I see, like the Delphic Oracle once warned her clients - the citizens of Delphi - temet nosce (know thyself). That out of the way, as you so rightly p...
Close, but still leaves much to be desired. Beginning present, ending present: :yawn: Beginning present, ending absent: \infty Neither beginning nor e...
One shouldn't assume the flaws in language imply imperfections in reality. That would be, to my reckoning, sawing off the very branch one sits on and ...
Good questions. All I can say, mon ami, is we've hit a wall which reason at its present level, in its present form, cannot penetrate. We need a new to...
:lol: Eternity = Both beginningless + Endless. What about just beginninglessness? As for Wittgenstein's quaint gedanken experiment, in what context di...
Not everyone is bothered by the purported pointlessness of life. Even philosophers - the people who seem most concerned about points points to this, p...
The OP's question points to the plain and simple fact that our intution about time is such that it involves -\infty (beginninglessness) and yet we don...
:up: Like how crime is the price of capitalism. Like how homphobia is the price of Christianity/Islam. These are what I've dubbed The Siamese Twin Con...
Indeed, keeping it simple (& stupid) always helps - black & white thinking simplifies to the point where living becomes child's play. No one would/sho...
You seem to be well aware of the facts. However, it's worth questioning the motives of people/critics who deny the authenticity of the Biblia Sacra an...
Good call! Count me in! Be warned though I don't usually put my money where my mouth is. Apologies! Medici, cura te ipsum. I can't help when I myself ...
Karmic death spiral/debt trap. Do evil and you're born in a condition/in circumstances that are not conducive to your well-being, this in turn makes y...
You're on target, but in my defense I'd ask for an alternative explanation for childhood suffering. Why do innocents, sometimes, go through hell? What...
This is one of the oldest tricks in religion's playbook. Tell people that they are immortal (souls) - that takes care of Thanatos. However, this is th...
We all want that justice should be served, but when justice is served, we recoil in disgust! What gives? This is our bad karma for we fail to see the ...
Excellent point! Gracias señor! Karma indeed justifies exploitation by convincing people that they deserve it. However, to play the Devil's advocate, ...
I'm talking about art proper, stuff like painting, sculpting, etc., and not art in the sense found in the art of deduction or the art of experiment, e...
As I already mentioned to you disease in children begs for an explanation if we are to consider them innocent of any wrongdoing (for obvious reasons) ...
Skill is, bottom line, an attribute of experts - those who've been in the business long enough to know the ins and outs of a craft/technique. Part of ...
Good points! All I can say is this: Buddhism, unlike other religions, doesn't have a loophole that could justify initiation of violence. It does sanct...
So, what you're sayin' is that it's true that there is a reason to believe that the belief that there are reasons to believe is false. Isn't that self...
How do game developers create game worlds? 1. First the language 2. Instructions/algorithms, simultaneous/sequential, creating the stuff and the laws ...
The OP raises a good point: how do we reconcile anicca (impermanence, constant change) with karma? The former explains itself in that if there are sou...
Buddhism doesn't have the concept of crusades/jihads (holy wars). Violence is only permitted, but not advocated in Buddhism. A last resort of sorts, f...
Last Thursdayism? Have you read about it? You're on the mark that the past is a question mark i.e. we can't be certain as to whether it's real or just...
@Bartricks True that if it can be shown the belief that there are reasons to believe x is independent of actual reasons to believe x then the belief i...
That's a misconception of Buddhism. Being of skeptical nature, it never claims to know stuff (with certainty); it simply brings to our attention possi...
I see. I'm sorry if you feel that way about the rights of simulated beings knowing full well that we ourselves could be them. There are n number of re...
Buddhism, to my reckoning, is agnostic as to the existence of souls, souls that are a prerequisite for the claim that children suffer because of the b...
There seems to be some controversy regarding Buddhist beliefs. The idea is rather simple: Deny both eternalism and nihilism and what you end up with i...
:up: Some of us are running an old logic module; others seem to have been habituated to double-think, and still others are at ease contradicting thems...
The past-memory infinite loop conundrum Q1. How do you know the moon landing happened in the past? A1. Because we have a memory of it! Q2. How do we k...
Do metaphysical claims entail observables? The problem of evil, god - metaphysics - denied because his omnibenvevolence, omniscience, and omnipotence ...
Apophatic vicious circle (loop): What is inside? Not outside! What is outside? Not inside! 1 is Not 0 and 0 is Not 1 where the only possibilities are ...
Do bear with me, I'm slow. This \uparrow is the right place to start. I concur with it (somewhat). True, if the explanation for a belief x doesn't req...
Indeed, you're on the mark. Pardon my obtuseness. One example (theism) of a debunking belief is sufficient to prove the claim that the belief there ar...
Don't get me wrong - I like the argument you're proposing, I'm a skeptic you see and nothing gets me stoked as much as an attack on reason, the be all...
First off all, you provided us with an instance of a debunking kind, which oddly is (belief in) god, the very thing you say in your conclusion is nece...
That's an odd statement to make. We could be simulations, in fact that's what follows if you think my argument based on the novacula Occami is flawed ...
You have a point monsieur - the simulation is part of the real world; you said the same thing about the notion of unnatural many suns ago if you recal...
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