Philosophim

I've always summed the approach as entities having the ability to discretely experience. Imagine a camera taking a picture of a sheep in a field. It d...

This argument is basically mind control. Since the facts don't matter at all, its about someone having absolute power over other people. What would th...

I'll politely disagree. A self-explained cause has no underlying necessity as to what it is. It cannot have any, "must be", because that implies some ...

Right. The ability to choose is a benefit of a person. People like personal agency. What is the cause of the suffering? The suffering of broken bones ...

That is one way to attribute it. I believe what I was talking about was moral outcome, not intentions. If in my ignorance I accidently kill a person, ...

I don't ascribe to taoism or buddhism. Nothing against yourself if you do. =) Whatever you read in an astronomy text book is my view of the universe.

No. An uncaused cause does not "come" or is "caused" by nothing, or anything. It has no prior explanation for its being. It is quite literally, magic ...

All I did was answer your question as presented to me. If you have specific criticisms you would like to discuss, feel free to point them out.

Lets take a look at Wikipedia's definition of Euthanasia. "Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or inv...

I these three identities I keep these three identities in mind as goals to work on. You can improve your sex life. You can work on developing your fri...

This is just pop psychology. You can find this in horoscopes and psychic readings all around the world.

Yes. So a lot of math at that level is abstraction. Its "good enough" for many of our purposes, but its not exact. Quantum mechanics presents a specia...

Philosophy is about questioning all things. To take what we assume, and really examine it at a logical level. Perhaps someone is concerned about such ...

This is not evidence based, but preaching. You do not know this. Perhaps a better way to address this would be to find specific things that give athei...

Questions like these can be good to re-examine our assumptions. However, I'm not sure the point you're trying to make here. You're not claiming that m...

How so? This is not negating the point that ignorance is the problem. You are simply introducing one of many ways to prevent ignorance.

Again, you have failed to answer the question. Why does the risk of pain outweigh all the other benefits of life? If you don't answer this time, I'm j...

I never said anything about divine realms. This is not religious, its simply logic. There is inevitably an uncaused cause. It could be the big bang, a...

Yep, that's all I was targeting. Nice history lesson though!

So what is the cause for why that is? Why can it go back forever instead of their being a first cause? Because it simply is. There is no explanation f...

You seem to be ignoring the question I asked you. Why does the fact that someone will experience pain alone negate all the other things in life like h...

No, a causeless cause is the only logical conclusion. It is logically impossible for there not to be a causeless cause, even within the idea of a caus...

Because existing is good! Again, pain is just a sign to your body that you need to change something, that you're being damage. Pain is letting you kno...

There really is only one conclusion in thinking on infinite causality. In the end, the inception of the universe is a first cause, and has no reason f...

Pain is your bodies messaging system to tell you there is some harm going on that you should try to fix. Pain that you can fix is good. Pain that you ...

I think a well intentioned person "believes they are being moral, and desires to be moral", but their actions may result in immoral outcomes. Ignoranc...

A happy weekend! I can finally sit down and type this out. First, I understand this is a draft, so won't be commenting on the order of things. Just on...

I can see it now! I won't be able to get to it tonight, but hopefully tomorrow.

I replied to a post months ago about what it was like to pursue philosophy in higher education. I can't find it though. =/ I have a masters in philoso...

It is because conservatives are at minimal, content under the current system. Sure, it ain't perfect, but to a conservative, its good enough. Even if ...

" It is both the belief in something, and a further belief that “the something” is co-existent with reality." -Quote from part 1 How we obtain that "t...

So this is a little personal, but I have had chronic depression since I was a teenager. Depression is not sadness, it is the absence of emotion. I hav...

What would I call this... Justice? I hope he learns from the experience and comes out of it a better person. I'm not holding my breath though.

I think what you're asking is whether reality can be reproduced, not simulated. A simulation is an attempt to emulate reality within a certain degree,...

"I think that sounds wonderful Mom," The situation you painted will be mine in the future. My mother is fiercely religious. I still love her. I want h...

Emotions are part of your thinking brain. They are absolutely essential as you grow when you are just learning about the world. As you age emotions ar...

https://www.livescience.com/26914-why-we-are-all-above-average.html A great livescience article explaining why we all believe we are better than avera...

I've always felt this is a guilt trip strategy more than anything given careful thought. I believe it is honestly selfish of us to want another person...

I'm going to second Pop here. Its a very nice paper. I would quickly add I do not believe language is required for consciousness. There are animals be...

Lets make the implicit explicit. "Is this sentence of the post referring to itself"? Yes.

I honestly think its not that different. Lets see if I can demonstrate this. No disagreement. This does not counter my theory. I am observing the rule...

Human beings are not rational beings with emotions. We are emotional beings with rationalizations. When someone is first learning philosophy, emotions...

Then why are you insisting that your own subjectivity has any philosophical value? Objectively you know you cannot make a blanket statement that analy...

As long as you don't pretend to claim you have the authority to blanket an entire history of thought process as useless to society, that's fine. To a ...

JerseyFlight, you profess to be a man that wishes to foster thought that benefits human kind. Look at the replies to your responses in this thread. Ar...

You Only Live Once

If a religion is an ideal that you live your life by in regards to what is beyond it, I suppose it IS a religion. We can call it the YOLO religion. Wh...

Ha ha! Hippyhead, you always strike me as the archtype of the Jester. Not the fool, but the clever pretender who mocks reality with a wink. We may hav...

We can only know what is available to us. We know that the brain is where our ability to think comes from. Take some brain damage, and you're not goin...

Coben, I had accidently submitted my reply before it was finished. If you don't mind, feel free to re-examine it and see if it further answers your qu...