Brett

But that’s not the purpose of my OP. Why not throw all your question in here and then address their strengths and weaknesses at contributing towards a...

Only in the sense that it must be unequivocal. For instance if the question was ‘Is there an objective morality?’ and the answer is ‘Yes, if there is ...

Which is no help at all.

You say here that harm is your answer to the question but deny it in your recent post. Why should you put the question in the category of politics? Ju...

Then so be it. That’s the ground the OP works on. So what would your question be? Edit: sorry was that your question: could anything be possible?

Just out of interest what would your question be? It has to be one that is answered by a simple yes.

We haven’t decided the Higher Power even exists. But if so, and even being perfect, it doesn’t negate the possibility that the creative process would ...

Just to be clear, my idea of a Higher Power is completely hypothetical. The difficulty is that I’m asking people to apply logic to a something we don’...

There seems to be no chance of reasoning with you and the low regard you have for the right.

First of all, if one believes there is a Higher Power that is perfect then I see no reason why the world created by that power should not be perfect. ...

That wasn’t my question. This was the question I would ask of all possible questions in relation to the exercise I talked about in my post. That’s dif...

An interesting statement. OPs where posters agree die very quickly. But that could be the nature of people the forum attracts. Very few people think a...

“No” refers to what?

Yes, very true. No sarcasm intended.

This is true. To me you tend to talk in a very structural way, like a brick builder. Which I need to adjust to understand what you’re getting at. What...

Well rewrite it without what you think is ridiculous, if you feel they are?

I don’t know what this refers to. Your anecdotal evidence wasn’t related to any fact- based argument but to the idea that “If you just go out and do s...

That is not what I’m saying. This is what I said. I used obesity because you had used it. So I don’t know what we’re talking about now. That’s a bit r...

If I was to chose a Higher Power it would be because that power was perfect; it could not be anything but perfect. I can’t think of any reason such a ...

So then I think the question and answer that would lead to your choice would be “Is there objective morality?”. If that was the case then morality wou...

No you wouldn’t, I left out a word. What would be the cause of us doing no harm? What would compel us?

I think it’s very unlikely that someone could be overweight and play sport or dance. Of course it’s possible but not long enough to count as anything....

Oh I see. I misconstrued your post. I’ll look up the link. Edit: philosophically what would make us not harm? For instance if the answer to the questi...

Having put it that way I do think you have a point. But I’m not sure if competition is behind it. I mean if the number of people sitting around watchi...

Yes, you’re right. Who are we to know the why of a Higher Power or what is happening that we are unable to see? So I go back to including the question...

Would not that problem be addressed if objective morality revealed itself to us? And I hate to split hairs, as is done here so often, but what is “hat...

Do you mean that if this question was answered, that it’s existence was proven so to would be the validity of the question and so to the truth of the ...

In terms of the experiment I don’t see a Higher Power necessarily connected to morality. Morality could exist without a Higher Power. But if there was...

That’s not the exercise. It’s which question applied to which aspect of philosophy, if answered as a truth, would contribute more than anything else t...

I had wondered if we could have wisdom without first having an objective morality confirmed first, that wisdom would follow that. But as you point out...

I’m not sure if that’s your question or if it’s addressed to me. But having thought about I see a problem with the Higher Power idea. Not because it’s...

Yes because from wisdom would come all the science and laws that would be right, that would build a better future, what else could they be? But, there...

Theoretically, as an experiment, they are not context driven because the question has a true answer. If it was an objective morality there is no conte...

I think it helps focus on what is important to each of us. If we have a specific area we think contains access to this better future it also indicates...

I only used the word “best” in relation to the science that would follow the answer. “A better future for ourselves and the world” was my original que...

But somehow we can never nail down that “event”.

Does anyone happen to know the etymology of nothing and something and their appearance in language in relation to each other over time?

That’s funny. Was it meant to be?

A nice post. But it seems to me that no matter how one addresses the question it always comes back to “first cause” and then we start again. So no fir...

It seems to me, generally, that people have come to expect less in terms of performance and entertainment, or given up expecting it. It’s probably tru...

The problem I have with this, and the idea of spirituality, is that it seems to me we’re no longer those people. There may be some around, there are c...

I decided I needed to do a bit of reading on this subject. This from the beginning of an article I’m reading; “ The purpose of studying the audience i...

There are things you say that I would agree with. To say yes to uncertainty can only make life better. To say yes to painting on Sundays is obviously ...

This is interesting. In what way do you think they were different?

I would agree with you there. But I don’t think that means there was no attachment. A person who has lost something may think about what they had, or ...

Well from my point of view the attachments are behind the caring, i.e. the concern for others or community. When Notre-Dame in Paris caught fire there...

This is how I interpret your post: Creativity is at the core of existence > human expression is a result of creativity Understanding > creativity But ...

This is a bit unclear to me. Edit: do you mean a work of art is different from “creative” work?

I wanted to revisit the word “care”. To “want” something is different than to “care” about something. So I’m going back to the idea of “caring” for so...

In the case of Japanese interned in California when war broke out it was done because of what they might do as Japanese people, what US officials imag...