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Michael McMahon

['Member']Joined: March 30, 2018 at 20:56Last active: February 24, 2026 at 13:552 discussions540 comments

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Anti-Realism

June 10, 2019 at 17:39 463 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Pantheism

May 25, 2019 at 19:34 355 comments Philosophy of Religion

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVaeDrdDZQ how to burn a paper using your magnifying glass, concave lens,can concave mirror burn a paper The way in whi...
December 14, 2025 at 04:34
The sum of all positive numbers adding to -1/12 is a neat way to describe a flat screen TV extending slightly backwards to project forwards an infinit...
December 09, 2025 at 22:11
“Matter and antimatter annihilation is a process where a particle and its corresponding antiparticle collide, destroying each other and converting the...
October 25, 2025 at 15:05
The way a skyscraper on the horizon might be 1m high much like your own height might be an indirect way to calculate gravity as if the way it takes 1 ...
October 25, 2025 at 10:12
Using the same fingertip occultation technique when the car reverses direction to drive away from you then the motion of our fingertip might resemble ...
August 05, 2025 at 08:31
When we move our fingertip to block out a car moving closer to you in the distance then the distance we have to move our fingertip from start to finis...
August 05, 2025 at 08:23
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“The bombing of Nagasaki resulted in an estimated 35,000 to 74,000 deaths by the end of 1945.” Perhaps part of the problem in desensitisation is incre...
July 04, 2025 at 14:49
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImGO1QKbXMk Mandeltrip - Symmetric Brot (2 Sets) Viewing forgiveness as a double negative that becomes a positive mimics...
June 30, 2025 at 19:43
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‘During the filming of "The Passion of the Christ," Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus, was struck by lightning twice. The first incident occurred in Mata...
June 30, 2025 at 19:25
The way in which a tachyon moves backwards relative to slower than light matter mimics electric current moving from a positive to a negative. “While v...
June 30, 2025 at 18:20
Defending humility with false humility might not be as bad as pride but then what would happen if no one actually promoted humility in spite of everyo...
June 22, 2025 at 04:31
This scene parodies the idea of dreaming being a reflection of ancestral genetic memory. A problem with being descended from fish before life on land ...
June 22, 2025 at 03:28
A postmodern version of Christianity might be to not only partially reject inter-generational forgiveness but to fully reject inter-generational forgi...
June 11, 2025 at 18:02
Perhaps a problem in quantum gravity is humility where few people who learn Shakespeare could ever speak Shakespearean English fluently to have not do...
June 10, 2025 at 22:26
Perhaps the slightly decreased rate of gravity at the equator might appear at first sight to be only a slight athletic advantage until I realised that...
June 10, 2025 at 13:54
“Gravity is slightly stronger at the poles compared to the equator. This is due to the Earth's shape, which is not perfectly spherical but rather an o...
June 10, 2025 at 13:20
An alternative to the homunculus argument is to view each eye as a separate person as if your consciousness were so thoroughly embodied in your eyes t...
March 28, 2025 at 23:59
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Perhaps one reason there hasn’t been an artificial intelligence apocalypse is that computers are so superior to humans that we weren’t even worth defe...
February 23, 2025 at 18:14
To assess consciousness we could reference a brainless skull as if the way in which a sound wave enters the small ear cavity mimics diffraction as if ...
February 22, 2025 at 17:10
Ironically enough if the mind is immaterial then not only is the brain immaterial but the eyeball itself would somehow be immaterial rather than just ...
February 22, 2025 at 07:56
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One problem with national borders isn’t just economic or cultural but also spiritual. In other words the idea of prioritising poor natives for help mi...
February 04, 2025 at 04:06
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What if we applied pantheism to animals? That way God would resemble a relay race as if God intermittently embodies both the predator and the prey to ...
February 03, 2025 at 16:34
Negative wave interference in a band isn't always bad because listeners are so accustomed to music. So one way pop music can be so stealthy is that yo...
December 30, 2024 at 16:28
Perhaps a tachyonic message from another mind might resemble an awkward silence of whatever wasn’t said. So one reason certain songs might feel tense ...
December 30, 2024 at 14:13
A tolerant version of antirealism is that anyone who’s materialistic is immaterial about their own material perception relative to an anti-realist vie...
December 15, 2024 at 03:49
