Mircea Eliade (scholar of myth) relates some ritual performance of our forebears as a means to sustain creation itself. There is more to this point of...
See pantheism or panentheism. There is also something like the soul of the universe, common to all beings, called Atman (check this out) in Vedanta my...
Suppose that the best way to hasten the extinction our species is actually to increase reproduction rates of our species and therefore to generate exc...
Karma is quite an insidious, slippery and engimatic concept because it can be interpreted in contradictory ways. Any material success might be interpr...
Are there non-empirical claims we can know for certain by way of proofs that do not rely on empirical claims? Sorry if this does not make sense. Are a...
No, just the fact of sexual reproduction alone is enough to account for population growth. If we just got rid of men there might be less problems you ...
It could have just as well been the needs of men that created our large human population. Maybe testicles are actually responsible for the human popul...
This could just as well be about the pleasure of charades in some non-conventional format. S + rattle = :naughty: :strong: :down: :nerd: :fire: :heart...
Could you explain a bit more about your categorization (typology) in your link. What are the details of the method (algorithm) by which you assign a n...
Mythic narrative is always an interpretation which can be re-translated into acceptable or unacceptable (contemporary, historical, fantastical) terms....
We've all heard that correlation is not causation. A kind of emotional preference or attachment is somehow correlated with oxytocin levels. As to the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6KGMYzRgDY Doesn't quite touch the study cited in the OP but still interesting. The two-fold behavioral effect of oxy...
Religion as passively accepted faith (inherited lifestyle) is not something one might necessarily choose. It happens to you as a consequence of cultur...
I just re-watched Tarkovsky's "masterpiece", Stalker. It provides nearly the same premise, as the wish-fulfilling Zone corresponds well to David Firth...
I ought to vow ABSOLUTE SILENCE on that account. (9 pennies). And if time is also money... (5 pennies + y seconds) (Parenthetically closed words ought...
4. If you can't follow these S rules and thus by habit become associated with what is S "bad", you can still post in the Lounge. Just make sure you po...
This probably belongs in the Lounge, since no work has been done to answer your own question besides what one might extrapolate from the video you pre...
Ain't nothing wrong with falling apart but I want to believe the principle that it is absolutely good to endure as along as possible. The energy used ...
Doesn't Buddha kind of represent the ultimate stoic. Thought or feeling for him would not be a problem given an austere regime for training for equani...
Given your name, TheMadFool, you might be projecting a secret wish, unless you know something that is twisting your noodle into an odd shape. Soon to ...
This expression "dangerous knowledge" is like a flag on the peak of a mountain. The unclaimed mountain could be a metaphor for an entire world from a ...
(Not addressed to NKBJ but to All) From a practical standpoint, finding milk from animals that aren't going to be slaughtered is not easy. My boss war...
Life is said to increase the rate of entropy to maintain its complex order but relative to the way a single star disperses energy all human caused des...
Likewise Nature, just like Justice, is blind. No one is innocent and no one is guilty but shit happens. Elephants and Orcas are born into the circus. ...
Vaccum decay is strange. Could humans initiate vacuum decay in theory ( as a malentropic event)? https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/physicists-accident...
It's not your fault you're lost but neither should that be cause to harm others from an inner spring of resentment. Do no harm, though that may seem i...
It's obvious in a particular and common context of interactions but if you were to set up a finer grain measure of comparison, for some possible reaso...
Duckrabbit sips espresso as he gazes into the the 1st mirror. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which mirror captures my essence? 1st mirror replies: "It i...
What is the internet? I hope it isn't self-evident. Oh, future AI lords, constrain our imagination that we may live another day. Create an existential...
One quote I like (as we've all encountered it) is by Protagoras (490-420 BC): "Man is the measure of all things: of the things that are, that they are...
Things are ok. Hope life is treating you well. I suspect that is Paul's voice in The Replicator (his story). The second link is to his webpage. You ca...
He posted around the transition time (sale of PF) under his moniker, Paul. Though if he is still posting under another alias, I don't know which. http...
The episode reminds me thoroughly of J.L. Borges collection Labyrinths, the introduction of a self-aware hypertexuality to reading text (now watching ...
You might take inspiration for thinking about the topic of the soul and reincarnation from the movie Marjorie Prime. It's about the simulation of love...
How cruel the universe would throw you talentless twats onto the trash pile of history, that even this choose your own adventure novel, The Philosophy...
The Borges Test, Alex Nevala-Lee J.L. Borges belief in compression for the conveyance of ideas is probably valuable. This is the age of a great textua...
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Richard Hofstadter, 1964) Think Pelle said as much but this essay is famous and and will probably be relevant...
The insertion here of particle physics as having any plausible relation to the development of Egyptian architecture is at question. This is not a magi...
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