Whenever an individual's cognitive framework is challenged, "joy" or "calm" is most likely not going to be their reaction, but rather fear. But again,...
No doubt the powers that be have a vested interest in pushing extreme philosophies. At the risk of starting a fight, I won't throw any of the obvious ...
Einstein wrote on a piece of paper "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." The...
It took me a while to think about this one. But depending on people's point of view, marriage and family are the core building blocks of a society. Fr...
This to me sounds like technocratic political philosophy. I happen to really hope that we can innovate ourselves to a better existence. But the philos...
You are completely justified to lament our current state of existence. The socio-economic and political power dynamics are set up to ignore the prefer...
Well, the fact that we know to aspire to enjoying without infringing, and suffering without complaining, suggest a moral compass of some sort. I think...
Agreed, even virtual decisions would be informed by pre-existing assumptions about outcomes. And I think speech is a great example of how quickly we d...
The framing of the, one death is better than multiple deaths, scenario is an assumption that we can reduce suffering. Nietzsche and others argue stron...
Agreed that the logic or chaos would have to be observed by us to make an argument one way or the other. But that is what is required here. Chaos or l...
As far as actual research into telepathy, Cleve Backster looked for reactions in plants to intentions of the tester using a polygraph. Apparently this...
The proof that God knows everything and we don't have free will is that we can't think an original thought. Every thought we have is some mash-up of w...
The problem isn't so much the original sin as the implications for future behavior. There are those who act out sin more acutely. But at the end of th...
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