TogetherTurtle

If find it hard to believe we're having a discussion about conspiracy theories and nobody has brought up Edward Snowden yet. The man is wanted in the ...

Don't worry man, I've been playing lots of Fallout: New Vegas recently. I'll be right there with you blasting the heads off of raiders and taking the ...

And table saws have helped to build many fine estates and family homes. Perhaps you took me the wrong way. While I personally don't enjoy the media I ...

I would agree most of the time. However, if you don't worry about the present sometimes, you may not live to see tomorrow.

Just spitballing. The future is the only thing I tend to be optimistic about.

Hedonism, of course. Sounds like the good end to me.

It's damned if you do, damned if you don't, I fear. On one hand, censorship I think has value depending on the situation. If you are a dictator and ne...

Did people who experienced the 1760's look back at those years in 1784 and think of them as self contained I wonder? I think that perhaps the pace of ...

This might just be my free will allowing me to disagree with god, but if I were god I would rather have the rock. As a god, one that I assume has a pl...

I’ll be honest, I just thought that the Diogenes story was funny. Regardless, I think that as usual his crude way of doing things reveals some truth, ...

I did find it strange that his paradoxes contradicted each other.

From the Wikipedia page for Zeno's paradoxes- It's strange how different metrics of the same thing can not only imply different outcomes, but complete...

The biggest lightsaber

-Sun Tzu Nobody feels as if this world is perfect, but all wish to change it in different ways. If you want your vision seen, you have to do the above...

The reason is for some that a god decided it so, and for others that we decided what being is. Like I said before, believe whatever you want to believ...

This is true as well. The godlike artificial intelligence we see in media isn't exactly what we have now.

Unless you believe that humans have a special trait that makes them "know", (akin to a soul) then as far as we know, we would be as conscious as a com...

With access to the most if not all human knowledge and the ability to gain more, I don't think it's exactly a given that this isn't possible. AI becom...

And any aspiring millionaire wouldn't have it any other way.

You act as if businessmen have no weaknesses. If there isn't a competitor somewhere, the problem is anti-monopoly laws where you live. The one thing y...

Money is simply a tool used to represent value. Things of value exist in nature. Food, shelter, comfort, all of these things can be found in nature. W...

"Work done" refers to doing what society believes is work. In theory, everyone who contributes to society should get something out. However, it's enti...

Well, I would hope I don't have to do it alone, or without money. At the very least, you and I agree that this could be a problem, so there are at lea...

People don’t know everything. There’s surely things out there that I would believe if I was just told them. Well, of course I don’t know for sure, but...

Then I see no reason to convince people of something that isn’t true. I think this grey area is what we should be bringing awareness to, instead of ch...

It isn't the hard part when you're convincing others of something that they want to believe.

Where does science begin and philosophy end? If we don't know that, how are we supposed to know what we call science and what philosophy? If true, I f...

I think the purpose of science for most scientists is monetary gain. Is Truth really a motivating goal in itself? Only if you want it, I suppose, and ...

I think the real problem is taking a film out of its intended context. For most things, I assume you can translate relatively well, but art is intertw...

Why not solve the problem at the source? In all my time fixing things, (fixing things is a large part of my current job) temporary solutions have only...

Personally, I don't care much for respect either. What others think specifically about me is subject to change anyway. However, I do care for what a r...

I suffer from that approach to this day. If I was taught more than just what worked, I would have thought math was interesting a long time ago and bec...

No, no, that is further proof of the deep interconnection of science and philosophy. The "us versus them" argument refers to specifically people. You ...

I apologize if it came out this way. I meant almost the opposite. My point Is that there are major issues with science, (as well as most everything el...

This sounds, at least to me, like an "us versus them" argument. I think it may be time to step back and realize what team we're on. We rely on the pro...

This sounds like more of a critique on human hypocrisy than a single group. I think it's inevitable for people to have misconceptions on ideas they do...

Also worth mentioning that the forum is (mostly) about physics. Makes sense to me that they might not know about things outside of their area of exper...

I think it's worth mentioning that they seem to separate Philosophy and the occult. If you say what lies beyond a fence is trees and flowers, you don'...

You're welcome, I suppose.

I thought you may have been talking about that, but I wasn't sure. Sorry about that. Anyway, I was actually thinking about including this. I'm not a b...

I think that this is easier said than done. Actually, it's probably the most difficult thing to do and one of the easiest things to say. And I think t...

Oh, and we still have so much work to do. The actually difficult work, drawing the lines. DNA is just a chemical compound. It's our imaginary lines th...

This is a good point. There has to be lines, but there are a lot of places we can choose to draw them. I think I was going for "If we don't want one t...

I think it's more accurately put as, Less intelligent animals do it, so that's why we do it. If something works, and better than anything else, that's...

I think I've always had trust issues though. There's a scandal about everyone just waiting to happen. Medication for mental stuff has always seemed so...

While I'm admittedly impressed by all of the things he's pulling off, I don't know the guy. Not saying you're doing this here, but people do like to i...

What makes a future "better"? If it isn't us living as happy as possible as sustainably as possible, what is it? Something is only a distraction if it...

The answers people give when asked, "why do we continue to exist" have always intrigued me. I struggled with it myself a lot when I was younger. It is...

Sounds like you have most of those already depending on where you live. By the way, you can catch the bird, you just can't keep it as a pet.

Listen, while I'd love to discuss religion and capitalism with you guys, I know for sure that doing it publicly on this thread will blow us too far of...