. So do I. But I don’t (retrospectively) expect much from my parents, and I’m (now) not surprised by their shortcomings. …though I was a bit surprised...
Alright, I was mistaken to believe that all Antinatalists are Materialists. I was basing that belief largely on Schopenhauer1's statements. But, you n...
I’m not posting to this Antinatalist issue just to be argumentative. If I just wanted to argue, I could argue with Atheists and Materialists, but I’m ...
Year-divisions other than the week can’t be justified other than by their marking of the seasons. . Months as payment-periods? With WeekDate, make pay...
But if there's no need for life, then why does Schopenhauer1 think that there's need for things in life? ...if he says that life itself was and is unn...
Hear hear! Quite so! ...as they should. In fact, there should be demanding requirements for qualification before someone is permitted to be a birth-pa...
But actually months don't serve any purpose in a seasonal-calendar. Instead of having seasonally-named months, just have nominal-seasons. . Then the w...
I should add that a simple numbering of the year's days would work alright if a 10-day week were used. Then, the date, that simple day-number, would t...
It's been argued that months are helpful as payment-periods, But we could just make payments every 4th week, in the WeekDate calendar. I'd say the mai...
. Yeah here’s what was said: . . I assume that by “reality”, you meant “physical reality”. Materialists use that word in that way, to express their be...
My reply was about a month late because I didn't receive notification about the posts that I replied to today. Michael Ossipoff 28 Frimaire CCXXVII Tr...
Yes, and whatever the calendar, the population would unanimously support a shorter work-week...all the more feasible with increasing automation. If a ...
Yes, the French-Republican Calendar is beautiful, with its rural nature references. It's a seasonal calendar, and a nature seasonal calendar, and that...
. 1. I didn’t say they weren’t the reason why I was born in THIS world. I merely said that they weren’t the reason why I was born, or why I was born i...
. Then you shouldn’t have agreed to it. . Anyway, which part of “needn’t exist or be real in any context other than its own” don’t you understand? . B...
But of course such a world can't be the setting for a life-experience story. ...any more than could a physical universe that can't support life. Micha...
. They were part of the physical mechanism, not really the cause. . Do I blame my parents? Of course. …for being parents when they were entirely unqua...
The matter regarding reincarnation is a matter of what metaphysics one subscribes to. By Materialism there's no reincarnation. By Ontic Structural Sub...
Let me re-quote part of that: For you now, maybe. What makes you think that has to be so for everyone, always? Obviously if it's for personal gain, it...
Part 2 of 2 (brief): . Call it what you want, but, regarding the things and events of your experience: There’s inevitably an abstract logical system o...
This reply is late because it’s long. I wrote it in daily installments. But, though I often post long messages, and many of my posts are long even if ...
. Sure, that sounds right. But I emphasize that you, as the protagonist/experiencer, are one of the two complementary components of your experience-st...
. A life-experience-story, as I said, has the requirement of consistency, because there are no inconsistent facts. . That doesn’t allow for your thoug...
Then they exist. But I've been emphasizing that I'm only saying they "exist" as something that can be mentioned and referred to. Other than that, I do...
I've found a copy of a more complete posting about Ontic Structural Subjective Idealism. So, if you still don't agree with me, at least it won't be be...
There's a refutation. Philosophical (as opposed to societal) Antinatalism depends on the metaphysics of Materialism (or something similar to Materiali...
What if there isn't a way to change it? I suggest that there isn't a way to change it. But this is only one life in one of infinitely-many possibility...
Eastman Kodak was using it until some time in the '80s. It simplified scheduling, with weekends and holidays always on the same date, and and its iden...
28X13 and 30X12 are fun. For example, the 30X12 French-Republican Calendar is full of interesting environmental-seasonal references. The 12 months are...
The simulation theory doesn't hold up. It attributes magical powers are the transistor-switchings in some computer. That computer can duplicate and di...
Sure. Yes, and maybe pigs should fly. We're already witnessing it. It's already happening, apparent, and taking many lives. Unnaturally-humungous hurr...
. Eventually things are timelessly better, and I agree on that. But I’m just saying that, at the time when the horrors are happening, that’s still pre...
An objection would have to be more specific. I'd be glad to answer a specific objection. Maybe it's about the fact that saying that a proposition of a...
Quite so. No disagreement there. And that's largely why I stopped trying to use describability to distinguish the many separate logically-interdepende...
Those statements that I made about attempts to describe experiences weren't intended to compare them to other descriptions. and weren't intended to im...
. You didn’t say what dictionary you were using. Merriam-Webster is the premier dictionary in the U.S. It defines “tautology” as “needless repetition ...
. Of course it goes without saying that there can be knowledge of what might be so, and of likelihoods or probabilities (objectively-calculated; or as...
I'd say that a proposition is proved if it has been shown that it amounts to a tautology. In particular, a proposed implication is an implication if i...
Madame Blavatsky was a woman.There are and have been women spiritual teachers in India, and i don't know that they haven't said original things. Micha...
That wording is problematic, and doesn't say what I meant. I have to admit that it isn't easy to word the distinction that I've been trying to refer t...
If we don't know that, it's because we've forgotten what was taught to us in pre-secondary school (also formerly called junior-high school, and, more ...
. Yes, my wording didn’t express my meaning well. By “If not…”, I meant, “If this physical world doesn’t have reality or existence other than in in it...
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