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Yes I think finding a way to exist without total self annihilation would be less "sucky". Yes maybe the underlying laws and principles, the constants,...
December 01, 2022 at 20:10
Your area being all things right? As all things are by default a part of your godly self. Thats all very well, you can make everyone intrinsically awa...
December 01, 2022 at 20:02
Yes true. It seems you could only be trained/taught/told what you are if you chose to unlearned everything you already knew and be at the mercy of oth...
December 01, 2022 at 19:51
Well, appearing to be absent and truly being absent (not existing) are two different things. Perhaps if by creating humanity, god imbued humans with t...
December 01, 2022 at 19:37
Hmm an intriguingly thought for sure. If it was impossible to unbecome God how ought you make yourself not exist without making everything not exist? ...
December 01, 2022 at 19:29
So you would wonder, be in awe of yourself, pursue your own mysterious existence, seek out a philosophy, question your own motives and rational for as...
December 01, 2022 at 19:25
Haha quite right. Perhaps being God would be pure escapism - from fault, from blame, from culpability. Many people would imagine God as an origin and ...
December 01, 2022 at 19:17
So would you say him as God would not be all knowing and would make mistakes along the way that ought to be corrected? Or would you posit that fuck up...
December 01, 2022 at 19:10
Yes I think anyone with good intentions would try to un-tangle the shit from the good stuff and minimise the barbarism. However, it being your creatio...
December 01, 2022 at 19:06
Oooh. Yes I agree a failsafe is a good thing to have in place. I mean as God I'm sure you could undo anything, reverse time to any point. So you could...
December 01, 2022 at 19:04
Perhaps they ought not to? I mean you as "God" in this hypothetical have full reign and authority over how to be. As a God ought to. You choose how to...
December 01, 2022 at 19:00
A noble thing I would say. That people may always have the ability to quench suffering whenever it becomes overwhelming. Would this mean the ability t...
December 01, 2022 at 18:49
I understand totally. It is a thought of seismic proportions, not one to consider lightly certainly. To be responsible for everything, to be some orig...
December 01, 2022 at 18:30
Haha wouldnt that be all times in existence, unless (desiring not to be god any longer) you were to unbecome god by appointing another in your place? ...
December 01, 2022 at 18:26
For me, hope is what remains at the end, when all previous reason has lost its vigour, its value, its authority. A pure desire to find meanings once l...
December 01, 2022 at 17:47
Yes. That's a good explanation I enjoyed picturing it mentally. It runs in tandem with the underlying notion I have considered through several variati...
December 01, 2022 at 17:05
I like this analogy a lot. Seems very intuitively logical and reasonable. My mind is chewing on it. Food for thought.
December 01, 2022 at 17:01
What is true to A is not true to B. What is true to B is not true to A. But the greater truth i would say is that A and B both exist (are true) but th...
November 28, 2022 at 16:08
There is nothing that disconnects us from the universe, fundamentally, other than our assumptions. Some assumptions are easy, natural to assume becaus...
November 28, 2022 at 15:53
Exactly. Only the ends of a spectrum, the poles (absolutes) , can observe the middleground (relativism) but the middle cannot see the ends.
November 27, 2022 at 10:47
However, they are all existents in the universe because you used them, as many other do, and we all exist in the universe, as products of its possible...
November 25, 2022 at 19:08
Yes indeed. The waveform represents the possibilities between what you think/believe/have concepts for and what I do similarly, however all the while ...
November 25, 2022 at 18:42
Now how do you explain others passage of time? Their perception of it? A person in a coma for example who neither can point to space or time, and waki...
November 25, 2022 at 18:32
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Yes I agree. I think if there is a true afterlife it is akin to some sort of great unveiling/revelation - a profound and all encompassing dramatic cha...
November 25, 2022 at 17:59
Gross patriarchy and gender inequality at its finest :( Oh I disagree. I think you're doing a very good job of explaining your qualms to the forum con...
