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My primary directive is to drive across the country, which includes flying into the sun, which is an interdimensional portal. I have math to back it u...
April 21, 2019 at 14:20
"our primary directive is survival and this directive extends beyond the grave." Hahaha hahaha--is about as insightful a comment as I believe this OP ...
April 21, 2019 at 14:14
You must be trolling. There's no way you're this oblivious to reality. Stop wasting people's time.
April 21, 2019 at 13:14
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April 21, 2019 at 13:12
You can't just imagine a poor argument and some fairy tales into existence and then tell everyone they're losing a battle against what you've mistaken...
April 21, 2019 at 13:09
I think the odds of me winning the lottery are 800% x10 because a bunch of stuff I just made up in my head. Looks like I need to go get a lottery tick...
April 21, 2019 at 12:57
The burning of the Alexandria library was a technological and philosophical catastrophe, and it didn't make philosophy disappear. Short of extinction,...
April 20, 2019 at 14:49
Philosophy doesn't require technology, and technology hasn't advanced philosophy, it's made it less useful. What would a "knowledge and technology cat...
April 20, 2019 at 14:01
What you're proposing has already happened, and here we are.
April 20, 2019 at 03:34
A bunch of that stuff you just made up in your head, or it's from a version of Christianity I've never seen, but it's not in the bible. Why do you hav...
April 19, 2019 at 23:48
You're copy-pasting things you don't even understand.
April 19, 2019 at 20:12
Your comment about this physicist is based on either insufficient knowledge or intentional deception. He won a singular Nobel Prize prior to becoming ...
April 19, 2019 at 20:10
At a moment when I felt I was due for some hysterical laughter, I appreciate this, sincerely. Please feel free to share this super-genius Nobel physic...
April 19, 2019 at 19:13
Not sure what that test is or how it relates, it's chance and not evidence of anything "supernatural". I've had "precognitive" dreams, I've been expos...
April 19, 2019 at 17:15
You made the outlandish claims, so the burden of proof is on you. Present statistics to demonstrate the validity of your claims about poverty and nati...
April 19, 2019 at 15:49
Okay, I get it, so you're saying primitive humans pondered math and music in their mothers' wombs while a voice called to them from beyond reality.
April 19, 2019 at 15:10
Music and mathematics are learned, not "innate". Passion is not controlled by education or hard times or soul-sucking labour. It actually seems to thr...
April 19, 2019 at 14:46
It's intended to be one God, but each writer of course explains things in a way that is relevant to him, reflecting changes in culture and style, whic...
April 19, 2019 at 01:45
It's been demonstrated through scholarship and archaeology, with use of the bible as a reference, that the bible came from a polytheistic culture that...
April 18, 2019 at 23:30
I'm not sure where you're going with that last comment.
April 18, 2019 at 23:07
Compulsions can be controlled, and they don't necessitate "design". That something feels good doesn't necessarily add or subtract meaning from life, e...
April 18, 2019 at 23:07
So you're saying that because we perceive something as being vast, it can't be a simulation? That's not a very strong argument at all.
April 18, 2019 at 21:31
So you think Bill Gates is running this simulation in his garage circa 1980-something? "Check this out guys, I'm simulating a model of the entire univ...
April 18, 2019 at 20:52
That's what someone living in a simulation would say.
April 18, 2019 at 20:18
There is compelling evidence that "reality" is something other than what we sense. We're talking about two different things here: reality as what we s...
April 18, 2019 at 20:11
Bacteria did that for billions of years before humans existed. Our lives depend on bacteria, so we're effectively doing so on their behalf. If we reac...
April 18, 2019 at 20:08
Nothing is real in the sense that our only basis for description is what our senses detect. In order for our senses to detect anything, a series of pr...
April 18, 2019 at 19:54
I'm unclear as to how the film analogy fits, it's analogous to "an act of not acting" or "an instance of nothing happening". What makes us "real" is a...
April 18, 2019 at 17:14
Now I know that I was correct in the first place, but I knew that while it was happening.
April 18, 2019 at 00:07
I paid close attention to your comment and to my response. I guess I didn't realize you had the meaning of life in your back pocket, you could have ma...
April 18, 2019 at 00:00
That reasons are reaching an expiry date doesn't mean they were never "good reasons" or didn't serve a purpose.
April 17, 2019 at 22:48
Perception of "free will" is an evolutionary device instrumental in our progress toward nonorganic replication. Since we became self-aware, much of ou...
April 17, 2019 at 22:45
In the model I presented, it's possible that everything is happening presently, no past or future. The movement of time and space is perceived by orga...
April 17, 2019 at 21:27
I didn't say it was anchored "at infinity", I said its anchor "is its infinity". Another possibility without "first cause" or "first mover" is a compl...
April 17, 2019 at 17:54
Its anchor is its infinity. So then God is a bit dumb?
April 17, 2019 at 17:33
Just keep on moving the imaginary goal posts.
April 17, 2019 at 17:15
Considering the number of extinctions we're aware of, including our own, I'd say it's not fine-tuned for life.
April 17, 2019 at 17:14
If a model of infinite reality consists of infinitely larger- and smaller-scale "universes" all subject to time and space in proportion to their posit...
April 17, 2019 at 17:11
Not if choices are also an illusion.
April 17, 2019 at 15:47
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April 17, 2019 at 12:58
It's the kind of grim paradox in which you actually believe all that stuff you wrote in the OP is factual.
April 17, 2019 at 02:34
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April 16, 2019 at 19:20
It is not "our" space-time. It is a set of observable, demonstrable natural laws. Why claim that something supernatural exists and then apply natural ...
April 16, 2019 at 18:18
If God existed amid nothingness, then both would be finite because neither would omnipresent. Two things existing independently requires both space an...
April 16, 2019 at 17:57
You implied that God and material existed together before there was time or space. Material exists in time and space, which is finite, but if material...
April 16, 2019 at 17:40
Issues should be prioritized based on individual necessity not by virtue of group identity. Identity politics have failed for thousands of years, and ...
April 16, 2019 at 17:34
As per your examples: 1. God wouldn't be creating something from nothing, God would be creating something from God--because there was only God. In thi...
April 16, 2019 at 17:17
So we have infinite reality devoid of time and space, and then a universe is born. Where and when is it located within the infinite reality? And what ...
April 16, 2019 at 15:55