Wheatley

I once told religious kids that I'm an atheist. They looked at me with bewilderment and said, "You're really stupid. It's pretty obvious that there is...

Well, the demarcation between science and pseudoscience is philosophical. It's not far stretch to say that the question of the demarcation between gen...

How do you reconcile the two?

I have an idea for a topic: Do drug addicts have free will?

I'm done storytelling.

Yes. Death is the best painkiller there is.

Probably not the best story I could write, but then again I didn't sleep for the last two days. These stories aren't putting me to sleep. :sad:

The year is 2119, and the world is a very different place. Sea levels rose and consumed most of the land. There are only a few patches of heavily crow...

Solipsism is the belief that there are no other minds. Epistemological nihilism is the view that we can't know anything.

My intention wasn't to kill anyone's buzz. It's just that I had that quote in mind during our whole back and fourth. I felt guilty about what we were ...

I'm going to quote jamalrob here. (I hope he doesn't mind.)

Ugh, don't remind me of that. We had enough of that on our Passover Seder.

And full of witnesses, the way I like it.

And I'm American. We already won our independence from you. Now leave us alone.

I really admire your sense of humor. I really do. Not everyone can talk about bashing people in the head with a case, and laugh about it. You really h...

I see I'm fighting a losing battle. You're really good at being nasty to other people. I'm not.

Nonsense. You can't even simultaneously hold a case and walk with it.

As it happens, I have a degree (Zoology)...And with regard to your earlier complaints about me correcting your language, I have a degree in that too a...

https://writerswrite.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Writing_Meme04.jpg

Only really smart people can do it. (I can't do it.)

You're doing great! Tomorrow you can post a thread dazzling us with your brilliant writing style.

Reality doesn't need to reflect your subjective judgments.

It's not immoral to drugs per, say. However, it is immoral to do certain acts that you don't normally do when your not high. Unless harming yourself i...

How is progress made? When something happens for the better. How to measure it? You need a specific example and an operand definition of progress.

I think we have to agree to disagree here.

I notice it doesn't mention anything about "starts".

Because it's impossible to know where it actually starts. You can say that it starts at the left side, or you can say at the right side. Of course you...

I don't think any of them have a "start", not the line segment, nor the circle. Shapes don't have starts, only directions have starts.

All you are doing is measuring the angle of a circle at arbitrary points and then tracing the angle around so it reaches the same points on the circum...

If you arbitrary choose a point as the beginning of a circle, you can also arbitrarily choose another point as the beginning. I'm trying to understand...

You are obviously using the world "spotlight" as a metaphor. Can you please tell me what you mean by the "spotlight"?

A circle has no beginning. There is no t=0 if time is circular. What you are describing is more like a spiral than a full circle.

You still need continuity of the self in order to become unconscious and regain consciousness again. Where is the self when your body dies? That poses...

But technically speaking it wouldn't be your death. You would just be unconscious until time circles, and then regain consciousness when time reaches ...

You already lost me here. I don't have a firm grasp on Einstein's theory of 4D space. I pretty sure it was 3D space and one dimension of time though. ...

I think the whole idea of life after death is incoherent. Death is the end of your life, so there can't be life after death. There's no beyond the end...

There once was a girl that loved to write. She never had a blank moment on her mind where she couldn't think of anything. So she wrote, and she wrote ...

I'll keep that in mind if I ever want an infinite thread. Right now I'm content with making threads long enough to witness Godwin's Law.

Two threads in a week? That's a big no-no. Day 1. Overthink. Day 2. Post a thread just to show off your amazing logical and literary skills. Day 3. Ig...

Less than once a week it is. I'll make that a commitment.

Trying to slow down my thread creation because I don’t want to go the same way as Wallows. :fear: Was going to create a thread asking how much time it...

There once was a philosopher who doubted everything. He even doubted that he existed. Descartes famous argument that you can't doubt that you exist di...

Fair enough.

I don't want to start a whole debate about religion, but you brought it up. It was also natural to believe that the earth was flat, and that things in...

I agree with @"Devans99" that religion is natural. I also agree with @"SethRy" that a person can live a fulfilling life without religion. Humans are t...

God gave religion the second he created us, so there was never a time where we were without religion. I'm just kidding, I don't believe any of that. Y...

I'm not sure if I need to put my definition in the Frege or Wittgenstein box. 'Religion' is not like a mathematical definition with an exact meaning. ...

No, it's a definition I thought on top of my head. I didn't think much about it to be honest. Pick your favorite definition of religion. It doesn't ma...

https://youtu.be/hqDinxaPUK4

Choice. I googled it. :razz: