praxis

Ask her about the paperclip maximizer scenario.

I just asked ChatGPT about it and, sparing you the details, in summary she said: She’s probably a bit bias though so take that with a grain of salt. B...

Disillusionment with a religious institution is often experienced as nihilism, for instance. That may not always be the case and it’s probably only a ...

Like putting aside the concepts of good and bad, right? To discard the essence of religion (meaningful connection with a community) would lead to a ve...

I read a sci-fi book recently where the invincible invaders from outer space turned out to lack consciousness and wanted to acquire it from Earthlings...

Neither good nor bad, or both good and bad. I don't think it matters which way it's conceptually considered.

I saw an attack ad about him yesterday, the words painting him out to be a Stalinesque monster, but the photo they used was an adorable snapshot of hi...

From what I’ve read, democracy is the best form of government for the people. Not that they’re trying to be honest, of course. I wish I could say that...

But it’s not in the least bit a contingency. Pain is good. Pain, like pleasure, moves life to homeostasis.

Idiotically leaning into the ‘weirdo’ branding.

A five star review of the book on goodreads.com: From what I gather the book glorifies Franco. Not sure if the suggestion is that his way is the way t...

kind of crazy when you compare VP choices. Kamala’s choice is smart and strategic. Trump picked a phony sycophant, presumably only because he intends ...

Religion is a human construction, or as Constance described it, an institution. It’s squarely of mind, in other words. Mind is what you say must be tu...

Observe how well it cauterizes a wound, proving its value, expressing its goodness.

You seem to essentially be saying that the essence of religion is philosophy. I must be misreading this, yes?

I’d like to answer that. To go directly to the point however, I think it would be most productive for you to say whether or not you’ve felt the promis...

Just five words and MAGA hates her and thinks she should keep her mouth :zip: It seems to me that Vance invited her into the conversation when he labe...

If I may step back into meta mode for a moment, I would like to point out that in the OP you promise to provide metaphysical satisfaction to the world...

Yummy but your plating needs work. Maybe a sprig of rosemary or some deep frazzle fried sweet potato.

I think you know what I mean. Can we skip the tedious part and get to your point?

I have many many times. An instant pot is, well, more instant. Also it has more consistent results. Fool proof, as they say, and who doesn’t need less...

There may have been other means of detection before probes were sent to Saturn, I don't know. In any case, the cat at your feet and the ice rings of S...

An instant pot is good for rice and it can do a lot more than just rice.

Ancient minds didn't contrive transcendence, right?

The priesthood is an institution, not the religion?

I rinse the hell out of white rice. You have to in order to get it nice and sticky.

:up: Can't wait to get my paws on it.

Tell that to James Brady.

It doesn’t live up to the cult fantasy, but that won’t stop them from fantasizing that he was forced to run away.

If he would have refused to leave or at least resisted fleeing, that would have been remarkable. But he acted exactly like someone in his entitled pos...

Everyone may agree that one plus one equals two but in ethics, for whatever reason, people's values don't always align.

Isn’t our will not free because of limits, constraints, and entanglements?

Makes you wonder. If we had free will it seems like we wouldn’t make so many bad choices.

@"Vera Mont" Have you read Sapolsky’s book? Pretty convincing.

I know what you mean but the term doesn't bother me. I guess that I think of it as simply resolving existential crisis. Philosophy, science, religion,...

The former is supposed to be free of ethical principles, values, or goals.

Make real. Realizing that you’re awake, for example. For the rest, maybe it’s enough to say that I make a distinction between religion and spiritualit...

To say that value is an absolute, and that it’s IN existence, that it’s exactly what God in its essence IS, is completely meaningless to me. If it has...

I don’t recall much about it but years ago I read something to the effect that the death of religion is due to the categorization of value. Your one c...

You say "... the essence of religion was...". Is it no longer the essence, or was realizing the whole not religion before? In any case, religion isn't...

If religion is “bad metaphysics” and such, then isn’t it a step away from what you claim is the primordial beneath it? Is the essence of a car the mat...

I’m sure you’ve noticed that religions tend to be dogmatic and not very open to analysis. It’s dogmatic for essentially the same reason that GM is dog...

Sure, but what about his hair?

We want to be saved from our suffering, don't we?

GM and UPS can brand themselves in various ways, whatever it takes to capture a segment of the market. Religion is all about branding too, just at a g...

A fence post has identifiable qualities that define it as a fence post. Some qualities are essential for something to function as a fence post. A post...

Yeah, why waste your money on a Judas goat when a cheap plastic Judas owl will work just as well.

Moral redemption doesn't require religion, and religion may or may not provide it. The essense of religion is simply binding a community in shared val...

Let me guess, the owl decoy is to prevent birds from shitting on the tin roof doghouse and ruining Cornbread's chill spot.

Maybe Trump and Hunter can be cellmates. :flower: