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How can you even measure probability as you do here? What methodology are you using to end up with those numbers? And how can you attach a higher numb...
April 21, 2019 at 10:00
Yes, you are correct about the grammars. But taking things out of context like this is not very linguistically pragmatic. The semantics, as I mentione...
April 21, 2019 at 08:14
Unnecessary attack on language skills, which is easily countered by the fact that I hold the highest degree of English language skills within my commu...
April 20, 2019 at 21:17
Not sure how to respond to this other than that it's hard to use that as a philosophical foundation for any philosophical argument. Philosophical argu...
April 20, 2019 at 20:56
The interpretation of "atheism" is commonly about atheists demanding proof for something to exist. If you "do not believe in God", which is another in...
April 20, 2019 at 16:31
That's you interpretation of everything said, that's not the stance I'm at. Your wild and personal interpretation is irrelevant to what I actually wro...
April 20, 2019 at 16:14
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Maybe move locked threads like these into a "humor"-section of the forum? :lol:
April 20, 2019 at 14:12
Write a post with a better philosophical substance so I have something to work from. I can't work from answers like "bullshit". It's not that it's tri...
April 20, 2019 at 14:10
Nope, you just don't understand my argument and replies with it being bullshit instead of nuanced argumentation. Your post is not worthy of being a ph...
April 20, 2019 at 13:53
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April 20, 2019 at 13:06
Or you could have better manners and phrase your arguments better so that I could care to value your opinion. Right now, valuing your argument relevan...
April 20, 2019 at 12:44
Have you read the moral theories I posted before? It's basically based on this value calculus :wink: But if we think long term, how do we know that th...
April 20, 2019 at 12:40
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Most questions on this forum have already been asked, so many are unnecessary. But for those that haven't, I still think participation in other thread...
April 20, 2019 at 12:30
Completely agree that long term is harder, but often tend to focus on a morally better outcome. However, inducing what is morally good or bad in the l...
April 20, 2019 at 12:22
To you perhaps How do you conclude that to be the true concept of atheism? You have a fundamentally limited understanding of what I actually wrote, so...
April 20, 2019 at 12:18
Yes, but this was about the source of morals. The source is emotional, vegetarians evolve morals based on their emotional feedback towards other anima...
April 20, 2019 at 12:10
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There should be a post-number before being able to start new threads. Like, after 10 or 20 posts you can start new threads. Far too many new topics li...
April 20, 2019 at 11:57
Our morals stem from biological emotional feedback that has its roots in how we function as pack animals. If you want the most basic causality start f...
April 20, 2019 at 11:51
Because it kick-started the conflicts that led to WW1. If it didn't happen, we might be living in a world with a lot of imperial states and we might e...
April 20, 2019 at 11:34
Atheism is neither agnostic or certain of the non-existence of God. That's the traditional fundamental misunderstanding of atheism. The atheistic appr...
April 20, 2019 at 10:38
Determinism has solid ground mathematically through probability. At quantum levels, probability has a randomness that hasn't been combined with larger...
April 20, 2019 at 09:50
You should look into the "System 1" and "System 2" theories in psychology. They may answer those questions for you.
April 18, 2019 at 13:15
The idea of free will is rooted in our defense mechanism against the concept of determinism. We desperately need to justify our own sense of control o...
April 18, 2019 at 13:03
That's an understatement.
March 17, 2019 at 13:32
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13673-evolution-myths-mutations-can-only-destroy-information/ Evolution doesn't occur through stepping stones, ...
March 16, 2019 at 12:25
Would you agree that there are two types of identity? Variable identity, which is an identity which comes before its malleable variation; potato becom...
March 05, 2019 at 14:35
Time doesn't slow down for the one traveling. Time is constant for the observing traveler, but for anyone looking at the traveler, they would see his ...
March 05, 2019 at 14:13
Since you start out with the same kind of attitude that I was urging you to stop with I have no reason to continue wasting my time on your ego. You ha...
February 28, 2019 at 09:58
But you could perceive the concept that a room is still a room if what is inside it is the absence of anything. From this, the property of nothing as ...
February 27, 2019 at 19:07
If you define that space as having properties, but if there are no properties to that space, isn't it then nothing? How do you define nothing?
February 27, 2019 at 18:48
Is it not still a room even if space in between is a vacuum, not even with quantum particles? Does a room need air to be a room?
February 27, 2019 at 18:25
You have to add nothing to the building blocks; walls, floors, and ceilings of a house in order for space to create rooms.
February 27, 2019 at 18:02
It doesn't take much to understand the basic concepts of dialectics and dialectic discourse, but do you think that if you went out on the street and a...
February 27, 2019 at 15:12
It's often the last thing people hold onto when going from belief to nihilism and understanding the meaninglessness of life. People who believe in rel...
February 27, 2019 at 08:12
Which is contradicting as to why the rest should be of an almost infinite scale and with such complexity. So that there might even be exotic material ...
February 26, 2019 at 17:25
You demand a simple answer and I gave it. Belief does not exist without human thinking about something and starting to believe something, out of that ...
February 26, 2019 at 15:36
Because regular people don't generally understand the concept of a dialectic discussion, they see any discussion between two opinions as an argument w...
February 26, 2019 at 15:01
Everything is pointless. But even though I'm of the opinion that there's nothing behind the beauty that exists around us, I find there's even more bea...
February 24, 2019 at 16:13
Because religion, spirituality, and fantasy come to people trying to figure out the unknown without having the tools to really understand them. It hap...
February 24, 2019 at 15:15
No, it's about being observant to the behavior and opinions of common people around you. If you want to know more about how things are being discussed...
February 24, 2019 at 12:09
I think I gave you the most realistic answer. Educate and turn people in a democracy towards wanting strict gun laws. You can't do much else. One thin...
February 24, 2019 at 03:03
I really don't see a problem with finding out what to do. The data is clear that strict gun laws and quality of life/politeness go hand in hand. There...
February 24, 2019 at 02:20
Just compare societies with low gun control and societies with high gun control - And then compare that to the statistics of best places to live in th...
February 24, 2019 at 01:38
The question doesn't make sense really. Belief is the ideas in your head about the world around you. They are either supported by something or they ar...
February 23, 2019 at 21:07
First, please edit your posts instead of spamming them, just a tip. Gets a bit fragmented otherwise. I get your point, but I think you are fragmenting...
February 23, 2019 at 13:28
That's a dismissive simplification of everything. No, your belief is still unsupported before any kind of support backs it up. If you prove it false, ...
February 22, 2019 at 19:40
I'm talking about what generally is considered about movies. If you have unlimited freedom you can do whatever you want but that rarely focus your cre...
February 22, 2019 at 16:43
Enforcement and authority are not essentially really the same thing. So is a decision to give authority to someone else. You can give authority over y...
February 22, 2019 at 16:36
Have you read previous posts in this dialectic? Maybe you find answers there. I've written in detail about this numerous times in this thread. In esse...
February 22, 2019 at 16:29
True, I was just going by the question of why it feels that you are "free" when you give up freedom to restrictions through your own schedule. There's...
February 22, 2019 at 16:23