Agustino

The solution is that something is a brute fact since non-existence is impossible.

The designing intelligence is a required element to account for reality as we perceive it, but we have no grounds to that would require the designing ...

Well we have to be careful how we define those terms. Chaos and order are not opposite terms, since there is an asymmetry between the two. Chaos is a ...

Yes I've worked it out here: The problem is the apokrisis-like attempts at the problem are "resolving" the problem with a restatement of the problem i...

All self-help is crapshootism ;)

I think the scores are determined based on how you answer the questions. Some answers give you points others take them away. So that's how you get the...

Sure, but you realise that this doesn't solve much of the problem. Namely, the second law of thermodynamics is a statistical law. The real question is...

Hmm, strangely I don't remember that at all :-O . I remember her talking about going on a holiday in Italy and her liking Nietzsche. LOL! You're not l...

Is it a thing about people who studied law that they share pictures of their feet? :-O :P

It is nothing but the preparation for the great darkness that is to befall the Western world. The West seems to be in the phase of its senility. It is...

The problem with the many materialists here is that they suppose that: (1) absolute chaos can exist. (2) progressively higher degrees of order could r...

I have been thinking about this question lately as well. It's certainly one of the things that have been on my mind, especially with regards to philos...

The Order and Chaos thread makes the difference between the "old guard" who are mainly materialists and cannot even see how anything else would make s...

I injured my shoulder, again...

Yes. What about them suggests that the speed of light in a vacuum would be different in different parts of the Universe?

Oh >:)

Which election you mean lol? Yeah, same, I was at 40% for it.

Haha! I scored: Moderately Open Moderately Conscientious (I'm not that conscientious, otherwise I wouldn't spend time on PF while working lol) Low in ...

How do you predict I am? >:)

My point still holds, something being a revelation has nothing to do with whether you believe it or not. Okay, but it's not "only" my opinion as you s...

The problem with your view is that you base it off direct experience of duration, without understanding that there is a need for all experience to be ...

Okay, but we've also observed a large portion of the Universe through our telescopes and other such instruments. It's true that it is logically possib...

Yes this is correct. I should have been more specific. Light always travels at a constant speed in a vacuum. Although it does bring up an interesting ...

Don't worry, it was a very nice compliment, so I ended up going to sleep on that high positive note ;)

To be dumb, yes.

It's a good thing to be dumb. Smart people die first generally - they end up everyone's target :P

Right so how come you were ignorant of why you need to be made VIP of our club?

Yes of course! Didn't Peterson teach you that before someone is sacrificed, they are first made into a god? Or you still didn't receive that lesson ye...

Oh dear... will you be a VIP member of it?

What kind of club?

I read someone on reddit who said JBP is the poor man's René Girard. Now that I'm reading Girard more thoroughly, I think he's right!

Is he powerful? :-O

Who is your wise mentor? >:)

Some of these are very general, and in addition, we don't notice some of these characteristics in some people who do cope with extreme situations of p...

Yes, what makes a person incapable of tolerating pain or emotion?

Yeah big deal. I can say large parts of my life "sucked". So what? There's something exceedingly adolescent-like about complaining about things. Somet...

So when I am in an open field and I look to the horizon and it seems that the Earth is flat according to my direct experience, should I really conclud...

Brilliant! Have you adopted my advice then? :D Ahh good! Excellent!

Yes, but on what do you base the idea that direct experience cannot be illusory? Clearly, for example, the experience that the Earth is flat is illuso...

Full of what? >:)

Sappy you've not been sapping people much lately... how's your evil black kitten?

Not necessarily, all that it would mean is that direct experience would not be sufficient to confirm what is illusory and what is not. For example, if...

Why not join the axis of evil? O:) That seems like a sensible thing to do.

The mere fact they have it better, suggests you may have it better too at some point. Who knows? Life is like a box of chocolates - someone told me - ...

Which is it?

Yeahhh, but everyone knows that I'm cute already :-O you need to tell us new things :P

Is this secret science useful? >:)

Again, why? It could be that time as experienced is illusory, Einstein certainly thought so for example. This requires some argument. Wouldn't this im...

Time to PM TL about $2,500 that are heading her way... (see, she's almost covered the cost of the Agulogic course ;) )

Yes my greed sometimes gets ahead of me :-# - first they need to sign up for a free webinar as an introduction to Agulogic, then they get the real dea...