Well the photon is "matterless" yes (not physical/solid/has no dimension) but not massless. Matter and mass are not the same thing: Matter is the soli...
Well one can only say that the default to not procreate as we cannot ask the unborn if they'd like to be born is merely based on the belief that we do...
Quite right Universeness, we must continue bailing that ship. Its a noble act of you to do so. However we must recognise the point when one stops pump...
I appreciate your concern for my wellbeing really. Its very kind of you. I think that they have good reason to accept the olive branch and perhaps the...
I wouldnt say buzz so much as a minute "hope" that their belief is valid - the antinatalist one that is. The controversy in itself serves to validate ...
Well it wouldnt be true antinatalism then, if that's actually the case. If he doesn't care to reduce human suffering he doesn't behold an ultimate eth...
The behaviour of energy is to "cause" not be "caused", that's the perogative of matter (physical objects). They are separate and absolute from the rel...
Well their is duality here is there not? Matter and energy are the same but separated by the quality of mass. Energy and matter both have mass; a hot ...
Wow. That is very poetic Constance. Beautiful painting with words. Language indeed has the power to be used figuratively, as a metaphor, in a non-lite...
Haha sometimes the "No shit sherlock observations" are the most profound and useful. We often forget the basics on such a hectic and changeable life. ...
It would be sad to imagine helping others and nobody appreciating it. People like to be appreciated for the good things they do. Positive reinforcemen...
I agree. Consider what a middle class person has available to them at this current moment: global communication at the touch of a button (internet), g...
Absolutely Janus. I agree. I think belief and fact differ only by a matter of magnitude/scale/scope. The more people that believe a belief, the more f...
Not really sure what you're referring to exactly by "yes, I'm sure you do." But if it is about me disagreeing with you, it just makes me someone with ...
Agreed. We may be nature's most recent prize, its latest pride and joy, the current best effort. And we (as parts of nature) may create on its behalf ...
I think this story from Babylon 5 holds a deep, endearing message. I'm glad you shared it with me, I had never come across it before. It's really nice...
Probably a wise and necessary choice. It's scary to see people as completely objective - just a conglomerate of systems, mechanical processes and matt...
I see what you mean. I think irrationality must exist in commune with the rational. For without eachother neither would exist. Irrational numbers for ...
Precisely. They are much the same. I think the borders of self are created by our beliefs, not definitive and discrete. So if we want to maximise our ...
Well I believe you are more in touch with reason and ethics than many others. As you showed me you were. Is it not then possible that there is an ulti...
Well, we worship noble people and the noble acts they do. And we condone the most intense demonstrations of evil that have existed amongst us. (Both m...
Precisely, it would be to the detriment of those that hold power, fame, recognition, authority, beauty, knowledge, révérence in all its formats. It wo...
Not a shy god, a god that presents its true nature as the whole/the everything, in a means/format understandable and accesible to humans, a human voic...
It is a prophet indeed. You're quite right. Because for actual god to exist as a person it would require the entire universe to condense into a singul...
I disagree - not entirely but I think some specifics need to be hashed out. God is omnipotent (all energy - and matter e=mc2, they are equivalent), om...
All agreeable statements you've made. One question though. Is that not possible, for God to have an existent? A channel of its ideals through a person...
I agree with you on the Plato - Aristotle point of digression with one another. But this remark really interests me. Because I'm going to introduce a ...
Not necessarily speculation. Without scientific proof we can also "trust" that uncle Sidney is more than just a neural network. We can go with common ...
Through self reflection. The brain has the ability to focus on, conjure up, root around in its storage (memories) for large swathes of beliefs, concep...
Yes I think we can agree that a physically manifested heaven/utopia would be temporally enjoyable but the novelty would soon wear off and become dull ...
It's also a gamble with their own well being. They could soon find themselves the scapegoat for any and all of the problems ever faced by their child....
Ah I see so we must be omniscient before bringing anything into existence. No room for any answers being still unknown? How's that pursuit of omniscie...
"Possibly" being the key word. We don't know the future so we don't know if it will be all suffering or actually pleasant and doable. We can't make th...
Who? Who is the someone? The yet to be born? How do I talk them what's their number? Email? Perhaps WhatsApp? Dilemmas apply to conscious agents that ...
Who's systems of neuronal activity exactly? Yours or his? We are all systems of neural activity - impossible to untether from external environment thr...
It's not a really a dilemma because we can't "consult nature" and ask if we can have a chat with our non existent child as to whether it wants to be b...
Well perhaps elaborate more so I can understand exactly what you believe? I don't want to make assumptions but I will follow the logic of what you pre...
Well what I'm trying to point out is I think it's a moral fixation that is overshadowed by quite frankly much worse things that could and are happenin...
So people are innocent in their entire life all the way up to the point that they procreate and then they're criminal/deserve shame and guilt etc? So ...
Parents were babies once too. So at what point does the blameless/innocent baby become guilty and shameful? For me: People have evolved the means to r...
How is it imposing to make suggestions? They're just suggestions. You can choose whether to take it on board or not. That's your call, ball in your co...
No not an issue of antinatalism as a concept. But it is a "you as a person" issue no? I mean im sure you go about living your life, enjoying things, t...
I'm merely saying that existence is polarised. Non-existence is neutral. If one wants to exist they must contend with navigating those opposites - the...
And yet it's merely hypothetical because you're not omnipotent - you don't have the ability to make antinatalism come to fruition. So we should probab...
Yes you can't impose on anyone. But a baby is born and its existence somehow already imposes on others through no fault of their own. So the best they...
Yes that's why we have a moral imperative if we want to exist to help eachother. Then you're not deciding to exist instead of someone else but through...
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