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['Member']Joined: October 01, 2016 at 07:36Last active: August 15, 2022 at 07:2037 discussions542 comments
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"The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange: -G.K. Chesterton

"It has begun to seem that matter, like the Cheshire Cat, is becoming gradually diaphanous until nothing of it is left but the grin, caused, presumably, by amusement at those who still think it is there." -Bertrand Russel

"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex" -Karl Marx

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In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
That's a really interesting, relatable and well spoken reply. Thanks for sharing Tom :up: :smile:
August 15, 2022 at 07:27
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6tmYYhOUU
August 15, 2022 at 07:25
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Indeed. Perhaps the secrets within religious experience are some of the best kept secrets known to man-kind. The buddhist monk attaining nirvana, whic...
August 15, 2022 at 07:22
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
It is interesting to see what happens when people relax their rigid rational conceptions of events, things, aspects, qualities. We see it under altera...
August 15, 2022 at 07:15
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Sounds great. But, I can think of many implausible facets of knowledge which were proven factual/reliable: observer effect, quantum entanglement, deco...
August 15, 2022 at 07:07
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
It would be an individually perceived truth taken from the correlation between procedural knowledge (performing of certain rituals) and effects in rea...
August 15, 2022 at 06:55
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Good point! I believe rational thought is being used by the two of you in slightly different ways. One being that it brings you closer to the truth, t...
August 15, 2022 at 06:40
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
I love that, thanks for sharing. I would say I would have to agree with you, yet atheism could be a powerful tool in the timeline of human history. It...
August 15, 2022 at 06:38
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
I think that is a fantastic quote and relates so much to what I was talking with Javi about in this thread. The idea of there being metaphysical truth...
August 15, 2022 at 06:32
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Yes, my apologies, that was not my intention but an error of how i chose to display it. I have updated the OP to what I actually meant which is thus: ...
August 15, 2022 at 06:27
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Interesting, thanks for share your perspective praxis. I guess I was trying to go for the rambling style youtube video which is common among youtube p...
August 15, 2022 at 06:17
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
I am the OP and for context I am agnostic. By definition, a belief in a lack of the possibility of there being god is still a belief. Grammatically, o...
August 15, 2022 at 06:04
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
You sir have made the error in thinking that you know what the "basic knowledge the world needs to find solutions to our problems" actually is! Many o...
August 15, 2022 at 05:38
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
I believe so. I wouldn't go as far as Pascal's wager in terms of its appeal to pure agnosticism. Ideas have their merit in so far as their application...
August 15, 2022 at 05:32
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Precisely, it is suspect and it should remain suspect because of the tendency humans fall victim to with sharp unjustified beliefs (centuries of war w...
August 15, 2022 at 05:25
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
You make a good point that magick/technolgies or imaginative ways of interpreting the world are tools of choice and that if people are closed to them,...
August 15, 2022 at 05:22
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Thanks for the reply Bret. In the beginning I was attempting to speak upon a potential driving cause of a tendency in many people toward intense new a...
August 15, 2022 at 05:04
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Sorry, I really should have written that differently. When I used the disjunction "OR", I didn't mean they are synonymous with one another. So really ...
August 15, 2022 at 04:58
In: Emotion as a form of pre-linguistic and non-conceptual meaning? (honours thesis idea)  — view comment
Thank you guys! Much appreciated :pray: :blush:
October 13, 2021 at 07:49
In: Going from stupid to well-read, what essential classics would get a person there fastest?  — view comment
Classic, that was my first.. changed my life, made me decide to study a degree in philosophy. I don't know why it is so appealing. Perhaps the way he ...
October 24, 2018 at 01:43
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Remember i said that this is about chronic mental retardation. Einstein I am sure would be smart enough to be able to stop mike tyson from doing that ...
September 16, 2018 at 03:50
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
interesting, but how would evolution take place if humans never removed themselves from the conditions in which they evolved? It is kind of a non-star...
September 16, 2018 at 03:48
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
You clearly didn't keep reading to see what encompassed the term disabled in this context. Furthermore i suggest you actually reply with arguments rat...
September 16, 2018 at 03:46
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Do you want to point it out by just stating what you believe without any evidence or argumentation? Or should i remind you that you are on a philosoph...
September 16, 2018 at 03:41
