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I totally agree with you. That is why I have stopped to try to figure out Eternity. That is a sure way to end up in an asylum for the mentally insane.

trial and error. Evolution is the process of natural selection.

Yes with your Metaphysician' mind you must know far more than the brightest scientists working on that problem as we speak. What is that 'nothing' the...

Yes through 'natural selection' which you described as a nemesis.

I didn't know we were discussing religion. I have no problem with that but you could have warned that your first principle is believing there is a liv...

Do you know anything about Quantum fluctuations in a vacuum? Google it.

No that implies there was once 'no life'. How do you go from 'no life' to life?

For something to emerge from nothingness, it and it's exact opposite have to emerge simultaneously. This is the duality of things.

How did life become 'alive' then?

Whenever I start to imagine eternity I stop somewhere along the line. I can't imagine eternity, so it does not exist.

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I have no problem with that assumption. Ventilating assumptions is what we do here. :wink:

No I don't. Doesn't the question about Heaven and Hell then become mute? I do believe the moment we became self-aware, the fear of 'losing' oneself be...

It used to be, once we had put food on the table it was leisure time. That is when we lived in the Garden of Eden. Once you start destroying God's gar...

Ah our great thinker has returned. Have your wounds healed after our little bruiser? BTW Females typically have two of the same kind of sex chromosome...

I think Aristotle was referring to 'philia'.

What is your philosophical argument for an immortal soul?

Knowledge (unverified) is belief. Only empiricism can verify this belief. Only once verified (empirically) to be 'true' we may consider it knowledge. ...

Yes. Usefulness can be the property of a falsehood not known to be false. But unuseful can never be the property of truth. Truth must always contain t...

No? Did life not evolve out of dead matter?

We apply morality when we are faced with confusing choices.

I could agree with you there. But then life would be not so much the evolution of dead matter but its nemesis. Everything is part of the relative orde...

I guess so.

If there was no God to speak of, would people still feel a spiritual, God-like sensation? God does exist. You are God.

Fear of dying can make you crave food. It can make you eat dirt, grass and leaves off the tree. Definitely not pleasure or desire is making you eat th...

I imagine the fact that the Senate in no way is going to convict him confirms my conviction. And the fact that the Republicans are totally and the Dem...

Study the rise of Fascism in Germany and the parallels are obvious.

That is all you need for strong authoritarian leadership.

No not at all. It understand that by fighting you have already lost the battle. You must try to prevent the fighting in the first place. Stoicism only...

That how drugs work: they directly effect your brain to give what it wants even though it might be detrimental to your overall health and well-being.

If you don't crave food you wil eat out of not desire. We don't desire to live most of time, we fear to die.

Exactly

Even if you crave food the eating need not be enjoyable. What presses your pleasure buttons can be very personal.

Logos means word. I did not know that. Sharing information is very important to the survival of many species. Words are the most effective means of sh...

Migration is not just affecting the US. Europe and most rich countries are facing an influx of economic refugees causing a political crisis in all the...

Those that forget history are condemned to repeat it. If you don't see parallels with the 1930's you are being wilfully blind.

Yes that might be the biggest problem of all: Not knowing what we don't know.

I have really stopped speculating on these mattters, infinity and eternity. My mind can't deal with these concepts. You get caught up in circular argu...

No that is true. You do not have fingers and toes for the reason you use them. :rofl: You use them in unreasonable ways. :lol: It is really quite unre...

Yes it is a huge frustration of having to conform to society. Often you have to abide by common rules that you totally disagree with. This has turned ...

Seriously? You are telling me you have no idea why you have fingers and toes? You are an expert in the branch of philosophy that deals with the first ...

In an ideal world you would all be figments of my imagination.

You don't know why you have fingers and toes? You never use them?

Real knowledge starts with knowing what you don't know.

You don't find what defines us sexually as being relevant? Why do you have nipples?

In such matters I just refer to it being a personal choice. How hot does Goldilocks want her porridge?

While trashing the environment. That greater good has had to pay the price for our indulgences.

The problem is most people don't have the intellectual capacity to be anything by blind followers. Who are these people going to follow when all the l...

Yes I am familiar with the 'God has always existed' argument. I just find it very dissatisfying. It is like somebody putting an empty plate in front o...

Yes that is what one may logically deduce. It would explain the existence of the Universe. It can not however explain the existence of a creator deity...