People can be informed (knowledgeable) or mistaken about either. — Andrew M

I have been plugging the truth/knowledge is information message on this forum for quite some time. To no avail. People love complicated explanations. Simple ones are too boring.

Also please explain why anyone would smoke if we are purely motivated by pleasure and pain. — khaled

Do you know how addiction works. Suggest you look into that.

The fear of death is the only thing that is keeping us alive.

here is positive and negative energy, so a system that exists can have zero energy as a whole, while parts of the system have positive energy and other parts have negative energy. — leo

Exactly. That is how something can emerge from nothing. The penny has dropped.

How do telephone conversations work for you?

As with music language is influenced by and influences the world. It's structure is mathematical.

Something does not have to be aware (think) to exist ( for us).

If we can imagine an alien it would by definition not be alien.

Time is what allows you to reflect on the past and plan for the future.

Your subconscious is the undercurrent of emotions you generally are not aware of.

Philosophy operates in an imaginary world at the boundaries of science.

An interesting podcast you should listen to is a scientist describing how the mind makes sense of reality. It's called the hallucinary mind.

Yes the human mind needs distractions. Without, you either become religious or crazy. Perhaps there is not much difference between the two.

Still wrong. — creativesoul

Clever response. You got me there.

What do you find useful in a falsehood known to be false? — ovdtogt

Give me 1 example.

Language is not just communication through sounds and gestures. — creativesoul

language is the vocalization of information. Chimps do it. Birds do it. Many animals do it.

Falling from a height to death is a somewhat painful and somewhat prolonged experience I'm afraid. See here for the gruesome details:[/quote]

How long do you think you might suffer after you jump off a skyscraper?

Read my last post. — creativesoul

intellectually dishonest.

Online format. — creativesoul

You are going all cryptic on me.

What are you arguing, that scientists tend to believe bad metaphysics? — Metaphysician Undercover

That clever scientists disagree with dumb people like you.

Do you understand that? — Metaphysician Undercover

that very few scientists believe organic life did not evolve on our planet from inorganic chemicals.

It’s mass hysteria that plays into the hands of totalitarianism, — Brett

Yes mass hysteria. Let's seek appeasement with Donald Trump. The fascist leader of the fascist Republican party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.[1] The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy[2] between 1935 and 1939.

Well there you go. Just 1 sentence would have sufficed then.

I think the fear of the pain of death is greater than the fear of death itself. — Devans99

Nope. That is not what troubles people. Fear of death makes people put up with the pain.
You can jump off a very high building you wont feel a thing.

Yes that are you constantly contradicting yourself.

Very few scientists believe organic life did not evolve on our planet from inorganic chemicals.

If the levels of pain relief chemicals in our bodies were raised as the risk of our death increases, painful deaths could be avoided and the fear of death alleviated. — Devans99

Every day the risk of you dying increases. Is this painful?

Right, it's speculation, not science. — Metaphysician Undercover

No I don't think science can advance without speculation, — Metaphysician Undercover

Play without work very soon stops being playful.

No sounds or gestures in this format, but there is definitely language. — creativesoul

What format?

Usefulness can be the property of a falsehood known to be false. — creativesoul

Again I ask you. You said it. Now defend it and stop being intellectually dishonest.
What do you find useful in a falsehood known to be false?

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I think logic requires some sort of substance to use it upon. — chromechris

Logic without science is religion. — ovdtogt

Haha yes, logic becomes whatever tf' you want it to be. — chromechris

Logic without science is religion.

Nietzsche, the expert on nihilism — Enrique

I would consider myself also to be an expert on nihilism and I am financially quite comfortable.
I am however looking to ..

give my fingers, toes and nipples a goal — Enrique

Not so much my nipples.
But
would know what to do with them. He has got man breasts.

This is self-contradictory and/or incoherent.

Let A = usefulness
Let B = truth
Let C = information
Let D = a statement — creativesoul

And this is a totally useless statement.

And falsehood known to be false... so usefulness — creativesoul

And what do you find so useful in falsehoods?

— Athena

That is what language is: Communication through sound and gestures.
Watch this fascinating clip by David Attenborough

Amazing footage of how different types of monkey have distinct calls to warn their troop members of an invading big cat predator. Amusing footage of how David Attenborough reveals their hidden behaviours with a special stuffed toy. From BBC's Life of Mammals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bxPLFt1vI

Crying babies are communicating — Athena

Yes crying is a form of communication and may be considered a primitive language.

Researchers say that animals, non-humans, do not have a 'true' language like humans. However they do communicate with each other through sounds and gestures. — Voxy

That is what language is. Communication.

The problem I encounter on this forum is the lack of basic knowledge concerning, history, biology and physics and chemistry.

Right, it's speculation, not science. — Metaphysician Undercover

Do you think science can advance without speculation?

Nothing has zero energy. So are we talking about nothing?

non-zero speed — Mike Fontenot

I have googled non-zero speed but only find non-zero velocity and that means something quite different.
Non speed means you are standing still. You are not in motion.

perpetually inertial — Mike Fontenot

Nor can I find anything on perpetual inertia.
Inertia a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.

So in your hypothetical nothing is moving.