Metaphysician Undercover

Vague platitudes are neither truths nor lies. But some people speak intentional lies, and Trump does it all the time. That's what sets him apart from ...

Actually, the ordering described here as "first" and "second" is temporal rather than spatial. The one tree is first and the other is second because t...

How Trump garnered a significant portion of the Christian vote is very telling of the state of Christianity in America... too many years of the likes ...

No, really, some people lie more than others. There is actually such a thing as counting a person's lies. And Trump has pushed the volume meter to lev...

No need to reiterate, we already know how your faith lies.

It is only extreme poverty which denies people quality food and adequate shelter. Generally the lack of proper nutrition is the product of other facto...

OK, I've got the quote here: This was in response to M of S's description of how people sort of give up on physical distancing practices, suddenly, se...

I do not think you have made an appropriate generalization here, Book273. Health cannot be tied to wealth in this way. Wealth can buy treatment is abo...

I'm guessing it's not a joking matter.

I believe that only about have the eligible voters voted last election. Trump got roughly half the votes. This would indicate that his support has gon...

You haven't followed the mail-in vote saga have you? Trump encouraged his supporters to vote in person on election day, insinuating that he would decl...

I think he plays more to his base group of supporters, looking for an uprising from them, by insinuating illegal activities such as voting after the d...

When you sense something, isn't the thing sensed, in the past by the time that it is sensed? This is how we came to know that light moves faster than ...

A Trump supporter lying about who they will vote for, just to fuck with the pollsters? No! That could never happen.

This depends on how you define "the present". I would define it as the division between past and future. It seems evident to me that my experience con...

There are two very distinct uses of "eternal". One refers to existing forever, infinite temporal existence. The other refers to existence outside of t...

Proportion is irrelevant. Whether you are talking about a huge portion of time, or a very small portion of time, there is still a duration, and theref...

This claim does not seem to be based in any logic. If it is true that there is nothing which is eternal, this makes the statement "nothing is eternal"...

This is just the physicist's way of saying we know there's some energy there but we don't know what form it has.

This is an unjustified assumption. Any existing thing, or event such as your "appointment", requires a confluence of numerous things coming together i...

Senility

You cannot make truthful statements like that about time. By the time you say "it's six o'clock" that time has past. And, as Einstein proposed, what t...

It's not the "U.S. govt." (governing system in place) which commits the misdeeds, it's the individuals and groups of people involved in governing who ...

Why would quantum mysticism be better addressed by trained physicists than by trained mystics?

There is clearly a fundamental flaw in one of the foundational propositions of modern physics, Newton's first law. This law, the law of inertia, state...

I agree, to be attentive requires a certain will to be so, one might even call this an effort. But watch out for what follows, when it comes to unders...

Why focus on, or even look for possible misdeeds of Trump Jr., when one just needs to look at the President himself, to be overwhelmed.

Perhaps those doctors, who bring them back, like to think highly of themselves.

Do you see the need for humility? The moral strength of the human being lies in the capacity to say no.

Does this man seriously think that the insertion of an arrow of time is "ad hoc"?

Fart jokes have a long history. Socrates compared the philosopher to a midwife, assisting in the conception. Sometime the supposed conception turns ou...

The better term here, rather than "I am holy", might be "I am pious". "I am holy" implies I am of great perfection and I ought to be revered, while "I...

Jokes go a long way in the business agenda. Ask the author of "Up your bottom line".

The difficult challenge would be to establish the mathematical axioms required to relate the two distinct universes. How we apprehend free will become...

I'd prefer to refer to what you call the "n-dimensional" as non-dimensional. Dimensions are how we understand and represent physical space. It doesn't...

Haven't we discussed this already? If not, you should take a good look at your proposed causal order. Clearly, suffering is prior to thought, as anima...

This is a problem which Kenosha Kid did not seem to want to acknowledge in the other thread. I presented it as a need for two distinct concepts of spa...

So is this the key to ending chaos and suffering, to truly understand the significance of the present? I think that the significance of the present is...

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It's an interesting experiment, how so many people will give up moral responsibility at the drop of a hat, for the sake of insignificant pleasure. It ...

"Decoherence" is fundamentally flawed. It assumes coherence as the natural, observer independent condition of existence. But coherence is the property...

This is the problem I explained to you earlier. Proceeding from spatial location A to location B is reversible, and the reverse may be represented as ...

I really do not think that such a machine could "self-evolve" in a deterministic world. I think "evolve" is incompatible with determinism. Doesn't the...

That's an interesting article John. It shows how one might predict the movement of an object through a force field using a vector field. I think what ...

Yeah but who decides how the machine is to be programmed? And who decides what light to shine? Your described "deterministic world" is not really a de...

We are not talking about whether this or that specific process is reversible, we are talking about whether time is reversible. It is an empirical fact...

It's not a matter of intuitive plausibility, it's a matter of empirical evidence. Obviously, it's a strongly held belief because it is empirical. Empi...

I've heard it argued that privacy is a modern concept. A couple hundred years ago there was no such thing.

You're missing the point. The word "red" could only come to describe both of these objects if there is freedom of choice in usage. If there was no cho...

These are all temporal processes. Time is empirically proven as unidirectional. By simple deduction therefore, these processes are unidirectional. The...