Pattern-chaser

I thought that Baden's post offered technical guidance. This doesn't make it wrong, of course, or unhelpful either. Your OP targeted writing, but also...

<like>

The technical aspects of writing are important, just like brush techniques are important for an artist. We need to learn these techniques before we ca...

I don't understand why people would ignore that humans have always done this, as far as we know. It's all very well to say "why do we do this?", and p...

Is there anything to add to this? If there is, I can't see it. Well said! :up:

IME, the best way for a Westerner to understand wu wei is to refer to any of Alan Watts' lectures on the subject. He explains it better than anyone I ...

:up:

Before we believed in Gods - if there was such a time? - we would not have thought of Gods, so we would have the "absence of thinking of" Gods that yo...

I can't quite see how we could have developed atheism before theism. How could we not-believe in God(s), when we had yet to recognise Gods in the firs...

Nothing "went wrong". We have had religion for a very long time. Atheism cannot have developed until there were Gods being worshipped, so that atheist...

No, it hasn't. But these days, internet access, even for the smallest pieces of equipment, is normal. And humans have a history of just doing it, rega...

:up:

No. From the OP: It's about a word, and whether that word applies to God. So does it? :chin:

It's worth remembering that this topic is not about God, but whether a particular word - "subjecthood" - might apply to God. We might as usefully ask ...

Indeed it could. But this we must avoid at all costs! :fear: Once an AI has the freedom to evolve and improve itself, there is no predicting what it m...

Because very few countries are as rich as we are? Only five countries in the whole world (which boasts hundreds of countries) have more than we do. An...

Then why mention a 'better deal'? There won't be one.

...which is what makes them real! They are not real in the same way that rocks and crocodiles are real. They're real like Harry Potter and mathematics...

Hasn't the EU already told us it's this deal or none? They are the biggest economic power bloc on the planet. Once we've left, we're just a third-worl...

Logically? Probably, yes. Outside of a strictly logical/scientific framework, it is coherent, just as the triple goddesses of history are. If you are ...

Bo**ocks! This is like me accusing fascists and capitalists of paedophilia, just because they're the people I most disagree with. Please confine yours...

None of those. We just treat people fairly. It's a simple enough concept; I don't think it benefits from a political brand, do you?

Just look at the description you offer: social justice. Fairness in the way people treat one another. And this offends you? I wonder why? "Political c...

And a self-evident-truth is ... a guess. For if we could manage anything more - ideally, proof - then we would. And when we can't, we guess. Self-evid...

Quite right. But mathematicians needed infinity, so they shoe-horned it into their arithmetic and algebra, even though it is obvious that it doesn't a...

...always remembering that it is mathematically invalid to divide both sides of the equation by infinity. You did remember that, right? :chin:

Interesting. So consider length, the human concept of length. It has no length, being a non-physical thing. But it exists. And remember that axioms ar...

Returning to the original sub-thread: Impossible to account for? Impossible to/for who? Humans, of course. The universe has no need for numbers, which...

No, it's not. But it represents 2, the number. If numbers don't exist, 2 does not exist, and the symbol ("2") has no meaning, for there is nothing for...

You didn't say "not real" you said not-existing: With no numbers, there can be no number theory. Your position is unjustifiable. Sorry.

They have indeed, but not enough to slow things down all that much, and it wasn't something we did, it just happened. God did it! :wink: Interesting. ...

...without actually knowing if anyone did experience what you did not! :wink: Ah, here's someone with actual experience. :smile:

:chin: :wink:

No, you weren't just let go, your mother supported you. So you have not had the experience you speculate upon. So who has? :chin:

But you introduced the topic by asserting that experience...?

Then it isn't your experience. Whose experience is it?

Where in the scientific space-time universe is "two"? Yes, you can find similar (is there any such thing as exactly identical?) things there, which we...

If numbers didn't exist at all, mathematics would be dead in the water, wouldn't it?

Yes, the misapplication of science, outside of its sphere of relevance, is, er, unwise. :up:

Yes, God can. Ask Her. :up: :wink:

Didn't you know that the mathematics of infinity is a kludge put there to force it into the arithmetic we use on finite numbers? :chin:

Yes.

Yes. How could it not be?

I think all this depends on your concept of time. What is time, to you? What do you want to do with it? Before you decide it's quantised, perhaps you ...

We should teach children that nothing can be (correctly) recognised by a human as "objective truth". History is as good a subject as any to introduce ...

OK, so which part have you recognised as being false?

Ignore philosophers. By this I mean it doesn't matter who thought of the idea, Schopenhauer, Kant, Hulme, Aristotle.... It's the idea that matters. Re...

:chin: And how long (after Brexit) must we wait before these negotiations start, never mind bear fruit? At least one country has told us to 'get in li...

Alice Coltrane - Huntingdon Ashram Monastery

That isn't mandatory. Is it your experience? Most people move gradually from childhood to adulthood, helped, guided and protected by their parents, sc...