The story i am telling here is that the preservation of the story - of the self - is of no importance; what matters is the completion of the story, in which once is for all. — unenlightened

Question: is god pure mind and physicality a manifestation or manipulation of energy? — simplyG

The only answer to the ultimate why question that does not beg the question, kids, is that There Is No Answer. — (Ecclesiastes 20:23)

What exactly would a modern ‘Luddite’ aim to destroy? — I like sushi

One could smash the machines -- assembly plants, refineries, computers, telecommunications, etc. That stuff is sitting out in plain sight. — BC

WTF is wrong with the Dems? Biden is six years my junior and I can tell you someone that age should not be president. And then there is VP Harris. — jgill

The timeline of MAGA Loser #1's legal reckoning for his 2016-2023 crime spree (excluding potentially ruinous civil lawsuits) is taking a definite shape:

1. NYC felony indictment 31Mar23 :up:
"34 counts of Business Documents Fraud Crealing and/or Covering-up Felonies", etc

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-full-document-640043319549?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=RelatedStories&utm_campaign=position_02

[ ... ] — 180 Proof

Is Žižek a serious philosopher or a stand up comedian? Or both? — Tom Storm

Is his work on Hegel or Lacan useful?

Can he really be considered a Hegelo-Lacanian?

Where would he sit in the context of a post-modern tradition and what would be his most significant works?

It was all laid out in the op and not a word has been said against it that I have seen. — unenlightened

What are the defining features of being a human? — Andrew4Handel

Do you believe that there are any unique human traits?

Are there sex differences that give us a different embodiment experience or sexed perspective on being human?

Or do men and women have some fundamental human traits making our experiences likely very similar?

What about the possibly infinite diversity of individual subjective experience? Could we all be having profoundly unique and unmatched experiences?

To put it plainly, an anti-theocracy is as bad as a theocracy. — Janus

Enformationism is an attempt to disguise religious beliefs with a scientific cloak. — Gnomon

This is the hard problem. — Benj96

What might we say about object - object interaction? — Benj96

What percentage of the population do you think can, and wants to, think for itself? — Janus

scientific method/objectivity — Benj96

faith/belief/spirituality/Gods

ethics/immorality

How do we tie this into different philosophical schools of thought?

I do not agree with your [@Gnomon's] supposition that the information theory -- under the protection of science -- could actually be a metaphysical view. This is an abuse of philosophy. — L'éléphant

And so that's your dogma ... — Hanover

So even should a belief in God be entirely delusional, if it should lead to greater happiness, and should its disbelief lead to misery, you'd be hard pressed to explain why we should accept the cold hard scientific misery... — Hanover

How do you know that you aren’t a brain in a vat? You don’t. — Bob Ross

... mental properties ...

Nostalgia. — Mikie

One does not have to have public evidence of something to know it necessarily. — Bob Ross

The idea is the the universal mind is what is metaphysically necessary:

A universal mind is not an idea ...

If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far.... The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al, don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself. — Susan Sontag, Paris Review 1967