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Capitalism has obviously opened doors to the human potential. I don't think the average person wants to give up those advantages. We just want to solv...

Interesting thread. It left me wondering about a couple of things, such as high school sports. Consider a high school senior who is a 300 lb linebacke...

Well, we can't have that. :smile:

Is it? How do you know that?

Just alternatives to continuous motion.

Or you could be at every point simultaneously. Or time could be discrete and you come into existence and then disappear, only to reappear in a differe...

But think about the theory of motion you've adopted. It allows you to move from one end of Australia to the other without ever being at any point in b...

You can use a one dimensional point to mark the location of any object. There's no need to change the speed of anything. Zeno's paradox just starts wi...

I don't think so.

:cool:

Yes.

Motion involves a sequence of non-overlapping intervals. That's the basis of the paradox. ??

I don't understand how anyone could think differential calculus solves the paradox while maintaining that motion is a sequence of events. Odd.

Yes.

It's not a problem if you let go of the notion that motion is a sequence of events. Otherwise, yes, it's a problem.

So we move from considering distance to considering time? We still have infinite time intervals taking place during a finite span. To escape the parad...

How does calculus help?

It would appear that in order to move from A to B, one would need to arrive at 1/2 the distance between them, and so on and so on. That paradox is uns...

No.

I think it's about mental health.

For a Roman stoic, goodness means acting in accordance with nature. Since we don't always perceive nature's ways correctly, we can use health as a sig...

Lots of good advice and moral admonition is passed down from generation to generation in the form of sayings and stories. And every generation discove...

Is your aim to just talk about truth? Or did you want to talk about how people come to support moral claims, whether from personal sentiment or social...

In a way, yes. But just as one moment of being an asshole doesn't define you, unenlightened, one episode of scapegoating in the centuries long history...

Save the Wales!

Or in flux. Yes, I pointed this out earlier.

In what sense can a culture be aware of anything? Do you mean that people who have the power to undermine other cultures would be aware of that power?...

It's that if you truly believe you're evil, you have the sickness unto death. You're headed toward change, which means at least the partial death of y...

I thought I was just being historically accurate. Memorializing mythical moments of oppression is central to Judaism. What do you think of the point I...

Zionism was a reaction to perceived assimilation. Perhaps it's not necessarily the death of identity that drives a protective response, but just chang...

Maybe this is ground zero. Morality is a tool of identity. Forgiveness kills identity.

When people rise up to protect a cultural identity, that usually means that identity is headed for the identity-graveyard. The people are rising up be...

Just get a garbage can and make a helmet out of it.

Too many syllables.

You need more aluminum foil. On your head.

Without a global coalition to do it? Are you thinking that China will do it unilaterally? I mean, notice how vehemently Euros hate Americans and it's ...

My great-grandfather saved bits of string and aluminum foil and passed them down. I inherited them and use them to filter out alien broadcasts and lie...

I happen to be an expert on both aluminum and clarifying shampoo. This is me: https://i2.wp.com/aluminiuminsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Goran-...

I think you're stuck in the president's reality distortion field. Do you have any aluminum foil?

Oddly enough, we know the herbs once used by Native American women for abortion. Wonder if they sat around having these types of discussions. Probably...

We change minds by means of logical arguments? I think emotional appeals are our primary means. I'm just at a loss to think of a case where minds were...

Have you ever done abstract art of any kind?

You've probably gotten abstract expressionism out of your system, then.

@"praxis" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IfzE1n9W24E&t=310s

That's exactly what I would expect a zombie to ask.

:up:

Karl, I'm concerned that you might have become a zombie.

I have a question: when you speak of a moral argument, are you saying you think the average anti-abortion advocate is guided by rationality? I don't t...

And their families. :sad:

He was collateral damage.