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The point of misinformation in Russia is to have people just stop asking. It's like there's no truth anywhere.

Imagine that you're a character in a novel. All of a sudden you start commenting on the nature of the novel you're in, and how wonderful the author is...

We could explore Frege's argument for the undefinability of truth if you're interested. It shows an infinite regress opening up if we insist that trut...

Didn't Frege believe truth is a concept that's too basic to define? It's just impossible to express a proposition without already understanding what t...

Eh, the world is always ending. We endure.

Certainly no one who was particularly well informed.

That's a cool name. King Edward Spuds.

True. It's crazy that anyone ever believed that the earth would cease to be habitable due to anthropogenic climate change. We still need to switch to ...

That's really cool.

Apparently there is a sect where Shiva is the supreme being, but otherwise, he/she is the destructive side of the Hindu trinity. Destruction isn't nec...

There might be a society where you "keep what you kill" so to speak, proving that it's relative to culture and time period, right?

Shiva! https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c3cbf9f2fdae05c27717e1e338a28454-lq

https://youtu.be/zIIHF3L_Y6c?si=uRb8X_857ayB-ehx

But all of that data is finite, isn't it? I guess I'm thinking of finitism. If we set a spaceship (that somehow has an odometer) in one direction and ...

I think Ben is probably his great grandson who works in the catering business.

Uncle Ben's changed to Ben's: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81OX+PkatlS._SX679_PIbundle-12,TopRight,0,0_AA679SH20_.jpg

That's a good question. I've only ever thought about the Hero in connection with possibility. Like, when the die is cast, there are six possibilities,...

Exactly! Yes! Yes. Villain-victim, parent-child, husband-wife, rich-poor, etc. But I think the biggest is villain-victim. There's soooo much emotion f...

It's fun being human. Don't you think so? I would secretly be everything.

Probably sit around reading a book.

Do you think it's more intelligent than any human?

Were you in the military?

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That's nuts.

I'll say it again. You don't know what you're talking about.

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

I think it's more like a leap in the dark.

Anti Judaism? Where?

And maybe life itself leaps forward with unreasonable confidence.

No doubt. :cool:

Another way is to say that we never have infinite resistance. There are always electrons bouncing around the terminals, so the resistance can be reall...

That's one way to address the problem. There are others.

Well, it doesn't help with that point. :grin:

Say you have a 12V battery with infinite resistance across the terminals. What's the current? If you say zero, then Ohms Law (which relates potential ...

You could be possessed. You don't know.

True. Final cause is built into the meaning of life. I think people who want to look at the whole scene more holistically are experimenting philosophi...

I would add that environment-organism isn't a master-slave relationship. Living things have been altering their environments since life started. A suc...

I can tell.

Yes you are.

You see, the German government also believed that killing Jews was necessary for their survival. All the long list of governments who targeted Jews th...

Israel has intentionally killed civilians. You know that.

Killing civilians is wrong.

Is that supposed to be an excuse for killing 14,000 children?

Is that supposed to be an excuse for killing 14,000 children?

Is that supposed to be an excuse for killing 14,000 children?

It's just that Judaism is this ancient living thing, made up of generations and generations of mothers and fathers who loved their own children, of gr...

Israel massacred 14000 children. Is this a permanent stain on the soul of Israel? Or Judaism? Probably Israel.

I think Hume was the first to point out that there are things we're really confident about, but there's no empirical or logical justifications for it....

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Yes. But he's just very confident about the chair. There isn't any sort of justification for some metaphysical position.