on the logos directed this thread down an interesting path, with time playing a significant role. I only wished to bring that to your attent...

:up: That's a good point mon ami! Not always though and hence your thread, oui?

It's moot because ex mea (humble) sententia, it conflates epistemology with metaphysics (ontology).

Good question. It's the only thing we got?!

Précisément! Hence, the OP's claim that the philosopher will not find God.

We could go back to ancient times when swords, daggers, hammers, axes, falxes, etc. were used. Which countries had thr highest violence rates? All, pr...

@"180 Proof" @"Gnomon" @"universeness" The notion of emergent phenomena is closely related to holism. Am I correct?

Me too! This mystery must be solved pronto!

Il est facile de voir que ... something's terribly wrong, oui? :snicker:

I sympathize with yer overall weltanschauung mon ami! The ends justify the means! :snicker: :snicker: Captain Leland Stottelmeyer:To hell with this! I...

I intelligo ... these are confusing times.

The OP did say "unprovable and unverifiable". Speaking for myself, I'm with you up until si comprhendis non est deus, then you're on your own mon ami.

Il est facile de voir que ... we're not in a position to answer that question. As Paine so eloquently put it, some things ... we'll never know.

:lol: Only to inform you how right you are! I hope you weren't in the middle of something important. I'd hate to be a nuisance monsieur! Au revoir fel...

Set the cat among the pigeons ... I've seen this happen before, but later discovered the OP had been banished. The member in question was probably a r...

The si-comprehendis-non-est-deus theistic argument, despite its appeal, is still vulnerable for while it indeed restores the possibility of God it sti...

I see. Is it disappointment I detect or is it elation? Perhaps that's irrelevant to a non-Christian or, contrariwise, even more so to one. What's impo...

Please don't give @"schopenhauer1" more ammo to promote antinatalism. :smile:

https://youtu.be/n2Sp00gAhro ? Very Hindu of John.

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Everything is an end unto itself, but one end could be a means to another end.

I skimmed through the quora answer; didn't find anything noteworthy. Solpisism is epistemological and not ontological in nature. It's about what we ca...

ChatGPT is GIGO?! AI is not about repeating what it has downloaded even if that is masterfully masked by paraphrasing and word substitution. Real AI s...

IPU? :chin:

:up: I'll watch the video later. Danke.

:chin: and :smile: Précisément.

Somewhere along our journey, is (fact) and ought (hope) got mixed up.

Muchas gracias. :up:

Perhaps we need to look at the issue from a relational point of view.