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"Individual-1" apparently has been notified he is about to become "Defendent-1" within a few days. Imminently. :smirk: :smile: :up:

"Really exist'? :chin: As far as I can discern it (i'm a fan of Rudy Rucker, btw),"the mindscape" is only an idea – like Max Tegmark's 'mathematical u...

I'm not a fan of "hope". Courage – making an ally of fear – is what matters most. Play the cards life has dealt you the best you can, TiredT, or fold ...

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Expect the worst and prepare for the best. You'll never be disappointed. Either win or learn! :strong: Besides, an "easy life" is a crutch (re: decade...

• Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philisophy and Ideology, Richard Wolin • Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay, Stanley Rosen Thanks, @"Fooloso4" :up:

Some are determined to believe in "free will". Some are determined to believe that "free will" is an illusion. Some are determined to believe that "fr...

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That is why I wrote nothing and not "nothingness".

Don't read my words if you don't care for my writing. Why so defeatist?

:fire: Well said.

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My near-"ignostic" position is that theistic gods are fictions (atheism re: tokens) because the sine non qua claims of theism are not true (antitheism...

:up: My position on "free will" is (mostly) consistent with what you've written here.

"What exemplifies philosophy?" :chin: For me: A praxis of ambulatory health, metacognitive hygiene and moral fitness.

There is no "problem" without the premise of an "All-Good God". I think the only concepts of "God" consistent with indifferent nature (e.g. all life f...

:up: It does not follow from your ignorance of the cause/s of your decision to post this "topic" that there was not any extrinsic (i.e. unconscious, i...

"Knowledge" is information useful for doing, or changing, something that can't be done, or changed, without it. NB: Information constituting well-test...

Unlike hairy apes, we baldies need to wear coats to keep warm. "Meaning" is a coat, a wardrobe, even tailored on occasion.

Not at all. All that means to me is 'you assume – not know – you chose to choose' to post this "free will" topic. I just don't to see any grounds for ...

I write posts fast on my cell while doing other things or getting around. Reread the post. I removed the typo.

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Thus, your analogues do not work insofar as "the moth" is not "isolated" from either the "lightbulb" or "darkness" because it is affected by either of...

Your analogies fail to express what Aristotle thought.

The analogy still doesn't work. In "eternal and unchanging" – primordial – "darkness" there is no energy available to "the moth" to "be moved" or, in ...

This analogy doesn't work because (1) someone has to make "the lightbulb", (2) connect it to a power source and then (3) switch it on – thus, it's nei...

Sounds like an ex post facto rationalization to me. You don't know you had a "choice", just assume – confabulate – it, no? :chin:

Read Ethics, part I "Of God". (Re: Spinoza's substance)

So you can't answer either of my questions?

Here's a short Youtube by Nobel laureate physicist Kip Thorne on black holes ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVKAvIAup8

How do you know you could have chosen to do anything else other than what you have done? And if you don't know it, what grounds do you have to assume ...

What is the difference between moral and non-moral "ends"? moral and non-moral "means"? Can "ends" be moral with non-moral "means" and/or vice versa? ...

FWIW: My bias is absurdist, not 'nihilist' or 'existentialist'. :cool: Nihilism seems to denote that "meaning" is arbitrary, unneeded or ultimately me...

Meet The Threetles (tracks by Paul, George & Ringo together) "Act Naturally", 1965 "Love You To", 1966 "Long, Long, Long", 1968 "Savoy Truffle", 1968 ...

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I don't dismiss the mere possibility of "non-physical eternal life", I just don't think it makes sense to say "I hope I never die."

The ultimate (excuse the pun :smirk:) "rationalization".

My point is only this: while it makes sense to say "I hope I win the lottery", it does not make sense to say "I hope I never die".

It also might be a "possibility" that a droplet from the spray of a crashing ocean wave lasts as long as the ocean wave or even the ocean itself, but ...

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Yes, so our expectation is met and I, like most other nonbelievers, don't see only this one life as a problem. In fact, the low, or mininal, existenti...

Why would this topic of "being given existence but only for a limited time" "only a problem for ... atheists"? It seems only a problem for the believe...

Good old "monkey brain", we wouldn't be here now to navel gaze or "let go" without its incessant monkeying around. After all, primates chanting mantra...

Like the horizon, which is real (i.e. ineluctable)? :chin:

:blush: We continue putting one foot in front of the other through the darkness while providing our own light. Tell ourselves more probative stories w...