Fine. I never discussed reason, except as a proposed component of sorting information. I think I do use reason as part of the process whereby I arrive...
Okay. Most faith, then is dependent on reason? How? But not the other way around. The faith came first; rationalization a distant second. (And rarely ...
I have on several threads expressly said: There may, for all I know, be a Universal Consciousness, or Allness, or Creative Force or Whatever and peopl...
That was the crux of the matter to which I was responding. I'll go back now and try to answer what I missed. What is that internal model built from, i...
I don't know what "why" this answers, and don't recall asking. I commented generally on the characteristics of religion, as organized systems of pract...
You can pretend to be self-generated, I suppose. I'm aware that I owe my birth to all life as it evolved before me, and to my parents and the society ...
Why would intuition need another name? Particular one that is usually taken to mean something quite different from what we usually mean by intuition, ...
Though not equally hard, I imagine. Faith is a belief largely or wholly unsupported by empirical evidence. Not, it isn't. Religion is a formal system ...
Why is OWNERSHIP such a big issue with you? We can be of the universe, of the Earth, of our ecosystem, of our species, of our community, of our family...
I like that last one, but people might think I mean pumpkin, so I'll stick with The Whole Shebang. Which could and could not care less and more about ...
Yes, I got that. What I don't get is how what you describe qualifies as a deity, or whether something so big and round and wibbly-wobbly could have an...
Yes, and religion is an entertainment of the masses, as are politics and wars. We're feeding on electronic media, but we have no baleen to filter the ...
Yes. And the starry-eyed optimists think the more science we have, the better we behave. Bringing money into the equation is never a good idea! Which ...
That would mean reducing the demand. We always increase the demand. Solar energy is free, but unless you're a plant, you can only harness it with manu...
Scope and balance matter. There is a difference between passively absorbing a sun's energy and using up many suns to dominate the galaxy. This: doesn'...
I think it's 100% untrue. Conservatives have been taken in by/invested in the prevailing capitalist fiction that people are motivated by material self...
In 2016, somebody stepped on my pink sunglasses; now I have to use the yellow ones. It's not disappointment: I've been aware of the shortcomings of ou...
He's already appealed his case up to The Shadow Proclamation, who sent it back with a sticky-note, saying: "Why can't you 4,787,901 thunder-wielding g...
Just another deity. Au contraire, mon cher ami! What difference does that make, if I never even meet one? They have their self-contained, self-suffici...
It wouldn't help. We already doubled our life expectancy from the beginning of civilization to the present, and have made no comparable progress towar...
I wasn't trying to enable anyone to do any of that. I was only using language within the context of economics, not implicating 10-dimensional strings,...
Okay, if you don't know about it, it doesn't exist, and if you don't approve of it, it has no value. In that case, all that exists or can exists, happ...
Right. I should have made clear - thought I had made clear - that I was referring to the transaction of such entities as exist in the present and can ...
It doesn't matter why; the fact is, as long as you are in and of the world, you are not, and cannot be free of its laws. Which as all I meant by no ab...
What they communicate is meaningful in cultural context. In ancient cultures, the shape and style of a man's beard declared his nationality and rank. ...
The fact that something is insignificant in one individual's opinion doesn't change the cost of that thing in terms of physics. Whether you light a ca...
I suppose so. I don't see how that relates to human endeavors. We can't get or do anything without some expenditure of effort, calories and time. Agre...
Progress, with that great big capital P is an ideal. It becomes an illusion if we convince ourselves that ideas are actual things or event in the worl...
And that is an outcome of monetization, and that is an outcome of money as a means of assigning value. Of course it's wrong. Money is one of humankind...
The problematic word there is "value" and how that evaluation is made in a capitalist system. Two products on a shelf, both perform the same function ...
First, I'd like to reject the conflation of 'liberty' with 'a free lunch'. Second, I do not believe that anyone can be autonomous free, or that any de...
Not anymore! But there are still a few in other places where people and berries live. My poor little joke was meant to illustrate that "free" is a fun...
Too late for that. Whatever regulations a government enacts the next one will begin to dismantle; within four election cycles, its effects are complet...
Which UK billionaire? Aren't they all busy messing up their own country's housing situation? As to homelessness: I don't know how successful this stra...
The monotheistic ones do, anyway - without any need for self-denial. All you need is for a god to give people permission to behave as badly as they se...
I didn't say that. But, in fact, I can imagine a world without evil - as I understand and defined evil. It would just have to be slightly less evolved...
All bad and unfortunate and sad things that can happen are not evil. Evil is a specific kind of bad: malevolence, deliberate destructiveness, consciou...
it gets worse: between them, the two companies have increased the demand for avocado pits - if not necessarily avocado fruit. And then, some other cle...
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