I think it’s sad that it’s impossible to recover posts that the moderation deletes, something that seems to be gibberish to someone may be quite impor...
As I said, they are true now but they may not be true in the future, I didn’t claim that they would be true forever, so there is no contradiction. You...
But something else than existence is non-existence, and what is non-existence if not nothingness? So if existence didn’t arise spontaneously, it must ...
So it seems we have already reached three truths about this existence (they may not remain true forever but for now they are true): 1. There is existe...
Indeed that might work too. I was going to say that the concept “orange” doesn’t have an opposite, but actually everything that is not orange can be s...
OK I’m on board with that, let’s say “there is existence” instead of “something exists”. Now the purpose of this thread is to show that in order to ac...
That’s one way to see it. I wouldn’t say good is defined against evil, I wouldn’t say that we couldn’t feel happiness if we couldn’t feel suffering. B...
As I said on the last page, “something exists” isn’t true by definition, because it is possible that in the future everything ceases to exist and then...
What makes you assume it is logical to say “zero total energy” implies nothingness? The way energy is defined, it can be zero even when plenty of thin...
But how could we be mistaken about it? Even if we believe we are mistaken about it, that very belief implies “something exists”. So we could be mistak...
Or maybe there is a loving God who isn’t all powerful, because there is an evil God competing with him... Not quite. When all things move towards unit...
I like your idea. It’s sad to see all these knee-jerk reactions whenever someone puts forth an original idea that goes against the beliefs of material...
I am with you on this one Mike. We can come up with all kinds of weird theories to account for observations, for instance we could come up with the th...
There is something special about it. “Something exists” is about our world. It is not necessarily true, because in principle it is possible than in th...
But the particularity of “something exists” is that even if you believe you are mistaken about it, it still implies that “something exists” is true be...
Indeed, I would say that in the most general sense they are the same. Because for instance what would it mean to experience a color or have a thought ...
Again, even if you evaluate everything incorrectly, there is still an evaluation occurring. If you think things that don’t represent anything, there a...
Yes -1 + 1 = 0, but -1 * 1 = -1 for instance, why do you assume that a sum of energies equal to zero implies nothingness? That’s an arbitrary assumpti...
If one is mistaken then one exists, if an evaluation is made then that evaluation exists, if that evaluation is incorrect it is still an evaluation, i...
Even if you fail to understand what the words mean, you can still see that something exists without expressing it in a language. There are thoughts, t...
Sorry Mark Dennis, I have just realized that you have been banned and I never got around to reply to your thread. I really like your idea of linking i...
People disagree with one another because they don’t see the same things. We can use the same logic, but if we don’t make the same observations we don’...
But positive energy and negative energy are each not nothing. When they are exactly equal they aren’t nothing, it is only if both are zero that there ...
Thanks for the comment, at last someone is trying to challenge what I said without attacking me. Note that when I say that “something exists” I’m not ...
I agree with this, I find there is both great and poor philosophy coming from both academic circles and random thinkers. I agree with this too, he run...
There is a reason you philosophize, there is something you attempt to move towards through philosophy. In times of hardship there is only faith in tha...
Okay thank you. By the way to say that “at least two things exist” is not to say that “only two things exist”, and so is not to say that “many things ...
Why the snarky remarks? What is it exactly you don’t like about what I am saying? There is something that bothers you and instead of addressing it dir...
2 + 2 = 4 isn’t always true, if you mix 2 ml of liquid A with 2 ml of liquid B, the volume of the resulting liquid is not always 4 ml. You can build m...
The point of this thread is to show that we can prove something more than “something exists”, namely that “at least two things exist”. It might seem i...
So “something exists” is not an absolute truth? What is it then? Show me your reasoning where you conclude that it’s possible that nothing exists. Wha...
If you define the scientific method as thinking, observation, experiment, are you saying that the people we usually call scientists have the particula...
See my last reply to Qmeri regarding beliefs in mainstream science. Regarding scientific method, I’m not saying that mainstream scientists do not thin...
Observations can’t even rule out that planets orbit the Earth in circles, because you can invoke ‘illusion’ to explain that they really orbit the Eart...
I disagree, yes there is plenty of reliable information that comes from mainstream science, but also plenty of unreliable information. Plenty of publi...
Wishful thinking. That problem would already be solved if that system was as amazing as people claim it to be. It doesn’t get fixed because many ‘scie...
There is no such thing as “the scientific method”. http://rkc.org/bridgman.html ”In short, science is what scientists do, and there are as many scient...
Regarding mainstream science, it works like plenty of things work (say practicing a sport or a game until you get better). There are plenty historical...
If A is false then non-A is true, so to disprove is to prove something... Falsifying a theory doesn’t mean proving it is false, almost any theory can ...
Another important thing to consider regarding the relationship between information, feelings, and existence: psilocybin has been shown to greatly help...
I really like your take on things, it’s nice to see original thinkers. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it for now, but a lot of it fits with obs...
Because change happens regardless of what we think about it, whereas time is a concept we create. Within change (existence) we observe periodic change...
If you couldn’t detect change you wouldn’t come up with the concept of time. There might be change without a sense to detect change but there cannot b...
How could there be time without change? Time is a measure of change, or more precisely a measure of relative change (a comparison of some change relat...
Here is an interesting insight: we could see feelings as perceptions, just like with see sight or smell as perceptions. For instance the feeling of hu...
Sure it's important to keep in mind that there are unconscious desires (which may be uncovered), thanks for pointing that out, but a Buddhist attempts...
Mental suffering makes people kill themselves, so I wouldn’t say it is relatively harmless. There can be a strong feeling of hunger or pain without su...
:up: Sure, but any change can be interpreted as a loss. The night can be interpreted as a loss of the Sun, the day can be interpreted as a loss of the...
I’m glad you replied, I wanted to mention your ideas at some point in the OP but my post was getting too long. I wouldn’t say we ‘clashed’ on this in ...
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