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Nihilism is the awareness I think, that in the absence of a conscious subject the physical world is meaningless. The world we perceive is a manifestat...
January 01, 2024 at 10:52
I believe you are speaking of the Soviet Union which no longer exists. The West is the one with the outrageous history of subjugation and slavery main...
January 01, 2024 at 09:27
The foundation of compassionate behavior is in identifying one's self with the self in others, only then does compassion arise. Where there is no iden...
January 01, 2024 at 08:52
Hi Jack, You are quite right, the best way to overcome an emotion is with a stronger and opposite emotion. Free will is an absurd concept. When one co...
January 01, 2024 at 08:43
You will always act in your own self-interest, according to your understanding. Morality is a social construct, common to many kinds of creatures, and...
January 01, 2024 at 08:30
You seem to have a dissenting understanding of my own, do you understand why Russia invaded Ukraine? Try to remember in your understanding that all is...
January 01, 2024 at 08:21
We do not experience what is real, we experience what is, as it affects us altering our biology. Apparent reality is a biological readout. It is a mel...
January 01, 2024 at 08:08
Morality is a meaning or meanings, and completely subjective. There is no such thing as objective morality, yes, there are rules, laws and established...
January 01, 2024 at 07:54
Experiences are the effects upon biology of the energies around us, we do not experience the reality of this, we experience its effects, and this is w...
January 01, 2024 at 07:33
One is born with a constitution, not an identity, the constitution varies in the human species, and hopefully, one's constitution is appropriate to th...
January 01, 2024 at 07:06
There is but energy in the forms of frequencies and vibrations not all of which we experience. Objects are energy forms in the way of manifested objec...
January 01, 2024 at 03:13
Inequality is much like the concept of change, for the fact that it is guaranteed, a constant, and that is why greed exists, jealousy, hatred, envy, c...
January 01, 2024 at 02:53
The proper subject of morality is the security and well-being of the biology of the self, within society it is an expanded concept of the self. If one...
December 28, 2023 at 07:36
America has thrown its proxy Ukraine to the lions. America's immorality is unmeasurable. What's a few hundred thousand dead Ukrainians and a land deva...
December 28, 2023 at 06:11
There is no such thing as equality, there is no equality between individuals, between the sexes between you and your employer, between you and your ne...
December 28, 2023 at 06:03
Life/biology is the measure and meaning of all things.
December 28, 2023 at 05:53
All meanings are subjective. Meaning is the property of a conscious subject, and it is never the property of the object, unless a conscious subject be...
December 28, 2023 at 05:51
" Why be moral?" Because, if you live within a society, it is in your best/self interest, in isolation morality is meaningless.
December 28, 2023 at 05:43
Occupiers cannot claim self-defense, since when have colonialists been on the moral high ground. The global shift in power from a Unipower to a multip...
December 28, 2023 at 05:36
We know that there is no color or sound in the real world, it is an effect of frequencies and vibrations on biology. So, knowing all is energy, freque...
December 28, 2023 at 05:18
Personal perspective, when one is considering the emotions of organisms, one needs to realize that all organisms are reactive creatures. The physical ...
December 10, 2023 at 06:56
Of course, one's word given under coercion is inhibiting one's will, it is an offense against the individual. When people talk about moral facts, they...
December 10, 2023 at 01:40
First, I think it strikingly obvious that nothing is permeant, when one is talking about the permeance of the soul, I would think we are then talking ...
December 08, 2023 at 10:19
Morality is the awakening of compassion through identification of one's self with the selves of others. With identification with others compassion ari...
December 08, 2023 at 09:46
The mindset of morality is social awareness, the formation of societies is directed to the common survival and well-being of the individual. Morality ...
December 08, 2023 at 09:20
The last vestiges of colonialism will die with the decline of the American Empire and the Zionist state of Israel. The global shift of power to a mult...
October 23, 2023 at 06:46
Sorry Frank, it is easy to misinterpret in this medium. My apology, if I offended.
April 05, 2023 at 15:39
Actually, that is the essential point, energy is not an object/thing, and indeed without energy being processed through biological processes there wou...
April 05, 2023 at 15:34
Well, to start with I guess some basics must be accepted as fact, there are two concepts of reality, apparent reality which is our everyday reality, a...
April 05, 2023 at 15:19
Frank, Perhaps you could tell me what is certain. Philosophy is wonder, mine is just reasonable conjecture. If you find the reasoning faulty, by all m...
April 04, 2023 at 14:29
Apparent reality is just such an indirect view of what is real. Spinoza taught us how we come to know an outside physical world; it was by the world o...
April 04, 2023 at 05:14
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nothing-solid-everything-energy-scientists-explain-world-djurisic#:~:text=Scientists%20began%20to%20recognize%20that,is...
April 01, 2023 at 11:06
Value is relative to biological needs and wants/desires.
March 26, 2023 at 19:55
Come on, this is a philosophy site, WRONG is inadequate, point out the faulty reasoning, or don't comment at all.
March 26, 2023 at 19:52
In the past I watched a lot of programs about crime and criminals, the bad guys with no moral fiber. One day after a good deal of consumption of such ...
March 26, 2023 at 19:47
Come on people, you don't even know what your next thought is going to be, free will?
March 26, 2023 at 05:26
Progress is that which is life sustaining and life-enhancing in its broadest sense.
March 26, 2023 at 05:23
I couldn't agree more, one's first environment after the womb is the family, and often this is not an ideal nurturing context. Realizing that there is...
March 26, 2023 at 05:15
NATO has been usurped by the United States as its own vehicle of aggression, placing its nuclear weapons in each added member state; ever usurping the...
March 25, 2023 at 11:19
That is what these philosophy sites are about, enlighten me.
March 24, 2023 at 10:58
Knowlege is experience, through which meanings are gained though fallible. Which can only be found fallible through another biological experience.
March 24, 2023 at 10:54
As a possibility, probably not.
March 24, 2023 at 10:47
When one comes into this world one is pure essence with no identity, gaining identity through successes and failures in its reactions to its context/e...
March 24, 2023 at 10:40
Biology is the measure and meaning of all things and what is valued is what is either needed or desired by said biology to satisfy needs or desires. T...
March 24, 2023 at 10:20
The United States has been not only a superpower since the second world war but has been the greatest imperialist power the world has ever seen. It be...
March 24, 2023 at 05:26
Interesting to that all the NATO countries wanting access to Russia's border, are all post-colonial countries; maybe one or two that are economically ...
March 23, 2023 at 03:02
E=M times the speed of light squared.
March 23, 2023 at 02:51
Anything which is not adaptive and which is detrimental to our life support system/environment, cannot be considered progress; damage to either the su...
March 22, 2023 at 18:56
Knowledge is experience whether second hand or no.
March 22, 2023 at 18:48
You need to do a little catch-up on your science.
March 19, 2023 at 18:06