I hope NDE researchers also study sleep. Hypnos (sleep) is, as per Greek myth, the twin brother of Thanatos (death). I've had hypnopompic and hypnogog...
The mundane, to survive, must create an illusion of the sublime. I remain ever so grateful mundane! Fool me, fool me all you want for a time will come...
Buddhism, as per Wikipedia, has roots in skepticism, the Indian kind, in line with the Socratic epistemic stance of ignorance. Vide infra for more. Th...
Well, I'm not exactly an expert on naming although I'm fascinated by named effect/laws/rules/principles. Perhaps we could call the phenomenon you ment...
First let me confess I don't fully understand what you'rr trying to get at. That outta the way, my understanding of the multiverse, why it was posited...
Me: Most unfortunate. What made kierkegaard suspicious I wonder? He saw something was not quite right in the accounts of Jesus' deeds & words in scrip...
Like always, c'est la vie, we're presented with a dilemma. If you want it free expect your children to be exposed to all the muck there is in the worl...
Danke Real Gone Cat. I do need to take some good quality math lessons. I've got some books on my reading list, but alas, time is not on my side mon am...
:blush: Missed that ... in my haste. However ... if p is known to be false, ~p is true isn't enough in all cases. For example if the theory of relativ...
Choices. 1. God is necessary for ethics God is unnecessary because God commands what is good (ethics is independent of God) 2. God is desirable for et...
As regards how contradictions trivialize the meaning of true (re ex contradictione sequitur quodlibet aka the principle of explosion). True stands in ...
A proposition p is true only if p doesn't entail a contradiction. Conversely, if a proposition p entails a contradiction, p is false. We can only know...
Material Implication (abbrev. Imp) p \to q :: ~p v q Commutation (abbrev. Comm) p & q :: q & p p v q :: q v p Distribution (abbrev. Dist) p & (q v r) ...
Maybe the secret is in the way we use it, whatever it is. There's a reason why one of the greatest philosophies to come out of the East is all about t...
A boy wants to take water home to his family - there's been a drought in the area, water is gold. He goes out in search of water and after nearly half...
:up: Thoughts can be presented in a coherent, easy-to-grok fashion; in fact communication is all about that. However, there are times when this isn't ...
Gravitational phenomena 1. Objects with mass attract (pattern) 2. Mass warps space (explanation of the pattern) Newton offered none (hypothesis non fi...
What are the humanities? Learning concerned with human culture, especially literature, history, art, music, and philosophy. What is a social science? ...
Well, we once believed in geocentrism. That was blown clean out of the water and replaced with heliocentrism; the same thing happened to the Milky Way...
Now if unpleasant NDEs are part of the reports, it defintely gives this phenomenon more credibility, but unfortunately this isn't enough for the subje...
Maybe NDE is simply dying (in a pleasant manner). All reported NDEs are accounts of suspiciously positive experiences (lights/bright colors/survival o...
What about modulus arithmetic? A simple example is the clock; contrary to the joke about 13 o'clock being the time to buy a new clock, 13 o'clock is 1...
Indeeed, to sum up the OP, our wants/needs (reasons) are not our own i.e. we didn't choose them nor were we consulted when they were installed in our ...
. . . IF f(n) \geq MAX THEN f(n) = MAX . . A line of code in our (simulated) universe where f(n) is any function on n (any number) and MAX is the larg...
@"Jack Cummins" Ok. To make a larger point, word salads are, in my humble opinion, Rorschach tests too. What pattern do you see in a text of random/lo...
I see - there's the cause for democracy (tyranny) & there's the process of democracy (pledging allegiance). It's quite interesting this allegiance bus...
1. Nobody's perfect 2. Truth is ugly Maybe the absence of good role models is the point! We're all flawed beings and we have to come to terms with thi...
Also, need to look into long-term consequences of living in war zones - depression, shell-shock, etc. Most statistics on war I've noticed are skewed, ...
Danke for the song and the mention. I finally realize why pulchrum (beauty) is listed amomg the transcendentalia . It is an extremely poweful force wi...
So, you mean to say that all so-called quantum weirdness goes away once you approach the quatum world from a holistic point-of-view. You made an inter...
:up: I'm sure there are some people out there who worship movie stars - thespians who've acquired legendary status among their fans, becoming role mod...
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