• The Right to Die
    I'm not saying it should be state sanctioned and I don't support it either(bar a few cases of Euthanasia), but what I'm saying is: if the society tells us we're free, but then labels our act of freedom as sinful and weak, are we really free and do we really have any rights on this planet? I'm talking about the perception and interpretation of society on the issue rather than the act itself.
  • Is reality only as real as the details our senses give us?
    I'm sure there's more to the ultimate reality out there than what our senses can detect right now.
    Pit viper snakes, for example, can detect infrared. Their evolutionary path brought them the Infrared senses. Ours' brought us the five senses we have now. Or six for a rare few. May be a few thousand years down the line, we'll develop other senses to see/feel things we can't right now.
    As Morpheus famously said: if real is what you can see, smell, taste and touch, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
  • The Right to Die
    you said you don't look down on suicide as a sin and weakness, and neither do I. But our society does.
    My question is: if a person choosing to end his life(which is his own) for whatever reason(hence I gave examples of three different circumstances in my original post) is looked down as a wrongful doing by society, does a human really have any true rights at all?
    I understand we humans are complex creatures and are interwoven with other humans, and the act to end one's life impacts those around him. But is that reason enough to go on living when life is really unbearable? Why does society label it as sinful and selfish when it's anything but?
    I had a friend who committed suicide a couple months back. Though he had a decent life, he felt life was ultimately pointless. He was severely depressed due to his existential crisis, and didn't want to be a burden on anyone. Though I miss him, I don't see that as selfish at all.
    Are humans really free in this society if their choice to exercise their basic rights(to end their life if they feel it's justified) is looked at differently than, say, buying a red colored car? Why is giving birth (bringing a new life into this shit hole, especially with the world as it is now) celebrated when just another part of life(dying) is frowned upon by the society if done by conscious choice?
    (*and by free will, I don't mean in the cosmic sense, but rather in the societal sense)
  • The Right to Die
    absolutely true that suicide is not a weakness but rather quite the opposite, when you think about it. To go against the natural tendency(to survive) of a human to end one's life takes courage. And there's no doubt 8/10 of the people who commit suicide are in tremendous emotional/physical pain which they feel they can't bear anymore. They don't want to die, per se, but they don't want to live with the pain anymore. A slight difference, but different nonetheless.
    My issue is about free will as much as the topic of suicide itself. If a human doesn't have the right to use/discard his life, which is his own, what right does he really have?
  • Currently Reading
    Reading The myth of Sisyphus for the second time. Last read is about 5 years ago. Giving it another read since Friday.
  • Where are we?
    Everywhere.Miller

    And where is this "everywhere" located?
  • Where are we?
    It's not about having the perfect answer, it's about having the best answer.Miller

    I'd rather have the truth
  • Where are we?
    It wouldn't have an outside, if it was finite. The universe is all of it, whether finite or infinite.Razorback kitten

    We live in our town/village/city, which is inside the country, which is inside this planet Earth, which is inside the solar system, which is inside the Milky way galaxy, which is then inside this universe. Continuing the same set of questions, inside what is this universe located?
  • Where are we?
    this proves that reality MUST NECESSARILY be infiniteMiller

    Even if we assume the universe is infinite, still begs the question: where is it located?
    And how do we explain the Olber's paradox if it really is infinite?

    https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/suborbit/POLAR/cmb.physics.wisc.edu/tutorial/olbers.html
  • Does God's existence then require religious belief?
    Believing in "god" without believing in religion is possible indeed. One could come to the conclusion that this extremely huge(which is an understatement) universe came into being on it's own is not very likely, yet simultaneously believe that religion is bs as it was probably created to control the masses and give people something to look up to.
    Who that "god" who created us could be, if you believe so, is another matter altogether. It could be a very powerful being, or it could be a school kid of a highly advanced civilization just doing his school project which ended up creating our universe.
  • Why being anti-work is not wrong.
    I think about this every now and then and at times have even contemplated quitting my job to go live in a small village doing farming just enough to survive. But then again, having lived all my life in a city, it does feel quite difficult to leave the addictive lifestyles of the city behind.
    But the thought of having to work all my life for the major sole purpose of survival does feel like a massive trap as well.
    Think our need to eat to survive has been a major curse for us. If we somehow transform into beings that don't need to eat, think we'll see a major shift in how the human society functions.