If "God" is omnipotent, then it is evil for refusing to create and maintain this world in a way such that (e.g.) children are not raped or afflicted w...
:flower: I read The Handmaid's Tale about thirty years ago and haven't watched the tv adaptation. At the time someone had recommened to me M. Atwood a...
1October24 Happy 100th, President Carter! :party: https://youtu.be/HmKzY1L1-OU?si=kTcdmTtxjSn3VrBN Tonight JD Vance will embarrass himself even more a...
I think the place to start is by exercising our 'massively distributed' modes of agency in solidarity to struggle against political-economic-cultural ...
First time I've seen the video so I couldn't have posted it before. Yes and no. The latter opposes – struggles against – the inhumane and counter-prod...
As an American, my two bits: "pro life" folks, especially those who are also pro-guns, pro-death penalty, pro-voter suppression & anti-immigration / e...
According to Genesis, God created Adam and Eve with free will too weak to resist temptation and not disobey. God also created the serpent and the Tree...
If whatever exists is ultimately God's will and if evil exists, then ultimately evil is God's will. It also follows morally that we have agency to the...
Apologies, but I haven't read much of tthis thread. Simply, like footprints in sand on a beach, "the statue" (pattern) is a secondary quality and "the...
Insofar as it is part of His "divine plan", "evil" is in accord with His "will". Thus, this "fallen" Earth aka "best of all possible worlds". I think ...
:roll: Another non sequitur. Ad hominem. Besides, I'm not a "deist" and do not espouse "deism". I have neither claimed nor implied that "existence" is...
:smirk: :roll: Big effin' whup. Nothing new in this insight – approximating, not "incompleteness" (another reified / Platonic abstraction) – since Eud...
Fyi: I derive 'necessary non-contingency' of existence (i.e. no-things) from the "metaphysics" of classical atomism (re: void) that predates Aristotle...
:up: Oh yes, he "tried" this "modern idea" like a few others, iirc: Laozi-Zhuangzi, Heraclitus, Socrates, Pyrrho, Epicurus-Lucretius, Seneca-Epictetus...
:100: I agree 'the universe is contingent' (i.e. necessarily non-necessary) but the universe – any existent – is only a property of existence (not the...
Ok, then I'll look more deeply into his work and ignore what's on YouTube. However, imho, his seemingly Kantian version of QBism (with its personalist...
"What is the meaning of Being (or Seyn)? I believe is Der Rektor-Führer's "main question" ... At any rate, "why is there anything at all?" on my profi...
Fwiw, from one fly looking for my way out of this fly-bottle to another ... This "bewitchment" happens often when philosophy is meta-discursive, or us...
The latest well-documented autopsy of the ever-bloviating, bloated corpse of The Senile Fascist Clown titled Lucky Loser: https://ig.ft.com/sites/busi...
I appreciate the mention. Maybe my local public library will have a copy. Gladly. Here's some old posts ... (2020) from a thread titled Martin Heiddeg...
From a distance I think technosignatures are more detectable – but I agree the so-called "Dark Forest" strategy can't work (and is, due to interstella...
I've been a Chomsky fan boy since the early 80s but not for his "philosophy" per se. Well, fwiw, I'd begin here ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/dis...
Afaik, Spinoza is an acosmist² and not a "pantheist"¹ like (e.g.) Hegel. (2023) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/825698 https://en.m....
Nothing except saying that amounts to an evidence-free fairytale – pseudo-science (e.g. "intelligent design") or pseudo-philosophy (e.g. "vitalism, pa...
Apparently, you don't recognize the relevance of my paraphrase of Nietzsche. :meh: I imagine that AGI will not primarily benefit humans, and will even...
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