I was driving and this: Always ask on any topic whatsoever the question "What do (Ashkenazi) jews have to say about this?" A good rule of thumb given ...
I love this girl. I want to give her a gift, a box of chocolates. The problem is I don't know if she likes chocolates or despises them. I consider the...
Why is NATO only supplying armas? It, as a strategic military alliance, lives upto its name, oui? It isn't exactly the go-to-guy in an armed conflict....
1. Jews believe in God. 2. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 900 individuals, of whom at least 20% were Jews (ref. Wikipedia) Ergo, 3. God exists...
@Bartricks So you upped the ante as it were. Not just suffering but, alack, undeserved suffering! Could we add another layer to this delicious antinat...
Life is a karmic debt trap - once you're born, it's impossible to live a life without sin and once you sin, and you will, you enter into the vicious c...
Humans are, in the most general of terms, bad, but paradoxically they're the only ones who know what good is. Momma nature, in my humble opinion, wiel...
Regarding the position of an electron in an atom, is the uncertainty, as captured by the probability distribution 1. Epistemological as in the electro...
Clearly our conceptual frameworks are either N/A or far too limited, too parochial, too earthly to answer cosmic questions. It's like asking a bacteri...
:brow: Killing two birds with one stone, eh? Good job! I don't know about myself but I'm certain praxis doesn't deserve such vitriol! Good day monsieu...
Some are willing to, as they say, settle for less which takes forms such as less suffering than joy or both in equal amounts or even more pain than pl...
@Marvin Katz 1. Inclusivity principle. :up: I suggest that we have too broad a definition of "human" but only as an ad interim measure; it's the least...
It's basically a catch-22 situation: For x such that Px, Px \to ~x. The liar sentence uses true/false, false to be precise, as a predicate. Is truth v...
Any good reason why "it" was called "the dark ages"? Wikipedia says that this was a period of cultural, intellectual and economic decline in Europe an...
Innocence, in this world, as it is, the sooner you lose it the better! Every innocent person has a piece of paper stuck on their back that reads "kick...
Eureka! People opt for Christianity for a very simple reason viz. Jesus was persecuted - tortured horribly and then crucified in the deserts of the Le...
Interesting angle to my thesis. All I can say is you've managed to keep it real, kudos! To get to the point, the so-called continuum hypothesis (math)...
We simply don't know how to answer the OP's question, period! Maybe philosophers need to be taught some math especially how to calculate probabilites ...
@hypericin Possible, quite possible. Many philosophical ideas are the kind that philosophers haven't really explored in earnest - the mere possibility...
I, like everybody else I suppose, don't have the time, nor the resources, for metacognition. The world outside makes me go oooh! aaah! :snicker: Scatt...
:lol: Good one! What's the big idea then - all this hullabaloo about having to earn it? Envy/Jealousy/Resentment at the huge dollops of luck some peop...
My brain tells me this: 1. Real (1 entity) 2. Real + Simulation (2 entities) Which is simpler? The novacula Occami: Do not multiply entities without n...
True. The choices are kill humans or kill aliens. No prizes for guessing which of the two options we'll take. Even so, why go through all that trouble...
Determinism is, in my humble opinion, demonstrable, experimentally i.e. it's a scientific claim. Free will, one poster remarked, isn't an empirical cl...
:grin: Spaceship Earth! No obvious destination though! Perhaps in the coming few centuries/even millennia we'll rendezvous with a wormhole, just as pl...
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