Jeremiah

Philosophy has become the act of taking the simple and making it sound far more complicated than it is.

Only if you are purposely being obtuse. Let's get realistic here, the base concept is not that hard to grasp.

I already said that.

You are trying to define the value of life relative to its contrition to society.

I am not even sure philosophers know what philosophy is, I mean I have a very focused idea of what it is, but I am sure we had a few threads in the pa...

Albert Camus is clearly the most prominent figure that comes to mind. His ability to put philosophy into an easily digestible format is a skill to env...

My suggestion is that the problem is most likely a communication barrier.

The one thing my education taught me is that philosophy is everywhere. I know some like to think it is an exclusive club, but it has spread into most ...

Relax it was a joke.

"Do you talk about Philosophy w/ people who don't know much about it?" I post on these forums don't I? I know that is horrible, but the set up was too...

If you can't find meaning and purpose in your life unless you become some great historical figure then that is a problem with your ego.

I have been sleeping on the floor that last few nights, and it has seemed to help. I think my back gets stressed by sleeping on a mattress, which may ...

I don't like using any type of chemical sleeping aids. I always wake up feeling tried and with a headache. I don't know if my sleep cycles exactly fit...

Passion is the motivation itself, and dedication, hard work and perseverance are far more important than innate talent. It is odd that you mention Bee...

I think someone is dealing with feelings of inadequacy.

As pointed out a number of times it depends on what you are talking about.

Science uses empirical evidence with relational methodology, and you can try to debase that with subjectivity all you want, but it is still far more c...

That is what makes Science so great, it recognizes limits. Religion/philosophy on the other hand, have very few limits and any yahoo can make up almos...

Right. . . . because there is no clear advantage to being well informed. At this point I have to believe you are just being stubborn.

Well, when you ask "how much" we would be getting into a quantitative measurement of probability, which I would need some data to to figure out. I don...

Well, for the premise of the OP we don't need to worry about a) as we are assuming one believes what is true and one believe what is not true. As for ...

And for these decisions why do you prefer to be informed?

All other variables are being held at a constant and/or are equal.

Do you think it is important to be well informed before you make a decision?

That is a possibility, but the question is what is more likely to happen.

All other variables are being held at a constant and/or are equal. People always want to add context that simply is not there, but what you need to ke...

I can't sleep with music on, it is far to distracting. Sometimes sleeping on the floor helps, but sometimes it is just a struggle to go to sleep.

There is nothing lurking, and that is the issue. It is a simple straight forward truth that is too often over looked because we work hard to convince ...

I am aware you think that this is the case, but you have added additional response variables to your explanatory variable. Let me break it down step b...

Yes let's do. I am not gonna sit here and debate nonsense with you all day.

I think this more than proves my point, keep dragging it to abstraction until the argument makes no sense at all, and does not apply to the original d...

I can see aletheist the only way you know how to debate is to drag things out of context.

That is not what I said, I said if a-b = 0, not if a-b = 0 and m+1 = 0.

That does not follow. if a-b =0 then x = 0 in x=(a-b)/(m+1)

If an equation cannot be fit back into the context of the original inquiry, then you failed to prove anything at all.

If you were trying to prove you can move undefined variables around, I suppose so. m= -1 I did.

I am sorry but that is not so, if that was, then we'd have one equation to measure every thing. You are trying to drag the argument in to such abstrac...

I will note that Cavacava actually defined his variables, which was nice.

If I said y=mx+b is a rational equation for what we what to measure, there is no way to validate that until I define the variables.

This means nothing if A and B are not defined. Just like x + y = a means nothing until it is defined. As I said, "What I am seeing are attempts to lim...

If you are not going to put in the effort to follow the debate, I am not going to put effort into answering your questions.

What I am seeing are attempts to limit the argument to very narrow confines in order to make it appear more rational. But I'll restate my question, th...

I try not to dig into analogies too deeply, as when you do it too often take things off track. I restated my dispute for that reason.

Still an unprovable hypothetical, and my dispute is accepting it as a belief.

Does accepting the money mean I have to give up my core beliefs and accept an absurdity as true? You can't paint it into a very small box, ignore ever...

I don't care. There is a difference between logic and reason, and the thread is about what is rational.

Is it rational to just believe any assumption that pops into your head? Or should there be some type of process in order for something to be accepted ...