One way a song can feel evil is to expose false humility in your own psyche as if you’d only agree with being very serious were everyone evil! One way...
December 14, 2024 at 04:36
Were there a collective unconscious then dreaming might resemble TV advertisements and movie trailers! That’d help explain why we’d forget so many dre...
December 12, 2024 at 19:04
It’s often joked how going to school naked is the worst nightmare to have during sleep only for online porn to have made the issue moot where anyone c...
December 12, 2024 at 04:45
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An irony of the problem of evil was that pantheism is theoretically capable of being the most evil possible belief system for no other reason than the...
November 30, 2024 at 00:50
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Even if Jesus isn’t still alive in heaven then His message of forgiveness might still ring true where the more people you forgive in an afterlife then...
July 27, 2024 at 21:54
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One way for science to view a supernatural Christian religion might be to re-interpret the pleas of Jesus for forgiveness as also being retrospective ...
April 16, 2024 at 20:08
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One version of a Christian afterlife would be if other dead souls were like a recorded telepathic message of their prior selves from a distinct afterl...
April 11, 2024 at 22:06
If the mind is 2-dimensional and the brain is 3-dimensional then one version of antirealism might be that the brain actually isn’t conscious where eve...
April 09, 2024 at 11:40
A drum is one of the most basic musical instruments where the sound of the drum can almost be embodied as if our mind was gaseous and diffuse. In a wa...
April 06, 2024 at 07:31
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One way to interpret a belief in an eternal afterlife is that people might underestimate how hard it is to live to 70 or 80 when many people in the an...
March 19, 2024 at 20:00
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The problem of evil exists in all systems including an afterlife. So one way an afterlife belief could backfire is if people no longer cared about any...
March 19, 2024 at 19:39
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A biocentric and deistic account for Abrahamic beliefs in genesis might be how the observer effect means that time elapsed so quickly for God before E...
March 12, 2024 at 20:11
One way neurons in the brain could be viewed as optical fibres is if each sense from smell to hearing to touch to taste is somehow reducible to light....
February 22, 2024 at 06:46
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Pantheism might sound megalomaniacal until you realise that no amount of spiritual pride or violent lucid dreams or sensory solipsism would match the ...
February 15, 2024 at 15:53
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An immoral version of forgiveness is that no amount of vengeance, torture or murder is sufficient were the aim to dehumanise the original perpetrators...
February 12, 2024 at 15:57
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Nirvana as a peaceful afterlife might be more convincing to scientists than a heaven of bliss because were a shared afterlife only dependent on other ...
January 30, 2024 at 23:49
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Pantheism might not ever be a large religion but by the limits of its own belief system of a shared unconscious might relate to the most extremely spi...
January 27, 2024 at 01:01
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If a supernatural afterlife was indirectly connected to a materialistic system then one inference would be that any lay person who promoted an afterli...
January 21, 2024 at 01:36
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One way Catholicism as a supernatural belief system verges on a materialistic system is through a negative that elderly Catholics aren’t evil. Perhaps...
January 20, 2024 at 23:17
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If Jesus wasn’t a physical God then it could still have been ethical for Jesus to declare himself God because amoral people in Ancient Rome weren’t ow...
January 18, 2024 at 23:35
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An evolutionary argument for the existence of Christianity might fail when Ancient Rome would have appeared to have been the victim of evil by convert...
January 04, 2024 at 11:15
One way an uncanny valley effect might occur might be in how large groups of strangers can interpret modern architecture in unusual ways. So the trans...
December 24, 2023 at 22:29
Classical instruments used to remix pop songs could expose just how good the pop song was in a way that reveals that both the original singer and the ...
November 29, 2023 at 15:40
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“An average person from Laos is 155.89cm (5 feet 1.37 inches) tall.” I’d a dream last night in which I was walking around a DIY shop only to find a sm...
November 27, 2023 at 22:33
If your mental vision doesn’t fully reflect the physical world then rotating your head would produce a slightly different angle then what would be imp...
November 26, 2023 at 23:02