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I found it very interesting to learn that time runs at different rates. I saw a documentary which explained this. Scientists set up two atomic clocks ...

Hi there Monkey, Well, if you had actually understood the other thread... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3728/the-knowledge-explosion ... y...

Good point, that's true, I am as mad as the rest of us. If there is any difference it's only in that I know I'm nuts. And I know most everyone else in...

You make good points about how nukes have sobered the great powers. But you're not taking important factors in to account. 1) Technical errors leading...

Good point Crank. Perhaps much of what is happening here in the thread is a generation gap problem. I was 10 years old living in Florida during the Cu...

I do literally have a gun in my mouth, as do you, as do we all. My hypothetical is a hypothetical only in the sense it referenced a handgun instead of...

Hi RainyDay, You're referring to our personal situation. And of course you're right, we're all going to die one way or another. Just lost a family mem...

A homework assignment... :smile: As you're going about your daily business, reserve a little attention for observing the structure of civilization all...

Hi Gloaming, He's right, as are you, in providing evidence which supports the key claim of my posts in this thread, which is... Society wide, includin...

Look, you yourself just said you don't want to research it. Look above a couple posts and read your own words. Again, if you have researched it, prove...

Please explain to us the reasoning which concludes that we shouldn't be alarmed by thousands of hydrogen bombs aimed at our heads. Please explain to u...

The survival of modern civilization is a "peculiar standard of judgement"?

You claimed to be interested in nuclear weapons. But you're not interested in researching the subject. You're only interested in these other agendas, ...

Show us the articles you've written on the subject of nuclear weapons please. I expect that of all philosophers and other intellectual elites I encoun...

You search for it. Look, you're making my point for me. You're not interested in nuclear weapons either. You're interested in playing the role of the ...

Sapientia, I assign you the job of finding blog articles by academic philosophers on the subject of nuclear weapons. If you find that task too hard, y...

Same post as before.

I'd be skeptical of the assumption, shared by theists and atheists alike, that things including gods can only exist or not exist, one or the other. I'...

Thank you. If you wish, you may call me His Flatuence Sri Baba Bozo, the founder of Bozoism, the next great world religion. Or, if that's a few too ma...

Anything goes, stream of consciousness, no particular topic, whatever comes to mind etc?

What is a shout box? Uh, I mean rather.... WHAT IS A SHOUTBOX!!!!!!??????

While not claiming to know the answer to such an infinite scale question, here's one way to look at it. It can be argued that division (isolation, sep...

I'd like to cast a vote for this suggestion. It doesn't seem wise to get too wound up in any philosophy. It's perhaps helpful to recall that all philo...

Ok, fair enough, but I didn't ask for a solution, just interest. The question is... 1) If philosophy can't guide us even to having a serious sustained...

Hi Crank, Academic philosophers are just an extreme example of the phenomena, given that they have advanced training in the use of reason, and that se...

Thank you for the responses, quite entertaining. As you surely guessed, there is a larger and more serious point here. My proposal is that collectivel...

From the New Yorker article....

Something like what you describe is in the works. Here's a couple of links to provide a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Pr...

I can largely agree with this. In the spirit of thinking well, again the question would seem to be, do we want to hang on to modern civilization, or n...

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You doubt the maturity and judgment of President Dumpster?? You doubt the moral integrity of Vladimir Putin??? Where in the world do you get these wac...

Good point. Yes, pretty much everyone seems to agree there should be fewer nuclear weapons, probably because that's a very dramatic threat which is ea...

Your dodging and weaving my friend. In your defense, you're in very good company.

ChatteringMonkey, setting concern for humanity aside for the moment, I hope you will find this issue as philosophically fascinating as I do. What I se...

My best friend online is actually a former Amish who left that community as a teen. He's now a web coding expert about to publish his 1,000th ezine is...

I do agree that my phrase "our relationship with knowledge" will be perceived as too abstract by many readers. I think that's a good point. I'm just o...

I'll rephrase then... 1) Should it be a goal of society to look for ways to limit the powers available to human beings? 2) Or, should we accept the gr...

Why is that principle not considered too vague or simple etc when applied to humans under the age of 18? I agree there are many details to be consider...

I generally agree with this Crank. We are flawed, but not entirely flawed. There is an element of sanity and reason there too. So while our downfall i...

Do we agree on this, or not?

What is abstract about the fact that you won't give your children machine guns to play with? You see their ability is limited, so you restrict the pow...

Why do even the most intelligent and best educated people find this so hard to grasp?

Hi again Crank, Here's the trailer to a video called Countdown To Zero which documents all kinds of screw ups and threats involved with nuclear weapon...

The case for nursing school... 1) It's a field dominated by women. 2) More importantly, it's a field dominated by the right kind of women, generally s...

Whatever formula anyone might offer would be based on human reason. So first please prove that the rules of human reason are binding on everything eve...

Well, um, so prove it. :-0 To address the philosophy the original poster is encountering... There is no proof to any of the theories about the larger ...

A rational compromise.... Surrender two to four years in nursing school. Don't think about it, just do it. Now you have guaranteed employment for life...

Both of these could be reasonable choices, but like all choices, each would come with both benefits and a price tag. The college/career route can deli...

This is a great question, thanks. Here's yet another way to look at it... You ask, "does any THING ever get destroyed?" The question presumes the exis...

Hello Professor Cranky! Thanks for contributing. Your antibiotic example would seem to illustrate the issue pretty clearly. It's one of million cases ...