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In: High IQ Societies  — view comment
That's comforting, thanks. If you wanted to know who all the smart people on this site I can tell you. :lol:
June 17, 2020 at 22:25
In: High IQ Societies  — view comment
I know about the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I've also had professors in college tell me that I'm very smart and got good grades. It's just when I'm put on...
June 17, 2020 at 22:08
In: High IQ Societies  — view comment
Don't mind me an my insecurities. :wink:
June 17, 2020 at 21:58
In: High IQ Societies  — view comment
I have nothing against people boasting about their high IQ's, I'm just getting the impression that IQ is equated with having a good brain. I don't bel...
June 17, 2020 at 21:13
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
Oh dear! I forgot God was very sensitive about humans worshipping other gods. I have to remind my pagan friends that worshipping Thor might hurt Gods ...
June 17, 2020 at 21:04
In: I feel insignificant, so small, my life is meaningless  — view comment
Philosophy isn't good for anxiety. Trust me I would know.
June 17, 2020 at 20:27
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
An accurate and succinct depiction of religion.
June 17, 2020 at 17:44
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
https://youtu.be/FQ5YU_spBw0
June 17, 2020 at 13:54
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
Not at all. Pain and misery in this world is just a sample of what goes on in hell. God wants us to know what hell feels like in this world so we don'...
June 17, 2020 at 12:44
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
It makes clear that Macintosh doesn’t know.
June 16, 2020 at 15:22
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
Read carefully.
June 16, 2020 at 15:02
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
Common sense is only good for common things. Skepticism about the external world ain't common. There you go, now you can publish this argument in your...
June 16, 2020 at 07:17
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
That's where science comes in. Scientists don't have much patients for philosophical wordplay, they rather have you do an experiment.
June 16, 2020 at 07:07
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
You couldn't be more right! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_one_hand
June 16, 2020 at 06:58
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
Those are all very tricky concepts. :rofl:
June 16, 2020 at 06:54
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
I think this is the key part: I think there's a slight of hand here: First it asks you why the sentence is absurd, then it asks you why something that...
June 16, 2020 at 06:50
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
I refer to my previous post. I rather somebody else discuss this with you, it's not personal.
June 16, 2020 at 05:57
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
I don't get it. I leave this to somebody else.
June 16, 2020 at 05:53
In: Moore's Puzzle About Belief  — view comment
Are you sure McGillicuddy doesn't know it is raining? I don't think that is clear.
June 16, 2020 at 05:43
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I posted something philosophical, happy?
June 16, 2020 at 05:27
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
https://youtu.be/QZ8hefESt7c
June 15, 2020 at 22:10
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
God is not fair get used to it! Clearly God believes pain and misery is extremely beneficial to mankind.
June 15, 2020 at 21:53
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/fJuapp9SORA
June 15, 2020 at 09:48
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
Somewhere between my mind and my brain. On the borderline. The borderline between my mind and my brain.
June 15, 2020 at 07:17
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
We talk about the contents of the mind in a metaphorical sense, but they aren't real stuff. I say the mind is empty. And I think the container metapho...
June 15, 2020 at 07:12
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
Why can't consciousness be empty then? I believe consciousness is like the air in a basketball.
June 15, 2020 at 06:54
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
I believe this is a misconception. Conscious beings have experiences, it's not a matter of being attached to them. Experience is not passive, it's a p...
June 15, 2020 at 06:45
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
Consciousness is emptiness! A very strange kind of emptiness.
June 15, 2020 at 05:23
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
That's better. :wink: Nothing wrong with speculation. I just get annoyed with all the spooky language, especially when many of us don't know what you ...
June 15, 2020 at 04:18
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
I'm not a mineralogist. You make it sound like consciousness is stuff, and I don't believe that consciousness can be accurately be described as "stuff...
June 15, 2020 at 03:41
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
Put what do mineralogist say about rocks?
June 15, 2020 at 03:19
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
I would bet all my money that rocks are not conscious.
June 15, 2020 at 03:04
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
I bet no one here (including me) knows what "integrated and entangled information" is. :lol:
June 15, 2020 at 02:18
In: Materialism and consciousness  — view comment
Consciousness is what's in between all the brain stuff. Think of consciousness as the "other side", the side that is sealed off by matter in the brain...
June 15, 2020 at 01:10
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
Okay, perhaps the earth stays forever. Even if Eve caused eternal damage by eating a apple, I don't think any christian would say that Eve is spending...
June 14, 2020 at 21:09
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
Is the world eternal?
June 14, 2020 at 20:52
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
Luck is never on your side.
June 14, 2020 at 20:42
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
I'm also humble. I'll try, but evil feels so good! :death:
June 14, 2020 at 20:37
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
I'm super evil and I'm even gonna disregard eternal damnation. Not even eternal damnation can stop my evil! :naughty:
June 14, 2020 at 20:15
In: An Argument Against Eternal Damnation  — view comment
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/heaven-and-hell/why-is-hell-eternal.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CjSy9CWEeU
June 14, 2020 at 19:30
In: Philosophy is mainly about style (not substance)  — view comment
:up:
June 14, 2020 at 18:19
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
My body loves her soul, and my soul loves her body. :love:
June 13, 2020 at 09:25
In: Belief  — view comment
A belief is simply taking a proposition seriously. Lose of belief results in laughter.
June 13, 2020 at 07:49
In: Tolerating other Viewpoints  — view comment
'merica.
June 12, 2020 at 09:45
In: Tolerating other Viewpoints  — view comment
Perhaps another time. The quarantine is getting to me.
June 12, 2020 at 08:38
In: Tolerating other Viewpoints  — view comment
That makes sense.
June 12, 2020 at 08:30
In: Tolerating other Viewpoints  — view comment
That's not my problem. I believe "annoying" is accurate, and it doesn't matter how vulgar you think that word is.
June 12, 2020 at 08:24
In: Tolerating other Viewpoints  — view comment
I already know the answer. Anything that isn't academic philosophy is not philosophy.
June 12, 2020 at 05:13
In: Tolerating other Viewpoints  — view comment
Who decides what is philosophy and what is not philosophy?
June 12, 2020 at 04:44
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Does anybody else get a not-secure connection on the Get Creative thread?
June 07, 2020 at 10:03
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