Outlander

Total word salad then! Wonderful. I clearly need some help. Perhaps there's a nice cage for me somewhere. That'll teach me for going against the narra...

Eh. There's hope. Then there's expectation. Then there's likely outcome. The three are generally unique. Fright is unexpected horror. Nothing more, no...

Man. If I had a time machine and one of those Men in Black memory wipe pens I'd bring this guy and we'd enforce geocentric theory for millenia. After ...

Unfortunately I don't know you, friend. Perhaps you're an esteemed professor in a relevant field. I wouldn't know. Perhaps you're not. You clearly hav...

It's late guys come on. There's a box that says "live cat" on it. You got 2 people who say they did research and concluded there is no cat. Last they ...

Oh. Great. I'll just come by and you can show me a blackhole and alien world. You know just real casually. Not a big deal. No, we will not "Google it"...

I'm sure you'll forgive me but a little tongue in cheek. Yeah because that happens all the time... :D I mean. Yeah. Even if true there has to be some ...

Huh. That's a fair amount to think about. While I do tell me.. no relation to the idea of "an inch over the line is the same as a mile" or is it? I ge...

I'm assuming we can replace positive with assertive or irrefutable? That's a fact. So. By the same logic, it is not discounting the possibility. There...

That's great and all but until you can explain the Big Bang and the Singularity or for that matter can- right now- grab scientific instruments (doesn'...

"Inventing a religion" can be a far cry from enabling an open society centered around the idea of a Creator. One could not speak of why people got sic...

Could you if you may give a real world example of what you said? A linear progression like stepping on the gas pedal of a vehicle slowly or.. ? Seekin...

Where does a forest fit into the trees?

Frankly I don't have it in me to knowingly disrupt someones deep rooted belief or faith in something that keeps them grounded in their daily life. Eve...

Entropy? I think. :grin: Edit: The unsettling dynamic that an object at rest stays at rest unless an external force is applied. When that force is no ...

Is this similar to the you can disassemble a watch mechanism in its entirety where the smallest pieces are loose and seperate and place them all into ...

I guess. Meanwhile thanks to unadulterated desire we have genocide, overpopulation, starvation, strife, wrath, I could go on. Naturally these things w...

Who is this man? When did he take what he took? What technological advances and society were present when it happened? Would you give up everything cr...

Assuming that statement is true, why not. Again sans religion... yet you mention the metaphysical. Interesting. We'll call it spiritual I suppose. Whi...

Or did they? They certainly knew about emotion being able to override one's ingrained beliefs enough to propose a new concept. Other tricks as well. M...

Is it now? There's prizes or "spoils" which are positive and rewards which can be either. A man who stepped on people his whole life to make a few buc...

You're still thinking in the mindset of people whose finest accomplishment was defecating in holes surrounded by wooden barriers. It's easy to take so...

When in doubt. As Sherlock Holmes once said, "when you eliminate the impossible, what remains must be the culprit."

What kind of quality, heh life even, is there surrounded by pain and misery. Some find such. And it is well they do so. Live. Then cease. Happy til th...

Without contributing terribly to any arising points or sub points.. if you're making a thread about the idea let alone actually living and thinking ab...

Not sure. From your statement I'd assume not. The man was probably a bloody genius with an IQ that could buy a house converted to thousands. And? With...

Hm. It seems just as likely as any alternate I suppose. Early peoples banded together for survival, and once things became tolerable ie. food to eat, ...

It can be a bit of a paradox. A universal dilemma. You could just skirt by everything, school, life, relationships, etc. and get everything you need t...

I was going to try and use whatever reply yes or no to go on about something. Not toward you in any way of course rather for the particular view for o...

Do you believe in evolution or creation?

So many decent enough points. Yet many easily refuted. What one must first ask is why is free and open press such a rarity in these societies? More im...

Theories are not useful because if correct they become scientific law?

Great thread. The entirety of it kind of got the best of me around the last paragraph or so but a point I'd want to make, as novel as it may be is, as...

Then you'd probably have been gobbled up as a fetus for nourishment or raised to serve some Neanderthal army in a society of cavemen. Yet here we are....

In a modern society the two terms blend into irrelevance. You have criminals and law abiding citizens albeit some foul mouthed. Unwanted touching is a...

You can kill the messenger but not the message. It either has a point or it doesn't. And if it truly doesn't, what difference is it then receiving a t...

The masochist (just kidding guy :P ) was because your apparent nonchalance toward someone taking their own life obviously struck a nerve. The other si...

What part of free registration is not being factored into your view of this forum? The "good" philosophers are out writing books, teaching curious stu...

At the end of the day there's only right and wrong. Justice and lack of it. The latter of which never lasts for long. I'd rather witness some of the w...

So someone suffering sever emotional distress should face a real life animal attack instead of a metaphorical one as seems to be the subject here? Yea...

I'd rather learn about wild animals from a virtual setting than in the wild, now wouldn't you?

What made you interested in philosophy? Being able to understand more, become smarter, more sophisticated or otherwise improve your life? To improve t...

So now it's a crime to try to do/learn about something worthwhile? Put someone in a racecar with no training. Put someone raised in the city their who...

Revolting? Damn. I want to move where the women who behave like you describe live. XD What is your gender/relationship status/type of government just ...

I'm assuming you're over the age of 25 ie. when the brain is finished developing. If you deny not only your own humanity but someone else's, rather ou...

Not neccesarily. Pro gaming has become a billion dollar industry with nearly 7 billion hours spent this year just.. watching people sit in a chair and...

An emotionally provocative discussion, as shown. One would hope the intent is to dissuade others from limiting their life choices and hence opportunit...

But that's exactly what makes them so precious to us is it not. To quote my favorite series: "We love a rose because we know it will soon be gone. Who...

An interesting concept. So the planet is like a biome powered by a nuclear fusion reactor (the Sun) and presumably it or the larger system is travelin...

Let me tell you a joke, mate. A homophobe, an Islamaphobe, an Islamist, a gay man with a scar under his left eye from persecution, and a Christian wal...