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Michael McMahon

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In: Pantheism  — view comment
A problem with hell is that no matter how hard you prayer it might fail to outmatch the permanent focus of a solipsistic mind and the blankness of an ...
November 16, 2023 at 06:53
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Heterosexual genetics might be one way a religion works where women who are born with humble or outgoing personalities or assume them in later life co...
November 14, 2023 at 05:11
Even if we solve the mystery of the mind-body problem we might still be left with an even bigger mystery as to why so few people had even cared about ...
November 07, 2023 at 02:58
In the same way that we don't feel our brain we also don't feel our skeleton where we can only feel our skeleton indirectly through our posture. Yet w...
November 04, 2023 at 23:12
If I fail to find posthumous fame for my theories of non-reality then I might perhaps still get recognition for being a good psychologist of philosoph...
November 04, 2023 at 22:19
In: Pantheism  — view comment
No matter how possessive a pantheist could be of others a pantheist still won’t parrot another person’s words and behaviour in a conversation!
November 02, 2023 at 16:44
If pure dualism were correct then each of our brains could all in fact have almost the exact same structure and wiring seeing as any differences in mi...
October 28, 2023 at 22:39
There are many people wondering what will a solution to the hard problem of consciousness resemble be it a song or a mathematical equation. Yet if God...
October 17, 2023 at 02:50
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Christianity might always struggle with economic and political problems. Yet when it comes to accepting Jesus as a Son of God perhaps we should just a...
October 09, 2023 at 19:48
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Materialism and pantheism could be more reconcilable if a temporary afterlife were re-envisaged as euthanasia. So if pantheism were taken literally th...
September 10, 2023 at 04:31
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Satanism and pantheism are theoretically reconcilable if evil people yearned to be tortured in hell rather than to be the torturer. It seems paradoxic...
September 09, 2023 at 19:29
Anti-realism could serve as an emergency exit door to allow for a break from longer spells of materialism.
July 11, 2023 at 02:03
A combative advantage of antirealism might be a slightly enhanced sensory vigilance for dodging and anticipating punches from your attacker. Yet an an...
July 11, 2023 at 02:00
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Absolute forgiveness as a virtue that relates to forgiving absolute evil. I believe relative forgiveness is always virtue because it requires self-sac...
July 05, 2023 at 18:39
An asteroid has an irregular shape meaning that the centre of gravity would be chaotic. Hence even under Newtonian versions of gravity would an astero...
July 02, 2023 at 19:52
https://youtube.com/shorts/CoaYrYcnBJM?feature=share8 Royal Python (https://m.youtube.com/@guncontrol4647/featured) One reason a snake is so creepy is...
June 23, 2023 at 00:37
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLYoPLWYNsoBaby Tarantulas Scientific names are needed to stop horrendous personifications of “baby” or “child” tarantul...
June 16, 2023 at 21:21
If light is conscious then it might sound ableist for the congenitally blind. Yet gravity travels at the same speed as light according to Einstein. He...
June 02, 2023 at 19:24
On posts 5, 9 and 13 page 14 I mentioned how animals could be used to investigate antirealism. Maybe one reason we find sharks, snakes and spiders cre...
May 25, 2023 at 00:55
An advantage of a Euler interpretation of gravity is that each gravitational system would be unique where it'd forever defy conscious perception. Henc...
May 24, 2023 at 03:30
Maybe one application of gravity as a Euler force is that it could be the motion of the tectonic plates causing the tides where the orbit of the Moon ...
May 24, 2023 at 03:21
The pupil of your eye is like a Snell’s window! The light I see is reflected off another person’s iris where I can look into their retina but not thei...
May 21, 2023 at 18:39
The problem of other minds might be interpreted as the light of other minds being internally reflected in their brain against their skull such that we...
May 19, 2023 at 18:20
“Optical computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communica...
May 19, 2023 at 18:11
An almost evil way to think of anti-realism is that the same colours are equidistant in your 2D vision. So the bright green leaves are always in front...
