"Oh, I understand. I'm just a bit more curious. And a few more years of studying nature you will find that evolution of the mind is continuous. It is,...
Perhaps you don't find it interesting because you don't understand what it is saying; which would be a bit ironic since you claim to be a "curious"/un...
I don't get it. What's with the need to propagate ourselves through time? Not just us, but all living things. --MikeL Excellent question! And if you d...
To the best of my knowledge, it has already been determined that the issue comes from the state of particle (or whatever else is being tested) being c...
Nobody on this forum knows what the "real" purpose of their life is so it is very unlikely that they would be to tell you what the real purpose of wha...
"Hi, I'm new, I'm a deep thinker addict and I've been so for about 20 years of my 25. Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post or if my po...
"I'm wondering if there are any psych majors here that could chime in about their experience in the field? I think I've found some vocation that I cou...
Computer science. Everything else as a hobby or spare time activity, as important or interesting as it may be. (Y) --0 thru 9 Me too...or at least I u...
"Hello. I have been lately pondering about this theory that came to my mind last year. After a lot of reasoning I concluded that we are all the same c...
"The following argument seems to be a convincing argument for holding that it is more probable that God exists than that God does not exist. The argum...
"I can answer these two questions for you: IF you depend on a wage (payment that you have to work for to receive) then you are, by definition, working...
"Why? I answered that question in another post today. Two great social-scientists, P.T. Barnum and W.C. Fields, have the answer to that question: P.T....
"People had to take those loans for it to work. I'm? about to get kicked out of my apartment, I hear. Just moved in a few months ago. Not long after t...
"Of course they do. Just look at the 08 crash. They made a killing on fraudulent default loans and other extremely risky investments, and then when mi...
"Your main points seem to be: 1.You want to understand other religions (I take this to mean you want to understand other religions beside Christianity...
"Chris Hedges says it better than I can. Here are some of the similar attitudes present in both the Radical Christian Right (fundamentalists) and the ...
"That's why I speak out against New Atheism." ---anonymous66 Ok, what do you feel is bad about it? ---------------------------------------------------...
"Hahaha. That was an opinion. not a request or me telling. but a show of my personal desire. Which is selfish yes." ---Shar Being selfish is part of t...
"Now, I think it is important to apply our concerns for human dignity, human rights, and minimization of suffering to the workplace where production g...
Because good and evil are concerned with more than productivity. If productivity was humanity's only concerns, we would all put some people into slave...
Do you really want to discuss things or are you merely just trolling the forum and trying to argue with anyone that posts something that doesn't agree...
"No. "good" and "evil" go beyond productivity. They denote moral and immoral behavior that can be irrelevant to and transcend productivity. For exampl...
For humans, "good" is anything that is productive and/or useful and "evil" is anything that is counter productive. Almost all societies have certain s...
"Doesn't it seem like most religions operate on the principle that there is some good force greater than ourselves? and that we can learn to understan...
"I suspect we both agree that religions have caused and sometimes do cause harm. I'm sure we also agree that virtually everything that man is involved...
Sorry I'm late in replying... "I agree with this - except that I believe that he/she/it/they just are personifications of collective wisdom and nothin...
"No, it's more like you're not a person partial to sufficient education as none of those words are "loaded" words, and they are part of common usage i...
"No, that isn't clear at all, and you haven't shown it to be. So the only one trying to blow air past their teeth and waste their time as well as our ...
Sorry I'm late in replying...... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Actually we are rewarded for useful spe...
"I know viewpoints may vary here. Depends a lot on worldview, attitude, and strategic thinking. Anyway let me present, what to me appears peculiar, a ...
"No context is needed here. "Rational" is a human concept also applied to human behavior and is constantly changing in its definition. So, it can only...
"Well, if you say you're an atheist, then it's a fair assumption that you know what an atheist is - or certainly you have your own idea of it. I, howe...
"There's not much of a significant difference here. The universe isn't rational; rational is a human concept. The universe is only guided by rules dic...
"There are a lot of cons - too many to list, really. I've been reading Bertrand Russell's Why I'm Not a Christian. That contains some of them." --Sapi...
"It's easier to accept that there is some intelligence or rationality that is the reason for the existence of the universe, and that rational force is...
There is something I remember a pro-Bush supporter said when I told them I was more scared of people working against us from within our society and ou...
"If and only if it can give sound and convincing reasons for why it ought to be." --Wayfarer Are you talking about "it" as a moral code or as it in th...
Well that is the major rub of the problem even if there many other issues an nuances to contend with as well. I think as human beings we realize it is...
I think that while placebo effect may have it's uses, it is dangerous for the medical and/or behavioral health community to think of it as a kind of p...
"This thought has occurred to me many times in relation to my failures as a thinker and or communicator as indicated by the phenomena of reciprocity i...
While the following songs and videos are more about criminals, murders, and those that just "snap" one day, I believe the psychology behind those that...
I agree that people have the right to know/understand the world they live in and to be able to think for themselves but it is wise to also understand ...
"Every objection to my "is" has turned out to be unfounded." --WISDOMfromPO-MO You are partly right and partly not right in a manner of speaking. To b...
"I see everything above out of context. The context is very specific. It is not "Why do people steal?". It is "Why do people marginally choose stealin...
"Depends on what you mean by "money". If you mean something intangible like the quantities reported on an account statement then, no, it probably does...
"None of that answers why stealing is chosen rather than non-stealing alternatives such as begging, purchasing, tricking a person, etc." --WISDOMfromP...
"Serving to end the war is not an intrinsic quality/property of the plans. Serving to end the war is something extrinsic. The intrinsic qualities/prop...
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