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Exactly. Above all, with a proof... or with God appearing to everyone and being part of physical reality, it's not essentially an issue of faith, of c...
November 21, 2025 at 07:44
In my view it cannot be proved and such proof goes against the whole idea of believing in God and against all Abrahamic religions. When there's a proo...
November 20, 2025 at 06:03
Actually Maduro would be totally open for talks. But here I think you have to notice that Venezuela is here on a totally different position than let's...
November 20, 2025 at 05:11
We love the escapism. It's an old genre of making criminals to be heroes and then trying to portray the story as a critique of the society. It's the o...
November 18, 2025 at 08:00
As @"Metaphysician Undercover" noted above, the drug war has been more of an excuse to do something with totally different objectives, not the actual ...
November 18, 2025 at 07:05
Have ever leaders followed any principles in their actual actions? Grand speeches are different as are the high-minded reasons given for real-politik ...
November 17, 2025 at 11:47
The left-wing populism of Hugo Chavez (which Maduro tries to continue) is quite similar to right-wing populism of Trump. Few do notice the similarity ...
November 17, 2025 at 11:27
Trump doesn't care if the reasons are pathetic, which they are. As a populist he doesn't care. Everything opposing his actions is just basically "libe...
November 15, 2025 at 23:16
Yeah, tells something when they covered 23000 pages of files from Epstein: Number of times of mentions in the documents: Melania Trump: 12 times Putin...
November 15, 2025 at 18:10
Thoughts and ideas come to mind in a myriad of ways. Perhaps the steps you are looking for would be the ways to check up if your conclusion is valid. ...
November 11, 2025 at 14:08
Reproduction and breeding aren't synonyms. Ending the ability for an animal species or plant species to reproduce does mean extinction, which you seem...
November 11, 2025 at 11:07
The way how distinct people and their cultures die isn't usually talked about. It's by cultural assimilation, not by some dramatic and brutal action l...
November 11, 2025 at 09:04
We can indeed model the world as being deterministic, everything having a cause and effect, like the Einstein's block universe. But as you said, this ...
November 10, 2025 at 13:14
You mentioned researching. Why wouldn't it be work? Best work is something that you like so much you would do it even voluntary. But if you are paid f...
November 10, 2025 at 12:56
My point is that when we are responsible for the species and the ecology, we have to make decisions that you seem not to think that don't have to be m...
November 10, 2025 at 10:56
A 2/3 support for the war is quite high.
November 10, 2025 at 07:50
Would it go so in reality ever? And you seem not to like work. What's wrong with working? And what's wrong in contributing to the society? Actually, t...
November 10, 2025 at 07:47
In today's Russia it's very difficult to get truthful polls were what you say depends on the people you are saying the things to. As the saying went i...
November 08, 2025 at 19:18
So your answer is to end them. With a "gradual, compassionate transition". You want these breeds to be erased, but are "compassionate" about it. In th...
November 08, 2025 at 18:17
I assume that a Trump presidency is bad for gun producers. People don't have the urge to buy guns. When it's the next Democrat who is portrayed to see...
November 08, 2025 at 17:40
Yep, in Kremlin's propaganda Finland is preparing to attack Russia.
November 08, 2025 at 17:36
Oh, if it would be like in Star-Trek. But I think it won't for several reasons. It starts from things like I do like to engage with actual people when...
November 08, 2025 at 17:12
The obvious answer is of course not, if there indeed is NO use for anybody. Obviously we can trace where the checks arrive for the artist. Is it simpl...
November 08, 2025 at 16:40
To keep social cohesion strong in a society, there needs to be a contract that the vast majority of people accept. The idea of free education until un...
November 08, 2025 at 16:23
You didn't answer my question. OK, just look at these Holsteins and Ayshire cows. They have been bread to produce milk and basically are as dependent ...
November 08, 2025 at 14:45
As a choice of an individual, veganism works fine. I myself think that a balanced diet is totally fine too. Perhaps 1-3% of people are vegans. So it i...
November 07, 2025 at 13:52
Veganism is an option as you said, but it's not based on science, but moral choices. But then perhaps I misunderstood your OP in that veganism is basi...
November 06, 2025 at 13:03
Nah. Neither. The stock market simply works by speculative bubbles and overreactions.
November 06, 2025 at 10:26
Humans are omnivores, not herbivores.
November 06, 2025 at 10:24
And here an infinite series of infinitesimal rectangles is the perfect example, which just loops back to your first argument and mine: Yes, we know ho...
November 05, 2025 at 13:13
Lol. Somebody in the US Department of Labor has noticed just what kind of messaging the White House and Trump approves of. At least they won't be fire...
November 05, 2025 at 12:40
That I don't know everything interesting I would want to know and hence are open to new ideas and fact. Hopefully, at least, that's my "hypocrite" way...
November 05, 2025 at 12:35
Hypocrite. Human being is an omnivore. We aren't herbivores. But if you have a better consciousness and feel better about yourself, why not?
November 05, 2025 at 12:32
That's a positive spin on it, but the logic in mathematics is a staunch judge that doesn't give leeway for falsehoods. Questions with false premises w...
November 05, 2025 at 11:53
Questions define our answers and thus when math gives answers that "it cannot answer", I think it really it is our questions in the first place that a...
November 04, 2025 at 12:18
Infinity isn't defined as an integer. But the geometric aspects of a circle indeed show the existence of infinity. And basically, finitism is in a way...
October 31, 2025 at 20:05
I would disagree with that. I can imagine a perfect circle, not a regular polygon with trillions of sides (or something like that). And anyway, there ...
October 30, 2025 at 15:56
Compared to Third World countries, the "prosperity make people take care of the environment" holds. I remember visiting downtown Manila, the bus we in...
October 24, 2025 at 13:18
I'd like to thank those who now for a decade have given their time to this forum, and hence given me this wonderful forum to discuss interesting topic...
October 23, 2025 at 12:34
Well, isn't this exactly that I tried to say about this being about information? Isn't the only the she can say simply that she's participating in the...
October 23, 2025 at 12:23
I think this is more complex than a simple math formula (which any curve refers to). The basic idea that more prosperous people can give more easily e...
October 22, 2025 at 12:46
Thanks for @"JeffJo" for the resurrection of this thread. I do think this related to the Monty Hall problem where information affects probabilities. I...
October 21, 2025 at 21:14
Indeed. National socialism didn't win either. It resulted in one of the most epic and catastrophic failures of all time. Hence we don't cherish the id...
October 21, 2025 at 20:28
If all of your posts are LLM-generated, what's the point? We aren't in a classroom and aren't getting any points or merit for the interaction in TPF. ...
October 21, 2025 at 01:06
If you disregard real prices, of course you can have perpetual growth. Just how awesome would the GDP of the US seem in 2040, if a Big Mac would then ...
October 20, 2025 at 18:54
As long as it doesn't descend into a situation where in order "to create buzz", one would have here genuine AI programs here "keeping up" a lively deb...
October 20, 2025 at 18:45
Sounds reasonable. Just like with handling social media, the site guidelines are totally understandable and reasonable. And likely written by @"Baden"...
October 20, 2025 at 17:55
Marx was a very successful philosopher. Of course the whole ideological-economic Marxist experiment hasn't worked the many times people have tried it ...
October 19, 2025 at 17:29
Something like that. And we should already know from history that technological advances always come with over exaggerated promises and hype with spec...
October 18, 2025 at 16:21
Congratulations to the Trump team. At least this is far better than the simple continuation of the past. How it will continue from here is another que...
October 10, 2025 at 00:36