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I've definitely increased this last 10 years compared to the previous 20. But I'm including audiobooks in my tally.

Which you're free to do. Though I'm wondering if you impose your "know nothing" logic to all facets of your decision making.

You keep making a rebuttal to an argument I'm not making. I never said anyone KNOWS a suicidal person's grief is temporary, I'm saying there is a 70% ...

It seems to me that all of the listed "identities" are subjective, so while they exist, they're incredibly fluid.

The concept of "false" (as pertains to the "real" part of reality) only has meaning in the presence of "truth". Thus if you conclude there is no truth...

I am not a theoretical physicist, but my understanding is that there is no "past" to travel to. That is, the concept of continuous time is an inaccura...

The purpose of creating a model duck within the model farmyard is to analyze the interaction between the duck and other entities within the farmyard. ...

Time travel is definitely possible, but only to the future, not the past.

"Can a..."? Sure. That's the thing with subjective descriptors, they can mean whatever an observer chooses them to mean. Someone, somewhere I'm sure b...

One could argue that jumping away from a lethal fire is reasonable, even desirable. The fact that the jump happens to be from a tall building, is seco...

Yup, same thing. I don't "know" the store is still standing until I arrive there (which is some time in the future from when I set out from my home), ...

Just so you know, retrospective knowledge (what you call "hindsight"), is in fact knowledge. And as knowledge, is extremely valuable ("valid") to norm...

Several things. First, I said it's usually temporary, not always temporary. Second, while "some people" never get over their girlfriend's breaking up ...

I don't disagree. I used to advise trainees that while it is good to learn from one's own mistakes, it's much better to learn from other's mistakes si...

Back when human emotions were invented, moral outrages occurred with an individual's community, thus there was evolutionary pressure to possess moral ...

Like any subjective entity, in this case intersubjective, gods carry whichever attributes and qualities an observer chooses to imbue them with. Which ...

So, if I'm stressed out enough by my girlfriend dumping me to consider suicide, the feeling that I'll be this stressed out for the rest of my life acc...

I never said nor implied that the REASON an individual contemplates suicide is always temporary (though you agreed that sometimes it is, say when it's...

You can call research and experience "hindsight", if you want to. And "knowing what's gonna happen" isn't the requirement to make life decisions, othe...

I was addressing alleybear's usage of the word in his previous posting, which seems to use the term in just the way you are apparently unfamiliar with...

Uummm... no. 1) the reasons for most suicides are temporary. 2) many lay persons don't realize that. It behooves all of us to make fact #1 more widely...

Your post brings up the situation that some define the word as a synonym of manufacturing (creating things) and others of novelty (coming up with a "c...

This thread outlines one (of many well known) problems with the concept of omnipotence (and omniscience) as it is casually applied in religious contex...

I was not aware that you are a professional in this very area. Then you're obviously conversant with the data, which (as far as my contribution to thi...

Well, you've pointed out a permanent problem (the degenerative illness), and I fully agree with Physician Assisted Suicide in such cases (as do many i...

Several things. First, the source of the "optimism" is the Actual Data that proves that among those in your exact situation (contemplating suicide), t...

On that we agree (speaking of the commonality of the fleeting pondering of the concept of suicide). Hence my observation that the argument against sui...

Huh? Only a small minority of the population attempt suicide. And even among those who attempt it and fail, only about 7% will reattempt and succeed, ...

Unfortunately for your theories, the reality is the majority of unsuccessful suiciders regret their decision to attempt suicide. In fact among unsucce...

The argument against suicide is that it is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Some creativity involves creating an end product, say a movie, other creativity involves creating a pathway to an end product, that is: problem solvin...

While true, it is bordering on insignificant and useless. Basically you're saying if you give me an answer I can come up with an equation that comes u...

Well in my opinion you should start with the realization that "good" ( and therefore "evil" as well) is a subjective descriptor. Thus good, to you, is...

I think it's like the hullabaloo about TV when I was a youth (remember the "boob tube"?) and video games when I was a young adult. Could watching TV r...

Most disagree with you. If someone supports the right to abortion for no reason, why decry a situation when someone states a "reason"?

Ah yes, the fallacy of the familiar. Predictable.

The optimal scenario is to grow up in an era where there are no artificial aids, learn to perform tasks yourself, then later acquire the technology, s...

You do know that in the deaf community some parents will do genetic testing to see of their fetus has inherited familial deafness (like the parents) a...

Exactly. "Good", as a subjective descriptor is a functional label (when applied to actions and outcomes) for what an individual finds to be moral, whi...

Several things: First the overwhelming majority of theists dont "decide to take up a religion" in particular. Rather they are indoctrinated into the r...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Okay. Now, "what god"? All gods (that is all 10,000 of them). Are you limiting your discussion/understanding to a single ...

Uummm... I was pointing out that humans invented the concept of omnipotent gods relatively recently, that is: for a long time gods weren't omnipotent....

Huh? You might consider becoming more familiar with a topic before posting authoritatively on it.

Everyone is aware that first cousin marriage is legal outright in 20 states and DC, right?

Just to be clear the concept of omnipotent (and omniscient) gods was invented relatively recently. Thus the majority of gods are not omnipotent.

Despite the devolution of this thread into eugenics and the relative merit of not having children, the fact is that the main "wrong" of incest is when...

Huh? I've spent considerable energy in this thread arguing against the concept of physically "proving" metaphysical entities, like gods. So, no, I don...

You mean the typing "proof"? Well, it works great for unicorns (and anything else imaginable), so I'm not impressed, TBH. As to whether gods are metap...

Agreed, that's why my first post in this thread noted that it is a fool's errand to search for physical evidence to provide proof of a metaphysical en...

I believe by "existence" you mean objective existence, which in the case of gods (or any other entity that only exists inter-subjectively) is, of cour...