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Braindead

['Member']Joined: May 19, 2020 at 04:08Last active: May 29, 2020 at 08:044 discussions33 comments

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Bored think tank that throws random ideas everywhere.

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I understand that life is simply the result of evolution, but there is a reason to everything and that is what the issue is. We can debate purpose, bu...
May 26, 2020 at 03:41
Purpose appears to be relative. A purpose can be given, though some creations could have been made with clear purpose in mind. Even in those cases, th...
May 25, 2020 at 16:13
Well, I would expect there to be issues with metaphysics. After all, if we had solid evidence that could explain it, it would be labeled physics inste...
May 25, 2020 at 16:07
I like to see the world as a natural machine. While the machine itself might not have purpose, it works and the components making the machine each hav...
May 25, 2020 at 15:55
Since we appear to be using metaphors as the best way to understand the situation, why not explain it in metaphors as well? A belief is the bedrock an...
May 25, 2020 at 09:49
I suppose it is strange to think that something would occur without a purpose. After all, everything has a cause and it would be logical to conclude t...
May 25, 2020 at 09:26
As a government with officials elected by the populace, it is theoretically acceptable to trust the government. Unfortunately reality is different and...
May 25, 2020 at 08:13
One of the biggest issues of the U.S. is space. The U.S. is enormous, enough to fit in multiple other countries. Prioritizing the individual or the st...
May 25, 2020 at 07:53
It is true that the educated man back in those times often dabbled in many subjects. Now we focus on single subjects individually and come together in...
May 25, 2020 at 06:57
Your right, I’m not a physicist, but nonsense like the things I post can get surprisingly good answers such as the explanations from Gnomon and Prothe...
May 25, 2020 at 06:53
I just realized, heat is the movement of particles then wouldn’t the core of the star be cooler because the pressure restricts movement? As a result l...
May 21, 2020 at 04:02
All particles are moving to some extent in what we call heat, so it wouldn’t be too out there to say that all matter is what matter does. We use it in...
May 21, 2020 at 03:51
That is strange. According to the conservation of energy, fusion would generally consume energy in order to build the molecules/atoms right? Perhaps w...
May 21, 2020 at 03:17
This whole thing reminds me of when I first came to understand heat. High school teaches heat makes particles move more quickly without explaining the...
May 21, 2020 at 02:21
Converting mass to energy is essentially disintegrating the bonds between the atoms in the bomb within a short time and space, resulting in large quan...
May 21, 2020 at 02:08
Considering the real world, ethics may just be a privilege. I just recently read a scenario which seems relevant in which there was essentially an apo...
May 21, 2020 at 02:02
That does make sense. On top of that you also mentioned e=mc2 and matter is energy. It’s interesting how mass is usually associated with matter, but i...
May 21, 2020 at 01:28
I understand that much, but the issue is the reality here in that matter appears to able to sub divide indefinitely, providing no concrete foundation....
May 21, 2020 at 00:48
I don’t have much to say about society as a whole except humans will be humans and we can’t expect everyone to be perfect. I guess it would be enough ...
May 21, 2020 at 00:14
The concept of good people reminds me of the criminal justice class I took. The idea behind the development of a criminal includes many factors includ...
May 21, 2020 at 00:02
What I’ve always found interesting is when my high school textbooks always described light energy as having both particle and wave characteristics wit...
May 20, 2020 at 23:44
Wouldn’t that be because a neutron is too small to actually encounter any of the matter within our bodies? It’s like a comet flying through space, the...
May 20, 2020 at 23:27
Oh, icons sounds like a pretty good way to describe it. Though we see things by using light, which according to my understanding are collections of sp...
May 20, 2020 at 23:12
I’ve thought about that too. What’s interesting about that would be when parts of the body are separated. Often you hear stories about people who lose...
May 20, 2020 at 01:12
I used to be religious and one of the intriguing things I took from that experience was that when they explained past actions that contradict modern t...
May 19, 2020 at 16:27
Some people simply don’t feel the need to have love. Or maybe they believe that this world cannot provide the love they desire. It isn’t necessarily a...
May 19, 2020 at 16:20
When I think about emotional topics I tend to focus on the more “scientific” approach first to help organize my thoughts. In the case of life and deat...
May 19, 2020 at 16:11
I called it obvious because I can easily prove that there is something there. Even though everything we perceive is a model created by our brains thro...
May 19, 2020 at 15:29
Who knows? I could chalk it up to coincidence or mental redirecting. I could even go super metaphysical about it all and talk about how our thoughts a...
May 19, 2020 at 15:24
Off the top of my head, I see philosophy as an educated guess taken further. Philosophy is called philosophy and not a theory because it lacks enough ...
May 19, 2020 at 13:20
Lackadaisical I was, ‘leven days ago.
May 19, 2020 at 13:07
Maybe, though it’s interesting how there are just random things that I just take mental note of and then watch how those things become recurring event...
May 19, 2020 at 12:57
Late comment, but many asian mythological creatures are chimeras, in the sense that they are composed of many characteristics from several different a...
May 19, 2020 at 04:47
I’m not a physics major or anything like that, but I find it fun to think about these things. It’s true that the only way to really observe time is th...
May 19, 2020 at 04:15