Spectrum's right. It's our conscious experience which is internal and unique. Our external behavior, appearances and utterances might be conformist,...
OK... can nothing be on my mind ?, If you're thinking about the concept 'nothing' or if you're not thinking at all (like you're unconscious) or...
EmptyForceOfChi: what isnt nothing Anything and everything isn't nothing. But there's no nothing anywhere; nothing denotes an absence,...
EmptyForceOfChi: "but what is the purpose for animal and plantlife to reproduce, why would it want to multiply for it would have to have a motive,...
*****PrinceJames***** JoeTheMan: Which to my mind means that if the self is everything, then the self contains its negation, so the self is...
So God, the Universe and the Self are all really one thing, which is the only thing we can know. How does pantheistic solipsism account for the...
There needs to be an international governing body which regulates the activities of multinational corporations. They are able to escape any given set...
Moral claims may in the end just be emotive or injunctive, that is, saying 'Stealing is wrong' is equivalent to saying 'I don't like stealing' or...
"Nothing can totally escape the flow of entropy, save one... life. " Not even life totally escapes the flow of entropy if we buy the second law of...
PrinceJames: I'm not saying I agree with Kant's conception, merely bringing it up as an example of what the good is. It's a little problematic,...
I think only being which was completely perfect could also be completely good. But I think conscious beings cannot be completely good or perfect,...
One of the other points of Discordianism that I think may shed a little light on this is that any given enlightenment experience works exactly once,...
Discordianism is not science, is not *for* or *against* science. Accordingly, it is not a misinterpretation of science; more accurately,...
QQ: You're definitely on to something here. A few comments.... "Too much focus has been placed on the intellectual side [ including money] IMO...
"I see no advantage to those states of mind whatever." Neither do I. I think those states of mind -- essentially, being so caught up in conviction...
OK, I see how individual objects--like swords, bombs and cars--are 'good' when they perform the functions for which they were designed well. But...
"I think this interpretation comes from mutual non-understanding between many believers and atheists concerning what 'meaning' actually is."...
Light, if you have lived your whole life without ever being afraid of being wrong, I am humbled by your courage. I'm just interpreting this a little...
The first question that comes to me in discussions of the good is what we are to decide is its opposite: is it evil, or is it bad? "perfection...
I don't interpret it as simply saying that perspectives are different between cultures. I see this as saying that perspectives are precisely the...
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