thing exists only if I perceive it''? — Eugen

reality is a computer simulation — Eugen

we don't exist — Eugen

science shows nothing more than a bunch of atoms interacting. — Eugen

You do take things so personally. — Banno

If your point is that eternal damnation is incompatible with both a loving god and most brands of ethics, then it is trite. — Banno

Oh dear, they're starting the crackdowns. :smile: — Wheatley

Did he receive a warning? A chance to change his behaviour? — DingoJones

How about having the ability to print trillions of dollars with the World accepting the printed money (or treasuries) and finance the state through all that debt financing? Sorry to say, but part of your wealth (which is distributed quite inequally, as you know) exists because of your Superpower status.

You see, other countries would have had long time ago a current account crisis. — ssu

The downfall is in issues really like Global leadership. Things like what the US President says doesn't matter (yeah, people don't read the tweets no, but I mean in the classic sense). — ssu

Trump is not the culprit of the downfall of US leadership and Superpower status, he is just contributor that makes the downfall even more rapid. — ssu

180 Proof, many Americans really don't care at all about "national interests". National interests are the agenda of the evil political elites, so in their mind Trump is doing a great job! — ssu

An Argument Against Eternal Damnation — Banno

I'm only saying what I'm saying. My first post was kind of making fun of the fact that you're still bitter since I deleted or moved one of your discussions a couple of weeks ago. — jamalrob

In my second post I said that anxiety was hard, asked you to explain something I didn't understand, and wished you well. No need to be confused. — jamalrob

Ok. Are numbers material in any sense of that word? — TheMadFool

You mean to say there's some kind of hazy border, a gray area, between what a universe is and what a universe is not? What kind of things would you say populates this no-man's land between universes and not-universes? — TheMadFool

What exactly do you mean by a "scientific definition"? It's certainly a word that scientists use in the course of their profession, so on that account it's a scientific term. Although as far as I know it doesn't have the same kind of formal definition within some mathematical model that something like an electron does within the Standard Model. — Michael

There's a reason for that. — Banno