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EnPassant

['Member']Joined: June 23, 2018 at 22:30Last active: February 07, 2026 at 10:058 discussions717 comments

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Where am I?

June 02, 2020 at 20:43 6 comments Feedback

Russel's Paradox

May 17, 2020 at 20:48 67 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

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February 04, 2026 at 20:12
I can only repeat what I said: these studies are framed within standard definitions of 'mental'* illnesses. Psychic damage does not necessarily fit in...
February 04, 2026 at 19:49
Like I said, I have seen with my own eyes what this stuff does. Nothing you post can compete with first hand knowledge. I don't see anything 'irration...
February 04, 2026 at 19:36
There is a link to mental illness. I have seen it with my own eyes. I once witnessed a friend of mine in a state of pure terror from taking this stuff...
February 04, 2026 at 19:27
Unscrupulous individuals can use anything as an excuse for evil. Even Stalin used religion. That does not, in itself, make religion evil. The world is...
February 04, 2026 at 19:18
Religions are corrupt. Supernatural beliefs per se don't cause damage, it is the corruption and misuse of religion that causes damage. Read about Syd ...
February 04, 2026 at 08:58
There are many levels of faith. Some have an intuitive sense of God, some have deeper faith and enter religious life, some become mystics and have a d...
February 03, 2026 at 19:44
Understanding comes from God. God teaches and guides those who desire the good. Goodness is ultimately obedience to God. It is not the same for everyo...
February 03, 2026 at 17:20
Theists believe in God for many reasons but the best reason is communion with God. Why anyone be unable to commune with God? I am not talking about me...
February 03, 2026 at 08:35
I am not talking about ritual practices, they are just externals. I'm talking about moral issues, 'right living' which is an aspiration towards the go...
February 03, 2026 at 08:30
Spiritual truth is not an intellectual abstraction, it is a way of being, a way of life. That is what 'I am the way' means. Buddhists call this 'right...
February 02, 2026 at 19:52
That seems to be another way of saying those who are aware, are aware of something real. I would not use the word defective. I was a (lukewarm) atheis...
February 02, 2026 at 19:35
Drawing is the probity of art - Ingres.
February 02, 2026 at 17:35
I agree with your viewpoint. There is a river of evil flowing out of Hollywood. The world is soaked in evil. Unfortunately the little people will defe...
February 02, 2026 at 17:33
I would say most religious belief comes from intuition and awareness. The deepest form of belief comes from direct awareness of God - knowledge of God...
February 02, 2026 at 10:35
A person can interact in the most sophisticated and subtle ways in the social realm. The person can have great artistic or musical talent. We are thin...
February 01, 2026 at 20:42
My argument is that people are pretending that such and such is established science when it is not, it is merely hypothesis, often based on ignorance ...
January 30, 2026 at 14:56
The key word is 'participates'. It correlates with various functions. Correlation is not always causation: https://theconversation.com/if-correlation-...
January 30, 2026 at 11:28
Yes.
January 30, 2026 at 09:44
I am saying that science has not shown that emotions originate in the brain. All that has been shown is that the brain is correlated with these things...
January 30, 2026 at 09:43
Time is normal in any frame of reference. It is only relative compared to other frames of reference.
January 29, 2026 at 20:45
Once you get into unproven assumptions you have a recipe for great confusion. How do you know love and hate are biological realities? Because scientis...
January 29, 2026 at 18:23
The argument is strong. For example, fine tuning suggests the physical universe proceeds from mind.
January 29, 2026 at 09:56
Are you talking about applied math or pure math? If p is prime a^(p - 1) = cp + 1 is a non physical truth about math.
January 28, 2026 at 20:01
God IS existence. Existence cannot be a property of anything. Existence is that which is. My argument is that since the universe is mathematical it pr...
January 28, 2026 at 18:39
But what if we leave out 'moment' and instead say that light beams arrive simultaneously at a certain location. Isn't that a 'now'? We can even, in pr...
May 21, 2025 at 18:26
If 'now' is defined as the moment information reaches our senses (say light beams from various sources coincide with your position in space) we can de...
May 21, 2025 at 16:43
Change is not a strong definition of time. Change is about how information reaches a certain point in space (our senses, as far as our experience is c...
May 20, 2025 at 20:17
Aleph Null + Aleph Null = Aleph Null
April 24, 2025 at 09:08
Well, I suppose it is harder for us to see our own selfishness/stupidity because we don't want to, of course.
February 16, 2025 at 19:44
Reality is what it is. Truth is why it is what it is.
February 16, 2025 at 17:48
Very often stupidity is not a failure of intelligence, it is a moral failure. Selfishness ignores the good and leads to behaviors that others find inc...
February 16, 2025 at 17:39
Subjective views are part of an overarching reality. 'As above, so below'. Nature is universal and tells us about the world in general. For example, n...
February 11, 2025 at 11:09
A tautology is a logical statement that does not contradict the axiomatic set within which that statement is made. Axiom 1: All hyenas play chess. Axi...
February 10, 2025 at 19:52
Regardless of whether you felt the need for her to recriprocate, a relationship has to be a two way thing. It won't work otherwise. Sometimes a person...
January 26, 2025 at 19:22
There was once a guy in a war and the bullet killed him. He didn't see it coming...
January 26, 2025 at 19:16
Existence is, from the beginning. It is eternal and infinite. That which exists is eternal. Finite things are events in eternity.
January 23, 2025 at 20:43
I tend to agree. I think comedy is one of the finest arts and expressions of 'non linear' intelligence.
January 20, 2025 at 20:52
Objects are not ultimate realities. The hydrogen atom is an image of energy. When energy is configured in a certain pattern it forms an image; hydroge...
January 18, 2025 at 20:40
"But ideas are fictions. They're just brain processes." Brain processes are physical images of thought. The object is an image of energy/spirit/mind. ...
January 18, 2025 at 20:10
"Negative numbers don't exist, I don't see how they could. Imaginary numbers don't exit (where is the square root of minus one apple? I don't see it o...
January 18, 2025 at 17:53
"So, the world has transfinite ordinal numbers. Or does it?" You are being too literal. That mathematics is real does not mean every mathematical obje...
January 18, 2025 at 09:30
"Theory means human abstract thinking on the world phenomenon, objects and events." To abstract means to 'take from'; to lift the math from the realit...
January 17, 2025 at 09:41
"What are the 4 points" That was a mistake. I was thinking about another function. No rational points. "x^2+y^2=pi^2" - x and y will be irrational whi...
January 17, 2025 at 09:15
What about Combinatorics, Group theory, Set theory, Boolean algebra etc.? The world is exactly the way these disciplines describe. https://en.wikipedi...
January 17, 2025 at 09:09
"Matter itself is not energy. Matter combined with motion is energy." When matter and anti matter collide they are transformed into pure energy. "They...
January 16, 2025 at 17:51
Matter is energy. When energy 'condenses' into a particular pattern it forms an object; a hydrogen atom, a chair, a table. These patterns are images. ...
January 16, 2025 at 11:46
The definition of time as change is not satisfactory. Time is the way change happens. That is, it is the logic of change. Relativity describes physica...
January 15, 2025 at 20:29
Saying mathematics exists independently of our minds and saying numbers exist independently are two different things. Mathematical truth, as it really...
January 14, 2025 at 21:04
Can't one just say there are potentially infinitely many prime numbers? Also one can say that- 1/p1 + 1/p2 + 1/p3 +...diverges to infinity where these...
January 14, 2025 at 21:00