May 07, 2023 at 20:49
It’s possible that certain religious people might be passive anti-realists simply in having never formed a materialistic perception. Yet they might no...
May 07, 2023 at 10:33
A flaw in dualism is that it glorifies the mind of someone potentially evil. The flaw in material monism is that it downplays the mind of an ethical p...
May 06, 2023 at 10:38
One reason quantum gravity has stagnated might be because of deference to authority. Some physicists don’t like outsiders commenting on their field be...
May 04, 2023 at 21:55
Light doesn’t obey the doppler shift at our planetary speeds. So not only does the colour of an object not change with velocity but the colour doesn’t...
April 29, 2023 at 18:16
Anti-realism might resemble a religious faith where the longer you identify as an anti-realist the more your subconscious accesses your involuntary pe...
April 28, 2023 at 07:17
A skeletal way to view the mind-body problem is that the back of your skull is in front of your sense of vision. That way your vision would be the ent...
April 09, 2023 at 23:02
Free will is sometimes solved by a God of the gaps solution. Yet we need a singular God of the gap argument. In other words would you believe in God s...
March 31, 2023 at 18:08
Perhaps a conscious being is in everyone else's past such that everyone bar the conscious being is deterministic.
March 30, 2023 at 16:13
Shakespeare claimed the world is but a stage and yet actors are still real people. Likewise our physical body might be acting out our personality base...
March 23, 2023 at 00:14
As I was travelling in the car I observed the ditch beside me move behind me far faster than the ditches way ahead of me. This made the cocept of para...
March 19, 2023 at 17:11
An instinctive way for a materialist to understand anti-realism is to interpret the solar system through philosophy rather than the optics of astronom...
March 14, 2023 at 17:16
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If the physical world is 100% amoral then maybe for God in the afterlife to explain why evil exists would be to lose the arguments for ethics against ...
March 13, 2023 at 20:55
An artificially intelligent robot in the shape of a human might simply have the mind of a monkey! Moreover the future of ai might depend on correlatio...
March 12, 2023 at 16:27
An alternative way to conceive gravity as a euler force is that the normal force would be non-existent. That way the Earth's crust is so strong that t...
February 27, 2023 at 14:55
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Maybe when we think of Jesus as God Christians could interpret His miracles as telepathic over the mind rather than telekinetic over the physical worl...
February 20, 2023 at 08:18
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Anyone sentenced to hell from a pantheist background will be given a fair shot at escape(!): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7O6rPJ-14Apocalypto (2006...
February 04, 2023 at 15:45
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"Be good for goodness sake". https://www.stillwatermpc.org/dharma-topics/being-good-for-goodness-sake/ "The message in the song is clear. Your goodnes...
February 03, 2023 at 19:09
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Technically the church building is meant to be irrelevant to the sermon. Yet if anyone is too unfocused then routinely attending mass in a larger cath...
February 01, 2023 at 13:47
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One interpretation of Jesus is as an arch-pantheist; the Son of God but not actually God the creator. In other words viewing Jesus as a prophet of God...
January 30, 2023 at 22:24
In: Pantheism  — view comment
A contradiction with eternal hell is that good people would need to spend a lot of their life helping to de-escalate inter-gang conflicts and to pre-e...
January 24, 2023 at 19:23
In: Pantheism  — view comment
The unconscious mind and our metaphysical sensory perception are very fragile. An evil individual would struggle to fully reconcile themselves with an...
January 23, 2023 at 22:11
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If we took an eternalist view of time where past, present and future all exist then who knows if when we died we could go back in time and see the anc...
January 20, 2023 at 11:19
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If we could re-incarnate backwards in time then God could have a natural version of Hell. Any major war criminals might have to spend their next life ...
January 20, 2023 at 09:14
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Pantheism is like a meta-perversion; a perversion of a perversion that's no longer physical or emotional and only spiritual!
January 14, 2023 at 17:42
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I got into the habit of not going to mass for a long time or only turning up for the last few minutes. I decided an easy way to lull me back to religi...
January 14, 2023 at 06:46