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['Member']Joined: January 04, 2020 at 19:02Last active: April 01, 2023 at 20:00None discussions17 comments
Location: In an alternate reality

Bio

About me? INTP-A, or INTP-T, depending on the whims of my neurochemical makeup of the moment, and the level of intervening chemical assistance.

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Favourite Philosopher

Favorite philosophers? How about none? I don't subscribe to anyone else's brand of curiosity, I have my own.

Favourite Quotations

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - 1984

Comments

In: Anti-vaccination: Is it right?  — view comment
If vaccines work as advertised (figuratively speaking; I don't watch broadcast television, and thus have no recent basis for comparisons) then people ...
August 12, 2021 at 17:46
In: It's not love if you love a person because you love his body.  — view comment
Seems a rather trivial distinction to make.
July 03, 2021 at 11:10
In: Belief in god is necessary for being good.  — view comment
I find the notion absurd, that any particular state of morality might require a specific acquiescence of reason. While religious indoctrination does i...
June 12, 2021 at 02:36
In: The Future of the Human Race  — view comment
I wouldn't classify my interest in humanity's future as "care", so much as a distinct curiosity.
June 12, 2021 at 01:45
In: What is your understanding of 'reality'?  — view comment
My perception of physical reality is little more than just that, a perception. Has it not been well established that physical matter is mostly empty s...
May 27, 2021 at 05:26
In: Do Atheists hope there is no God?  — view comment
That's a fairly long thread, and I have neither the time nor inclination to read through it completely. Somebody mentioned something about trying to "...
May 24, 2021 at 17:50
In: 'Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?’ - ‘No Reason’  — view comment
In this particular permutation of reality? Not likely. In a multiverse of parallel and not-so-parallel realities, where every conceivable possibility ...
May 24, 2021 at 17:44
In: 'Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?’ - ‘No Reason’  — view comment
Because it is possible, it is inevitable.
May 20, 2021 at 11:40
In: Do Atheists hope there is no God?  — view comment
TL;DR: upon close inspection of the biblical god, it quickly becomes apparent it was fashioned after Man's lesser-desirable traits, making the worship...
May 18, 2021 at 22:08
In: Are humans more valuable than animals? Why, or why not?  — view comment
Sorry to break it to you champ, but humans ARE animals.
May 16, 2021 at 18:25
In: “Why should I be moral?” - Does the question even make sense?  — view comment
Morality is, for the most part, social leverage which seeks to control or confine behavior and thinking. Without the presence of others, say you had t...
May 08, 2021 at 19:24
In: Lockdowns and rights  — view comment
The average person doesn't want to be exposed as having been so thoroughly and easily fooled into changing their behavior, and thus will grasp wildly ...
March 16, 2021 at 21:49
In: Accepting free will is real, and then actually building up knowledge about it  — view comment
I do not accept that free will is real. I accept that my perception of having free will is real, however, the perception of a thing and the thing itse...
May 08, 2020 at 20:38
In: Does anything truly matter?  — view comment
All these words to answer such a simple question. No, none of it matters, unless it matters to you, in which case its importance (whatever it is) is i...
May 08, 2020 at 20:32
In: Is strict objectivity theoretically possible?  — view comment
If I don't experience emotion, or do so at a markedly diminished capacity from what is accepted as normal, would that increase my ability to discern o...
April 23, 2020 at 19:53
In: Are we living in the past?  — view comment
Light hits an apple, the material properties of the object alter the wavelength that is bounced off it. That particular wavelength hits the cells in t...
January 25, 2020 at 04:35
In: Everything In Time Has A Cause  — view comment
The title of this post, (to be precise, the idea behind the title) is predicated on the assumption that the human perception of the linear progression...
January 04, 2020 at 19:33
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