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Egad! Who here has mentioned here controlling light with their thoughts or are you a mind reader?

There is gradation. The degree to which you understand how a the engine of a motor vehicle works. That can be from knowing how to drive it to being ab...

Our ability to control our thoughts is vastly inferior to our ability to control light.

Okay I grant you that: To have this discussion, something has to exist. That is an absolute truth. Not that this truth is in any way enlightening and ...

Dualistic thinking is the solution to most problems. Most (everyday/philosophical) problems are dualistic by nature.

I would have accepted: 'reason is the effort to justify our beliefs' and that would not have precluded 'reason is the effort to express 'reality' in w...

Reason is the effort to express 'reality' in words and numbers.

Nothing is 'the truth'. Everything is contains a degree of truth.

Our knowledge evolves from the simple to the complex. Simple is what you believe you understand. Complex is what you still do not understand. We have ...

Absolute truth does not exist. If you are looking for absolute truth I would suggest you join a religion. There are plenty of them.

https://singjupost.com/stoicism-as-a-philosophy-for-an-ordinary-life-massimo-pigliucci-transcript/ I think the thrust of his argument can be basically...

Having started off as a truly miserable 'git' in life I am now reasonably comfortable and content with my existence. For me that is 'proof' that the '...

Exactly. Consciousness is a 'whole body' experience. And our perceptions are 'hallucinations'.

My 3 ethics, which work like a 3 legged chair. 1 is it good for me? 2 is it not bad for humanity? 3 is it not bad for the environment? However I can n...

There is not much (if anything) that anyone wants to prove does not exist. The fact that we can't prove an anthropomorphic God does not exist, makes t...

People seek what to believe in. Belief gives them stability. We are all groping around in the dark with belief like a candle to show the way.

The most of what we sense to be right or wrong is more of a belief than knowledge.

Sorry, but if we “appropriate” (oikeiosis) the concerns of others" aren't we expanding our circles of concern? And isn't that the problem we are facin...

The great thing about God is that nobody can prove He does not exist.

All living things show a degree of 'consciousness'. Every cell in your body has 'consciousness'. You are the accumulation of all the cells in your bod...

Scientist do not think more. They observe and experiment more.

I think we are coming to the realization that 'Together we stand. Apart we fall.' The survival of our civilization now depends on how capable we are o...

I don't think there is much difference in level of complexity between bacteria and a homo sapiens. That said however I do think survival of the specie...

Beliefs that are believed to be false have no usefulness. False beliefs that are believed to be true can be useful. Our belief in an anthropomorphic G...

Beliefs that are believed to be false have no usefulness. False beliefs that are believed to be true can be useful. Our belief in an anthropomorphic G...

That does not make sense. We know it is false because it does not work.

If you want to look for some esoteric 'mumbo jumbo' definition of truth, that is your prerogative. I think that is just about as useful as digging a h...

Talking of memes. Have you noticed the trend wearing of shorts by the youth all of a sudden. Where did that come from?

Once you truly understand that fears and desires are the driving force behind all our actions everything will understand.

You don't value your objective? I am of the opinion that contempory civilization has developed the means to almost completely control our fears and de...

Can highly recommend it. You'll love it.

I still don't know what your answer is when I say, 'I am a liar'. This statement is either true or false. Which one is it?

Might be helpful to which remarks you are referring and why they offend you so.

I must be getting old, but after a short period I just want to 'come' and get it over with. BTW screwing the same woman gets a bit boring after 25 yea...

Mainstream science has given all the stuff we like having. If we (in the West) are still not happy, is because we don't realize how well off we are. B...

To be honest I find it very difficult to get out of bed in the morning. If it were up to me I would stay in bed for the rest of my life. Unfortunately...

We are physically and mentally programmed to react to internal and external signals: hunger, pain, thirst, cold, fear, desire (internal)and light, sou...

I experience this in it's purest form under influence from Cannabis. As you grow up you absorb knowledge. THC releases this knowledge (of myself and m...

Another great story is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I have been fascinated by this book from a very young age.

For me achieving everything I want and being in state I don't want to change has meant boredom not happiness. Happiness requires change.

Do you know the balls in the jar challenge? Ask 100 people how many balls there are in a jar and you will get give or take 80 different answers. If yo...

We should have a pragmatic idea of truth. Anything that makes you feel you are 'better off' today than yesterday is truth. And once you believe things...

I think you are making it more complicated than it needs to be. The question is a moral one. Should you intervene or not? What are you responsibilitie...

All we can say about these sentences is that they contain no information. This statement is false. Everything I say is a lie. 'I am a liar' Don't beli...

Absolutely correct. Eckhart Tolle > Quotes > Quotable Quote “... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what y...

Everyone is both a socialist and a capitalist as every sexual being is both female and male. Females being more female than male and visa versa. To wh...

They do prove him right. His hypothesis/theory was that time sped up in a lower gravitational field. The fact that we have to compensate for that aber...

A goal is whatever makes you behave with intent.

'I am a liar.' is already a paradox. Tell me if you know I am a liar or not?

I think what you might be alluding to is the Trolly problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem You see a runaway trolley moving toward fiv...