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Quite. Thus, Hitchens' Razor applies (re: "faith"-based assertions or ideas).

:up: Yes, very much so. We can go back to the pre-Socratics seeking to think Logos outside the Mythos box. But the OP seems to have it backwards ... P...

Or pandeism. In other words, "religious and mythical perspectives" contribute to philosophers "thinking outside the box" and contrary to their "comfor...

:up: I'd rather say: not planned but happened, which might be slightly easier to digest. Just because stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamic syste...

Gratuitous, not "mysterious". :death: :flower:

Yeah, I got that from the OP. So what is this "important contribution" that you believe such "perspectives" make to philosophy?

There are abundant grounds to suspect this "what if" puts the cart before the horse like saying "what eyes are brought into existence by sight?" or "w...

"An important contribution" such as?

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"Perfect"? You must live in the UK because that assessment is certainly not "popular" in the US despite all the status quo cheerleading in mainstream ...

Be here now.

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Strawman as usual. I said nothing remotely about any "monk in his cell". Your knee-jerk defensiveness is telling, Woofarer.

I've no idea which "popular left-wing media" you're referring to but, as a leftist & news junky (re: US media e.g. Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now, Diss...

It's probably the same motivation as "religious philosophy": fear of reality (onto/vera-phobia). Thus, magical, wishful or group thinking abetted by e...

Well, you got me, I hadn't realized that those countries (fully approved?) the Pfizer vaccine. Still the overwhelming majority, including my country t...

https://youtu.be/0C8i6tOjt-M "Tumbling Dice" (3:45) Exile on Main Street, 1972 The Rolling Stones https://youtu.be/56-JEHWfrfI "Happy" (3:05) Exile on...

"Emergency Authorization" does not mean Fully Approved, and none of the Covid-19 vaccines available in the US are Fully Approved by the FDA. https://e...

To be clear, for the record, I am anti-unapproved vaccines and not "anti-vaccination".

Goes best with a good meal and good company. :yum:

If BiV, then BiV is imaginary. If BiS, then BiV is imaginary. BiV is imaginary. BiS.

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As soon as there's an approved (in the US or any other developed nation for that matter) vaccine, I'll get the stick.

"Which god/s?" All or none exist; therefore, none exist. Nonsense "can't possibly be known to be false" or true and tends to be nothing but nonsense.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/576434

Good thing I didn't characterize Buddhism as anything.

I never said anything about the efficacy of any vaccine. Not worth arguing about facts. Believe whatever you like. I'll be vaccinated soon enough.

It's easy to say something is a waste of time when apparently you don't understand that something.

You've completely lost me again.

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:fire: Well I'm flattered and much obliged, my friend! The ideas expressed in that quote reflect what is more true than not no matter what we "want" t...

Strange, isn't it, how some people never outgrow the early naive stage of psychological development in which they anthropomorphize every thing, "seein...

If it's a forced choice with high stakes, then refusal to choose is the choice to suffer arbitrarily. If it's not a forced choice, then it's idle and ...

NB: "The hard problem" (re: qualia) is experimentally^ dismissed with respect to methodological materialism (e.g. eliminativism, emergentism, embodied...

I alluded to that here. Groundless possibilities strongly correlate with vanishingly low probabilities. :up:

:party: :mask: Edit: I borrowed the phrase "to go picnicking on" from a line by, IIRC, in the great classic film Lion in Winter. "I don't care who's k...

It's a leap, Fool: a groundless, or merely logical, "possibility". Big whup. Peirce refer to such as "paper doubts". BiV is idle child's play.

fyi – Neil Degrasse Tyson is also a physicist and so speaks their language even when he's speculating. And Daniel Dennett has conceived of a variation...

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All these riffs on my mention of "picnicking" make me laugh since I meant it in the sense of cannibalizing (i.e. dismembering a friend's carcass). Bon...

Reminds me of "Flight" ... two entries, same author?

Reminds me of "Untitled" ... two entries, same author?

Kafkaesque but I'm a stickler for historical and technical details so having Michael Collins also in the LEM jarred me out of my suspension of disbeli...

I beg to differ. And I didn't choose "just masks" but the suite of public health behaviors vs the uncertainty of vaccine's adverse side-effects. By Ma...

Lots of wine. :up:

I live alone. Don't eat out at restaurants, go to shops; I walk alone through large empty parks early in the morning. Double masked whenever I leave m...

:100: An excerpt from a post I wrote back in April and it's still my position (until the Pfizer vaccine is approved by the FDA next month as forecast)...

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Hey, man, I super competitive and I'll be damned if I don't always play to win! But, for me at least, the journey is the destination, especially when ...