Carnivores serve an important purpose in the ecology (as of now) - they're part of the overall equilibrium between all life in the global ecosystem. B...
I did mention that sweeping generalizations are fallacies. However, if one has no choice but to err, hasty generalization is the way to go! It could b...
:snicker: The tables...they're forever turning aren't they? One day it's lions, the other day it's hyenas...up and down, to and fro, round and round w...
Spot on! However that leaves us with no way of defining "delusion". All the familiar landmarks have been declared invalid. Perhaps we're all sane, no ...
If everything, as per pantheism, is god then what's the difference between thing and god? They're synonymous as far as I can tell which ain't much. Is...
:snicker: Ego is, to my reckoning, critical to survival. There has to be an exaggerated sense of self-importance in each individual if the species as ...
This ego-bashing has gone too far! Would you rather trust 4.5 billion years of blind evolution (yes ego) or a mere 2.5 million year old brain (no ego)...
We're, as you said, animals, primates to be precise, but to continue on as animals, apes, we must be more than animals, apes! Unselfing? We have to be...
I don't understand pharmaceutical therapy for delusions. Clearly, a delusion is a false belief and one way of disabusing someone would be to disprove ...
Just an analogy I found apt. Nothing else to it. Like Richard Dawkins oft repeats: there are tens of thousands of religions, they can't all be right f...
It's true that happiness is distinct from pleasure and this I think undercuts hedonism (Epicurean axiology). As far as I can tell, there seems to a gr...
A prayer, it seems, is basically two things: 1. A request for assistance. When one embarks on some kinda a project, small or big, one realizes that no...
:chin: Either x vouches for itself or some other y vouches for x. If the former, circulus in probando. If the latter, who/what vouches for y? Infinite...
Delusions are restricted to opposition/denial of known facts. For instance to say the earth is flat is delusional. Controversial topics can't/shouln't...
Yeah, obstacles and blunders! :snicker: The two go hand in hand I suppose. I have so many regrets... :cry: I got a cold reception! :snicker: I wonder ...
The scream of pain when slapped across the face is simply an extension of the sound the slap itself makes when the open hand connects with the cheek! ...
Heraclitus, the obscure! When you wanna talk about stuff no one's ever, you tend to come off as "obscure" which, to my reckoning, is Greeks just being...
I believe I already mentioned this before. Supernatural, interpreted as something extraordinary, elecits/begs one of two responses: 1. Revision of our...
Danke! :blush: Yea, I've heard of that - space folding - before. We're, it seems, in the dark and hence none of these hypotheses have been falsified/c...
I hope not! Consciousness has, to my reckoning, many facets to it; the logic has been replicated (on computers) but not duplicated, if you catch my dr...
So, man is a synonym for superape! So an übermensch (superman) is just a super-duper ape! "I'm an ape, are you Bishop?" - Richard Dawkins "I'm not, de...
Clearly there were/are very good reasons to philosophize rather than daydream which was what people were doing pre-philosophy (mythological sense-maki...
Self-abnegation! :fire: Did you ever come across the psychiatric "disorder" known as Cotard's delusion? It's defined by what has been termed "nihilist...
Hope, to my reckoning, is how we respond to/deal with uncertainty; it usually consists of ethical expectations (I hope she's fine) but not necessarily...
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