TiredThinker

I meant eternal life and eternal health. Age experts tie the two together as the worst disease are the direct result of cellular aging.

No idea who that is.

What do you mean?

Unfortunately dentists are far less regulated than MDs.

Also do philosophers need credentials to be called philophers? There certainly are those that do it professionally and the definition of philosophy ha...

Phone reading has become easy for me, but book reading is harder. I recommend blue light reduction options. The speed certainly depends on the languag...

Was the Marquis De Sade a philosopher? I don't know what he contributed, and his works were only publishable in some places, and only after decades. W...

Also are politicians philosophers in the sense that they have views of how things are, how human behavior works, what is fair, and how things should b...

Are there any well known philosophers that one might argue isn't legitimate as a philosopher?

My philosophy 101 teacher said that philosophy isn't merely a person's point of view or way of living. Is there anyone that can't call themselves a ph...

Shouldn't it be 1/10 as strong?

Exactly. It seems like a poor use of phrasing many people use.

So no object goes on forever? Infinity only refers to repeated processes that are intended to go on forever but of course cannot because we ourselves ...

Is last Thursdayism about time dilation as that the pace of time varies, or is it about lets say a God creating everything within a weeks time giving ...

Yeah, I meant infrequent depression. Not clinical. I think people assumed the latter.

You maybe right. But boredom is certainly less robust than sadness or something that grabs our attention. What in boredom compels us to find stimuli? ...

Being sad or cautious must be a default? We seek change then? When we are happy and carefree that isn't most of the time? We always have to keep diggi...

Metaphysics you are saying deals more in absolutes?

The yin yang symbol also has a black circle around entire symbol indicating that Yang possess Yin?

At least with 1/3 you poses all the information even if you can't write 3s forever. Or if you have a number system based on 6 instead of 10 it wouldn'...

Your examples don't strictly speaking seem like opposites. Certainly the "woke" crowd would not consider gender to be strictly opposites. All females ...

1 atom of hydrogen is exact, 2 atoms of hydrogen is exact. 4.6 atoms of hydrogen isn't exact because it no longer makes sense. An exact perfect circle...

I also have a friend with ALS and MS. That wasn't true before age 35. It seems lots of stuff goes from rare to common at that age. And after 55 I've r...

There is a mice study out of Stanford showing proof of concept towards regenerating cartilage. I hope that makes it to humans. Cartilage breaks down p...

Osteoarthritis improved your pitching? How can that be? I had neck injury and have painful spurs that wake me up almost nightly. I hate all diseases t...

I'm 41 now. I have been a home aide aid for my mother whom suffered a stroke in 07'. Taking care of her has been tough on my health, and certainly mak...

I am not interested in an infinite trip. I am asking about and infinite landscape. Only new information all the time.

Technically our body and brain just finishes developing at 25, so that essentially is the start of adulthood. I suppose it can all vary wildly from pe...

Fine.

Do straight lines exist? And even if you traveled the earth forever you will see the same places more than once.

You mean because we can travel around a circle forever? I mean infinite more like if absolute coordinates existed we could go straight in one directio...

I don't think so. Not something designed to deceive.

I mean ignorance. Where we assume too much about what we know. I could of swore I saw a philosopher on TV mentioning a discipline about the limitation...

I know parapsychology isn't of interest to a lot of people, but I am curious what people think of this particular representation.

I agree. Glad at least Lindsay Gramm is on board with one potential candidate. Particularly since a Democrat senator had a stroke and will be not voti...

A breakdown of the docu-series.

Certainly everyone is dying fast now on that show.

A white man identifying as a black woman? Cute.

What if the court was expanded along racial and gender lines to have at least one representative from all groups in proportion to their ratio in the g...

I think most depression is more about the world than the self. Self worth would fall under esteem and confidence. I think plenty of artists can be dee...

Depressed people are less good? Not sure if I understand your argument. Pete Davidson certainly hasn't made the world better if that's your point? Lol

It seems many people act as their own devil's advocate and quote too many things they read and it really fills up the space. Personally prefer people ...

Boredom can be a friend also. It offers better directions sometimes. Shorter term priorities.

I know I don't need to read all replies, but I want to understand the points of view. And I expect some people may use speech to text apps and aren't ...

Doesn't giving our life meaning also self serving?

So being more intellectual equals more good and less instinct?

If one was to prove the existence of good wouldn't all other incentives need to be removed? We always seem to have many drives for practicality. We do...

Interesting.

We do things for the tribe because the tribe does for us? So what makes it good versus simply advantageous?

To impress those we like that they may stay in our lives?