Tzeentch

All roads lead to Rome. What matters in the end is that one arrives there. Labels like "better" are meaningless. Some people may have no chance of rea...

Differential calculus provides an approximation by substituting a curved line with straight ones like so: http://cdn-7.analyzemath.com/calculus/Integr...

Even if one were to assume that by doing such things one would acquire knowledge, not many people do this. Let alone for every single belief they hold...

I'm talking about persons. But if one has to figure out whether his belief is true or not, one has to do the experiment, and after doing that experime...

I'm talking about the belief in science of the average person, so I'm not talking about scientists who have carried out the experiments themselves. Ca...

Och, och. An apologist agenda? You must not presume so much. Perhaps then you'd be a tad less insufferable to discuss with. This isn't the core of the...

They're both ideas without proof, thus beliefs. That one supposedly is acted upon while the other is not is an arbitrary distinction. You've limited y...

I don't see how the fact that they are never acted upon as truths before proven somehow makes those hypotheses special. A belief is a belief. Another ...

Even if you have reasons for finding an explanation plausible, it is still a belief. Until one has seen the things take place or done the experiments,...

One can be told by scientists that matter consists of atoms, but one cannot be sure until it is seen by one's own eyes. Until then, it is a belief.

Science, to the extent that one hasn't carried out the experiments themselves, is a belief. One may consider it a "rational" or "logical" belief, but ...

Why only religious beliefs? Lets throw in all beliefs, including scientific ones.

It may be for you, but it doesn't have to be. One finds that people who act in such negative fashion are rarely happy, and their negative behavior ten...

Let's just say that if you conclude that exhibiting such behaviors would not make you any happier, perhaps a more appropriate attitude towards such pe...

You expressed that you feel people can be mean, cruel, deceitful, to name a few things, and that you term yourself as somewhat of a misanthrope becaus...

Reflect. Hatred is often a form of self-loathing and such negative emotions can be an ocean of insight into one's own mind. If you were to act that wa...

Intuition can be a great source of moral wisdom, or at least a grounds for further investigation. However, it requires a developed personality to be a...

Why? To both assertions. So how does listening to one's emotions fit into this? Even though I don't agree with the general sentiment of this statement...

Considering Rand's philosophy is called 'objectivism', and it is explicitly stated that emotions make for poor guides in life, I think you are not sta...

Someone may quit a well-paying and stable job because they feel unhappy there. Who defines what reasonable is, then? People in those factories didn't ...

I agree that emotions shouldn't shape your conception of reality. I disagree that emotions make a bad guide in life. Objectively proper choices can be...

Going off the information provided in the link: Reality: "Facts are facts". Okay, but what does man really know about facts or reality? Great thinkers...

That'd be a curious choice of words, but I guess one is entitled to their opinion. But again, claiming to be superior is probably the worst way of con...

There's a difference between evaluating an action and passing judgement upon a person. I realize that 'to judge' and 'to evaluate' can be used as syno...

Indeed. There is an important nuance, though. If one is late on rare occasions for reasons out of their control, it is not hypocritical to chastise ot...

First of all, there's no reason to tell my daughter that she's morally superior to anyone. And if you believe that to be a proper way to console rape ...

I don't having any such illusions, since that would make me delusional. Even worse, having illusions that one knows to be false would make one delusio...

It's an interesting subject, though a very personal one. If someone hasn't had an experience of oneness with something, it is almost impossible to con...

I didn't mean to call your proposal inferior, but I am wondering how one would prove that all is one without the ego being an illusion. The ego implie...

Yes, in my view it is a distinct possibility that duality is a human construct, thus an illusion. There are also many, predominantly eastern, religion...

You phrase the question as such: But I am not sure if you are talking about the actual world or the subjective human experience. I'll share my take on...

My experience with depression and depressed people has convinced me that depression is nature's way of forcing a person to change certain beliefs abou...

Am I correct that your gripe is with the word "everything" here?

Honestly, let people say what they want about each other. Even if it is meant to ruin their reputation and based on lies. Perhaps if that becomes stan...

Could you provide a link to the actual study?

Of course. The old "I don't like your opinion so your academic findings must be forgeries." And no, I am not a Christian. By your angry and irrational...

Ah yes, non academic. I assume you have not even looked at the references then, have you?

Abortion is very clearly a terrible thing. One denies a potential human being the chance to live. Perhaps the only chance they ever had. It is pointle...

I don't believe any form of speech should be censored, no matter how idiotic, ignorant, hateful or violent. One is either are a proponent of free spee...

It is my personal view that humans are essentially dualist, or perhaps trialist in nature. Dualist in the sense that the division lies between the rep...

Even though I've been critical of your views, I sympathize with them in general. I agree that humanity needs to rethink the way it is currently behavi...

You don't think plants and trees are life forms?

"Patriarchal oppression" makes it sound like a conspiracy. Given the axiom of "men like things, women like people" (https://psycnet.apa.org/record/200...

Great to see such wholesome behavior from long-time members of this forum.

Retribution is always a terrible idea, no matter how grave the injury. When someone is injured, in order to properly heal the wound one must at some p...

Humans aren't capable of grasping the essential nature of objects either, and that ties into your argument, perhaps rephrasing it a little. One may lo...

I am not against human rights, but I don't pretend to be a champion for human rights either, nor do I harbor any illusions about being morally superio...

What if one experiences meaning? Would that still be considered a leap of faith? Maybe I am nitpicking here, but knowing the "truth" in this context s...

Behind a thin veil of careful wording it is becoming apparent that there exists a sense of moral superiority in some of these people with regards to t...

I'll gladly answer that for you, but I think you owe me an answer first.