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'Not procreating' does not "prevent all suffering" because this abstinence does not prevent the suffering of the already born (for most of whom, 'deny...

So ecstatic - "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!" :death: :flower:

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:up: Agreed. And you're not "the only one" :sweat: (below is an excerpt of a post from an old thread):

No - especially this question. :yawn:

:cool: A band name or song title? :smirk: :up:

When faced with expressions of 'mysticism' I've found it helps to remember that they are (almost always and entirely) 'non-inferential, dispositional ...

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:eyes: No doubt ...

Democritus Siddhartha Gautama Diogenes of Sinope Epicurus Pyrrho of Elis Seneca Epictetus Montaigne Spinoza Hume Peter Wessel Zapffe Bertrand Russell ...

Believe whatever you want. Flynn cooperated with the Mueller Investigation AND plead guilty twice for lying to the FBI (along with admitting to other ...

My guess: Judge Sullivan won't accept this politicized move by DOJ and will give the WH the finger by giving General Flynn more prison time than the s...

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So you cannot define what you mean by 'happiness'?

Well, minimize =/= eliminate, so ...

Define what you mean by 'happiness'.

:chin: Rather: Investigate all claims corroborated by physical, circumstantial & non-hearsay testimonial evidence. :mask:

Memento mori et memento vivere. Solitaire et solidaire. My positive emotions say 'stick with Epicurus, Spinoza, Zapffe, ... Philippa Foot & Albert Mur...

O Conatus, baby! :up: :clap: Welcome to TPF, QA.

Acosmist.

a Never-tRumpers' Reaganite appeal to Independents "Mourning in America" (Ad video) :eyes:

May 5, 2020 - SARS-2 (Covid-19) update: c72,000 U.S. reported deaths c1,250,000 U.S. reported infections Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower c...

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Ras! Me nah know you cool dat way, breddah Francis. Irie, mon! :cool:

If, as you say, "the physical world is contingent" - and I agree it is - then, it seems to follow, "the physical world" coming-to-be was uncaused, it ...

"Afterlife?" Like asking 'where the flame goes when it's blown out?' (Buddha, et al) :point: :up: :up: :clap: There's no guarantee you'll live to the ...

Or else wane literal. :zip:

Apparently, foolosophers like us need a place - an agora - to conceptually chase (spin) our promiscuously speculative tails (tales). My interest: I wo...

jkg20 beat me to it ... Bingo! :up:

How about 'first person impersonal' (e.g. Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Russell ... Nussbaum, Meillassoux, et al)? Less 'systemic...

Worth repeating @"Gnomon" :up:

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Given that all extant cosmological evidence indicates that it had a planck radius at "the beginning", the universe is a very-far-from-equilibrium "mac...

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may readings • The Transhuman Wager, Zoltan Istvan still reading • The Žižek Dictionary, ed. Rex Butler (plus tics, sniffles, obscene jokes, etc) • Go...

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May Day 2020 :point: U.S. SARS-2 (Covid-19) casualities aka "tRump Pandemic-Depression" update: U.S.Capitol physician reports to Senate leadership tha...

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:up: A worthy challenge, @"Pfhorrest"! “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~S.B.

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Take a university class, son. :shade: :100:

Exhibit "A". Exhibit "B" :scream: Exhibit "C" In 2020 to date SARS-2 (Covid-19) is reported to have infected over 3.1 million people resulting so far ...

I'm waiting for the addressee of my question to answer. Then, maybe, I'll get back to you.

Order is only that 'bit' of chaos we happen to be interested in - can make use of - for some interval.

How so? But do you think?

I very much agree. :up: Yes. And I've always interpreted the combinatorial aspect of 'Swirling & Swerving-Atoms-In/(Of?)-Void' as information, or the ...