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  • Biological Childbirth is immoral/hell
    No, it's not anti-natalism. In fact, it should teach bad parents a good lesson about how a child is to be treated.

    Given that childbirth is a curse upon the spirit, on the child end of the,what is to be considered by the parents, bargain, then parents should be more careful of how they express their love and hate, to the child.

    Further, allowing the child mental freedom at a suitable age.

    Parents should also retire from any social disputes that might'nt end in their favour as to not endanger their children with their own mistakes.
  • Can the philosophical mysteries be solved at all?
    Yes, all philosophy is solvable.

    God doesn't exist, God is nothing without Satan, together they resemble good and evil 'most-high powers". The most high power in the likeness of God is a shape ordinance that certified and harmonizes all existing things, making sure no-one randomly and forever experiences star-like heat, and so forth. Such as the fact you die if you reach a certain pain threshold. The second most like God is a machine grouping that moderates rank in life, completely obidient to the shape ordinance or 'good'. There is, and has never been God. Creators of simulations exist but they aren't significant in a God like way.

    Yes there is life after death unless you're on extinction row for life crimes. Death is an instant transfer to a previous sim state where eternal life can be envisioned easily; this universe is quite unique and distant from the prior simulation. The umbilical cord is quite a drop, from a simple spawning, from out of a light womb.

    Sometimes you are free and at others you're not, sometimes you're both free and not free. I didn't have a choice but to press submit to post this, nor did I choose the manner of which I could say the words. I am a mere switch, and run command.

    Though these answers are brief, they are accurate to some degree I assure you. The same applies to all rational philosophy. Sometimes you have to base answers on predictions, such as with eggs, I know an animal may hatch but if it's a new egg we've never experienced, I can't prove that. Yet I will side with my guess.
  • Pink Ball exercise; Art.
    It could be any colour, you could put a pokeball there.

    The pink may be something artistically great, but other than that it's pointless.

    I don't understand your connotation, I will look into that thread.
  • A Law is a Law is a Law
    We don't need laws or police, we need mercenaries who pay to accept legal contracts!
  • Is my red innately your red
    Reason rhymes,
    Luck loses.
    Risky business.
    Are the stars really there?
  • Is my red innately your red
    Not necessarily, but probably, unless my inner-feelings, mementos and dimension differs from yours. If so and I differ, the red I see may be your green.

    I would however suggest that the colours you see aren't different but are in different order.

    The blue I see reminds me of waves and birds; if you were to describe your blue using mementos, how would you?
  • Transhumanism with Guest Speaker David Pearce
    David has a very brave and beneficent opinion, we're not dinosaurs anymore.

    Species is predictable, having so much focus on having a harmonious animal kingdom where animals continuously evolve is pointless.

    Focus on human-kind for a great, beneficent relapse.

    Though David thinks the answer is Transhumanism, and I don't, I still agree his premises are correct, and if people agree with it then it's entirely a possible cure for suffering in the world. I would opt for virtual reality and less restricting laws to enhance experience.
  • The mind as a physical field?


    Exactly.

    Good point though, I learned from it.
  • The mind as a physical field?
    A field with a brain core, I agree.

    Evident in sight, a sense, mind-body phenomenon, which shows us mental abstractions of universe information. That coloured, textourous matter and energy isn't the same for an animal with a lesser eye than a human.

    Mind makes an abstraction for the body using eyes, so naturally, the mind alone is a field with a brain core.

    P.S. I thought I'd mention the core brain before you float away or pop!
  • Can existence be validated without sensory
    Yes.

    Experience is a cycle and the universe is a cycle.

    Together we create an expansion effect.

    A sense-retard is still a prevailing cycle and can build in mind the model of the other cycle that prevails externally or blindly follow the time-lapse nature of retarded-consciousness.
  • Transhumanism with Guest Speaker David Pearce
    I see purpose in Transhumanism, but preferably, not in this dimension.

    I think the process of augmentation would result in harm and people would neglect their augments. In a more virtual reality, the process may be more perfect.

    The technical nature in creating technology is not beyond us, but I think our surgical skills are lacking and inconsistent.

    A petty version of Transhumanism may work, exo-augmentation.

    Further, what's wrong with the original, biological human; isn't Transhumanism better suited for a virtual world?
  • Economic Ideology
    Actually Banno, that's a misjudgement of what this thread entails (though I did not expand on Economic Ideology originally, my apologies).

    The discussion is, is ~something core- like an economy- necessary for paradise, otherwise life feels temporary. The term 'overly parasitical' which links to your response, also sounds a lot like this core-less paradise where we have anything we want (given to us I presume) without us actually going to get it. It also voids mature aspects such as business, power and producing which are paradisical to some.
  • What is philosophy? My argument is that philosophy is strange...


    Everything is or is not strange to a degree, such as with a square; our measurements are never accurate, using a system other than metric, yada yada, thus a square's dimensions are strange.

    Then again, a square does have four sides and a face and this is something logical we can define.

    The metric system is logical, and defines a square's strange dimensions, it is unaccountable where truth is regarded; so we lie haphazardly, and have accepted a lesser definition.

    However the term lesser here does not insult but rather designates our perspective; we can apply a lesser definition to strangeness, but when trying to answer the greater question, we find the answer only in vision, and when trying to translate what we see, ironically- it is strange.
  • What is philosophy? My argument is that philosophy is strange...
    War comes at the moments you least expect it; in calling it by name, at the moment war comes to you (by surprise) you are distracted, for knowing the moment of surprise. Further, knowing a surprise ruins the surprised emotion, simplified, knowing war by name ruins your reaction to an unknown tactic.

    A fight wherein two men compete knowing it is war shows us that war is a state, and not a scene as in a boxing ring, where fighters compete in the more definite ending phase of war.

    Thus, war is strange, in the beginning but defined in the following ending. A double-edged strangeness.
  • What is philosophy? My argument is that philosophy is strange...
    Interesting take on life, philosophy of the matter, do or don't and doo doo.
  • What is philosophy? My argument is that philosophy is strange...


    Many thanks. I like Metal, but at the moment I'm listening to OST's of Animes (mostly Chinese singers attempting English).

    Freud is very strange but also very consistent; which may be evidence we can use to answer what exactly strangeness is or should be interpreted as.
  • What is philosophy? My argument is that philosophy is strange...


    I have an interest in art too, funnily enough I draw, I write, I compose. If I had to depict what I'm trying to explain it would be a man or woman thinking, but the focal point (i.e. the thinking mind) would be difficult to focus on.

    Perhaps, an abstract art that blurred the fact he/she was thinking and drew our attention away from that matter at hand.

    Further, on art, I recommend putting a pink ball in the middle of a bland but colourful painting, and then searching for meaning. You'll find the pink ball is quite interesting, it stands out and all meaning seems to revolve around it. I think it's a good exercise for finding philosophies of art.
  • What is philosophy? My argument is that philosophy is strange...

    Well-put Josh's, I improved.


    You could say it is negative, when conducting philosophy I do not use all of that strangeness and by no means am I saying it could be defined. What is the philosophy of art? Henceforth I approach something strange and by approach I mean nothing like handle but more accept a fraction of what this strangeness feels like.

    (Joshs put it better than I did).