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That's a sensible thing to do, but would depend, at least in part if not wholly, for some if not all, on what emerged out of the fusion of God and uni...

Religion has issues with sexual/gender variations. Did this carry over to early psychological studies? Homosexuality was, at one point, considered a m...

Interesting, to say the least. My question as to what the end product of the union/merger of God with the universe is is to, at the end of the day, as...

Irrational numbers can't be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers. That didn't jibe with the way math was supposed to be in the eyes of the Pythag...

Can you elaborate on that.

To my knowledge there existed terms like effeminate and manly that were applied to men and women respectively for ages. The LGBTIQ phenomenon is simpl...

Ad hoc modding of a hypothesis, adjustments, in order to compensate for counterevidence.

Pantheism in a nutshell: God = Universe i.e. God is a synonym for universe. God, universe, same thing! It's worth investigating what happens to the pr...

Yeah, just "something to argue about". Reminds of those how-to-keep-an-idiot-busy jokes. On a more serious note, monism can be justified if we, Daniel...

An interesting bit of trivia that may pave the way for deeper insight into the issue: Main page: Capgras Delusion

Postmortem scenarios 1. Awesome: Heaven 2. Bummer: Nothingness 3. F**k: Hell Which of these 3 obtains is, luckily/not, past our event horizon. What de...

I wouldn't say the God hypothesis is untestable. An intelligent being would, since intelligence & order are correlated, ensure that their creation (th...

There's this video on the value of a human life. A safety board took a proposal to attach warning labels on a toxic chemical because it endangered the...

Danke!

I concur and looks like nobody most of us don't know how deep the leporidaen hole goes. It must be obvious to you then that this is the heart of skept...

Nirvana must then be the realization of anatta, that there is no self, but then there's metempyschosis. The best response I can muster is the madhyama...

Yin-Yang (Taijitu). Worst \to Good \to Better \to Best \to Bad \to Worse \to Worst. Return to base immediately pilot!

Yep, uncertainty is the millstone around our necks, the cross we havta bear. I propose we play ... with expectation (worst) and hope (best). If given ...

My definition then. Language skepticism is the position that language is (too) flawed to perform the tasks we assign to it and that includes everythin...

:rofl: Heraclitus, the change guy, would've said that 1. Panta rhei 2. Min-Max Hey presto!, creatio ex nihilo.

Is it a coincidence that the word "irrational" means illogical/makes zero sense? I recall starting a thread on how irrational numbers could be the smo...

I go one step further than Diogenes who claimed he was a cosmoplitan (citizen of the world), I'm a cosmopolitan (citizen of the universe). :smile: Wha...

:smile: Good day señor!

Ok! Google should help you find the relevant pages! Bonam fortunam. :rofl:

I second that motion! In medicine they've come to the conclusion that a multidisciplinary approach is the best approach to treatment.

To be fair, this "right wing commentator" has a point. Not a lot of sunshine in the depths and that would translate to lighter skin tones. I have seen...

The argument for the claim I made is a simple one and perhaps it doesn't meet the standards of rigor required in mathematics.

You're asking the right questions to the wrong person. Go to Joshs. Indeed, neuroscience has made great strides, but it's a work in progress.

Criticisms by mathematicians (finitism is a mathematical movement), to my knowledge, aren't usually baseless.

(Hyper)sensitive peeps, among which number antinatalists, are for me canaries in coal mines - their hyperalgesia is kinda a superpower, buying time fo...

@"Joshs" Language skepticism, to my reckoning, is a devastating blow to philosophy and everything else that depends on language. If it is the case tha...

In some sense religion is science (god hypothesis) In some sense science is religion (Is god a mathematician?)

While I do agree that mathematicians have achieved some kinda broad consensus on the role of \infty in mathematics, probably this is your area of expe...

Interesting OP! Matter is energy and energy is matter, they transform into one another. However, they aren't opposites in a yin-yang sense (vide the p...

Ok!

Nice! Is there any reason for monism rather than dualism/pluralism? Is it a case of simplification (novacula occami)? Is pluralism/dualism overkill, m...

:up:

Well, take Cantor as an example - while most others were loathe to get involved with \infty, he leapt at the opportunity and what do you know?, the an...

Well, we could say this: 1. What we wished for: Philosophy 2. What we got: Science Our genie isn't exactly the best there is out there. You should tal...

That's ok, free will is a hairy problem. It's, as some would say, the pacyhderm in the room - it's existence/nonexistence is vital to us, but people p...

Okie dokie!

Agrippa's trilemma? 1. If I think then I exist 2. I think Ergo, 3. I exist Premise 1 is shaky for the simple reason that it's derived from the more ge...

Intresting post by my standards. Perhaps we should look at the issue taking into account the following. 1. Regarding the Hebrew God any inconsistences...

These are topics that I know very little of monsieur! Best I zip up lest I contaminate the thread with my foolery.

Nec caput nec pedes mon ami. I'm afraid I've wasted your time, but I remain grateful for introducing me to advanced concepts in linguistics. It appear...

Ok! My bad.

A more nuanced approach to suffering seems to be in order vis-à-vis aurea mediocritas 1. Excess suffering. 2. Moderate suffering. 3. Deficit suffering...

Interesting!