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I used to watch the roulette wheel and after 5 or 6 reds in a row, I would bet on black, thinking it was due. However, the past does not exist and so ...
May 11, 2021 at 14:46
The trouble with definitions like “consciousness”, is that they rely on words and the trouble with words is that they are sounds which point to things...
May 07, 2021 at 14:45
At the moment of conception, there is a rapid expansion of cells, like a Big Bang, only on a biological scale if you will. Looking at our observable u...
May 03, 2021 at 21:15
The universe is not expanding, objects in the universe are simply moving away from each other and the space within which they are moving, in is infini...
May 02, 2021 at 15:39
Existence comes before thought, therefore the correct way of putting it is “I am, therefore, I think I am”
April 29, 2021 at 02:40
If time were finite, it would have to have a beginning and an ending. Since time is only a measurement taken from now, to as far back or forward as on...
April 26, 2021 at 13:34
If time actually existed, it would take an infinity of time to get to the present moment.
April 26, 2021 at 00:25
Depends on what you mean by “real”. Life seems real while we are living it, but before our birth, we did not miss not being alive for an estimated 13....
April 22, 2021 at 03:08
Size does not exist outside of the consciousness doing the comparison. In the case of human consciousness, that which is bigger then the body is big a...
April 18, 2021 at 02:33
The earth’s core generates an electro magnetic force which passes through everything on the surface of the earth and extends for miles beyond the surf...
April 15, 2021 at 13:48
Body and mind are not two, they are one. Mind IS body and body IS mind. In the abstract nature of thought, which divides that which is indivisible, th...
April 12, 2021 at 13:26
To planets! It’s easy to walk through that which is not there, I do it every day!
April 11, 2021 at 13:42
If two people stand back to back and begin walking away from each other, the space between them is not expanding, all the is happening is the distance...
April 11, 2021 at 03:29
Although the hard problem of consciousness has not been resolved, I suspect that without our senses, there would be no consciousness. It is through ou...
April 09, 2021 at 17:35
TaySan, what you are saying may very well be true, for theories may not be proven as true or false. The current theory of the Big Bang makes sense to ...
April 07, 2021 at 13:50
You make a very good point. This physical body which we all refer to as “me” is here now and yet it was not always here now in this current form. Go b...
April 07, 2021 at 02:39
You sum it up very nicely here!
April 06, 2021 at 22:22
I agree. So far, the hard problem of consciousness has not been solved and perhaps it never will be. I suppose it is similar to getting into your car,...
April 06, 2021 at 15:19
All physical forms are temporary, even the Sun was born and will die in so many billions of years. Although we did not always exist in our present for...
April 06, 2021 at 12:37
I’m reminded of one of John Lennon’s songs “life is what happens to us while we’re busy making other plans”. Also, there is a Buddhist saying “do each...
April 06, 2021 at 02:44
The past is just a measurement taken from “now” to as far back as one wants to go and the future is a measurement forward. However, life itself, does ...
April 05, 2021 at 03:26
“Life” and “now” may not be separated, if you are alive, then it is now!
April 04, 2021 at 16:50
If one can answer the question “what is a real philosopher” then they already are a real philosopher! Since our “own” reality is the only reality may ...
March 31, 2021 at 04:04
What is a word, other then a sound that a human makes and what is a sound other then a vibration in the air? Just as a map is not the territory, a wor...
March 25, 2021 at 16:52
To make the assumption that only humans have conscious minds, seems odd to me. How could one possibly “know” this to be fact? The only consciousness t...
March 20, 2021 at 02:44
If one views the glass as half empty, then one favours the past, when the glass had more to offer. If one views the glass as half full, then one favou...
March 19, 2021 at 16:14
Smile, things could be worse, so I did, and sure enough, things got worse.
March 18, 2021 at 16:54
The starting point of time is the present moment, simply because nothing may be measured sooner then “now”. “Now” is the zero point which gives the co...
March 18, 2021 at 03:29
This is good thinking! Find the job you enjoy doing, even if it pays less. Do not put off living in the moment because the moment is ALL we ever have....
March 14, 2021 at 15:54
Opposites produce each other. In order to have big, we need small to compare it to. In order to have stars and galaxies we need the vacuum of empty sp...
March 13, 2021 at 04:50
Yes, I feel that was what he was pointing to. The English translation of the word “Tao” could very well be “the way of nature”. The way of nature come...
March 12, 2021 at 17:42
It is my belief that Lao Tzu was pointing out how, where and why words fail. What is a word after all, but a sound made in the air, representing somet...
March 12, 2021 at 05:11
The origin of the first cell and it’s evolution, assumes that there was such a thing as a first cell. If matter and life “always” existed somewhere in...
March 10, 2021 at 13:48
One may not split zero into anything, because by it’s very definition, zero energy means that there is no energy there to split. When you talk about q...
March 09, 2021 at 23:51
It is my philosophy that the Big Bang is a local event in an infinite universe. The vast distances involved, means that the light from the next closes...
March 07, 2021 at 17:06
Numbers do not exist! Humans have invented numbers as a way of expressing certain concepts. The concept of one apple plus one apple equals two apples ...
March 05, 2021 at 00:47
Are you talking a better world for people in general or a better world for you, in particular? Philosophy is a way of looking at things and if you cha...
March 03, 2021 at 04:35
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When I order off a menu, I believe I have a choice as to what to eat. Once a choice has been made, one might say it was determined, pointing to the fa...
March 01, 2021 at 17:22
yes, why not make a story out if it?
February 28, 2021 at 22:58
Life did not have an origin, it was always here, just like the universe itself. Life arrived on earth by comet, which carried frozen life forms in a s...
February 28, 2021 at 17:36
Agreed. However, I was not referring to the same point in space, but rather the same starting point (season) in relation to the next orbit of Earth ar...
February 23, 2021 at 19:13
I agree that “ everything that will ever happen, already exists” but disagree that it “cannot change”. Everything that might exist, exists in potentia...
February 23, 2021 at 15:54
That which does not exist, may not be measured, therefore it is infinite. We call it SPACE, because it’s not there. That which may be measured, for ex...
February 21, 2021 at 05:43
Simply because something is written in text, does not make it true! It becomes laughable when a self proclaimed expert, like the one in the Fake Buddh...
February 19, 2021 at 23:17
Music is the language of the soul. Words are vibrations in the air, sounds made to represent things which are not sounds. Music is also vibrations in ...
February 18, 2021 at 01:14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism One may choose to believe the words attributed to the Buddha or Jesus Christ, or not, that is the beauty of fre...
February 17, 2021 at 23:08
Humans make stuff up, that’s what we do! We make up language, to communicate ideas. We make up stories for book, music for mood, movies for entertainm...
February 17, 2021 at 17:55
You are in the same boat Baker, unenlightened and without a clue on what nirvana IS. Philosophy does not claim to be fact, simply a view on how things...
February 16, 2021 at 22:20
I haven’t experienced an enlightened moment, therefore I do not KNOW what enlightenment IS, do you?
February 16, 2021 at 18:26
Well said! The hat of a divine madman suits you!
February 15, 2021 at 16:51