"Hi! What would you say truth is? Doesn't it presuppose truth to say what truth is? If this is so, is it bad?" — mew The closest thing we have to trut...
I have no idea what you are talking about but it sounds to me more like you are screaming for attention because of an absence of love. —TimeLine No, I...
That nihilism, and the thinkers who circle around, mistake meaning or value for states of the world. Sartre, for example, treats meaning as if it's? a...
"I agree. It's as if personalities are founded on core beliefs. Sometimes a core belief is abandoned and a person experiences a revolution in their th...
Socrates said ''the only thing I know is that I know nothing''. They killed him but that's beside the point. —TheMadFool Part of the reason they kille...
"Now, while I have never drank alcohol except for Chianti wine from Tuscany and the occasional social dribble to pretend I resembled the morons I was ...
I will admit after reading that passage, I will have to reread it a few more time to be sure what he means by it. As a person with ADHD I have a hard ...
"Presumably they find value and fulfillment in writing about pessimism. — darthbarracuda Exactly." — Baden It might also help if someone has had a nea...
" dclements thank you for your detailed answer, i also hope some other people would also read and contribute to this conversation." — Override Your we...
" dclements thank you for your detailed answer, i also hope some other people would also read and contribute to this conversation." — Override Your we...
"I do think my negative outlook on life was "eventual" in some sense, as I have a disposition to see flaws and have always been skeptical. If it wasn'...
Sure Override, I'm willing to discuss it. In fact ethics ,aside form religion, is one of my favorite topics. :) You can do all kinds of mental gymnast...
Not really, in order for me to get my meds it was a requirement that I had to continue seeing someone but I would try to schedule the appointments as ...
Ok, what about if you found out that there was no God and no afterlife and no nothing else. Do you believe such a situation would be as comforting as ...
Maybe, but in my experience (5+ years of seeing behavioral health 'specialists') the only benefit of going to the head shrinkers is that sometimes you...
I don't know if you can relate or if your situation is similar but I use to worry about how short of a life we have along with the fact that if we die...
To your question on whether I would like God to exist or not (and I'm sure that some other agnostic/atheist might agree as well), I would have to say ...
I'll have to look into and see if what you say is true about True Detective when I have a moment, but the purpose of my OP and argument isn't really a...
I've read some of Lovecraft's works but perhaps not enough to know exactly the passages your talking about. Even if I did it is probable that I wouldn...
Um....no. While Existentialism and Nihilism touch on similar issues and topics and are often associated with the same philosophers, they are two separ...
The answer to your question of what the probability of God existing is simply that it is a non-trivial problem (ie. more or less unknowable at the mom...
Or they could being doing it just so they don't have to work at Mc Donald's, which really isn't all that different than what you said, :-| If I had to...
That is one easy argument to dismiss. The existence of 'good' (or fleeting moments of non-pain and no suffering) don't necessarily undermine an evil/o...
What are you trying to argue? If your trying to build an argument based on 'truth', I would be a little careful. We can construct 'truth' through ment...
The cosmological argument and every other argument that followed in it's foot steps starts with the premise that 'God exist' and then throws a lot of ...
Thanks. :D I remember getting a email or PM about many forum members relocating to another site, but that was before the site stopped working and othe...
You're welcome. :D To be honest I should be thanking you since usually people consider any anti-capitalist rhetoric (even if it is mere questioning th...
I wish I could find it but there was an article titled something along the lines of runaway capitalism where it talked about since the cold war just e...
It is ironic to suggest someone should always do the 'right' thing, when the 'right' action often is the one with the worse consequences. Where I live...
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