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And modern psychiatry is based on many beliefs, some of which are false. Philosophy is partly about questioning authorities, yet psychiatry is one aut...

Plenty of people suffering psychologically have been helped more by words than by medication.

Can't convince someone who isn't willing to listen, that's for sure. Maybe ponder some more on your belief that "the probability of an advanced, intel...

Realize that you are stuck in false beliefs and find your way back to the truth. We do matter, you do matter, try to see why.

Is fear really rampant among the "deplorables" who elected Trump, or among those who oppose him? Is Trump fearful? Who is really fearful? There is a r...

Indeed. Nothing cannot turn into something, because in order for it to turn into something it would already have to be something. In the strict sense ...

However you call that thing that you’re dealing with, and which bothers you enough that you seek help to get rid of it, you at least know that LSD hel...

This is true. The sad thing is it is not an unfortunate coincidence that we are forced to work so much. It is by design. We don’t need much to be happ...

But how do you know there are only electric and magnetic fields? Do you see them? Or you have inferred their existence? Would you have been able to in...

What i'm going to say is going to sound stupid to most people here, and it would sound stupid to most people in this modern society, but maybe it will...

There are more states where energy is spread out pretty evenly, the issue is that without knowing in the first place how likely each state is (which d...

Well I’m thinking that there could be universes where entropy decreases as a whole. In such a universe for instance some things would suck the energy ...

Indeed, though usually the underlying question is “what is the purpose of my life?”, or “what is the purpose of humanity?” At that point we have to no...

You can be pretty sure and wrong. First of all problem of induction, you can’t know what the laws of physics will be in the future. Then if there is a...

You say that because you are in depression. By this I don’t mean to say that you have a mental illness, that there is something wrong in your brain, e...

You remind me of myself some years back! What is true, what is real, what’s the difference between reality and imagination ... fundamental questions. ...

I think if you change jobs and pick one that contributes to saving the planet, you will feel less depressed. Obviously if you do something every day t...

Yes, and first of all we need to get rid of the widespread idea that relativity is necessary to explain observations and experimental results. Then re...

Dark matter and energy aren't incompatible with an absolute inertial frame. Also it may be possible to come up with a theory that doesn't need to invo...

I said I'm not going to be available for a while, I shouldn't be here now, but I guess the urge to respond is too strong, so I'll be quick: There real...

Did you read the paper of Karlov? In the Rømer measurement at some point an implicit assumption is made that light travels at the same speed in both d...

I didn’t claim he did, you were saying that the Lorentz ether theory came after special relativity, I was pointing out that’s not the case. You would ...

Indeed the twin paradox doesn’t prove that there is no absolute ‘now’. First of all it is a thought experiment based on the postulates of special rela...

Yes the Rømer measurement isn’t a true one-way measurement either, this is actually addressed in the link I mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

It is the truth that special relativity is not the only theory consistent with the experiments that are considered tests of that theory, contrary to w...

By the way that explanation seems to be flawed. It's not really a matter of perspective, as in practice each twin doesn't see how fast the clock of th...

So you're not reading or not understanding what I say? I'm not saying relativity is false. I'm saying it's not necessarily true. I'm saying there is n...

So you’re saying you have a problem with people fighting for truth? Apparently in your view it’s not a good thing to point out falsehoods in the mains...

Modern Science is a religion, its God is Universal Laws, which dictate everything that happens, that has ever happened and that will ever happen. A re...

Never been to such a convention, you seem to have more experience with them than I do. I fight for truth, you got a problem with that? When people are...

This is a philosophy forum, if you think you have encountered an argument that isn’t valid and it bothers you enough that it leads you to create a who...

I really like this and I feel you’re onto something, I too for a long time wondered whether the opposite of love was fear or hate. Love attracts while...

Yes loving someone isn’t just about how that person makes us feel, and it isn’t just about wanting them to be happier, and it isn’t just about seeing ...

Either they appear to be obviously wrong to you because they see a connection that you haven’t yet uncovered (and so they’re actually right), or they’...

I really like your example of the fridge. Indeed the observation of muons decaying more slowly when traveling faster is taken as proof that time is ru...

Thank you for the much-needed sanity. Some other things that are worth pointing out: In practice what we call time is a relative measure of change, an...

If possible let’s try to not go into all directions at once here! Each conspiracy theory could deserve a topic on its own, but I doubt that the admins...

Among the conspiracy theories that are widely dismissed and ridiculed today, and for which there is in fact ample evidence that they are true, I want ...

I somewhat agree, but even though a conspiracy theory shouldn’t be blindly believed it should at least be seriously considered, based on its arguments...

As examples of conspiracy theories that turned out to be true: mass spying by the NSA and tech giants and other intelligence agencies (as mentioned ab...

It seems he doesn’t see that even if the motions of a liquid can be explained from the motions of the molecules that compose the liquid, that doesn’t ...

You have a flawed understanding of expected value, it is 1*P(1)+2*P(2)+3*P(3)*4*P(4)+5*P(5)+6*P(6) = (1+2+3+4+5+6)*1/6 = 3.5 That ‘law’ states that th...

OK we can agree on that. With the caveat that it would be wrong to expect that throwing the die many many times will always yield each outcome with th...

Welcome and happy holidays to you too :) I would say confusion can arise in many ways, both in communication with other people and within one’s own mi...

Do you agree that loving somebody isn’t the same feeling as loving the taste of chicken? The use of the same word doesn’t mean that it’s the same feel...

In situation A the probably of one outcome is also 1 or 100% once the die is thrown, it is simply our incomplete knowledge that makes us say that any ...

I want you to focus on that, on this feeling that it seems to work too well. That feeling is telling you something, that there is something off in you...

I see we’re in disagreement over what is more fundamental, more reliable, more certain: change or being. That’s good, it means if we can uncover the r...

I explained carefully why saying that “the die behaves probabilistically” is at best meaningless and at worst a contradiction, and yet you’re saying I...

No no this is where your confusion lies. What do you mean exactly by “behave probabilistically”? It can be interpreted in various ways: I. Either you ...