T_Clark

I love engineering and science. My whole family are engineers. I have an engineer's personality. I think like an engineer. I'm not putting it down, I'...

I think this is the best response I've read anywhere from a believer responding to skepticism. It's clear, reasonable, and intellectually satisfying, ...

I not aware that socialism ever worked in Russia. What are you referring to? The one thing I can think of that might make changes in a direction that ...

Billionaires are not the problem. Taking all their money won't solve anything. It just makes people feel good to resent them. Also - some of those bil...

Model's are necessarily simplified, so, yes, it's not their fault. It is inherent in the engineering, and I would say logical, process that this type ...

As I can attest, this is clearly not true. You can do both.

Thanks for the well thought out reply. Do you have any inkling that a political/cultural/social system based on those principles could work at any lev...

What is the difference between a social democrat and a socialist libertarian (SL)? What policies would a SL work for? Does socialist libertarianism ca...

Yes, sometimes, often, engineering projects work out well. The models aren't wrong, they just leave out parts of reality not directly related to a spe...

As I noted, it is the essence of engineering that it breaks the world down into smaller pieces then builds a simplified model and uses it to make desi...

Yes. Paper mill sludge is about as bad as an industrial smell can get. Not nearly as nice as chocolate.

Who better than an engineer to recognize the limits of what rationalization can achieve and it's possible dangers. You left out the part where I said ...

For a while, I lived near the Necco candy factory near MIT in Cambridge MA. They made Necco Wafers, of course, and also those Valentines hearts with g...

I think accepting depression and anxiety is a healthy path to take. That doesn't mean you don't try to make things better, but rather that you don't j...

It's not necessary, but I didn't say it might not be valuable. It's just not the only way and, in my opinion, not the best way, at least for me. I thi...

Not everyone here is unhappy, but there are a lot. You can know that by just reading what they write. People here are pretty open about their lives, w...

I agree with this. There are plenty of examples here on the forum. Good post.

And yet, here you have a philosophy forum full of unhappy people. Billions of people lead happy lives without depending on logic. Logic can't lead you...

Very few of the decisions you make, the actions you take, the attitudes and beliefs you hold are mediated by logic. They're not necessarily illogical,...

Good post.

Maybe you learned something about the relationship of mathematics with the world. Maybe not.

It doesn't happen to everyone. Paul Simon. Bob Dylan. CJ & VSB. Bob Seeger did what more musicians should do - said what he had to say, made the money...

No, the early books I'm talking about were not necessarily the first ones I read. In fact, generally they weren't. A writer's first book, a songwriter...

I am a civil engineer. There is nothing I ever did that "embodied" math for me like taking surveying in college. Trigonometry, measurement and measure...

Not a boycott. I just didn't want to hang around with you guys for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5UqUyFmT0

I'm starting a pool on @"Protagoras" - how long before he is banned. I put $5 on noon tomorrow EDT. Anyone want to throw in a few Euros?

Yes. I agree completely. Unfair forum moderation policies constitute human rights violations.

Because people with real courage pick their fights and risk something important. Life is full of little slights and disappointments. When this is all ...

It's just a forum, and one you don't seem to like very much. The worst that can happen is that you get banned. It's not courage if you risk being maul...

What courage does it take to speak up for someone banned? Answer - none. People do it all the time. Actually, I'm a bit jealous that you're going at i...

By the way, you are on their radar now. Seriously.

I'm not really surprised that @"3017amen" was banned. His posts were generally not very good and were rarely responsive. On the other hand, his contri...

My favorite is "tout le monde," which, in French, literally means "all the world." Idiomatically, it means "everybody," even if I only mean everybody ...

I am 69 and I've been retired for two years. When I was still working as an engineer, I was much better at what I did than when I was 20, 30, or 40. I...

It was not my intention to downplay it. The kind of awareness I'm discussing is something I value very much. At the same time, it is important to me t...

I see the experience you describe not as a view of a higher reality, but as increased awareness of the reality we live with every day.

Other than the high school, which was High School, they were named after previous school principals and superintendents.

This is a really good post. It made me think about lots of things. The idea of translation has always been interesting to me. It seems that translatin...

It's a little known fact - Sriracha was a sauce originally made in Egypt about four thousand years ago. The recipe was lost until a Thai archeologist ...

I'm confused. Is it the substance of the sauce that's a problem, or is it just the properties?

This is a really good post. You took my complaints about theism arguments and opened them up, broadened them in a way that's really helpful. You also ...

It's something of a pet peeve with me. Anti-religion activists like Dawkins and Hitchens use it to cast doubt on the existence of God. They claim thei...

If you're saying if God is not good then God does not exist, that doesn't make sense to me.

This is not an argument that God doesn't exist. This is an argument that God is not good.

I'll give an upvote for including not having an opinion as one of the ways of addressing the existence of God, even though you don't include it in you...

Yes. I agree. I also think if you take care of financial, security, and opportunity issues, the rest will take care of itself.

What more would be needed, what more could possibly be achieved, beyond addressing "disparities in education, resources, opportunity and wealth?" That...

Boy, I'm pretty disappointed with the debate so far. No one has just sat down and stated what their position is and why they think it is a good way of...

And yet "The sense of the world must lie outside the world," is a metaphysical statement.