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So "extrapolations" make a worldview "mechanistic"?

You shifted goalposts from norms (re: talking about the scientific method) to claims (re: talking about "talking about the scientific method").

:up: In my understanding, no self entails no "true self" as well. How do you square anatta with your question about the "true self"?

DnD wasn't the game. Even if it had been, it's the lack of social-body language immediacy of playing remotely that had, quite frankly, alienated me fr...

So you assume the "meaning of life" is that there is an afterlife we ought to prepare ourselves for in someway and furthermore also assume that we wil...

What do you make of the Buddhist idea of anatt?^^? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81 ^^

Racism is the animus of 'racial prejudice' historically force multiplied by policies and practices of government, business and/or religion (re: socioe...

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There's no question that Individual-1 committed tax fraud, it's just a matter of time before he personally is criminally indicted. The Trump Organizat...

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Impressive. :cool: I/we couldn't make vtt work well enough (for me, at least) to keep it going ... So I'm always a little jealous (even though I'm not...

Africans left africa in migratory waves over hundreds to thousands of millennia and this primeval African diaspora adapted over hundreds-thousands of ...

You're moving the goalposts. A common tell for all to see that you realize you've been found out either not knowing what you're talking about or disin...

:nerd: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/714732 And if you can't take my (link's) word for it, consider these youtubes: https://m.yout...

By your reasoning, "a "meaning of suffering" is that suffering destroys meaning (like fire necessarily burning itself out)?

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Make Attorneys Get Attorneys! True ... However, Individual-1 is a proven traitor and so it's incumbent on the +81 million of us who weren't brain-dead...

For 5e or an older edition? What do you think of the retroclones (e.g. OSE, S&W, OSRIC)? Or any of the OSR games (e.g. The Black Hack)? I've been tryi...

So what is "the meaning of afterlife"?

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Non sequitur bullshit :lol:

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Nothing more than "I gave myself an enema". :mask:

Yeah, but "optimum" for what?

I'd say the c99% of all extinct species (with complex nervous systems) might have suffered more than h. sapiens to the degree suffering had killed the...

I still disagree. Suffering solicits others. My death afflicts others. :point: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/705435

Yes, of course. I can't think of anything more "unpleasant" (i.e. enslaving) than a totalitarian "meaning of life". Besides, "the afterlife" only kick...

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Non sequitur. "Verification" applies to propositions (i.e. claims) As I've pointed out, "the scientific method" is a an archive of procedural practice...

Suffering. Thus, "value" is manifested by habits (virtues) which reduce net suffering (disvalue). :death: :flower:

Anyone without a dogmatic mindeset who bothers to read both of the links I've provided will learn that the idea of, what Fred Hoyle derisively called,...

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Probably. :up:

Sure it can be defended – it works. The scientific method consists of an archive of practices, and is not a proposition. Compare modern medicine to "f...

You just made @"_db"'s case, trumpt_rd. :clap:

:clap: Yep. The first p0m0 president; maybe not the last.

@"NOS4A2" is still Some rather spout alt-Right/MAGA "talking points" than reason about (their) uncomfortably unexamined bigotries. :brow:

Like I said, you need to read better translations. Also, you seem to have an affinity for Artie's bourgeois world-weary Nein-sagen, schop1, and antipa...

You need to read better translations or Freddy's lyrical German prose. Artie's writings are less lyrical German composed in a Humean style but, IMO, t...

Robert Grosseteste¹ was not a 20th century "Catholic priest" but a 13th century Bishop. (re: De Luce, 1225 CE)² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...

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:fire: :100: No doubt. And you're entitled to your subjective interpretation (i.e. "characterization") of my own. In p0m0, after all, everybody's este...

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:sweat: :up: Thanks for the link.

As far as I can tell, purveyors of p0m0 reduce N to his "there are no facts, only interpretations" (which, ontologically generalized out-of-context, e...

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Special pleading.

... ergo anatta. :flower: NB: Hume's "bundle", Nietzsche's "competing drives", Parfit's "continuity", Metzinger's "phenomenal self model", embodied co...

I offered my interpretation of the idea of "karma" . You've dismissed it without thoughtful (i.e. non-trivial) consideration, which exposes your dogma...