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Humor carries the conversation. Learning is more important than knowledge. Society decides no one's value.

Worry is pointless---you cannot change the past nor do you know the future---quit worrying! There is a primal instinct in man which seeks a path to fo...

Life is a process---there is no intrinsic meaning. Examine thyself! What I claim to know I know not and likewise only know that which I do not realize...

I guess I'll just use this thread to post aphorisms/thoughts then. Only you can make you happy. Most people don't understand themselves. All experienc...

An astute observation.

You think what's most important is people not having children and thinking about suicide? I wouldn't say man is the measure of things since I believe ...

Philosophers can make argument with anything. I figured it didn't matter what I said someone would take issue with it.

Far out bro

Whuuuh?

I would think mathematics a product of a kind of logic, but could be mistaken. What would we consider mathematics though? The collective knowledge of ...

Dude ask her out.

The soul is immaterial it cannot be a thing. Your consciousness is not a soul, you lose it every night. Your intellect is not a soul, it is merely a m...

Crazy people believe things with no basis in reality, sane people know the difference by conferring with each other about their experiences. Crazy peo...

Respect to the vegetarians but that lifestyle isn't for me. Cheeseburgers, turkey, chicken, tuna, catfish, beef, tilapia, crab, sushi, pork, buffalo, ...

Your soul is your identity.

Belief is formed in each individual from their experiences, knowledge is just the beliefs we have verified external to ourselves. Ignorance is the abs...

I've seen some of your poetry around the site. Do you find your stuff on the internet or just make it up as you go?

Laudable it certainly is, this is one of the most interesting discussions I have ever seen here or elsewhere.

You seem like you know what you're talking about. I'm going to do some reading and get back to you if that's alright.

Why are so many discussions about religion?!

That is an interesting argument. I'd say doing something without someone's consent is wrong most of the time but I think who is born isn't so much a d...

A "simple" argument against free will.

You're saying measurement is non-deterministic, I take that to mean random, so maybe I'm asking the wrong question. Tell me if I've got this right: Ev...

I agree with you. Some conversations become so difficult for a layperson (myself included) to penetrate that the whole point is lost.

So in the many worlds version it's like an observed probability but not an actual one. In the Copenhagen version you say the wave function collapses a...

I've done some reading about this and now I have more questions than answers. My answer to your question is that yes, it makes sense that if a system ...

Could god be evil? Does god have free will? Does he/she/it have to be a thinking being or will a feeling or an understanding suffice? The question you...

I'm still not sure how probability can factor into determinism, it seems like a contradiction of terms. What decides which value is measured?

What about them?

I'm having some trouble with this, could you explain it to me?

You lost me. I've always heard it's random, so I don't know?

I'm not great at logic but this reminds me of the old "You never really get there" argument. Imagine you're on a pitchers mound throwing a softball to...

All knowing is belief but not all belief is knowing.

I'm not a physicist but I believe the "problem" (?) with quantum mechanics is that it's random. That wouldn't support free will but it doesn't sound l...

Isn't that just equivalent to "an absolute objective way to know something"? Then the problem is subjectivity/objectivity, which no one can agree on b...

What does a "universal definition for rational deduction" have to do with virtue ethics?

The process of deduction follows standards of logic but the question I have right off the bat is "What do we mean by rational?".

How should we recategorize humans to more accurately reflect our nature? Is suicide relevant to this recategorization? What seems to set us apart is a...

People do this all the time when they decide what political authorities to follow. It's critical to evaluate the perspectives of the people feeding yo...