I had a fascinating response where I was going to argue the arbitrary significance of pi. It was going to be based upon a pi based numeric system, whe...
If the world is deterministic, you may or may not convince someone of that. It just depends upon whether they were determined to be convinced. Determi...
Sounds Freudian, describing a mediated superego and id by your ego. If you are constantly being told what to do by your conscious self, you'd have an ...
I'm generally opposed to victim searching, where folks go out and try to convince others they are oppressed or downtrodden. That's not to say some don...
The reason that I have an objection to masculinity being under attack (to the extent it is) is because I have masculine traits. It's not that I decide...
Uni means one, which means it's all there is. You therefore couldn't be outside the universe. You were just outside, like being on the sidewalk out fr...
This comment just speaks to your privilege. You didn't grow up in a cage, and so what feels like the sunshine of freedom to me just feels like a norma...
It's really confusing, right? Here's the way I look at it. When I raise my hand, it can be the result of a variety of things: 1. I internally desire t...
Christianity isn't a monolithic belief system, so to argue a Catholic theologian holds consistently with a Kantian concept of freedom being necessary ...
Jesus was not mentioned in Genesis. It was written well before his birth, yet he is found throughout it for those looking. https://www.pursuegod.org/j...
My view on free will is (I think) consistent with Kant's: "In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant had argued that although we can acknowledge the bare logic...
I find this doubtful. Omnibenevolence, omniscience, and omnipotence are idiosyncratic of Western monotheistic religion. The problem of theodicy arises...
I've been searching for papers for the finding that electrical stimulation of the brain that results in involuntary movement is interpreted by the sub...
No worries. I hope you feel better. Positivity is an ideology near and dear to me, central actually. From a secular perspective, it's referred to as a...
The other option (and my apologies if already mentioned) is that free will is just a post hoc justification for why we do things. Support for that the...
There are also almond M&Ms and peanut butter M&Ms. All of these require different pairings. I would also argue that red M&Ms should never be paired wi...
Actually, if you mash the M&Ms and add yeast, you can make a fine M&M wine. You can then go the extra mile and distill it into an M&M brandy. It's cal...
The One would be the ultimate source of reality, describing a unity, where I'd say the noumena is just what is beyond human knowledge. As with all for...
I don't subscribe to his being a genius as much as his being the 1,000 pound gorilla in the room. He gets to do what he wants because no one can stop ...
You raise an interesting logical question regarding how we are to treat the truth value of a subordinating clause, as in, should it be treated as a co...
What's going to happen is that a peace treaty will be signed and Trump will take credit for it. He increased uncertainty so that resolution became nec...
And then you say: This collapses the two concepts of faith and trust (emunah and bitachon), which are obviously related, but I see them as differing, ...
Intuition to me is an unprocessed reaction to an immediate set of circumstances that arises from ingrained experience and probably some genetic surviv...
In all fairness, this is schtick theft. I had this whole routine where I'd talk about how I'd substitute ridiculous ingredients in recipes, like inste...
I read that Georgia has 1.2 million deer and 455,000 cows. 42,000 farmed pigs and 200,000 to 600,000 wild pigs. There are 11m people, 8.5m are feral a...
A kilo seems to be the preferred unit for cocaine busts. I think they do that so that we'll be impressed by the high number and not really know what t...
I had a candid conversation with a female co-worker once regarding how she'd navigate a urinal. Her instinct was to back up to it, where I'd have thou...
Your argument fails under an equivocation fallacy. "Logic" references deductive (syllogistic) and inductive arguments and pragmatism. That is, even if...
Speaking of which, my wife and I agreed some time ago that ours was not the type of marriage that included open displays of excretion. I wonder what a...
I too dislike the ceiling, preferring having the heavens open to me while I go about my business, but, alas, the occasional rainstorm. I most like you...
I like the wallpaper. It's subtle. I would suggest pairing it with a modern cuckoo clock. Something like this: /uploads/resized/files/5s/7z0bqdaq1hd69...
I consider @"Jamal" and my toilet paper dispensers a post apocalyptic style, forged from Covid uncertainty and trauma. Just like those depression era ...
I put myself in charge of decorating the bathroom. The retro clock and bird antler pic thing were nice touches. /uploads/resized/files/2w/o6e1w8bpets6...
I suspect it comes from the brain, which like every other part of the person comes to be through the evolutionary process. By definition, if caring of...
Anticipating how our actions will be reacted to by others beings or even inanimate objects seems a necessary ability for any higher organism. That isn...
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. If you want to say an amoeba can "understand" and "share," and that they have ...
I'm not suggesting there is no free will, but the ability to empathize has to have come from somewhere to begin with. Argue evolution or the Garden of...
I knew a woman who claimed to be an empath, highly sensitive to the emotions of others. She was actually borderline, but that's a whole other story. T...
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