TheArchitectOfTheGods

Sorry to interrupt your stimulating discussion :D .... Well we know that something existed in the universe before the first particles of matter formed...

I have just logged on again to this forum after 2 years, and I find many new posts. Proof positive that the world exists and it does not give a damn a...

It is interesting to speculate whether prostitution might have become dishonorable only after the invention of marriage, precisely to protect the new ...

But even though prostitution and unlimited amount of online porn is available today, it does not help the modern day "incels" in their feeling of infe...

Coming back to the original premise of the thread, and apologies if this was perhaps stated before, but I always thought that the institution of marri...

The Beta version of world-parliament.org is a positive vision of a democratic future in a federal global republic, employing a mix of direct democracy...

The dinosaurs were conscious, but they were not philosophers. By their fossils we can know that they existed, independent of us. Independent of human ...

You seem to be defining interestingness as a net change in activity level / information content over time. Why would destructive activity be more pron...

Hi Jack one way to look at the notion of end of history is to look at the likely end of competing political systems at some stage in human history. In...

I appreciate the points you raise. I would answer that identity is not exclusive to one geographical or even linguistic level. Would you say you are n...

Hi Jack I posted on the other thread, because it was referenced in the first post of your thread, and also asked outright for a definition of evil, so...

The UN is a covenant between nations, to establish global agreement on topics of global interest, but they are not binding, countries can leave indivi...

I think we currently live in relative freedom in the western world, because our societies are still more powerful (economically and military) than the...

You mean might is right, which is the real principle behind the current political state of the world? I don´t think that is a good basis for decision ...

I think it is very easy to define Evil. Evil is the intentional violation of the Golden Rule Matthew (7:12): “In everything, do to others what you wou...

Hi Jack, I think it is very easy to define Evil. Evil is the intentional violation of the Golden Rule Matthew (7:12): “In everything, do to others wha...

Be consequent and boycott Russia and Saudi-Arabia too. But then it would be cold in your house in winter (if you leave in Europe) and you wouldn`t hav...

The gold standard of ethics 'In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets' It is ...

Some interesting thoughts. You may want to check the comments section on youtube for Mozart's piano concertos. But that same comment section reveals a...

If the frame has an infinite number of pixels then the possible images are even more infinite than the number of pixels. If it is1x1 with 2 colors it ...

I am surprised this thread got so long, who in his right mind would disagree with the statement of the original post? 'Science is a good thing' -> Sci...

I think this is correct. The ancients could only speculate what the ultimate nature of reality was (fire, water, air?). Now in the beginning of the 21...

Yes so they are not sciences, in the sense that they are seeking to increase knowledge, but rather speculation or mental exercises beyond that which c...

Thank you for your answer! I wanted to provoke some thinking about and beyond the labels we have given to our fields of enquiry. Metaphysics Arguably,...

But which government is governing the mutlinational businesses? Which government is internalising the external effects the multinational businesses cr...

It gets really crazy though when you think that mass and therefore matter, is just a property of a particular set of fields of elementary particles. S...

To anyone who is interested, I found this great programme which goes really quite deep into the subject matter of discussing possible geometries of th...

I agree 'misinterpreted' was not the best choice of words, since of course Jesus expanded the concept of the golden rule knowingly into a more altruis...

I could not agree more. This reciprocity of accepting to have done to ourselves how we treated others is inherent in the Golden Rule. I think the Gold...

Thanks for posting the excerpt from the original text. Translating the Categorical Imperative into everyday language: "Whatever you do, only do things...

Hi Julia, yes, my point was that Jesus was against the death penalty because his teachings went beyond the golden rule, he wanted us to be better than...

Let Obama come back for a third term. It's a time of national emergency. I would like to see an Obama vs. Trump election.

Do you mean to say that the golden rule is in itself not a sane principle, or not a practical principle?

The Golden Rule 7.12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Eye for Eye 5.38 “Y...

Hi Professor Death, What is the timeframe of your question? Were there any new ideas the last ten years? the last 25? the last 100? By new thoughts I ...

Fortunately we are not even close to 1% or >70 million dead yet

Thanks for the paper recommendation, I will check that out! Appreciated

If I am just briefly allowed to continue the analogy, the flat earth problem was of course a tremendous puzzle to our ancestors. A flat earth theory l...

Maybe my original post was a little clumsy, but I was not actually suggesting that the topology of the universe could be spherical. Rather, that in or...

I really like this original post. It is very lucid and concise. I also subscribe to the idea that consciousness has evolved gradually, and gave organi...

The straightforward latin noun for question or inquiry is 'quaestio' , genitive plural quaesti?num The Book of Questions - Liber / codex quaestionum q...

Hi, I believe the second paragraph is missing a reference to a discussion of what is meant by 'truth' and whether and how it can established. The read...

Thank you for these explanations, appreciated. It would be historically interesting to appraise though, how much of this perceived coercion is due to ...

Well, but then why not call it by its name and call it direct democracy instead of anarchy? In the 21st century we even have a realistic technological...

Global anarchy is exactly that, ~200 cavemen with clubs of different sizes. The small depending on the goodwill of the big. Sad but true. So I really ...

Replying to the original poster, Seri. In reply to your questions regarding crime, to anyone interested in the concept of anarchy it is worthwhile to ...

"Meaning is always relative to some framework." The only framework we can apply to the term 'meaning' is human consciousness. By human consciousness w...

Sounds great! I can sense a lot of frustration though. Hope you will get better. More thoughts on this subject are in this discussion thread https://t...

Is the euphemism 'processed' for 'burned' intentional? :) Because eventually all non-reusable and non-recyclable waste (such as small and soft plastic...

I see the problem is rather that environment is global, whereas governments are local. Which brings us back to Kant and the idea of world governance (...