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Augustusea

['Member']Joined: August 07, 2020 at 11:14Last active: November 04, 2020 at 17:197 discussions139 comments
Location: Iraq, Baghdad

Bio

Bonsoir mon amie!
my name is Augustus, you can call me Aug for short,
I love philosophy and politics, I mainly dabble with metaphysics, logic, and meta ethics
I also may be the most pessimistic person you'd meet
I identify as Neo-Schopenhaurian-Absurdist-Nihilist
with a custom ethical system

Favourite Philosopher

Schopenhauer, Camus, Sartre, Hume, Kant, Zhang zhou, and Aristotle

Favourite Quotations

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world"
-Schopenhauer

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness"
-Zhang Zhou

Discussions (7)

Why banana?

August 14, 2020 at 22:04 9 comments The Lounge

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In: Free will and ethics  — view comment
read into the Frankfurt style cases, basically imagine this, "there are three people, Black, White, and Jane, Black and Jane both hate White and want ...
September 19, 2020 at 03:16
In: Presenting my own theory of consciousness  — view comment
very interesting read, well done
September 09, 2020 at 02:05
In: The pursuit of status for itself is a root of human evil  — view comment
I would agree completely but not for a few points, I think the struggle for statues or power is inherit in our nature, and so is hate, we had them cha...
September 07, 2020 at 13:22
In: What is "real?"  — view comment
Real is whatever that is not useful to humans as a concept or tool.
September 03, 2020 at 19:21
In: Can justice be defined without taking god and others into account?  — view comment
I will second philosophisim and Tim, Yes
August 28, 2020 at 03:59
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
energy and light are made of photons, particles, things. the definition of omnipotence.
August 22, 2020 at 10:41
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
god being powerful but not powerful is a part of it essentially.
August 22, 2020 at 09:49
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
god is both defeated and victorious over himself in this situation, a contradiction, thus illogical. god can be both omnipotent and not omnipotent her...
August 22, 2020 at 09:47
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
I beg to differ, you cannot have a green red, it is contradictory/illogical, thus impossible it is a conclusion that can be extracted from the contrad...
August 22, 2020 at 09:40
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
everything, can be defined as matter. nothing, as no matter touche. well I didn't specify correctly, which was a fault at my part, I was mainly discus...
August 22, 2020 at 09:38
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
it is contradictory, thus impossible logically, that's the point.
August 22, 2020 at 09:34
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
if so, yes, and it would be logically contradictory
August 20, 2020 at 19:45
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
I would disagree, as God here is meant to be the most powerful, the best at doing everything, so it is an absolute which isn't relative, hmm it may di...
August 20, 2020 at 00:19
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
"God can do everything" is an absolute trait, being the world champion is not an absolute
August 19, 2020 at 06:24
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
Welcome to the club, mon amie. That is correct, it means it basically is impossible/doesn't exist, which would be really fatal to religious doctrines,...
August 18, 2020 at 22:32
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
that "usable/ non usable" categorizing is very human centric, practically all types of energy are "usable" to the universe. Carbon was formed out of H...
August 17, 2020 at 20:06
In: No child policy for poor people  — view comment
That implies there is actual purpose to human life other then reproduction (which is correct btw). I myself am not an anti natalist, but if we go acco...
August 17, 2020 at 19:53
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
the paradox arises from absolutes, which aren't present in your example
August 17, 2020 at 19:20
In: When does free will start?  — view comment
just ask yourself if you went back in time to that decision, could you have made another one? and with that take everything into consideration that fa...
August 17, 2020 at 19:20
In: Stoicism is bullshit  — view comment
no offense mate but this is not what stoicism is about at all it doesn't even say anything, this is a quite fallacious representation, other people ha...
August 17, 2020 at 19:14
In: No child policy for poor people  — view comment
why have children at all? I mean every child inevitably is going to suffer, and that's just one argument
August 17, 2020 at 19:13
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
false equivalency, they're not comparing since we're not talking in absolutes such as "everything", or the best, but for the sake of argument, if he m...
August 17, 2020 at 06:53
In: The Unraveling of putin's Russia and CCP's China  — view comment
His son/daughter? we bringing back the empire
August 17, 2020 at 06:23
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
if god defeats himself, god is both not the top dog since he got defeated, and is the top since he is also victorious, such is contradictory, thus imp...