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Yeah, but just because it is a theory about the past doesn't mean it is not still occurring. There is even evidence that it is still occuring, both ge...
September 16, 2018 at 03:40
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
It doesn't NEED intention in order to weed out the weak, it does so with out it. Its just a natural process with causal reactions just like any other ...
September 16, 2018 at 03:30
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
It is both, but only in the context of deficiency in money and therefore spent potential energy and also cost of suffering to the individual because w...
September 16, 2018 at 03:25
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
It is through evolution we have recognized we need to take care of the disabled (caring for the sick is another matter entirely). But that doesn't nec...
September 16, 2018 at 03:22
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
This is where you have misunderstood the OP. It was about mental retardation and chronic disability that cause suffering. Not variation of intellectua...
September 16, 2018 at 03:04
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Dont get me wrong, im not saying there is an ethical principle within evolution, that wouldn't make sense. There is only a "practical methodology" tha...
September 16, 2018 at 02:56
In: Can saying "death has no subject it occurs to" be defined as a category mistake?  — view comment
That's right, they no longer exist. the funeral is for the memory of who they were. I see now I misinterpreted "the loss of death" for the "process of...
September 14, 2018 at 01:59
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
What is proven is the system whereby success arise and failures fail. What is dependable about it is the testability of it due to its nature of repeat...
September 14, 2018 at 00:35
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
What I was saying was relating to what constitutes a sufficiently superior intellect to decide, not whether down syndrome people can be happy and a be...
September 14, 2018 at 00:32
In: Can saying "death has no subject it occurs to" be defined as a category mistake?  — view comment
A wrecked car is simply a wrecked car, it is not a car. It is in a new category of its own. "wrecked" is not a variant of a type of form the car is "a...
September 14, 2018 at 00:29
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
It is readily apparent that a university professor is sufficiently superior than any given person with trisomy 21 (down syndrome). Need I say more? Th...
September 13, 2018 at 13:55
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Your statement is irrelevant if you see the post above yours: Oh and btw, keep your emotions out of this.
September 13, 2018 at 13:52
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Yes, but it is the outcomes of those failures that are the "proven" successes (humans being one of them). The proven method I speak of here is natural...
September 13, 2018 at 13:50
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
exactly the type of comment i was looking for. It seems those restraints have only been loosened in the last few ages but the main point here is that ...
September 13, 2018 at 13:09
In: Transcendental Stupidity  — view comment
I don't doubt your capacities as a teacher to spot such occurrences but it may also be the case that the integration/systematization took place intern...
September 13, 2018 at 12:57
In: Should we let evolution dictate how we treat disabled people?  — view comment
Sorry, i should of clarified. Disabilities of the kind that serve no positive influence. Mainly in the form of mental retardation. I only speak to phy...
September 13, 2018 at 12:44
In: Have I understood this thesis? (New to academia)  — view comment
sounds like standard first year stuff. I remember learning a lot about pathos and related fallacies. Your writing is spot on too. This kind of materia...
September 13, 2018 at 12:35
In: Can saying "death has no subject it occurs to" be defined as a category mistake?  — view comment
It wasn't so much about chance or fortune but whether it is appropriate to say dead men are men at all.
September 13, 2018 at 11:23
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
wouldnt self affirmation be weaker than survival? https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.jpg
September 13, 2017 at 02:04
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
Then argue it with wikipedia, its the first paragraph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_tripartite_theory_of_soul
September 13, 2017 at 01:59
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
You misunderstand what it is like. It carries over into real world much like the relief from sex carries over. It doesn't breed apathy, it's the exact...
September 13, 2017 at 01:58
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
Fantastic post, 10/10 agree. This is why I find buddhist views on boredom and attachment so vanguard. I have had moments in meditation where I complet...
September 12, 2017 at 13:56
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
I am so sick of people saying "You choose your owning meaning". What a crock of shit, that doesn't even make sense. Everything anyone ever does is alw...
September 12, 2017 at 13:41
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
After reading this thread the only idea that appeals to me is that of our lives being as meaningless as other animals including insects. Although I fe...
September 12, 2017 at 13:25
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
You have biological constraints place on you. IE if you want to leave this place you have to do something called "killing" your body somehow... and......
August 29, 2017 at 11:01
In: Do you cling to life? What's the point in living if you eventually die?  — view comment
It is the fact that there is no objective worth that makes my own construction of the value of my life seem pointless. What even is human constructed ...
August 29, 2017 at 10:53
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