alleybear

Woke, like beauty and pornography, is in the eye of the beholder.

Jimmy Kimmel's show suspension over the comments he made about about Charlie Kirk's death, and all the other people fired over comments about Kirk's d...

I did a little research and it turns out this is considered an example of mathematical beauty. It is called Euler's identity and is valued as a connec...

I agree that surprise of the existence of something rather than nothing doesn't indicate a problem. In my view, the root phenomenon that metaphysics i...

Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between a person's created world and a person's perceived world?

My god means to me that I should see myself in everyone, and accept that all I see in others is also inside of me. My god means to me that I should ac...

I agree. Using nothing as a concept to denote no thing in the state of existing, creates the existence of "state", which can be no thing or some thing...

Let me tell y'all about my god (who's still around, by the way). I go with the theory that once upon a time, nothing existed. Then all of a sudden, so...

In this case "intelligent" or "ignorant" are labels describing the effect of a decision, not a value judgement; intelligent=contribute to survival, an...

I agree with the thought, "I don't think that good is synonymous with, "something one ought to do". I think "good" is doing what gives you positive en...

Can I say it? Can I say it? AI may make all of this moot. (lol)

Most living organisms on earth, other than the dinosaurs and the ones we're getting rid of, either adapt to their environment and survive, or maladapt...

The God that would condemn you to eternal punishment after giving you free will to do whatever you want to do is a hypocrite. If God wanted you not to...

There are a lot of "awakenings" on the horizon. The American government is helping to make the world "woke" in the original political/economic definit...

Howz bout dis'...if it ain't yer original thought, or yo' original thought about somebody else's thought, don't post?

Belief is thought. Belief is an expression of self.

I agree that thought in the now is the reality. The certainty of thought in the now is embedded in the experience of self. You can be 100% certain tha...

Americans Are Unified In Wanting A Better Life In American life, a better life often involves compromise. Developing good skills in compromising will ...

To me religions are procedures about worshipping a god; how to please it as well as you can. Religions comfort those who are suffering, not those who ...

Two New Infinities Discovered Here's an introduction to the exacting infinity and the ultra-exacting infinity. New Scientist described exacting cardin...

George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it ...

The lived experiences of agrian life, woven into the soil, air, water, plants and animals with which humans existed, was their "science".

In this American political era, whoever has the best story (fiction or non-fiction) wins. Period. Facts, other than who's giving the most money to who...

In this American political era, whoever has the best story (fiction or non-fiction) wins. Period. Facts, other than who's giving the most money to who...

By that time it's too late, cuz the half of the population that's getting paid to put a boot in someone's face are figuring they made the smart move a...

There was a syfy movie 20 or 30 years ago where criminals would commit crimes and record everything going on in their head (their feelings and visions...

I don't know why people pursue philosophy, just like I don't know why anyone pursues any career. The preference of being alone I might be able to give...

The movie "Tuesday" is the most unusual depiction of Death I've ever seen.

Hope I don't misrepresent it. The philosophical answer for everyone is, "be as you are until you decide to be something else". The followup is: if you...

It will be entertaining to see if he whups MAGA into submission or if MAGA eats him and moves on.

I see this discussion as highlighting Trump the person. I see Trump as symptomatic of the control of our political system by large corporations. I see...

I have a question about this discussion. Once Trump is installed and has put his incompetent but loyal staff in place, there will be countless opportu...

The coming together of singularity I'm currently seeing is of corporations trying for singular control of their industry and billionaires seeking sing...

As an OG (old guy) I look at it this way: some things are beyond my understanding because I choose to let those things drift off. I don't have the ene...

No. Brightness is a value judgement based on an organism's evaluation of the electromagnetic energies emanating from the sun. The emitting of energy i...

I see sweetness and beauty, when used to describe something, as value judgements. Value judgements are analog; measures of fructose or glucose are spe...

Allow as many of the people of Syria as possible to answer the question, "Right now, today, what would be of the most help to you?". And whatever they...

You're absolutely, positively undisputedly correct...yet existence is created everyday. Just depends on what existence you're talking about. It's kind...

My understanding is that one of the new occupations created by AI is the position of an AI Prompt Engineer, whose purpose is to construct a query that...

To paraphrase a scene from "The Graduate" God: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Me: Yes, sir. God: Are you listening? Me: Yes, I am....

The only unsolved problem that could truly be blamed on a god is the problem of how existence was created. All other "unsolved problems" are just detr...

Amen to that. But hey, it's fun :smile: Just like how you spend your money only shows your viewpoint on money, how you choose (or not choose) your god...

The physicists say back at the beginning, there should have been an equal number of matter and antimatter particles created, which should have prevent...

Please help me understand. Many traffic accidents have objectively shown that four different people standing on four different corners at the same int...

I have a primitive view of creativity. If something is made that didn't exist before, no matter how many millions of other examples of that same thing...

My take on the changing climate is, money talks and BS walks. All the protests and statistics and numbers being tossed around is the BS, cuz it's not ...

Suppose several other life forms were discovered in the universe, some not carbon based, some not even needing a planet to exist on. How would the per...

I'm just spitballing it here with no backup references (my apologies), but it seems to me as the quantum environment gets explored more deeply, basica...

As has been demonstrated many times...truth always loses to free will. Free will involves ignoring truth or describing truth to fit whatever free will...

In the beginning there was nothing. Then something came into existence. Whatever created existence is the god that still exists. We are all literally ...