Outlander

Hi, really enjoying your posts in this thread. Not my particular stance but you are explaining the arguments rather succinctly. It is "easy to digest"...

A kid can gene-edit human DNA or create a global plague in his basement using a kit that can be carried on one's person. "Not having a job" is the lea...

TPF could face a lawsuit if a family member who perhaps is mentally ill delves a little too deep into certain philosophies. It's like this other forum...

Well, sure. As you've mentioned I am a consequentalist, no I see it as a "realist" for the reasons explained in previous posts in this thread. Every a...

I get what your asking, just trying to make life not seem so devoid of any real value by including the fact not all that glitters is gold and sometime...

That's up to the reader, friend.

That's because you think you can control Larry or expect anything he can throw at you. I'm sure Larry would choose you too.

Subjective opinion or absolute if you were some sort of psychic.with the desired measurable item (profit made in USD, influence in number of Markets R...

All philosophy aside, Larry is a few silver pieces away from being a full-blown Judas hence will never be little more than a liability and needs to be...

I was merely suggesting the possibility that all things have an explanation, rather that we can both "be right" about certain things as opposed to liv...

In my limited experiences I've found there is an unspoken elephant in the room regarding humanity's origins and past, known colloquially as Original S...

2.) Evility was not "created" rather something greater than good or evil "freedom" or "choice" was created and so evility is merely one of many by-pro...

I really think TPF can reach new levels of popularity (though at what price? that's for the individual user to ask...) with these cartoons. You're a r...

Simple. Create a dude, ask him what he thinks about it. After all, that's the subject of the matter. I know people who love life and writhe at the ide...

Psychics deals with the concepts of time and constructs of reality and the physical world we live in as a whole. Chemistry just re-arranges junk of li...

You use different tools for different problems don't you? If you're an up and coming agricultural society slowly transitioning from a pastoral one due...

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You learn to separate the art from the artist. After all, were it not for the hectic world we live in and the idiosyncrasies it creates within ourselv...

Because I was born into a society. That society that allowed the events of my safe birth to take place did not arise organically and is not a permanen...

What is the purpose of a brick? A sword? To build and protect or to smash and destroy? What of dancing around like a loon and making funny faces? To e...

I fail to see any system ever in place or that ever theoretically could be in place that if "taken on" wouldn't be met by something similar, one way o...

Ready? As in prepared for? Against what? Keeping our sanity or defending ourselves? Benevolent or malevolent, I see a problem.

If I may. I too was thinking along the lines he mentioned. From what I gather the conflicting premise is when someone says someone "knows everything" ...

Hm. An omniscient being that knows all there is to know yet "fails to have many true beliefs". Sounds a bit iffy to me. Sort of like not knowing "that...

Truth is hard to pin down. Deceit isn't. Our senses feed our brain "reality" and as such are solely responsible for any and all understanding of or ac...

It is said truth, reality, and the absolute has always existed. Before us, after us, with or without us, eternal and unchanged. Philosophy is merely c...

If they won't give you their kidney right there on the spot or object if you try to help yourself to it, they're bluffing. Like, race or social/econom...

FWIW, this banning did kind of startle me. Street was a mod. I mean there's some positive "all men created equal" vibes there somewhere but, yeah. :lo...

Ok see this is a good example. If you really felt that way you wouldn't have had to come up with a way to not-so-slyly call anyone who thinks the worl...

I'm afraid it would take me a lifetime to answer that. :D Merely thinking out loud here, but.. how do you really know you haven't always been alive an...

I had a good idea for a story, based on a real life existential crisis. But I'm savin' it for the big screen. :cool:

Is this kind of like how computers used to be the size of a wall and now we wear them on our wrists? Also, You can't create a simulation on an average...

Define, "God".

Hm. I like that. The idea that because a state of reality is negative it permanently defines any and all nature, prior or future, of said reality. My ...

This is circumstantial. Sure, foolish to think that could or would ever change. However not much more so than to designate your understanding of reali...

Non-math questions? Wouldn't that be impossible without the use of absolutes (even if you can "plug in" subjective values)? Not a math guy (I'm sure y...

Some of the greatest inventions were discovered by accident. Ever used a microwave? Messiah or not one of these "mentally ill" feeds you and keeps you...

Potentially. Same can be said about any party of majority. The idea of the Constitution as a "living document" that can be readily changed/updated/red...

Maybe aliens will show up and give us all little ray guns that can grow a cheeseburger into the size of a house thus solving world hunger. You don't k...

You don't "manipulate" your car to avoid crashing into a ravine you cannot see and perishing in agony, you maneuver it. You don't "exploit" a child by...

Restraint? Not simply being/becoming tired, wounded, bored, or simply not being hungry as to why for example a bear would not attack another being or ...

Do a Venn-Diagram between any intelligent animal and yourself, or just to be sure, a well-respected and intelligent person. Therein lies your answer. ...

I disagree. You're conflating the idea of not simply "going along with the flow" and accepting suffering or violence or most importantly lack of innov...

Math may be factual and absolute but our senses and understandings are not. That is to say, take the matryoshka doll for example. You have two in fron...

1. Catapult/cannon? A playground slide? 2. Ghillie suit/just dressing like everyone in a crowd? 3. Indoor skydiving? Magnetic suit over an opposite ma...

As long as the person can leave, even if that would surely result in death or a worse, less dignified life under a more cruel master (which is why suc...

Well, and I'm sure there's a fancy term for this but something created with omnipotence is outside of "everything", at least everything created. You c...

Everything we now use as second nature was once "woo-woo" or unrealistic fantasy, often bordering if not exceeding the threshold of mental illness. It...

Noble Thrust. A play on your offensively provocative ego. Just kidding. I intentionally avoid reading/associating names and avatars when responding to...

Help is different than military aggression (or is it lol). If you want to be a soldier you join an army, wear a uniform, and lose your status as a civ...