The reason for your choice is the existential void you experiences? No pain, no happiness, no pleasure. Is you self-chastiding religion-inspired? Are ...
Aren't we all creatures from the mud? The pussins are crawling on my head! Mud is real. But without us, does mud exist? Of course, if I touch myself t...
Every well-educated citizen knows the vacuum is filled with "virtual" (a very unlucky and inconsequential misnomer) interacting Planck geometries. If ...
A small defensive word in favor of the scientist... Quantum mechanics is the same small hard ball approach. Even worse, as it treats particles as geom...
What's obscure about them? The causes are raging through my brain, pushing and pulling ideas along or resonating with the outside, creating a colorful...
The strange thing is, I don't understand why I wrote that up and what I meant by it! I think I meant physical causes, as that's what the thread is abo...
Well, in real life, cause always precedes effect. But imagine what it feels like if we time reverse you playing the guitar (it requires some stretch o...
I can see your concern for The Word. Not my cup of tea either! I was again referring to the modern version of the word, just the words of the language...
It could be though that matter and mind are two properties of the same stuff, which is a kind of unified dualism, contrary as that might seem. The ins...
I'm not too familiar with classical philosophy, so had to look it up. And indeed: "Stoic philosophy began with Zeno of Citium c. 300 BC, in which the ...
:up: Reasons and causes are indeed closely connected. Reasons can be said teleological causes. Reasons provide clarity about personal causes. Maybe re...
The point is, we can only prove the existence of gods by private experience. Its simply to hard a feat for them to appear in the flesh, by which they ...
Actually, they did. After a long time of collective tinkering (initiated by the delphin gods) in the planes, jungle, fields, waters, and air of heaven...
The greatest moron of all is me. I wallow myself in my complete moronship and stupidity, and even my mirror image seems brighter than me. What blissfu...
Yes, because it is confusing. A euro is a coin with physical properties of money. It has a value stamped on it, an edge with words, a side with a coun...
Space and particles moving in it is time. The emergent thermodynamic time are real particles collectively moving in irreversible processes in an emerg...
That's not the reason gods created the raw material for the universe. I was recently informed that the eternal divine heaven became victim of an exist...
Well, it used to, but less and less. The small coin I threw down from a high balcony of an Italian holliday hotel hit a person near the pool with cons...
We could have felt it the other way round. Effects preceding causes. It would be completely weird, but I think this is what the "fundamental problem" ...
Bruce Lee was a great panto philosopher! Looking beyond his finger directly to the opponent. It would indeed be foolish to look at his finger! What th...
The belief that money has value creates the reality of money. The believe becomes the non-material reality. The piece of paper stays the piece of pape...
Had you show me without language what you can do with money, with coins or banknotes, it would have become clear to me, without a single word, what mo...
Politics and economic interests and knowledge, be it scientific, theological, or astrological, can't be logically separated and evaluated according to...
Language is fun! When the Berliner meets the Hamburger, the battle of the tastes takes off! Wanted to write exactly the same! Heigh vife, broother Uni...
In fact (contrary to what I thought first), you can apply probabilities with zero verified samples. I'm 99.9% sure you are a terrible PITA lacking the...
You're the best! :smile: (it almost brings a tear to my eye!) And way above the "evanhellicals" we both have an aversion of! Yes, trek means journey, ...
So "trek" just means journey, like in Star Trek? Trek is a Dutch word too. "Vogel trek" means the great journey of the birds to warmer regions. Oddly ...
Where the fuck did you criticize MD? Nickerless might be a "high class" logician, but his reading skills are indeed that of a pathetic diva! :lol: (pa...
Without a past we can't live the present, in my quite humble opinion. It's very difficult (if not impossible) to experience the present without involv...
Physical cause is not the same as logical necessity, but it sure is a logical necessity. "The wave flushed over me and physically caused me to fall" "...
Physical causality is a logical necessity for life to exist. It's not a sufficient logical necessity though. But without it, life can't evolve in the ...
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