FlaccidDoor

I'm glad to hear that. Don't worry about me. It's just that currently, between school and work my free time is severely limited. I tried to reply as s...

I like the metaphor you use here a lot. A ruler, clock and scale is a lot like how we do our best to describe reality as it is, in that we both need t...

Sorry, I lack clarification here. I meant belief as in your belief of validity. Function as in, to invalidate another belief by using some evidence pr...

That's good to hear, because I actually enjoy the conversations that I have with you quite a bit. There are still worries I have with geothermal energ...

As you've said, the basis for invalidating a belief for you is that the belief must be self contradictory. This is a reasonable view because it allows...

Do I understand correctly if I say that truth is reality as an individual understands it, and Truth is reality as it exists? I agree, truth is often u...

I stand corrected. I misread your post, and sorry that I seem to have put you into a foul mood.

I'm sorry to hear that but I only joined this forum recently, and while we have talked before I don't think we talked too much about renewable energy....

Sorry I was unclear. What I meant here is that it would just seem to that person that it is a truth, not that it actually is. A person's ability to be...

I think it is, but far from a useful one ontologically speaking. It's also not a philosophically proven truth but I think those horrors of life descri...

I agree. You shouldn't deceive yourself from the reality as it is presented to you, because it often sets you up for failure. When I don't want to wor...

So then usefulness is the correct criterion for judging if we should pursue truths.

I didn't think I was confused until now. Limitless clean energy does suggest windmills and solar panels unless it refers to nuclear energy. However th...

I'm sorry, I am not fluent in Marxist writing. In fact you could say I'm completely new to the language. I just looked at the Wikipedia page about the...

Thanks to those who added to this thread. I'll sign off for tonight. Until next time

Well I think it's absurd to suggest that we can't know anything because we, as people tend to be, claim to know a lot. If it's knowing as in, knowing ...

I resonate with what you're saying because my interests definitely does its part in swaying the direction of my thinking. I want a belief that justifi...

Wouldn't lying necessitate that you "know" something else is true? When I asked about the liars from a previous post, I was implying that those liars ...

I had a weird feeling that I was missing a key component and I think you might've hit the nail, thanks. I didn't have a strict idea of truth when I ma...

I agree that's what I feel goes on in my experiences, but what if there is a "perfect" lie in which the lie does not come back in a negative way. With...

So only truth is useful, other than to cover truths, and any falsehoods that seem useful, in this case fiction, just has truths hidden in it? I see wh...

I'm not sure I follow. Why is believing in falsehoods not the equivalent of interpreting it as truths? If you believe it is real, convince yourself it...

So your view is that the truth is necessarily the most useful in the long term, where falsehoods are not so. My view aligns with yours but why would t...

I'm interested in where I might read the foundations of philosophy as you mentioned, but I have some doubts whether philosophy was born to promote hap...

A major premise that OP is based on is that their knowledge is complete or at least complete enough. Thus if people do not know exactly what I know, t...

So you don't want to consider an ideal death because then that would raise your expectation? I feel like we refer to an ideal as an ideal partly becau...

I would want it. Not to necessarily use it immediately, but to open the pill and find out what's inside. I feel like my curiosity would shove me in th...

I know that at it's essence it's just really spicy. Like they literally take the same things that make chili spicy in a concentrated form most of the ...

It was my understanding that bear spray is a less debilitating nonlethal method compared to pepper spray because of comparing descriptions like from t...

That makes a lot more sense. Knowing you can control everything, you would still try to keep it as bad as you can make it because you don't want to be...

Y E S My point was that the integrity of news sources are to be questioned, and holding skepticism in said news sources' claims are not the same as re...

Yes, I think many people would agree with you, but that kind of defeats the philosophical point of the question.

Correct me if I’m missing something. Wikipedia seems to describe Marx’s ideas to be more complex than that. It describes that Marx believed that an ob...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJr5inU-3Y&ab_channel=NBCNews Super violent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=270F8s5TEKY&ab_channel=TheNewYorker This ...

Yes. I'm not an expert but my understanding is that there are a lot of evidence to believe that the ability to make rational decisions is heavily asso...

The event that ended with the emergency evacuation and of congress was probably the worst thing that can happen for Trump politically speaking. The co...

A change in behavior averaging once a day seems like a significant change in habit.

I'm sure alcohol dependency was a significant contributor to the backlash against the prohibition laws. Alcohol is also known to be a catalyst for vio...

There is a reason that we should justify the existence of free will. There are numerous scientific literatures showing that belief in free will result...

Ascension, as in, to heaven? So given that heaven exists, you would choose ascension as compared to descent (to hell). But then that doesn't deal with...

Debate porn. I can't for the life of me find the article that talked about effects of sexual arousal on decision making in men and women. Specifically...

Yeah I agree. That's why I want to die in a firework where flying up would be scary, but I get a good view before instantaneously being blown apart in...

I feel like slowly dying from cancer would be somewhat painful, although I have no clue. Chemotherapy at the very least looks pretty uncomfortable.

I wish I bought gamestonks

How do you see this changing people's actions or attitudes towards life? Do they try to fight capitalism or try to live in a more minimalistic way in ...

I like that. As if complaining to the heavens that death wasn't all that it was cut out to be. But even in life asking yourself that would push you fu...

Sorry? If all your ideas were better understood by others than you, then you weren't the world's greatest philosopher! But going off that thought, wha...

I don't see it that way. Death may be slowed but it is inevitable, so it is relevant to all. Cower in fear or rush into it daily, it will come eventua...

Well you might leave everything worldly behind, but if you don't voice your ideas it will die with you.

The vodka in moderation is a nice excuse to let loose on the other half yourself. Jokes aside I appreciate the thorough explanation of the box items. ...