Drazjan

There are many interesting initiatives underway which, in theory, will reduce the Greenhouse gases contributing to Global Warming. Given time, a rever...

Truth about what?

What you disagree with is fundamental equality. Like God, it cannot be proven. But God-freaks do not have a monopoly on belief. If you do not believe ...

I like what the Rabbi said, but I would probably have rejected his cosmology, just as I reject the Greek commentator's. No human being has ever posses...

I voted NO, but what I meant was not yet, maybe not ever. Is there any reason why AI should develop ethics? Many creative and highly intelligent peopl...

I am an not going to apologise for being lucky. That is what the above mentioned morons do.

I listen carefully. Have ever widening interests. Have been a hero to a few and a villain to others. Extremely artistic but not particularly innovativ...

I am open to the idea something beyond human comprehension, but I am unlikely to accept what you have referred to. It is so obviously created by, and ...

It is so. And you have been doing up until this post.

You are still mixing two things up. Disapproval is not phobia. What actual casebook Homophobes do or think is another matter, and I would not even gue...

A phobia is an irrational fear. The disapproval of a practice is not a phobia. Terms like Islamophobia and Homophobia are more often used in rhetoric ...

Catholics have always used idolatry. Praying to statues etc. Buddhists do it too. When Christ was crucified, his followers were left isolated in a pag...

Explain God. You don't ask for much, do you? There is a problem right off. It is impossible to really know what anyone else means by God. Or anything ...

Paragraph 1 question: Possible reasons could be a desire to understand our circumstance, and a fear of the dark. Its not a one-size-fits-all situation...

A meaning of Life is one of those questions that is older than dirt.The problem with the question is that "meaning"is something ascribed by humans, an...

You agree, but then accuse me of making a sweeping statement that is irrational. My previous post is not theory, it is made from experience, which sho...

I think what is unethical is to pretend cannabis use has no negative side affects, socially or for the individual, just because you like to get high.

I think all you are going to get is opinions. Mine is that it is not inherent, but indoctrination and/or wishful thinking. Youth is more susceptible t...

I don't disagree with your premise, but the idea that such worship is an instinct contradicts the idea that it come from indoctrination. As for the pr...

So there is no point for me to write this post, other than to convince myself that I have "free-will?" All human decisions are predetermined? That is ...

The population explosion is THE problem for humanity, and the world. It is likely to get ugly long before Elon Musk's Marstown is built. Humanity will...

I have great respect for language, and despise journalese. I never use religion when I mean belief in God. Accepted usage is often twisted, like quali...

The first quote is correct. Its cryptic, but its food for thought. I used to think I was an Atheist, until I discovered that it was part of a trichoto...

There are parallels, including a kind of technology conceit. Whether that amounts to a religion like scientism I cannot say, but the assumption that w...

I am “going out on a limb” here, but I suspect those who have voiced belief in, and or, enthusiasm for future immortality achieved through technology,...

"Solipsistic," great word. It sent me running for my dictionary, figuratively speaking. Its always a great day when you learn a new word.

I detect the contemporary assumption that music equals "songs." Any room for instrumentals, tunes, improvs?

I am not going to make that judgement. I do feel that some of the best poetry has a philosophical element, and one good trait is that poetry needs to ...

I too, tend to speed-read the subtitles as the acting says so much than script-writing. I do not speak anything other than English, but I have always ...

Hawking said words to the effect that any unified theory was without value, if is was not intelligible to the average person. I think it is also true ...

The nuance of language may be lost in the translation of subtitles, but that's the price you pay. I have no trouble with subtitles.

It is not my contention that Atheists fear God. The Abrahamics are said traditionally to fear God. They invented Atheism as a term for convenience whe...

The good thing about science is that it is self-critical. I am not an agnostic or an Atheist, yet I don't believe in any God as described to me so far...

An answer to the original question is yes or no, depending on the moral concepts of the person being asked. It is sometimes thought necessary to put a...

Organised the successful overthrow the British colonial establishment and convinced the population it was necessary, while not knowing how the world w...

Diana Ross? "Stop in the name of love." I think you are right about dicking-around with the constitution, although I can see dubious benefits being pr...

I have to shake my head in wonder, when I read on a Philosophy Forum statements like,"Everyone has a right to their opinion." Is that not the epitome ...

On Wallow's concern number three: As far as I understand it, reincarnation is not a teaching of the Buddha, it being grafted on to what is called Budd...

This is a fairly long thread, so I will not address any previous posts. As a point of interest, when I contributed to this forum some years ago, this ...

I have a feeling the "but why?" post was tongue in cheek.

"What makes you do any particular activity throughout your daily life?" This is a fundamental question, and having gone over the responses I cannot di...

Unless this thread is contrived by a computer program, you most certainly have an identity. However, it is quite possible that the qualities you have ...

I am going to try to be philosophical about this question. I consider myself a realist when I am not contributing to my own bundle of contradictions. ...