August 17, 2020 at 06:15
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
well most arguments for god are poorly constructed. I would fail to see an objection then, but I would also ask how is that proven so to be the case d...
August 17, 2020 at 04:56
In: Why do we assume the world is mathematical?  — view comment
Mathmatics is the language we use to understand the properties of the universe and everything truly
August 17, 2020 at 04:18
In: An Honorable Death.  — view comment
Life is always the selfish answer, anywho truly following the concept on an honorable death would be, to be remembered for something most people view ...
August 17, 2020 at 04:11
In: Theism is, scientifically, the most rational hypothesis  — view comment
this assumes creatio ex nihilo, which is an illogical concept truly, if you want further reading, here. anywho, if we assume god doesn't abide by the ...
August 17, 2020 at 04:08
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
that's the problem of evil, there are many theodicies which are mostly weak. what I am mainly talking about is the paradox of omnipotence, which is ba...
August 17, 2020 at 03:52
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
that is correct I agree, but here I presumed that he doesn't follow the rules of logic in that statement (and followed after), meaning they don't appl...
August 17, 2020 at 03:50
In: The Unraveling of putin's Russia and CCP's China  — view comment
Economic collapse, if their economies collapse, their systems will go too, as the people would be too starving to shut up, especially in our time, the...
August 17, 2020 at 00:21
In: Omnipotence Paradox stands still  — view comment
Yes my argument is that they cannot truly escape it, for most theists anyways (meaning people who believe in Abrahamic or similar religions) The rock ...
August 17, 2020 at 00:16
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
exactly, then it wouldn't be your choice, because it comes from something, something is influencing/forcing it, so defies free will ultimately.
August 16, 2020 at 19:57
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
but in order to choose you must want to choose, randomness can be present, in the form of quantum indeterminacy, but I doubt this even applies to huma...
August 16, 2020 at 17:57
In: Refutation of a creatio ex nihilo  — view comment
Something is anything you can imagine, or anything that actually exists, even quantum fields are a thing, and nothing can only mean one thing, nothing...
August 16, 2020 at 17:54
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
but every choice either warrents a want or is influenced by what happened before it for example lets say you like chocolate cake, I offered you either...
August 16, 2020 at 16:58
In: Refutation of a creatio ex nihilo  — view comment
you know we humans ultimately can't comprehend nothing since if we try to imagine it would be something, but basically its no matter, no volume, no la...
August 16, 2020 at 16:47
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
I would agree free will as a concept doesn't apply to living beings.
August 15, 2020 at 22:57
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
I would agree, my wording may have been a bit off/incorrect, I apologize Consciousness is a process, free will is an illusion.
August 15, 2020 at 22:40
In: Refutation of a creatio ex nihilo  — view comment
No since that energy isn't nothing, and there would be the question what caused that energy? is space nothing? it has no mass nor energy, but is it no...
August 15, 2020 at 22:33
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
I'm a physicalist, and I believe life and consciousness are processes and not something out of the physical world
August 15, 2020 at 21:52
In: Reason And Doubt  — view comment
sounds about right to me.
August 15, 2020 at 17:28
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
Ignoratio elenchi, I know what compatibilism is lol.
August 15, 2020 at 17:18
In: Death and existence.  — view comment
I fail to see the meaning in death truly, its why I kind of disagree with Camus and Sartre on a lot of stuff, they still manage to try to fit in some ...
August 14, 2020 at 19:59
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
you have the illusion of so, so when you believe in it, you didn't truly will to, does that mean its incorrect? no it just means that you didn't get t...
August 14, 2020 at 19:41
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
I don't see how this changes anything in determinism, or the notion of it, Unfree reasoning doesn't entail a conclusion being false, this notion that ...
August 14, 2020 at 19:35
In: Give Me a Plausible Theory For How An Afterlife Might Exist  — view comment
my thoughts is that, there isn't one, even if there is, it would be truly pathetic or boring, or I would become a slave to either pleasure or pain, it...
August 14, 2020 at 16:17
In: Does the mind occupy a space?  — view comment
thank you!
August 13, 2020 at 03:27
In: Can Life Have Meaning Without Afterlife?  — view comment
Life has no meaning, and its purpose is just to make more itself but more complex, even with an after life or immortality, life would be meaningless, ...
August 12, 2020 at 19:43
In: Does the mind occupy a space?  — view comment
got any good reads related to that?
August 12, 2020 at 19:31
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