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I just thought, some of the agreements that go on in society are like: 'I'll turn a blind eye to your exploitation of stuff in the normal range of exp...

or maybe that is too cynical and simplistic. There can be all sorts of agreements going on, like an agreement that two entities share certain beliefs,...

It's a practical emergence of ways of functioning. An individual or group of individuals might decide their way of functioning is to give away everyth...

I think the best way to try an change people's attitudes, if one thinks they need changing, is to try to get them to see for themselves that a change ...

I believe that only in the eyes of the law can you really own an animal. Other than in the law, you can keep an animal captive, or like a pet. To kill...

I think if there is a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things, in the eyes of God, then Jesus would shed light on which way to do things w...

I thought I read he said animal sacrifice wasn't necessary any more....not sure where I read that.

I read on wikipedia that the default mode network becomes activated when people stop focusing on tasks and doing stuff, ie it probably becomes active ...

Emptiness is quite often experienced by people; people who live in isolation, like the character in Castaway. My guess is the eastern concept of empti...

One has to consider the questions: can animals suffer? Do you need animals for the food, skin etc that can be derived from them? If you do not need an...

There is evidence of a highly dense massive object, and I'm sure there is...Sag A*...but as I said, in theory it would be hard to tell the difference ...

no the brain won't actually die as such...this deactivation; has this been measure in fMRI studies? If part of the brain de-active when presented with...

it is a different take on it. Can you answer why questions like the clapping hand are asked within Buddhism?

well the question asks what is the sound of x clapping(which involves two hands). The x they ask the question of is 'one hand'...the concept of clappi...

rhetorical questions are questions that have implied answers, or obvious answers. the question of the hand clapping doesn't have an answer, so isn't r...

it's a question with no actual answer...a hand can't clap at all on its own, so the sound of something which is impossible doesn't exist, and by getti...

also, the term 'spiritual truths'....are there any spiritual untruths? If not then the term 'spiritual truths; seems like a bit of a tautological stat...

When one talks about words, we have to examine where words came from. They came from a tradition of communicating by talking. Talking came about via t...

no, I'm not sure if one causes the other, only that they have root causes, and always exist together.

funny you should mention black holes. I don't believe the mainstream view of them and think that event horizons don't form, but Hawking Radiation is b...

yes, maybe. But if you could somehow see space-time...but couldn't see matter, could you put it the other way, ie 'matter isn't a thing in itself, it ...

yes, that makes sense.

yes, I've heard that before...and it was referenced in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . :) but if taken seriously, that implies a causal relatio...

yes, the education doesn't want the stuff it teaches challenged...for obvious reasons. It leads to science too often being about micro-advances; micro...

say there are two system/ways of perceiving reality...P for prescriptive, in that P will only accept stuff which meets it on preconceived view of real...

I think to solve a problem, you have to recognise that there is a problem. To recognise small problems leads to the solving of small problems. To reco...

let's say you always need some intuition to solve problems. A problem is like unknown territory, in which intuition is analogous to sending out scouts...

take a planet in this diagram moving at a uniform velocity from left to right. https://i.ibb.co/7KCK18d/Untitled.jpg I would maybe think if mass cause...

one thing I just remembered reading is that, space-time curvature doesn't behave like..like the sound of a jet as the jet travels along; there is no b...

I know what you mean...there obviously does seem to be a cause and effect process going on.eg a tennis player hits a tennis ball, and the ball flies o...

this seems a bit like circular logic to me, ie: the arrow of time is based upon the assumption that cause coming before effect, ie a non-zero time del...

that argument seems contradictory.. how could an event that had no time dimension be divided up into time segments?

of course then you have to define what a 'lie' is without recourse to a definition of 'truth'.

but why wouldn't cause and effect happen at the same time? Why would there be any kind of delay in the process?

it seems like or contact with reality is what we experience. And experience is an awareness generated by the processes of perception. What ever those ...

but if say you have a choice between 10 options but you use a random number generator to make the decision, then a series of decisions can look like y...

but if 'cause' happens at time1, and 'effect' happens at time2, what is happening between those times? if time1=time2 then how can you say which came ...

I was wondering how a cup falling off a table generated class objects, but then I forgot that if the table was set up in a field, then someone who was...

I think maybe time's arrow not being about cause and effect it is about some kind of change over time. Maybe it is about the generation of information...

the thing in science with cause and effect is time's arrow I guess...cause comes before effect...but how can cause come before effect? How long before...

I think the problem is that the word 'effect' implies cause, and the word 'cause' implies effect...so the two words are always linked, so perhaps we s...

I think what I can condense from some of my thinking is: if someone say that cause and effect take place; what do they mean by 'cause', and what do th...

I think sometimes to get to a more basic understanding of something, you sometimes have to go through divergent thinking process...and then gather ide...

I'm not denying that cause and effect is how reality works, only trying to outline maybe that you maybe can't prove that is how things work.

well take the famous 'butterfly effect'...the idea being that a butterfly flapping its winds, leads, in a series of cause and effect paths, and in a k...

I've often felt that Buddhist practices are linked with death. I think that might be attractive to some people, as for some people life is quite often...

can you recall being 1 year old much or at all?

how do you know if that is the start of a human or not....both sperm and egg will have originated at some point from the same source, way back on Eart...

if someone has free will, what does that mean? If you say that someone's future decisions are predestined, and so the person doesn't have free will, h...

every thing we experience is a process of one part of reality viewing the rest of it. By observing reality you are affected by it, and so reality is a...