Possibility

Personally, I’m not convinced the entire universe is entangled in a single system at the quantum level - and certainly not that each particle has as m...

I didn’t say the Universe was intentionally planned, though.

Pride is pleasure at, or a high opinion of, one’s accomplishments or value. This is fine and commendable only so long as we aren’t positioning this va...

I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing with - my only issue with what you’ve written were these two statements: Everything else I agree with.

I disagree - gossip, by definition, is idle talk about other people’s lives that may not necessarily be confirmed as true. It is neither harmful nor h...

The way I see it, we tend to talk about love in two different ways: Love as a feeling of value, preference or desire for someone or something; that in...

Gossip, whether malicious or ‘harmlessly’ passing comment, contains value positioning information. I think the thrill is in recognising the capacity w...

I’m with you here. That we are angered and frustrated by the pain humanity inflicts on itself and the world is heartbreaking. That people believe they...

I love my family and friends - that I put limitations on my love for others I recognise as fear on my part, not a necessary condition of love. I don’t...

In my view: Will is defined as the faculty by which one determines and initiates action. In spacetime, we observe this as cause and effect, but the wi...

Theoretically, there are no limits to anything. But if you want to achieve anything beyond your own subjective, internal experience, then there are ma...

That depends on how you define free will. Until we understand our capacity to choose (to increase awareness, connection and collaboration) in every in...

It seems strange to me to think otherwise, when everything in the universe starts so small. Is you question more about diversity, perhaps?

I don’t think we can assume that everyone has the same brain beyond the most basic structure - particularly since the majority of our brain’s processe...

When people do things in life or have experiences that are different to our own, it piques our interest. This is how we learn about value structures i...

Thank you for your contribution. I think projection, infantile rage and self-loathing are forms of hate, but hate also takes other forms that some peo...

You think you can choose what your reality is simply by preferring it a certain way - this is the problem. You can’t just block out the parts of reali...

Try reading the whole sentence. I’m not saying that we do. I’m saying that the capacity is still there, and hating Hitler is not going to protect us f...

It is our fears that cause us to make these prohibitive laws. It’s difficult to enforce action in general - interestingly, those laws that do seem to ...

You’re dismissing this on the assumption that ‘mind’ is necessarily a complex system, when in fact you have no idea what mind is. It’s all speculation...

Fair call. Must it intend to develop a larger system of mind, though? What if its intention is simply to be aware, to achieve...something? What if - f...

I suppose that depends on how you define ‘mind’ at its most fundamental: attention; will or determination to achieve something

Personally, I doubt that God must be a ‘person-like mind/being’ of necessity. A mind must experience, a being must be in time. Both of these descripto...

Exactly. That you do hate them, I also don’t consider to be wrong or immoral. But I maintain that hatred is unnecessary, ineffective and unjustifiable...

I agree. It’s still different from an intent to harm, though. Non-genuine intent is intent that you’ve assumed is there. You could speak with the pers...

But it’s more than careless. It’s an intentional withdrawal of kindness, but not intended to cause harm as such. A mean person has no regard for the f...

For something to be transcendent, it doesn’t need to be a separate domain from the universe - it only needs to extend beyond the four dimensions of sp...

The argument is only confusing because you’ve assumed that ‘the Universe’ = ‘the physical world’. But ‘universe’ refers to a particular sphere of acti...

I’m with you on this, for the most part. If true morality is to exist, as you say, then the legal system would be unnecessary. What makes these laws a...

When you’re not the one causing the undue pain, then epistemic judgement is not a call you get to make. As the one potentially experiencing pain, you ...

Yes I do. That’s because hate is created by the feelings of fear, anger or frustration that stem from failed attempts to construct our reality only fr...

I will continue to disagree that the mean person is trying to inflict some sort of pain on someone. You keep judging a person as ‘mean’ based on how y...

What judgements? ‘Animalistic’ refers to behaviour that we have in common with animals. Yes, we are social mammals, but our mental capacities are such...

Fair enough - and my apologies for misrepresenting you. I agree that morality is related specifically to behaviour, and speech in itself doesn’t fit t...

Ok, let’s go with this definition: Hate is NOT frustration and anger, but derives from these feelings (as I have said). Hostility and aversion are not...

I’m not denying that. There are people who give the limbic system priority in certain situations, and then rationalise around thoughtless, emotion-dri...

Sorry I missed this comment. I disagree with this. As I explained before, meanness is not an intent to be cruel - that’s just what is assumed by the p...

In a nutshell, a ‘good person’ in my view is someone who: Chooses to be aware - with integrity, self control and patience Chooses to connect - with ki...

Hate is created by our feelings: fear of losing what we love, frustration or anger at the lack of what we love - but it is hate only when we refuse to...

Yes, there were (and are) militant acts within the Civil Rights movement, and many who respond to racism with anger and violence and hate; who feel ju...

Hate and acting on hate - by and on behalf of slaves - did more to fuel the fear and hatred that sustained slavery, than it did to abolish slavery. Yo...

I’m not denying that slaves may have hated their mistreatment, or even hated the slave owners. I’m denying hate as the reason for the change, and I’m ...

It wasn’t that Rosa Parks hated sitting at the back of the bus - plenty of other people hated sitting at the back of the bus, or giving up their seat ...

It seems like you don’t really understand what hate is. What ended slavery in the US was not the ‘hatred’ of slavery, but affirming the freedom and di...

Hate does not have a ‘good’ side, and we are not ‘too good’ to each other, as a general rule. There is a lot more ‘good’ going on than most people rea...

I have noticed this about forums, yes - ha ha. I make a living in part by removing confrontational language from written communications, so it’s a cha...

No, I don’t. Meanness is categorically different from malicious intent. I dare say if you kindly point out the apparent withdrawal of kindness in thei...

I don’t believe the intention of meanness is to hurt, though. The feelings of the target are irrelevant, but it is because we expect some level of con...

I don’t think God contains everything at all. That implies ‘being’ something apart from what it contains, and also implies an actual location in space...

This makes sense to me. Personally, though, I think the biggest error in understanding God is in the assumption that God is a being: an instance of ex...