Usefulness could be part of the self-formed delusion I was talking about: "As long as you acknowledge that you are content with the futility of everyt...
No, you're right. It's called being a uptight mammering, pox-marked haggard who can't see the value in being playful and whimsical and child-like. I b...
Ok so I turn on the tape to get water because i need it for survival = not futile. But why survive? it seems any practical examples you give to measur...
If I don't know whether things are futile or not, how can I start pursuing other goals? If everything is futile then no goal is worth pursuing. I will...
As long as you acknowledge that you are content with the futility of everything, then it is fine. if you however have fooled yourself into thinking yo...
But we don't know for certain that it IS futile yet, so why deny even talking about when it is only a possibility of it being so. That would be like n...
So when someone says to me "everything is futile really isn't it?" I am meant to say "futile to whom?" because no one can speak for anyone else. Seems...
You said "You'd answer yes if you don't find anything useful and you don't believe that anything has a point. You'd answer no otherwise. So "No."" Whe...
So if I said to you that I don't need to prove to you that I am a pink fairy that looks like a unicorn, what does that give me in assurity that your b...
Good point, but I wasn't looking for a belief on whether life has value or not. I was after a philosophical response that may deny the validity of eve...
Yes and I don't think I can refute ecclesiastes in the smallest, but this was a passing comment made in seriousness that led from sarcasm. Say you put...
So then futility is just about purposes and uses of things like turning on the tap = hydration = useful for survival. I guess if someone says "is ever...
0thru9 has it there, try going to bed 2 hours earlier, take some valerian or melatonin and listen to something very monotonous like a lecture on chemi...
Amen, I would of thought there would be more classical heads on here as philosophy usually is paired with the interests of the intelligent/aristocrati...
Yes indeed thanks for the correction and that should therefor mean that "redness" is mind dependant and makes no sense for anyone to start talking abo...
But it is a real possibility. Btw what is the difference between something being possible and it being a possibility? If you are going to make that st...
I would of thought that when we discovered that red is a certain wavelength of the EM spectrum that is exuded by the type of material light is reflect...
If you want to speak of INFINITE possibilities then that is a real possibility. Perhaps in 3.5 minutes an alien species comes down to earth with pinea...
Ok so all he said was that the thought of a triangle is different from the mental image of a triangle and that triangles are non-physical and don't ex...
How can they be real if they are still just latent/dormant potential states? That is like saying the infinite potential of states of me in 5 minutes h...
Where does this infinitum continuum of potential exist? I thought universals weren't dependent on spacetime in anyway. Don't potential states of affai...
Where would these modes of being exist without an individual or "particular actuality" to observe them? P.S. thanks for taking the time to help me her...
If something is real, does it not need to have existant properties in some way? How can something be real and not exist? Universals seemed to be conce...
This is not true unfortunately. Have you heard of the hard problem? It says that if everyone on earth except you were actually zombies but displayed a...
that doesn't make sense. as m-theory said "If you are without power, then by definition, you cannot also have all the powers." As long as both are not...
I agree with maplestreet here. It is about past tense and the first paragraph assumes that it needs a person to survive after death in order for a wis...
Btw, that shit isn't good for you. Antagonizing choline receptors leads to memory dis-function among other things. Healthy Acetylcholine levels are cr...
I think this is just like saying "Logical conclusions don't represent the truth about the world therefore there is no reason for me to believe in soli...
My friend always said to me this is a logical error. Because in a manner of speaking you are using one system to refute itself, much like trying to bu...
In simpler terms, if I was all powerful... could I make myself powerless? By definition, yes. By logic, no. Because once you became powerless you coul...
In most circumstances yes, the more words the more discriptive it is and the more descriptive it is the more ideas can be acted out in favor or agains...
That is why you joined philosophy forums didn't you? So you can post endless one sentence garbage posts that are merely opinion and aren't backed with...
Just because you can't see beyond the confines of an ordinary mind! I bet you believe in atheism and naive realism too right? close-minded, stuffy peo...
Yep, that meme pictures works because you know how utterly bizarre all of this is and an actually viable conclusion could be something of that nature!...
I have been suffering from this for the past year now. It started out really bad like multiple times a day and progressively has gotten better. The la...
To your previous concepts of what normal reality felt like. Indeed, because philosophy often deals with what is real and often what is real is full of...
If that were so then computers, telephone, internet heck even toilet plumbing systems might all have consciousness. Why would consciousness emerge onl...
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