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Strawman (1). Strawman (2). Special pleading (1). Special Pleading (2). Btw, "very compelling reasons" such as? Except that there is public evidence f...

True. :death: :flower:

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Okay, I'll play ... :smirk: "I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? "All beings so far ...

Well, I'm trying to be as charitable as I can. Usually, I don't hesitate calling a spade a spade; while engaged in what's purportedly a philosophical ...

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Once again without mentioning your name, Hindu, you don't keep anyone guessing and self-identify. That's mighty "colorblind" of you. :ok: "I bet you t...

:yawn: Just saying ...

:cool: A new cri du cœur for rabble everywhere: "With mathematics (e.g. statistical mechanics) for us, who can stand against us?" :strong: :clap: ¡Viv...

If, in fact, "free will" doesn't exist, then we're condemned (Sartre) to believe "if free will does not exist, then ..." therefore, since there is res...

For my filthy lucre: "Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as ...

:wink: :up: (Consistent with reality ravaged by gratuitous, pointless suffering, the JCI g/G is either a sadist or a fiction, no?)

e.g. Noether's Theorem ...

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Stop being so incurious and intellectually lazy and google what you've asked me. Or make do with what I've already written on this thread. Or do neith...

Nature minus mystery. :chin: :clap: Nature plus mystery. :scream: :pray: • plus Mystery. Begs all questions, answers none (e.g. "Mystery did it ..." "...

Again, spitting in the fan ... :confused: Racism. This is prejudice instituted (i.e. made normative) and executed by Business Practices in tandem with...

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:up: "You house proud town mouse ... What do you get for pretending the danger's not real" :yikes:

:chin: Arbitrary, yeah, but not necessarily deliberate ... (of course, "from a certain point of view" :smirk: ).

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Thanks! Will do ... :wink:

:clap: :cool: :up: :up: Re: @"Metaphysician Undercover" "Spacetime" metrics are meaningless, or do not obtain, at or below the planck scale (e.g. Bell...

Omnipotent G/g (OG/g): The best of all possible worlds is one wherein each person's free will - imago dei - is strong enough for him or her to Always ...

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If g/G always freely does good and refrains from doing bad and if g/G made mortals who have "free will" and if mortals occasionally, even often, do ba...

I must be too depressed, or busy thinking, to bother killing myself.

:up: A gloriously *Omni-symmetrical* ramble! Well done. :cool:

:up: Using his "nonexistent intelligence", Spinoza demonstrates that your statement is wholly incoherent. (vide Ethics Ip13-14) :victory:

Stop telling on yourself already. :eyes:

Google says "Retrocausality." e.g. 4. Acosmism (sub species aeternitatis) :smirk:

A non sequitur? yeah, well ... The mere possibility of the Insufficiency of "Sufficient Reason" (e.g. anterior posteriority ... non-existence of g/G, ...

:chin: Since there is no "all" (i.e. its as incoherent a concept as e.g. "the largest number"), these conceptions are indistinguishable on this basis ...

I'm rereading When Colorblindness Isn't The Answer by Anthony B. Pinn at the moment, which takes a decidely different approach to the racial colorblin...

Oh look: it's Zhuangzi's butterfly-dream or maybe perceived Berkeleys all the way down ... but Cantorized. Simulation paradox, anyone? :yawn:

I'm not picking any new nits which generations of scientists and other defeasible thinkers haven't already thoroughly picked when I point out that giv...

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Why bother? Besides, it's the wrong question. Plants are nourished by photosynthesis; animals, however, survive by devouring plants or devouring other...

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Glorious! :clap: :death: :flower:

My stipulations: • Optimism is the expectation that things won't get any worse; and (somehow) things will get better. (Re: nostalgic) • Pessimism is t...

Futile to ask, I know, but WTF are you talking about? :meh: To read "fine-tuning argument" in what I actually wrote you have to be either woefully ill...

Perhaps. Uncharitable of you though. Freddy, after all, didn't live in the days of those classics and neither do we. He certainly lived quite 'the Sto...

A master of the non-answer to a straight-forward, direct question. Poseurs bore me. :yawn:

Go on, Om, you just keep fingering your ... I'll brb. :yawn:

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"The Way that can be spoken of Is not the constant Way ..." ~Laozi @"Wayfarer" - Saying the universe is unlikely is not even wrong. Compared to what i...