So how is this situation just — schopenhauer1
What a petty game this god has set up.. — schopenhauer1
I think there are a lot of metaphors in Genesis, if one allows it to be read that way. — schopenhauer1
Yes, life is "unfair".. I would say "unjust". — schopenhauer1
Why do you suppose I am suggesting we change our system? — schopenhauer1
make a distinction between working-to-survive and a kind of "trivial" work of lifting a hand — schopenhauer1
do you see a difference between food that was absolutely always available no matter what and the set of challenges of work to get the food — schopenhauer1
It seems unjust to put others in a circumstance X whereby X means if they do not do X, they will die or other dire consequences. — schopenhauer1
The issue I have is resolving the fact that everything must have an opposite in order to be manifest — Benj96
Potential is not nothing but it also isn’t anything — Benj96
Love comes from an emotional. system, at least in us. — PoeticUniverse
the only is existent of us beyond our frame is our conscience, as a token share of the overall conscience. — Santiago
The strong part of the OP is that The Eternal Existence is necessity, with no option not to be, given the impossibility of ‘nonexistence’. — PoeticUniverse
you mistake the non-existence of something — Nikita
by no cat, I mean the non-existence of a cat, an empty place — Nikita
The grey area for quantum computer qu-bits is that they can be 0 and 1 at the same time. — PoeticUniverse
Would the Existence be composed of bits, given that mass/energy seems to have been shown to be equivalent to information? — PoeticUniverse
Regular computer programming covering all eventualities probably can’t calculate the universe, as it’s too linear and too slow. — PoeticUniverse
Nothing can escape from being something, even nothing. The absence of attributes is an attribute. — RAW
Government IS the solution in this case. — James Riley
That's not my goal and wasn't the question of this thread. If I could snap my fingers and change people's minds, fine -- but in the real world, I know very well it often can't be done and is, essentially, a waste of time. Much like this discussion with you. — Xtrix
Glad you're still looking into the logic! There's no greater philosophical quest. — PoeticUniverse
One way to do that, is to help them weather this shit storm. — James Riley
Though not free of the virus (which took your freedom). — jorndoe
I gather that because I didn't exibit an enthusiastic belief in vaccination, that automatically made me an anti-vaxxer in their eyes. — baker
All beings is contingent. They may exist now, but they might not exist tomorrow, or any moment. That is what existence means. — Corvus
People going to such lengths over masking up have more than just lost perspective (if they ever had any). Sure, they'd have to be way out extremists. — jorndoe
In our universe, the lesser ever leads to the greater. — PoeticUniverse
Mother Nature holds the hammer. — James Riley
Tired denialist thinking.
Common.
Boring. — Xtrix
No, you can't. — Xtrix
It does matter when it effects other people. — Xtrix
Time is of the essence, both with this and with climate change. Lives are on the line. Denial and immovable ignorance cannot be tolerated forever -- even if one is the Dalai Lama. The world is burning, people are dying, while we're "debating" this issue over and over again. — Xtrix
But it is one thing to own the blank concepts, and totally different thing altogether actually to draw some imaginative conclusions from them when there are no logical or tangible connections. — Corvus
It is not that I don't like "infinite", but I just cannot find anything which is infinite in the real world. :) — Corvus
We apparently don't have all the Omnis to the extent wished for in a 'Person God with Mind' — PoeticUniverse
Calling something "silly" instead of explaining why it is not true, is not a responsible attitude and certainly it does not behove this place. — Alkis Piskas
And then we have to explain how a Mind could be First, instead of evolving later on, since that is the reverse of the process we see in the history of the universe. — PoeticUniverse
I think your point is good (that non-existence is not even describable with grammatics is a bad sign for it to be a real concept). We use a similar argument as part of the video we want to make. I now foresee similar opposition. But remember that it is a youtube video. They want it to have the quality of a university lecture but that will make it so complicated too that no one on youtube will watch it. — FalseIdentity
You are obsessed with "beliefs" and you don't realize that you are also presenting your beliefs, even if in an indirect, covert way, like "Or is it just a statement of your beliefs" — Alkis Piskas