November 25, 2022 at 17:45
Well then my internal mind has no importance, value or significance to you. As the privacy of my inner thoughts must either not exist, or have no impo...
November 24, 2022 at 16:24
Then point to them. As they are apparently material objects. Show me the object that is time, is space?
November 24, 2022 at 16:21
This is analogous to a waveform no? Potential to be in more than one place simultaneously. If everything in the universe is natural where does the ter...
November 24, 2022 at 16:19
You're right in that at the speed of light spatial dimension (distance) contracts infinitely. At the same time let's not forget that time dilates infi...
November 24, 2022 at 16:03
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Yes judges are human and thus have failings, they have not considered everything (omniscience). They are flawed just like anyone else. So when pressur...
November 24, 2022 at 15:50
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Indeed. And self fulfilling prophecies do exist as outcomes based on a pure, unchangeable belief. For example if I'm absolutely sure I'm stupid and un...
November 24, 2022 at 15:29
What do you mean exactly by "compelling example" and "existent immaterial ?" Is a "compelling example" for you in this sense "material evidence" of th...
November 24, 2022 at 15:02
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I think an accurate religion would satisfy all walks of life, at all ages. Teenagers are at the pinnacle of uncertainty and thus questioning, as they ...
November 23, 2022 at 16:30
I think the immaterial does exist and is intangible to scientific means of exploration. Science cannot prove an individuals mind objectively. Not only...
November 23, 2022 at 16:17
Yes, quite right, and no better a portrayal of such then WW2 when it finally dawned on prospective employers that women were and always have been just...
November 23, 2022 at 16:05
You're absolutely correct. I agree. I was referring to how modern society pits the bread against the home. Which is a terrible shame as bread is made ...
November 23, 2022 at 15:54
Oh I'm sorry Athena! :( I didn't intend it as an insult, honestly. Perhaps I need to reconsider how I explain myself. I meant bread winner in the pure...
November 23, 2022 at 15:52
I don't know. I think that depends on the will of said people. If the will is wholly self serving and caustic to the respect, tolerance or social cohe...
November 23, 2022 at 15:44
Oh absolutely. A good spot. It has a lot of dynamics and interpretations depending on the culture of adults (society at large) in any given context. I...
November 23, 2022 at 15:26
It is a great shame if humans believe altruism and reciprocity are unnatural. For that to be the case, self service and selfishness would be the natur...
November 22, 2022 at 15:34
Yes quite right Vera. I described some of your ideas in my response to I. L Sushi above. In essence, in case it had not crossed your mind, which it ma...
November 22, 2022 at 15:15
I Agree I. L Sushi. I think if you gave people the "ideal" world to live in and assuming they accept it as ideal indeed, they would either by accident...
November 22, 2022 at 14:55
What do you call that type of art hung in galleries like the tate modern, you know, the paintings and sculptures with blobs and strange weird and obsc...
November 22, 2022 at 12:31
Not yet. You do know quantum computing is currently on the rise. https://www.idquantique.com/quantum-safe-security/quantum-key-distribution/?utm_sourc...
November 21, 2022 at 07:26
Seems you wanted me to include the specific particularities like quarks, spins, the etc and not the main principles/ideas behind quantum physics. Schr...
November 21, 2022 at 06:22
It can be good or bad. You feel intuitively what's good when you experience the sensation. You know it because you felt it before. Why and when you ex...
November 20, 2022 at 13:20
Well no, not the same for less extreme examples because if Hitlers acts were in fact very bad (which I think most people would agree they were), then ...
November 20, 2022 at 12:49
I don't think we can choose our thoughts. For example don't think about a pink elephant! What are you thinking about right now? However, we can choose...
November 20, 2022 at 11:59
Easy. Mother cleans daughters room as she sees she's very busy/under stress (mother - good intention). Daughter (consequentialist - angry because she ...
November 20, 2022 at 11:52
Um... How do we know it occurs when machines do it?Who read (observed) the machine result. Haha. If no humans are involved how on earth can you make t...
November 20, 2022 at 11:30