Arguably, while we do elect our officials, the stream of information and who ultimately selects the candidates we vote on makes the USA more like an o...
If they are not difficult to answer, simply answer them. And about my notes that you have several other competing inductive arguments out there that c...
Yes. I understand the sentiment to want there to be life after death. But that sentiment can be dangerous to those who spend their life looking for it...
I was a little surprised to find you had not addressed my response to you. I linked you a nice article and addressed your points. To ignore someone wh...
Its a nice little story. Its something I feel like I would have read in my English lit class in high school. If that's what you were going for, succes...
This can be due to an emotional conflict. But for me, its a rational conflict. Playing games is a form of relaxation and entertainment. It doesn't act...
I'm trying to speak in the language context they're using. The point is that there is a human tendency to argue for what we want over what is correct....
I have no disagreements with this take. If you want to define judgement in the cerebral sense that's fine by me. A quick digest of a situation is prob...
This isn't a very good counter, because it doesn't address what I said. I said people rationalize their emotions. That requires thinking, intention, e...
If fully disagree with this assessment. Emotion is the aspect of impetus and motivation. Rationality is an evaluation of if we should, and how we shou...
Ah, no worry! Numbers 2 and 3 are my reasons then. Feel free to comment further or end the conversation then. I don't think you had any issue with wha...
The topic was how to rationally approach suicide. I didn't state you wouldn't be emotional. I stated don't make decisions due to emotion. That's irrat...
Explain how your scenarios explicitly are not covered by the three points I posted. You have not done that. Then please explain. I do not know your pe...
Because there are an infinite amount of variations and scenarios one can invent. First try to see if the rational rules I gave can adapt to the situat...
Look, are you just going to keep inventing scenarios for every answer I give? Is it going to be, "What if your family are held by hostages, and those ...
If these people are not invested in your well being, don't rely on them. Thinking about what I said should have made this answer obvious. Do you have ...
Wrong. Rationally you want people who are invested in your well being in the picture. For example, my parents have given me the ability to call a "Do ...
Yes. 1. It must not be emotional. The mistake a lot of people make is they try to rationalize going through with an emotion. In all of these cases, th...
And yet, while we blame businesses, we often times do not blame people who work for them. I mean the rank and file. You see, many basic workers are gr...
True! Even if there is disagreement, I enjoy reading your details. I agree with this. That's not quite correct. NM works at small bodies, but does not...
Exactly. All knowledge is an assertion of what we know today. We know its possible to learn new things and change what we know over time. What I'm sta...
I'm not talking to them, but about our conversation. It was not meant to be condescending, but pointing out as a fellow human being something I think ...
True, they aren't equivalent. But we have not seen any evidence of life nor consciousness continue after death. Therefore there is 0 probability, and ...
Of course, no disagreement. You've taken an non-rational position into account, but it has been found lacking in the larger claim of morality. Conside...
Which is fine. You can agree with any plausibility. Its plausible that green men live on the moon. Or plausible that anything you can imagine could be...
Oh, no debate there. I'm just noting that to express the formal logic of arithmetic, you have to logically ascertain what '1' is as an abstract. What ...
Induction is a valuable form of thinking, but we must be very careful in how we use it, and what we can conclude from it. People also imagined that sp...
It had nothing to do with like or dislike. It was the same answer you gave before wrapped in a quote. I don't see how it added anything to your point,...
I never said people didn't have these experiences. I've just noted they are not evidence of experiences after death, or that there is a survival of co...
The quote didn't answer my question. The problem is you're likely a good person already, so have no qualms with believing in yourself. I'm talking abo...
An objective goodness is a definition of goodness that can be rationally used by everyone despite our own personal subjective viewpoints. Its the diff...
I would agree if there was absolutely no evidence of its existence. But we have plenty. Universally there are moral sentiments such as "Don't murder, ...
Well said Timothy! I agree. Just going to add to your already fine points. Is this a fact? Seems to be that its a fact that there's no morality then. ...
And if your intrinsic nature is a serial killer? The problem with this definition is morals gets changed from, "What should be" to "What I want to do....
Entail. Its easy to make the mistake that just because we can imagine something, and it seems reasonable to us, we think it has the possibility of bei...
Likely its in our definition differences. Even if we use similar words, there may be personal context to those words that results in us drawing differ...
I'm not threatened, I'm just having a conversation with you. Here I try to elevate the discussion more than emotion, politics, or bias. Its about tryi...
Right, and despite their work being concluded for quite some time now, people several times smarter than both you and I combined still hold math and s...
Again, hyperbole. I can assure you if we were able to predict how everything in the universe worked, we would solve all of quantum mechanics for start...
Ah, it depends on how you're using the word 'truth'. If you mean absolutely truth or, "what is," yeah, its hard to find those. If you're talking about...
This is a far cry from the point that math can be difficult to put into words. The proof is in the very fact you're able to post online consistently f...
Here is a scientific article on the matter Sam26. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/18 I encourage you to read that. I know you're well meaning, but ...
Incorrect. Cite me a case in which a person had complete brain death and I'll recant. This is again, impossible. To completely drain the blood from a ...
Your one major problem is that in every case of "life after death" experience, the patient has never been fully brain dead. Meaning these are living e...
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