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['Member']Joined: December 22, 2016 at 01:02Last active: November 19, 2025 at 21:5724 discussions479 comments

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Why do we die?

August 22, 2022 at 16:04 47 comments Philosophy of Science

Eat the poor.

July 30, 2022 at 16:56 283 comments Politics and Current Affairs

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Your trying to use language/Boolean logic to resolve a problem were you need to quantify aspects of the real world that can not be resolved in such a ...
November 19, 2025 at 20:35
"Cogito, ergo sum" is sloppy critical thinking since Descartes never really bother to go down the skepticism rabbit hole when he came up with it. Anot...
November 07, 2025 at 23:30
According to some scientist the Big Bang was just a theory created to help them model the universe, but lately there has been some discoveries that ha...
April 18, 2025 at 16:18
To the best of my knowledge conditional oughts/moral beliefs are DEFINED by one's culture and/or system of beliefs, they don't and can't exist indepen...
June 01, 2023 at 17:51
"The only truth that there is, is that there is no truth" - anonymous Anyone that seriously studies philosophy should be cautious of any so called "tr...
May 05, 2023 at 15:26
What if a given AI (or AIs) is being guided by or used by any given individual? While it is a given that current machines themselves can not create th...
May 03, 2023 at 15:56
IMHO, Monism contradicts common sense as well other things such as concept of dukkha taught in Buddhism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%E1%B8%A5kha ...
May 03, 2023 at 15:49
I've been trying to keep up with everything in Ukraine but I will admit I haven't really read a lot of the recent posts in this thread so I apologize ...
February 01, 2023 at 16:56
Philosophy is just a form of critical thinking. Unfortunately, not a lot of people know how to do it well nowadays as we are too often forced to act w...
February 01, 2023 at 16:38
I could be wrong but I don't know of a any culture or society in history being really anti-science/anti-technology. Part of the issue is if any large ...
September 28, 2022 at 15:35
Is overpopulation really an issue or is it something that is to thought to be an issue? I could be wrong but there are some people that claim that in ...
September 28, 2022 at 15:16
I more or less agree. Although we have come a long way over the last few hundreds of years. I agree that we are far from knowing about everything abou...
September 28, 2022 at 14:02
I basically conclude that I saw something that was unlike things that I have seen before. Obviously seeing something (as well as others seeing it) for...
September 28, 2022 at 14:00
And yet you are not willing to consider me to be sincere when I have made such claims. The funny thing is you are so busy attacking straw men (with yo...
September 26, 2022 at 15:54
Your right! Thanks for bringing it up! :D I don't know if the "placebo effect" shows some kind of physical phenomena that can not be explained by curr...
September 26, 2022 at 15:27
Ok, ok, just chill. It is a given when I say "I and other people say a ghost" it is a given that we saw something that "looked" like a ghost, just lik...
September 26, 2022 at 15:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK2VIMZBOCY
September 24, 2022 at 15:41
While this isn't exactly what this thread is about, it is similar in that it is an issue in that people have been injured in a way that has yet to be ...
September 24, 2022 at 15:34
In my first encounter with ghost I would have wrote it off as a hallucination/trick of the light if the person next to me didn't see it as well. To be...
September 24, 2022 at 15:20
I agree. I think there are similar issues with other phenomenon, such as the "Wow Signal". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6rPNPVQp0Y It has long bee...
September 24, 2022 at 15:02
Thanks. :D
September 22, 2022 at 14:37
Speaking about extraordinary evidence I wonder if anyone here has heard about the story of Ted Owen, a guy who use to call himself the "PK man"? Ted_O...
September 22, 2022 at 14:36
While it is a given that this would not be considered "extraordinary evidence" to you, what would you say about those of us who have ever seen somethi...
September 22, 2022 at 14:16
Could you provide an actual link to the comment you are talking about?
September 22, 2022 at 13:56
How about just requiring just enough evidence for merely ordinary claims? Did Benjamin Franklin require to provide "extraordinary evidence" when he di...
September 22, 2022 at 13:55
There is a difference between what is typically considered to be "magic" and something that is a physical phenomenon that we have yet to understand. I...
September 20, 2022 at 17:50
I'll have to try to read up on such technology. It kind of reminds me of how back around 2010 Popular Science wrote an article about "The Best 10 Jobs...
September 20, 2022 at 16:26
One of the things I heard that were not allowed are the so called "Psi Wheel". Psi wheel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_wheel https://www.youtube.c...
September 19, 2022 at 15:12
I agree the corroborating evidence isn't enough to show that any hypothesis yet made is accurate enough to explain the physical phenomenon well enough...
September 19, 2022 at 14:52
Thanks. :D When I have a chance I will try to check it out. If you can can you give me a short summary of what the book is about?
September 19, 2022 at 14:28
I could be wrong but there have been certain physical phenomenon that not well understood until either around 200 years ago or even a hundred years ag...
September 19, 2022 at 14:26
I agree. Under the paradigm/narrative I choose to believe in, I dismiss all axioms and believe them to be false. It isn't that I believe that others w...
September 15, 2022 at 17:10
The idea that there might be multi-universes is better than what we once had which was just there was a "big-bang" and there was nothing (or at least ...
September 13, 2022 at 17:01
It isn't a given that the statement "there's nothing outside of everything" or your other statement "anything that interacts with what is real must al...
September 09, 2022 at 17:52
I disagree. What we know about reality is merely based on our observations and while our observations have allowed us to be able to predict what reali...
September 08, 2022 at 17:39
Um..Ok. :meh:
September 07, 2022 at 19:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIYi6DhlK4 It reminds me of a quote from the Joker said while being interrogated in prison. Their morals, their code;...
September 07, 2022 at 18:49
Is this just something they did when the survivors where willing to be civil about the situation and accept their fate? For some reason I imagine some...
September 07, 2022 at 18:09
We don't have technology advanced enough to create a simulation potentially good enough to trick the human mind so it is not really here or there for ...
September 07, 2022 at 17:49
No, that is not how it works. A real baseball is a real object where as an imaginary is merely an abstract object. An idea or concept is not the same ...
September 07, 2022 at 16:20
I agree. Your statement reminds me of the kind of stuff Immanuel Kant wrote about in his life. If you haven't read any books about him I suggest that ...
September 07, 2022 at 16:13
I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with the math you are talking about and what the meaning of "set", "powerset", or other terms you are using. Because of...
September 07, 2022 at 15:47
There is a problem with your statement, your claiming reality to equal everything but also stating that it is "self-changing" which is ambiguous. Unle...
September 07, 2022 at 15:37
I think you are misinterpreting some of what I'm trying to say. It isn't about the END OF CHINA but more about the END OF THE CURRENT WAY CHINA DOES T...
September 02, 2022 at 19:58
I know it may sound like a stupid position to have but I believe that extending peoples lives serves a larger purpose than merely giving the people th...
August 25, 2022 at 16:43
I will have to read/review this thread in the upcoming days in order to have a better idea of what it was all about. And again sorry for being late in...
August 25, 2022 at 16:31
I apologize that I'm late in replying. My mom had to go to the hospital yesterday so I kind of got a bit distracted from getting back to this thread.
August 25, 2022 at 16:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UkxPljdU6M
August 25, 2022 at 16:06
The fact that cancer cells, certain stem cells, etc. are immortal isn't really all that important since it is already a given that single cell organis...
August 25, 2022 at 16:05
I suggest you either drink more coffee and/or perhaps pop some nicotine gum into your mouth to help you feel more alive. While the process of getting ...
August 23, 2022 at 18:29