I haven’t been on the forum for about a year. That’s not the first time I’ve disappeared for a while. Generally it’s because they ban someone I care a...
S is my friend. It has been so moving to me how he has changed over the last year or so. I can't believe you banned him now but didn't two years ago. ...
I remember that. It was some game someone else set up where you can change the rules of the game and the last set of rules has priority over all the o...
Fitness does definitely promote reproduction on an individual level - that's how natural selection works. To vastly oversimplify, an individual with s...
So, let's change the game a bit. We'll use cards. There is a well-shuffled deck with 1,000,000,000 cards. First condition - I take a card from the dec...
Or, more importantly, die or fail to reproduce. Yes, of course species become extinct, but that is a long-term manifestation of the action of many org...
I take your opinion seriously on this. I remember the thread you did on how genes work as a complex interaction of many genes related to a complex sys...
Some of us with no religious beliefs do not see the world as cold and indifferent or death as hopeless or absurd. Contriving our own "meaning, moralit...
Ahem...Hayseed? It's perfectly reasonable to consider the effects of natural selection on people living in a technological society, even if people liv...
As I indicated in another post, the primary mechanism of evolution, natural selection, acts only on individuals. I'm not sure if that contradicts what...
To clarifiy - natural selection acts only on organisms. That action may or may not manifest itself as an evolutionary change in a species or other tax...
I recognize you aren't endorsing@"Purple Pond"'s position. I am responding to your summary of PP's ideas. The meaning or purpose of life is an express...
It's not abstract, it's the most concrete thing there is. It isn't a theory. I call it "metaphysical" so it will be clear I'm not saying it's the righ...
We are just three of the 10,000 things. Or maybe three of one of the 10,000 things. As for the "Tao Unified Cosmos theory," - it's not really a theory...
According to one source, 87% of women and 81% of men reproduce. Here's a link: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/26797a/what_percent...
I was thinking about this again. Isn't the attitude expressed in Adler's procedures exactly what drives some young people away from reading? To me, wi...
I went back and checked and I did read the post thoroughly the first time, so you can't blame my response on that. Given your response to that, I apol...
I'm surprised. I always think of you as someone experienced in eastern philosophies. Certainly more experienced than I am. Maybe you have a different ...
I'm not sure if I get the distinction between words and names, at least not in this context. I wrote previously: You describe "...moments when experie...
It's not that you are undivided, it's that everything is undivided. There is only one essence, e.g. the Tao. Other philosophers call it something else...
I disagree with your statement, but as I said in my recent post, I don't think this is the thread to have this discussion. I have no problem with assu...
You wrote that you "love a lot." I just commented that I have not seen evidence of that in your time here on the forum. I think that the quoted statem...
There is another possibility, of course, i.e. that God exists. It is at least worth a mention. We don't have to get into a discussion on the existence...
I read the first page. It's still something of a mystery to me. The idea that popped into my head was the Ship of Theseus, which I think is relevant. ...
I don't remember seeing any love in any of your posts, just bitter hatred against not just religion and religious institutions, but religious people. ...
I wasn't going to respond to this. When someone focuses on a writer I am not familiar with, it seems disrespectful of the OP, but I find that I can't ...
Here's the trick - like people. Be interested in them. Try to see them as they are. Try to empathize - we are empathic animals. There is only one worl...
This is at the heart of many eastern philosophies. Everything we experience as a separate entity or phenomenon is an illusion which, as you say, is cr...
Sortal - @"fdrake" used this in a post, so I looked it up. See the Wikipedia description below. Even with that, I can't figure out what it means. Sort...
As I said, it's more important that you be willing to stand behind the decisions you make than it is how you make up your mind. It's your job to figur...
This is at the heart of many eastern philosophies and practices such as meditation. And, yes, of course, I am guilty of living somewhere other than he...
First off, you said you've done some appropriate research, so your way of doing things sounds justified, which I guess means it's rational. I'm going ...
I put that in for rhetorical purposes. I have seen that you are strong and opinionated. It just didn't feel right to leave out the stubborn part. For ...
I didn't say we can't imagine things that aren't human, I said we are constrained by a brain and mind that evolved along with the rest of us. It is st...
Women raise all these terrible men, and yet you want to take away their responsibility for their own lives and the consequences of their actions. That...
I don't believe that our society is a patriarchy and I don't believe women in the US are oppressed as a class. I can understand @"Bitter Crank"'s poin...
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