Outlander

It's an interesting concept. Assuming if two people could somehow be exactly the same down to every atom in their body (or maybe not that far but as f...

Anyone who associates or defines different values or meaning to the symbols or nomenclature used. Not a particularly deep or profound answer, kind of ...

Too much of a good thing... sure, before science people died more often but is that any trade off for the now possible reality that all of mankind cou...

It depends on how "real" you wish to attribute the non-human entities and spirit(s) said belief systems revolve around. As I would guess you are doing...

We seem to be in some sort of a time paradox here. Some persons in this thread wish or apparently have proven with fact that they shouldn't have been ...

This is kind of my first-glance impression of what anti-natalism seems to be or at least will inevitably lead to as well. Am I incorrect, @"Antinatali...

Truth is that, as you're programmed to believe, and you know you are, mankind has elevated himself slowly but surely from ridiculous purposeless cave ...

Have you ever heard of the crab who escaped from the bucket? Me neither. Though he stepped on all his fellow crabs and saw things they could only drea...

I can imagine a man asking this. And a benevolent being smiling upon him and saying "when one ceases to wonder, one ceases to live" and fades into a p...

It was a funny quip. A bit stereotypical and bland though popular for reasons I haven't failed to lose sight of. OP could do better. Yes, unfair even ...

A society? Try a world. It was much worse before, at least now people have to at least pretend to follow accountability, morality, social contract(s),...

There has to be some hierarchy for beliefs. Perhaps we could define one here. I would say a scientific law would be the highest, if not equivalent wit...

A tragedy can shock the heart and mind and even a national conscience , though like some heh "optimists" remind us in the face of tragedy.. be glad an...

Ignorance. My own, or at least so I always thought.

You seem to enjoy being alive. If even not for the sole purpose to convince others otherwise. I'm trying to tread carefully here but, look at your arg...

I've never been intimately familiar with many fancy terms in philosophy, but from Googling let me know If I put these actions or beliefs in the correc...

This was a great post to read. Not that I keep track of who posts what but from what I can recall and associate with your screen name, probably my fav...

The little bang needed something to aspire toward. What? Makes as much sense as any other coherent answer here.

Is that a question? Just kidding. As everything, beyond repeatable and consistent observation, which even then is mere circumstance, suggests.. perhap...

Time is money. Is this not correct? And both are no object. Only those who treat them as such are in said predicament.

For how long, is the real question Humans, to my knowledge, thankfully, don't have enhanced abilities like the one you describe, so, you're a proud an...

I subscribe to the truth of Shawn. Anything that differs is probably a lie or at worst the devil's work. P.S. I mean this post as an example of what c...

"If you don't do it, somebody else will" which is an unfortunate fact that most pacifistic logic crumbles in the face of, not from animosity but from ...

There's a reason there are no 'almost humans' in the animal kingdom. And so, requires some sort of higher power. God, an eternal being that is a non-b...

What do you think happens when your heart stops. Anything? Or simply death and lack of existence?

Well where else is there to go to get your intellectual kicks online as it were, or learn some by seeing what you need to learn. This is a great place...

Does it? Naturally the opposite of intelligence, being ignorance, would of course be what an unequivocal collection of what is known vs. what is unkno...

Just forget it. I was asking a serious question out of genuine curiosity about a topic that has always intrigued me. In fact, a topic some say I "shou...

Let's just move on. It was an innocent intellectual inquiry perhaps ignorant but nonetheless valid. I'm suggesting that abnormal generally (but not ne...

Words are fun, logic and explanations are better. Though I will heed your advice and would thank you for it if your cognitive dissonance would allow, ...

At the risk of expulsion from this.. massive community I will post my current response as well as the immediate one I was about to post that was typed...

Why, simply to actualize the point of philosophy itself, young Watson. To question what is believed, and on occasion to test it with real and purposef...

We all avoid our negative attributes and cast terms against them. Without revealing your fair weather logic or attempting to cast you as ignorant, whi...

Just try it out man. Sure I dislike 90% of modern women and 100% of those who fail to listen but, yeah. Come on dude. Do it.

Sure there is. Challenge mode, extra hard level on a video game. Just look at ski slopes. Color coded for convenience even. Where would the fun be in ...

Humanity.

Whoa.. that is trippy. Though I may have had a few.

Like myself and others have alluded to on the Guest Speaker thread about transhumanism, it seems more of a Pandora's Box than this "panacea of the god...

Information that conforms with the wishes, patterns, or beliefs of an authority. Be it real world observation and your own senses or legal decree and ...

Who is this man? Sounds like a humble man of peace. Unlikely he survived long let alone was able to manage his legacy. Basically unless you met the gu...

false dichotomy. if your fit to rule, you should. and if not you should conquer your ego before it conquers you, or worse those around you from your o...

Hm.. looks like you're scot-free as of now, but we'll be watching. :grin: Is it moral to have children? Let's for sake of example, compare a child to ...

You seem to be alive and assign your words meaning, regardless of anything absolute it seems to bring joy to you, at least enough motivation to type i...

And what will become of him. Yea sometimes the restriction from a discipline will encourage greater interest and practice toward it, but were we, all ...

Perhaps, to an extent. There are no free lunches. Someone has to pay for it either in effort, time (college years ie. youth spent studying vs. partyin...

If the imposition informs you of a greater reality that perhaps you were oblivious to as opposed to some petty personal desire or conditions thereof, ...

No you're not. I can tell from how you play chess.

Apparently the three remaining stories/authors are: A Short History Of The Expanding Universe A Weak Foundation Remembrance tim wood Leghorn god must ...

I hear tell the next one might not be for many months. Also, I'd consider omitting that last sentence.

So basically hypericin is the winner, being the only 'civilian'. I think if @"hypericin" doesn't mind submitting another story, the mods probably will...