How many countless people suffer from metabolism and sleep problems? Just add it to the pile of harms.. see here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...
If the world started from boundless possibility, as you were implying earlier, we cannot escape it. Possibility exists and therefore actuality can exi...
You are in a universe where contingent and determined forces play out perhaps from an original apeiron of boundless and indefinite possibilities which...
This problem goes back to the first philosopher, Anaximander actually. He thought all was undefined or Boundless. Essentially, it was the idea that al...
In terms of antinatalism, it is interesting to know that you need existence to know that non-existence is preferable. However, non-existence does not ...
If Trump is not colluding with the Russians, he sure does not do a good job of assuring people that this is the case. I think rather than overplaying ...
Agreed.. I wrote this earlier on the forum: I'm reminded of 2001: A Space Odyssey. One can read many things into that movie. The name of the ship was ...
No problem.. I just wanted to draw the parallels as we were hitting similar points. The main point is that the historical context matters and that int...
This was pretty much my earlier point in the thread. I provided a possible scenario as well of pre-Pauline Jesus Movement vs. post-Pauline Christianit...
@"Bitter Crank"@"Thorongil" @"Agustino"@"Metaphysician Undercover" The problem is that the core of religious experiences may have changed over time to...
How is this the case? A possibility exists for a future person. There is a potential for a person with unknown qualities or with vague qualities based...
Potential is about a possible future event. It gets tricky when talking about "potential people" and the morality of potential people. Can we talk mea...
So should Jesus' sayings have no historical analysis whatsoever? The sayings cannot be compared to other sayings, influences, and otherwise use of par...
I think it is just the best interpretation if we are not ripping him from his historical context. There is no silver bullet in ancient history- especi...
Yes it is! A nationalistic god absorbed lesser ones, and were probably championed by those who were keepers of the ancient laws- The Prophets, and the...
I agree, I said in my very first post on here that the Hebrew bible, and particularly the Laws of Moses were probably not even compiled until the 400s...
I would say in general its references to the meek and poor being lifted up. There is evidence that the early Jesus Movement (not Pauline version yet) ...
No doubt there was a lot of escoteric traits to this, but in the tradition of Ezekiel's vision of the Chariot, and other Jewish escoteric literature a...
Other stuff from Dead Sea Scrolls: Column 1 (1) about that Wisdom which God gave me... (2) to teach ... Column 2 (1) with a pure heart and who doesn’t...
My interpretation is more-or-less this, though it is kind of shabby in explanation by itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingship_of_God_(Judaism) ...
Yeshua ben Yosef vMiri? He was probably an itinerant Jewish craftsman who worked in the nearest urban center of Sephoris in the Northern Judean distri...
Born o'er the crashing waves of existence, amidst boredom and preference-lacks. Torn between the goals of salty snacks and the tech of the latest hack...
Not quite, I think it can be reformulated as, "If no new person was born to experience the goods of life, would this be a tragedy?". Or it could be st...
But the question is whether we have a duty to bring about goodness in the first place, not maintain what we have. Is a world without people to experie...
A person like this is being verbally abusive. If it is situational, then it can be helped by reminding the person that they have to control how their ...
I agree. Hence, no people, no cry right? Thus, that there are no people to experience good things in life (including the spiritual enlightenment I kno...
This is true. So due to the inevitable death of the individual and species, this justifies suffering? Moreover, is there some duty to bring experience...
Do you think that there is some duty, to bring new experiencers of good in the world? Let us say that you assumed the child was going to have over 50%...
I guess the question is, why provide that cross in the first place? To be or not to be, right? What is so bad about not being born in the first place?...
I'll say it differently- what makes the treadmill of life (including keeping oneself alive within a social context, the inevitable burdens, etc.) wort...
Yet this reply does not address the three questions directly. It's not a spurious attempt as I actually have three critiques that you overshot to put ...
Remember, the topic is whether self-actualization is an indirect reason why non-religious people have children. As Erik Faerber was saying, if you ask...
That's a good question.. There is a list Maslow gave which sounded like a modern version of the virtuous man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actua...
But the want implies a reason, even if not self-actualization. At least in the first world, access to birth control is pretty easy, so sex does not ha...
So you think that based on these movements of capital to global East and West, and mechanization of production will produce some sort of communist sta...
I think my reply to Jamalrob applies here as well: Certainly, there are differences in Marx theory over time. Even so, the inevitability of an end com...
Certainly, there are differences in Marx theory over time. Even so, the inevitability of an end communist state did not occur nor does it seem it will...
The Office Space society won't be starting revolutions any time soon. Even if the industrial cheap labor has moved to the East and South, Marx's commu...
What would your ideal socialist society look like? You have to take into account certain aspects of human tendencies. Studies have been done saying pe...
How do you see that actually playing out in our modern economic system? If anything, the post-WWII social safety nets would prevent people from moving...
Good point. Maybe categorizing the bulk of white collar work as "petite bourgeoisie" is incorrect. The working class makes a wage but not returns on i...
A common response to antintalism is that there are opportunities for happiness in the human project. A decision not to create life, is a decision to p...
I call the term instrumentality- the idea that we do stuff to do stuff to do stuff. Essentially big brains with complex minds has given us the self-aw...
Spending itself can be a desirable act as opposed to the goods/services it buys. Spending provides the illusion that what one is buying is their prefe...
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