If one could "easily do it", then assistance euthanizing oneself wouldn't ever be needed; but it is, thus the issue. Seems to me, Andrew, what your po...
So why blame "biochemists" for not being "mystics"? Science does what it's exceptionally good at and nothing more. Criticizing a hammer for not being ...
Performing neurosurgery probably doesn't require much math but premed, medical school, pharmacology and computer imaging tech are impossible to master...
Really? :smirk: Well, off the top ... Dr. Stephen Strange's day job was "world-class neurosurgeon" (almost genius-level) which means a good deal of ap...
I think, more precisely, anatta means "no" permanent – independently existent – "self" (i.e. ego is maya (an illuson) due to attachment, or karma (hab...
I was about 8 years old and an altar boy attending a Catholic grammar school when I became a Doctor Strange fan. Dinosaurs, mythologies & Star Trek, a...
They – wielder of the "Infinity Gauntlet" – cannot "destroy entire universes", just alter (e.g. destroy) much of or all the contents (e.g. living sent...
No. Yes (e.g. anosognosia.) Also, to claim, or believe, "I do not exist" is a performative contradiction. Well, since one is not objectively what one ...
Happy Xmas! :sparkle: :party: https://youtu.be/u0Kxho2fgF4 "All That Meat And No Potatoes" (5:14) Satch Plays Fats, 1955 writers Fats Waller & Ed Kirk...
I'm not aware of any writings by Greek Stoics. I'm mostly familiar with Seneca, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius as well as those stoic influences on early...
I don't see any "blanks" in what I wrote that need to be filled. Context matters. As I understand philosophy, "metaphysics" does not consist of factua...
I suppose you need to reformulate what I've written because it's easier for you to knock down strawmen rather than substantively engage my stated posi...
I was referring to specifically myself and how I think defeasibly about the issue at hand and not second-hand guessing about the valuations of "others...
I value "human life"; even more, however, I value human integrity and dignity: namely, doing everything we can collectively to support uncoerced indiv...
Only a "theistic" origin of the universe is "excluded". Atheism does not reject other possibilities (e.g. pandeism, acosmism, eternal inflation, etc)....
I don't care how you interpret @"Gnomon"'s "ideas" when s/he can't substantively address my questions. There's nothing s/he has presented yet worthy o...
I've made my point clearly enough. Deny it to your heart's content. And while you're at it, Andrew, cite a single religious scripture of any major wor...
Religion was used to justify slavery and absolve slaveholders. Read the Bible. "Thou Shalt Not Enslave Others" is not one of "God's commandments". No ...
Not very "pragmatic or rational grounds", as you've insisted on, to think about this issue. "Faith", in this case, very much blocks defeasible, practi...
Dude, stop ... :snicker: :nerd: LLAP No, it's not "clever"; as you suggest, it's just a stand-in for "The Force" from 70s era kiddie s/fx porn masquer...
No, s/he does not dare test those "ideas" against me. @"Gnomon" is afraid to answer my questions which arise out of the inconsistencies, invalid infer...
I don't agree. "Enformationism" is pseudo-science like "Intelligent Design" & "cold fusion" which, in my book, is worse than bad philosophy (i.e. soph...
I've repeated this point for decades and still have no idea why folks don't get it (except, I suspect, many of them would rather take issue with disin...
Agreed. Euthanasia, like abortion, happens with or without lawful assistance so on "pragmatic or rational grounds", assisted suicide should adequately...
I do not understand atheism as an "ideology" or as derived from "axioms". One who claims, as I do, that theism is demonstrably not true and, therefore...
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