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Good is that which we usually associate with love, compassion, understanding, unity. Evil is that which we usually associate with fear, indifference, ...
November 15, 2019 at 10:29
Good questions, thanks for asking. We also have an intuitive notion of law, but isn’t it the case that it is will that creates law? The laws that soci...
November 15, 2019 at 10:16
I mentioned some of them in the post above, it’s important to read the whole of it. Love, compassion, understanding, attractive forces are forces that...
November 15, 2019 at 09:59
Let’s forget about good and evil for a moment and just talk about unity and separation. I think you can agree that there are forces within us and with...
November 15, 2019 at 08:48
Yes, but maybe the question "what the word really is independent of anyone perceiving it" is meaningless, maybe there has to be some being in order fo...
November 14, 2019 at 06:07
That's not what I said either, I said we cannot all be seeing things as they are (otherwise there would be no disagreement), and I also said we cannot...
November 14, 2019 at 05:57
Yes illusions can occur in all of perception, not just vision, by the word "see" I was referring to the whole of perception not just what we see when ...
November 14, 2019 at 05:53
I think what could be agreed upon is that the world we see is an appearance, an image of something more fundamental than the image, and that this imag...
November 14, 2019 at 05:31
If we somehow launch the house-sized dice fast enough it isn’t clear that we could predict individual outcomes accurately, because again an extremely ...
November 13, 2019 at 12:15
It doesn’t take 100% accuracy to put men on the moon. Also modeling gravitation in space is much easier than modeling all frictions on a dice thrown i...
November 12, 2019 at 15:53
It is interesting to read the story of how Augustine converted to Christianity: Is it more coherent to see the issuance of a decree of death for thous...
November 12, 2019 at 10:21
Yes I agree that one can love without attachment, however what I ultimately meant is that if we aren’t attached to love and to life, destructive force...
November 12, 2019 at 07:54
Hedonism is about pleasure and pain. Pleasure is not the same as happiness, pain is not the same as suffering, they are unmistakable, if you’re confla...
November 12, 2019 at 05:23
It really isn't obvious that this model accurately represents what goes on in reality, we can come up with plenty of different mathematical models sta...
November 04, 2019 at 13:55
The underlying difficulty is we don't know what other minds experience, we attempt to guess it based on how they behave, how they look, how they sound...
November 04, 2019 at 11:39
This is also a good read: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
November 04, 2019 at 10:34
And one of the reasons there is a war on drugs (on some drugs really) is that there is another cartel that governs us and that makes a lot of money by...
November 04, 2019 at 10:07
That’s the one thing I disagree with in Buddhism. While I agree with the idea that attachment to desire leads to suffering, how can there be love with...
November 01, 2019 at 10:27
One could argue that war contributes to evil instead of stopping it. Fighting suffering with suffering does not stop suffering, fighting fear with fea...
November 01, 2019 at 10:05
Do you agree that saying there are two universes that satisfy theory T does not necessarily imply that the two universes actually exist? That is my po...
November 01, 2019 at 09:59
Okay, but then it seems you assume that this set of rules existed prior to the universe which would be an instantiation of these rules, whereas we hav...
October 31, 2019 at 16:59
I assume this is the paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5731606/ The problem is described in this quote, basically it is the problem o...
October 31, 2019 at 15:01
Shouldn't it be that a ToE is a model of the world rather than the other way around? I would say if we have free will then we have the freedom to crea...
October 31, 2019 at 12:28
From what you outlined his argument boils down to "if everything can be doubted then conspiracy theories can be doubted too, and what can be doubted s...
October 31, 2019 at 12:20
That’s okay, thanks for listening. I’m just going to clarify something for those who might be interested (you don’t have to reply if you don’t want to...
October 29, 2019 at 12:04
I suppose it would be more accurate to say that Good gives love and acts towards unity, whereas Evil gives suffering and acts towards separation. Evil...
October 29, 2019 at 08:50
We see life and death in the cosmos (such as that of stars, which power life). We see creation and destruction. Attraction and repulsion. Everywhere.
October 29, 2019 at 07:42
Some people have felt/seen God, pure love. Some people have felt/seen the Devil, pure Evil. Indeed these would be absolutes and not relative, they wou...
October 29, 2019 at 07:34
You are assuming that Evil suffers. If Evil wants pure suffering, why would it suffer from the lack of it? Evil cannot feel Good or else it wouldn’t b...
October 28, 2019 at 11:25
Good is that which loves, which wants to unite and to create happiness, whereas Evil is that which hates, which wants to separate and to create suffer...
October 28, 2019 at 11:09
I've thought about the subject for a long time, I believe there are things you could learn from me on that subject, I might learn some things from you...
October 09, 2019 at 11:27
I don't know why you make a distinction there. In both cases measurements are involved, in both cases the measurements can change (the shape of an obj...
October 08, 2019 at 08:46
Space can be defined in various ways, let's go with your definition (state it precisely so we can be on the same page). Strictly speaking I wouldn't s...
October 07, 2019 at 10:36
I hear what you’re saying, but I disagree, which is another instance of us talking past each other, and you’ll probably disagree with me disagreeing, ...
October 06, 2019 at 12:12
We're talking past each other here. Sure if you want let's say that there is space between objects and that objects occupy space. You agree that this ...
October 04, 2019 at 14:19
And as I explained, that's the same as saying that a binary star is full of empty space, rather than simply saying that it is two stars orbiting one a...
October 04, 2019 at 05:20
You can also talk of the center of gravity of two distinct bodies such as binary stars, and treat them as one cohesive body, but it's not necessary, y...
October 03, 2019 at 10:13
Yea, but this isn't due to climate change, this is due to overconsumption, intensive farming, deforestation, heavy use of pesticides. https://www.theg...
October 02, 2019 at 10:55
Well you can, it's just some models are simpler than others. But "simpler" is subjective, and it doesn't mean "closer to truth". The double-slit exper...
October 02, 2019 at 09:08
It isn't. One could very well define the mind as precisely the thoughts/desires/observations/... that are experienced, rather than as some separate th...
October 01, 2019 at 15:40
You can have contact action without assuming space to be a concrete substance. As an analogy, if I throw a ball at you and it hits you there is no spo...
September 29, 2019 at 09:49
The problem is that if you give him every time he asks, he will start thinking (more or less subconsciously) that whenever he fucks up financially you...
September 29, 2019 at 08:58
It seems your concern boils down to the realization that if each person has their own reality then there is no absolute reality you and everyone else ...
September 27, 2019 at 19:07
I want you to see that you're wrong not because I want to boost my ego or win an argument, but for your own good, because I care about you. I care abo...
September 26, 2019 at 10:19
One does not have to see a desire as a "deprived state", that's your own personal interpretation. One can desire something and not see what is desired...
September 26, 2019 at 02:30
I gave 3 quotes of his in my previous post, the first one is from his book Ideas and Opinions, the second one from his book The Meaning of Relativity,...
September 24, 2019 at 14:52
When I say the trajectory bends it's a figure of speech, it's the same as saying that light doesn't travel in straight lines. Whereas you're saying li...
September 17, 2019 at 13:46
That's what I guessed, but I wasn't sure because a lion doesn't necessarily have animosity. Leo is simply my first name. As to why I'm rarely seen, th...
September 17, 2019 at 08:58
I don't see what you mean.
September 17, 2019 at 08:49
You're the one reducing life to a "growth-through-adversity" game, I understand that's how you see life, but understand that that's not how many peopl...
September 17, 2019 at 08:40