The Nazis wouldn't have been possible if hunter gatherers had not invented religion to overcome the aplha male problem, and join together to form soci...
One might therefore speculate that, Nietzsche declaring "God is dead" undermined moral values justified by divine authority, and thereby allowed for t...
I would say right back at you - because your post is very well written, but I have some problems with your argument. It seems to ignore the fact that ...
The degree of confidence that a spherical earth exists is very high, but we could all be brains in jars. We could all be plugged into the matrix in an...
Tell us more about how you gained/regained use of your eyes. Were you completely blind and can now see? How did you get your sight back, and how does ...
It's not directly information on Nietzsche's effect on Hitler, but I can tell you why Nietzsche was wrong about one of the core ideas that manifested ...
The distinction I'm trying to make is between science for power and profit, and - to put it very crudely, science for science sake. Scientists current...
Actually, in terms of population and natural resources, we are rather quite well placed right now to secure a favourable outcome. We have the knowledg...
I understand what you're saying. But my actual argument is that the human species faces an existential challenge, and recognizing that science describ...
The distinction I make is between science as a tool box, and science as an instruction manual. Our problem is, we have used scientific tools without r...
I would argue, that to maintain ideological conceptions of reality, the scientific conception of reality has been suppressed, downplayed and ignored, ...
Maybe I misread your post. Let's have another look. If the fundamental questions epistemology seeks to answer are 'what can we know?' and 'how can we ...
Are those who voted leave to be barred from voting in a second referendum? Surely not! They will be allowed to vote. So you must be saying they would ...
Are those who voted leave to be barred from voting in a second referendum? Surely not! They will be allowed to vote. So you must be saying they would ...
So you're with the 'there is no truth' squad - that band of people who undermine any scientific claim to authority with subjectivist and metaphysical ...
Well, I'm happy for you if you find comfort and meaning in your belief. I just wouldn't base my economic and industrial strategy on it! — karl stone I...
An obvious flaw with the deterministic model of the brain is that the stimuli it is exposed to are non deterministic. Like me reading your post - the ...
I don't understand how anyone can claim a second referendum would undermine democracy when the first referendum nullified 40 years worth of democratic...
So, you're saying you believe God exists - and surely, that's a claim about the nature of reality. That's a contradictory claim. Nothing has no dimens...
It's important to science to admit what you are and are not able to know - and that's why I'm agnostic. I don't know if God exists, or does not exist....
I accept there are important branches of philosophy - I'm thinking of political philosophy, that speak to concepts like justice, that have no material...
If you have no problem making a claim that something exists without having an evidential basis for that claim, then you're not doing philosophy. At le...
So it would be fine to say for example - I hope God exists, but not okay to say I believe God exists, or I believe God doesn't exist. — karl stone It ...
That's correct. So it would be fine to say for example - I hope God exists, but not okay to say I believe God exists, or I believe God doesn't exist. ...
I think it safe to assume that life occurs anywhere it can occur - and in the universe there are other places it can occur. The obstacles to the devel...
I have explored the idea of a Nietzschian - amoral species, and cannot imagine that species could progress very far beyond a state of nature. Putting ...
Morality is fundamentally a sense - ingrained into the organism by evolution in a tribal social context. It's promoted as an evolutionary advantage - ...
In a thread discussing the eating of meat - it's not entirely surprising you know I eat meat. But I didn't start this thread. And I didn't start a thr...
Nor am I. I'm a politics nut. Check my facts. David Cameron was a brexiteer who called the referendum, sabotaged the Remain position he then adopted, ...
The 2016 referendum was corrupt in every respect. David Cameron was a long term eurosceptic who sabotaged his credibility on key issues with a pledge ...
The mature thing to do would be to respond to the post above, — karl stone I have no objection to people who want to be vegetarian making their own de...
Yes. Admittedly, I am unfriendly toward hocus pocus. I don't like Christianity, or Buddhism, or Islam or Judaism. So at least I'm consistent. This is ...
I'm going to stop replying to you now (then bitch about you behind your back!) Real mature. The mature thing to do would be to respond to the post abo...
Okay, but before I leave you to it - you should really look up the term 'ethics' and consider it as a system of moral values - in relation to the real...
No. Here's the conversation: Chatterbears: Is our dominion over animals unethical? Karl: No, because, you know...reality! Chatterbears: It is, it is, ...
Of course I understand such a simplistic concept. I just don't accept the implications you draw from it - nor the assumptions you smuggle into the arg...
From the POV of the western person seeking some spiritual dogma to follow because they cannot think for themselves, and must therefore borrow from oth...
I cannot imagine there's anything you can't say here. Afterall, this is a thread about yoga, and I'm discussing science and survival. If this is the B...
I'm quite sure, if asked, most people would understand the term enlightenment to refer to some eastern spiritual nonsense, and very few would know any...
I did try. I asked him to let it go, but he persisted. So I tried asking nicely - but I'm meeting with that infuriating denial of genuine human emotio...
Your point is trivial - because until the the Enlightenment, religious systems of thought, and the language used to describe them were all that were a...
The actual Enlightenment refers to something real, that actually occurred, and is rationally comprehensible - a political movement in European history...
I entirely agree. Demographic prediction depends on assumptions, explicit assumptions at the probable end, about how many babies the average woman is ...
The Enlightenment in European history was a period in which absolutist religious authority and religious reasoning were cast off, and rationality and ...
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