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Yup, that's already happened more than once. Here's a quick 6 minute story of one such event. The Soviet early warning system mistook sunlight on the ...

So what's the solution to the threat posed by nuclear weapons? A nuclear weapons accident. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDcog2...

I heard on NPR yesterday that both Bolsonaro of Brazil and Johnson of the UK saw their popularity rise after they recovered from the virus. Who wants ...

Any statement which contains the phrase "all Christians" reveals the author to be an incompetent commentator on the subject.

So, as I guessed would be the case, not a single of mention of nuclear weapons in the recent presidential debate. Not such an amazing guess really, gi...

Yet another philosophy forum thread on Christianity which makes no mention of love. Waste of time.

Be the pain. In other words, don't think about the pain, experience the pain. To the degree we are able to do this we eliminate the thought generated ...

Well, ok, maybe we can explore that a bit... Do you agree that suffering is made of thought? Do you agree that thought is a mechanical function of the...

Let's try to put things in some perspective.... First, this isn't The New York Times, but one of a million tiny forums on the Internutz. Maybe 12 peop...

I like these two quotes... It seems the broken world is created by our broken minds. So the Buddhist meditates to better understand the internal suffe...

Apologies, but I don't really know that part of the state, but here's a good resource that should get you started. https://floridahikes.com/ How about...

While not claiming to speak for any Buddhist.... My take is that Buddhism is an experience which transcends philosophy and religion. The philosophy an...

According to my wife who watched the entire debate, nuclear weapons were not mentioned once. Presidential debate. One of these guys will have the powe...

I get my news on NPR pretty much exclusively, so I hadn't seen Biden in the flesh for some time. He seemed sharp enough (only watched first half) but ...

Tonite is the first presidential debate of this election cycle. It will be interesting to see if nuclear weapons are mentioned even once. Thousands of...

You bet! I hike pretty much all day everyday for about 6-8 months of the year. Wonderful state park just 4 miles up the road from our house. 7350 acre...

Personally, I don't seek to be annoying, but that is often how one is experienced if you successfully find fault in other people's reasoning. Just mak...

Thanks for asking Crank. How about you? Yes, doing ok here. We're the lucky ones so far, the pandemic has not changed our lives too much. And, tomorro...

But at least the Russian leaders in charge of their nuclear weapons are serious responsible professionals, right? Um..... The first time Yeltsin and C...

Another story recently heard on NPR.... During the Cuban Missile Crisis the Kennedy administration had decided to invade Cuba on the following Monday ...

The following is just a guess, totally open to challenge of course. The guess is that it would take around 50 nukes to kill America as that would dest...

Being insane myself, I used the NukeMap to see the impact of a one megaton bomb on my city. The city has a population of around 150,000. The city and ...

Your thought seems pretty accurate. In my view, some significant percentage of the time we aren't even interested in the topics being discussed. Can t...

This, along with the rest of Crank's post, seems wise advice. It may help a bit to take a clear eyed look at the media. First, the media is not in the...

Right, philosophy provides a valuable function by providing a view from outside the socially acceptable group think, but one should not expect to be r...

Yes, the anonymity of the Net provides a safe opportunity to do something that apparently often feels good: criticize, tear down, dismiss, disrespect ...

Yea, in the case of Christianity, rather a lot.

It was fun. All during the sixties my Dad and I would retire to the family room after dinner to debate the issues of the day. It was our father/son bo...

Except that it wasn't a point of view, but a question. Gotcha! :-)

Agreed. But still curious. A bit suspicious. Even skeptical. Why are we so interested in engaging in an activity built upon exposing flaws articulated...

Not sure about the truth, but thoughtful discussions, yes, desired. And we have to strive towards that goal with some honesty and respect, because unl...

YOLO? Technically we probably shouldn't call atheism a religion, but yea, it's a faith based big picture perspective which does have real world implic...

Ha, ha! Yes, we philosophy nerds are reasonably compared to vultures, fungi and worms in the ecosystem of beliefs. We do play a useful role, but it wo...

Thank you, and the same to you. I do become over enthusiastic quite regularly, but I don't hold a grudge, and every thread is a new day. I like to thi...

Yes, I agree with this. And I apply the process to itself, and make the contention that any idea can be ripped to shreds in the right hands, thus all ...

I respect your religion. :-)

It's interesting that so many of us are so sure we know such things.

To pound on the point a bit... There is of course a great deal of speculation about what death is, and thus the question of whether we should fear it....

It interests me how there are 56 trillion threads about Christianity on philosophy forums, and they almost never make even the slightest mention of lo...

That is, they're terrified of what their peers would think. Being any kind of professional intellectual requires one to color pretty carefully within ...

People like us are often able to intellectualize death away to a safe distance, me too, but I'm guessing that defense will crumble when the time comes...

But, but, can you make it more boring? Gotcha back. :-)

No worries, just another day in forum land. :-) I have no idea what you're referring to actually, must have missed it. Make the case if you wish.

One wonders why we great philosophers are always so eager to provide criticism. That couldn't possibly have anything to do with emotions, right? :-)

What is death? Well, the collapse of the body of course. But that's not really what concerns us. What makes death worrisome is the absence of the data...

A quick story which may be relevant. When I was a young hippy I once went to lecture by a guru passing through town, during the guru era of the 1970's...

It's relational in regards to the positioning of things. Things do exist, but are so small in comparison to space I wonder if it makes sense to define...

Good questions. In return I would ask, could it be that space, silence, emptiness etc has a value of it's own which is not dependent upon or related t...

I'm inferior to your great mind in every way possible. That should cover anything you may wish to burp about.

I like the reports from art and architecture school, thanks for that. It's interesting to see how different disciplines relate to the subject of space...