"P1" is not true, ergo "C" does not follow. :point:P1: if God exists,nonresistant[passive] nonbelievers would not exist
P1:Nonresistant[passive] nonbelievers do exist
C: God does not exist — aminima
In other words (intentional or not), do not fight – surrender to – "evil". :mask:But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right, turn to him the other also. — Matthew 5:39
:up:... uncertainty (yin/true/1 OR yang/false/0) is a feature (of reality) and NOT a bug (in our epistemic methodology). Ignorance (noise) is part and parcel of knowledge (signal). — Agent Smith
[H]umanity is simply sawing-off the high branch it's sitting on – not endangering nature so much as endangering ourselves by accelerating the destruction of most of the natural conditions needed to sustain our species.
If the Anthropocene isn't an auto-extinction event, it is a human population-crashing event, or gigacidal process, that by the mid-22nd century might thin the post-Anthropocene herd down to mere tens to hundreds of millions of infected/infested scavengers in the overheated, desertified, toxic, sprawling ruins of our late great technocapitalist global civilization largely "gone dark". H sapiens have survived and recovered from a number of population crashes in the last hundreds of millennia, but none as rapid and at the scale and amid such a polluted, irradiated, resource depleted environment as the one that's coming — 180 Proof
If the Singularity can happen, maybe it's already happened ... — 180 Proof
:up:Skepticism is not self-refuting - absolute or global skepticism is self-refuting and probably psychologically impossible. More conventional skepticism is how science generally works. — Tom Storm
I'm still not clear about the rationale for monism. If eventually one has to resort to some form of dualism/pluralism ... — Agent Smith
I.e. dual-aspect monism (or property dualism).↪Agent Smith
Dialectical monism.
— 180 Proof — 180 Proof
Jesus was either Liar, Lunatic or Lord!
— Agent Smith
False trichotomy. Jesus was also either misquoted or a fictional character — 180 Proof
:fire:memento mori
"What you find hateful [harmful], do not do to anyone "
"Amor fati!"
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
memento vivire
Tis the mind that makes the body rich. — William Shakespeare
... "Knowledge means questioning," answered Reb Mendel.
"What will we get out of the questions? What will we get out of all the answers which only lead to more questions, since questions are born of unsatisfactory answers?" asked the second disciple.
"The promise of a new question," replied Reb Mendel. — Edmond Jabès
