Depending, who does the truth benefit? and why is it benefitting? if the truth will only cause harm and danger it is not worth upholding, but if it be...
I would not use happiness but peace, Why would you appreciate the fact of you existing? why would you do that may I ask? Anywho what you're saying is ...
I believe it could be tested mathematically only, we cannot actually test a lot on the quantum level, for me I wouldn't go into the quantum level for ...
Nope, their actions were determined too, and you keep going back, for it all to be determined. Choice is an illusion as I illustrated, in order to cho...
Correct Yes, because all the actions done by the production and lottery company, and the store, and all the workers, and shipment, lead for that lotte...
it would be the opposite, as the engine occupies space, the parts occupy space, their rotation required energy but the rotation in itself is not somet...
Appeal to authority? its just a way of discussing a topic as to reach a common conclusion, and for both parties to benefit intellectually, jesus, also...
now you're just going Ad Hominem, I have checked the thread, and you presented no argument for free will or against determinism, you literally just ca...
My argument is, that you don't make the choices you think you do make, you have an illusion of choice, of free will, but it actually is none existent ...
Let me formulate this deductively, I chose my breakfast therefore I have free will, this is clear circular reasoning, a logical fallacy mon amie, I am...
point is, you don't choose your own breakfast, that was pre determined by many factors before it and affecting it, and take this example for instance,...
bizarro world? dude you're in a philosophy forum, you must damn know what determinism is? only the quantum basics of the universe are contingent, noth...
no you dont have the choice to eat, in order to do something you must want to do it or you are forced to do it, if you want to eat you will eat, can y...
Of course, because they weren't determined for so, it isn't their choice, they don't have a choice, i don't, you don't, no one does, this is just wher...
Such is an argument from incredulity, what I mean in simplified terms is, 1+1 (process) = 2 (result), 2 is actually just the process 1+1, that is corr...
the mind is a result to a process, that process is physical, the mind is just a result of it, i.e. doesn't have to be physical, and that process in th...
they're relative, The mind or consciousness is a result to a process, going on in the brain, not an inherit object with mass itself, the brain and pro...
the mind changes definetly with time, as do all physical things, it gets more complex, with more processes, more memories, and more thoughts, and even...
Determinism is clear, a man cannot want what he wants. suffering is not temporary to surpass, it is permanent, it is infact life itself, meaning you u...
I would disagree somewhat I think not only the close future but the long term one are all full of suffering, I'd say it is not something to embrace, i...
the mind or consciousness is a process, the brain occupies space, the electrochemical signals do, consciousness is just a result or outcome of such, i...
argumentum ad populum in this case, I wouldn't follow you cannot just stop thinking about depression? or not think about your dad beating you right th...
its the death of the Idea of freedom itself, the death of the ways of the enlightenment, America isn't free, or a good country, but it stood for such,...
why is doing something rational? yes, and its subjectiveness means one man's happiness is anothers suffering, that's ultimately inevitable, there is n...
Moi aussi mon amie. Life is suffering is like an extra simplified version of what we mean which is, that the sum of all live beings consciousness equa...
why? who said so? and why? would skinning a cat live be moral in this case? would torturing any none human be moral? and what makes us different from ...
and my point was that your argument of them not being moral agents does not entirely fall upon all humans, and even then they are living creatures wha...
it wasn't a complete betrayal, since I believe we were given more special treatment then any other nation, more support and aid, but when they put Kin...
the current nation in its current form was actually made in 1920 by the British and Arab revolutionaries, it was based upon secular, multicultural, an...
ok so it started just before the mongol invasion, some sunni islamic scholars starting takfiring shiites (takfiring is basically calling them infidels...
Iraq never included jordan, iraq is mainly the land between the two rivers, thats it for its actual borders and no, because there was never a greater ...
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