Benj96

For me, God can be a personal pursuit. Where one's judgement of what they have discovered or been enlightened by does not necessarily translate across...

I agree. Feeling sadness and joy is definitely more fulfilling than feeling constantly numb, apathetic and emotionless. And if you crave joy you defin...

I agree. Schadenfreude certainly has its place, as often misadventure is an enjoyable or satirical source of comedy. Having said that, there is certai...

Thanks for your insights. I think I pretty much agree with all of what you said. As a small contribution I want to add from a personal perspective: I ...

Well every act of destruction of a state leads to creation of a new state. In essence creation and destruction are just positively/negatively connotat...

Not sure its as obvious and transactional as that. I don't think actively causing oneself pain/suffering neccesarily diminishes the pain of another. S...

Are you sure? If a god is universal and all aspects of existence are parts of itself, why would it not have a duty to itself?

Well, we are human. We are flawed and that is what unites us in the human condition. We look out for eachother because we relate most with one another...

I agree. I don't think any God would be "all good". But I do think such a gods concept of good is not human-centric. And sometimes we fall into the ba...

Well, we must acknowledge that suffering here is human suffering. Its inherently biased towards "our" wellbeing. For example, the climate changing may...

For me, the self is a complex collection of information that forms a constant self evaluation cycle (default mode network) , either subtracting (forge...

interesting. I see where you're coming from. I just have difficulty with believing that science doesn't also begin with rather arbitrary (in the sense...

Fair. I suppose in coming from it by projecting human conscience onto a deity. There's not reason why a deity if they existed woukd ever think feel or...

Everything in philosophy is in continued contention: like for example what is "truth", how do we "know" something is true/what is knowledge. What do w...

It is unwise to fall into the traps of depression. I also agree that wisdom in general makes one more immune to negative moods/ depression, being mani...

haha that's as good an action as any I guess. *shrug*

It seems not for now :)

what choice do we have in the end then in your opinion? When everything is done and dusted, and there is neither proof nor disproof of something. How ...

On the contrary, perhaps the brain is so important because it is the first thing to suffer when the body is in a state of crisis. Of all the body comp...

Wow that's a really great insight. Got me thinking a lot.

It's worth noting that intuition, like instinct, can be valid/correct/useful despite not being able to put precise or exacting words to it. You don't ...

Interesting. For me "faith" or "belief" comes from the self, it is observed at an individual level, its usually personal in character/a specific intim...

Interesting association. Never thought of it that way before. I for one am glad for the existence of both sceptics and mystics. I love the idea of mag...

You're probably right. I suspect any such "universal" God would not wish to be found. They would certainly be seen by some as thee most criminal of al...

I agree in a sense. But everything we do has a dogma (a principle or guide to follow). Science has its own dogma. It is rigid and inflexible about exa...

Haha that's a very apt way of putting it. What is an image of the universe indeed. My guess would be the image of the universe would be the "truth" ab...

Of course you're correct. It is a beautiful thing to have curiosity, to wonder "why?" always having more questions to ask. Having all the answers may ...

It seems so. We've certainly looked at it from as many angles as is probably humanly possible for millenia. There is still no consensus and no matter ...

That's a very good point. Haha

I think we can apply this to many gods throughout time. There have been gods of nature, of water, of the sky, the sun, of fire, of love, of war, gods ...

Let's say I work at the hadron collider institute in Geneva, using the sophisticated machinery I witness subatomic particles interact at the smallest ...

That's a good point. A snowflake is definitely a fractal and a finite one. Now I'm thinking that given the right conditions a snowflake could keep gro...

ah I see okay. So in essence the big elephant in the room here is the age old discussion of whether true infinities occur practically. If the universe...

That's quite potentially the case. I could see how laws could interact in such a way as to repeat patterns in a fractal manner. Rather than the other ...

The foundational ground of existence god, by giving rise to the universe, gives evebtual rise to human polytheism as well as monotheism. It permits su...

Ah yes now I understand what you're saying. Yes I agree some laws are extremely specific that they only apply to certain variables under rigid conditi...

Well the issue for me is that my concept of "law" is something that cannot be violated in any instance. Something fundamentally delineating the possib...

It looks like the anatomical structure of the brainstem.

That's a fair assessment and I agree. It is more a case of "how" rather than "should I?" After all, if you don't correct people, they lose conscientio...

I feel you jgill. I'm the same. Originally I thought it was so straightforward, precise and non contradictory and simple. A given. Pure logic. The per...

I already clarified the same thing earlier, this was a simplification/analogy based on punos and my previous conversation. I was trying to explain the...

I would say infinite in "change" or qualitatively infinite, but quantitatively finite. Energy has an infinite capacity to transform, assume new states...

That's a good point. So if we know absolute somethingness exists 1, then absolute nothingness 0 would be infinitely away/forever intangible. If we as ...

thats a nice and promising idea. I sure hope it turns out that way.

Well potential has no mass. As mass requires time (e=mc2, speed is involved here and that requires time and distance). Potential is massless. Then it ...

I do find it peculiar, I dont think it's wrong despite that. "Where did it come from? " is a natural bias of existant things following cause and effec...

Well as I said earlier it's not nothing. As true nothing would have no characteristics/properties. As any such properties or characteristics would be ...

I get what you mean. However I cannot help wonder what happens when AI builds autonomously on AI. That is to say it starts it's own evolutionary proce...

That's fair. I certainly don't intend to erode formal mathematics, it is what it is. I was merely trying to address the gap between mathematical logic...

No worries. It took me months to wrap my head around what seemed to be a conundrum between time and potential. But in the simplest explanation: potent...