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I have a hunch that the lack of free will is not due to fate or determinism, but to profound chaos, perhaps not properly chaos, if humanity had the in...
November 13, 2021 at 17:45
The most obvious way to check whether our choices make sense is to check them against the physical world as to whether the consequences of our choices...
November 13, 2021 at 17:33
Social media I think might in many cases increase the level of fragmentation, scattering the mind to a greater level than a population has ever experi...
November 13, 2021 at 15:19
What I meant to say was we call our community home, its comfortable, and we often forget the natural world that supports it. Unawareness is similar in...
November 13, 2021 at 15:13
Good point, your thinking personal achievement, as apposed to being functional in a given context?
November 13, 2021 at 15:08
Hi, I am a white guy who lived in a black community for five years, One thing I noticed, accommodations were less than ideal. I knew a number of black...
November 13, 2021 at 14:19
In the span of one individual's life, there can be much understood that went into the behaviours of a given individual. We can be more intelligent and...
November 13, 2021 at 11:24
The mere complexity of so many variables acting through time is a job for the new science of chaos, butterfly effects all over the place. Humanity mig...
November 13, 2021 at 10:57
Does not your statement, "How to determine an appropriate reading of these influences.", just underline the absurdity of the concept of free will.? Be...
November 13, 2021 at 09:51
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Life is struggling, sufferings, and joys; only death is no trouble.
November 13, 2021 at 09:38
Morality must be based on the well-being of a class of organisms, morality must be based on our common biology. Society, civilization, is founded on a...
November 13, 2021 at 09:30
Ok, will do!!! Thanks!
November 11, 2021 at 04:41
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Try controlled breathing, as the Buddha said, marry your breath. Control your breathing and you control your emotions. Not being sarcastic!
November 11, 2021 at 04:37
Your examples given, just underline the fact that differing biologies perceive different apparent realities. Perception is biological reaction, so too...
November 11, 2021 at 04:26
Tom, What was it about the book that you did not find impressive. I am in wonderment that anyone could read the book and still buy the warren commissi...
November 11, 2021 at 04:05
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Perhaps I am a little slow on the uptake, could you clarify how your post relates to my own?
November 11, 2021 at 03:31
Tom, As I said, when there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence that points to conspiracy, sometimes a duck is just a duck, and not a reasonable f...
November 11, 2021 at 03:17
There is no logic to that which is unknown.
November 10, 2021 at 22:44
Being is a manifestation of pure energy degraded, manifestation itself is being in the form of matter.
November 10, 2021 at 22:42
I would think that conspiracy is indicated when abundant circumstantial evidence indicates the impossibility of it being the willful act of one person...
November 10, 2021 at 22:32
Excellent, but, alas, I am a poor man. The nearer to god I be - - lol!!
November 10, 2021 at 20:34
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HI Fool---lol!! What do you think of the idea that there is an ultimate reality from which apparent reality is discerned, and that the method of disce...
November 10, 2021 at 20:25
Yes, you have a point, we need to define our terms. Philosophy created Science, there is a similar relation between myth and ritual. Myth is the story...
November 10, 2021 at 04:23
Michael, Consider the organism/humanity as a reactionary creature, this at least is pointing in the right direction.
November 10, 2021 at 03:57
Probably the 1% are not the evil power elite, they are too visible. I think in this dialogue however we do not have the same concerns. I am concerned ...
November 10, 2021 at 03:41
A most interesting post-Michael, but as with Victor Frankl, the search goes on. This is why Nietzsche's fear for humanity was so great in the face of ...
November 10, 2021 at 03:15
Sushi, I am not concerned with the morality of keeping up with the Jones. I was just wondering if this 1% is the power elite that runs America like an...
November 10, 2021 at 02:21
As God is not a legitimate topic for science because it is unfalsifiable, so to I think philosophy should stop treading water with an object of the hu...
November 08, 2021 at 04:12
According to Schopenhauer, the will is a blind force. Personally, I think one can see this in all things of necessity and instinct, mindless sex and p...
November 08, 2021 at 04:00
The one percent, I believe are the power elite, which makes war for corporations and is the terror of the earth. The Vietnam holocaust made a lot of m...
November 08, 2021 at 03:18
"To God, all things are right and good, only to man somethings are and somethings are not." Heraclitus "There is no such thing as right or wrong, but ...
November 08, 2021 at 03:08
Presently, the frame is toxic to the world at large. Today we cannot afford the divisiveness of that frame they call religion. In a world of nuclear w...
November 06, 2021 at 12:46
In the absence of fear, there would be no religion. Does religion today fulfil this function of relieving the stress of fear, for a thinking people.I ...
November 06, 2021 at 12:34
Mythology is the other chaps religion. Quoting Joseph Campbell, the late renowned mythologist. I have heard religion described as a failed philosophy,...
November 06, 2021 at 11:54
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To be not is to be free from all suffering.
November 06, 2021 at 01:38
Peoples opinions generally depend upon the information they have been exposed to. Your belief that the attempted genocide of the native American india...
November 06, 2021 at 01:26
Yes, I have seen that in my time as well. Personally I use to be quite fond of interacting with children but give that up many many years ago. I grown...
November 06, 2021 at 01:17
I think that is quite another matter, but yes, one only needs to be accused of child molestation, and your screwed. Even if one is found innocent your...
November 06, 2021 at 01:10
When one is speaking about the dilemma of the power elite, who tend to be untouchable, anonymous. It is only a few brave souls that speak out, like Ol...
November 05, 2021 at 22:11
There is no such thing as objective thinking.
November 04, 2021 at 23:14
Belief is what biology tells us it is, when it is once removed, as in talking anothers word for it, it is somewhat more tentative. If someone tells yo...
November 04, 2021 at 23:01
The only way to know reality is cognitively, if we are talking about apparent reality. Apparent reality is a biological readout, thus requiring biolog...
November 04, 2021 at 18:44
American agression! https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/vietnam-american-holocaust/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXYsGuBdzM4 https://www.inspiringquote...
November 03, 2021 at 03:09
You must be one of those apple pie Americans, the rest of the world doesn't buy that apple pie. The whole mentality of the American public, with few e...
November 01, 2021 at 18:29
All meaning requires an observer, a conscious subject.
November 01, 2021 at 17:35
In: Death  — view comment
Expand upon!
November 01, 2021 at 17:30
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Sorry Sushi, guess the form fooled me, my apology.
November 01, 2021 at 17:25
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To error is human-------LOL!!
November 01, 2021 at 17:23
What's the difference between apparent reality and ultimate reality? The answer, biological readout presences us with apparent reality. We know enough...
November 01, 2021 at 17:09
Biological simulation is not perfect, one needs only look at people considered colour blind because they interpret certain frequencies differently tha...
October 31, 2021 at 21:27