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I feel like destiny only exists as a word because of our afterthoughts on certain events. If you think about how the word might have come around, perhaps it was just a way to say "it was bound to happen". Then it was turned around to say "it IS bound to happen". I do wonder if it is connected...

I'm not really making an argument, I'm just saying that the mindset of a hoarder has some similarities with someone who employs inductive reasoning. Both are psychological points which are taken from a relaxed position. If we only employed inductive reasoning, or the view point of a hoarder, we...

Haha, yeah that's interesting. It would be nice to revisit your past but in a way that's removed from that time's temporal moment. Kinda of like the pensive in Harry Potter. Yes, and true, movement requires money. I felt this a lot when I was in Japan. In Japan, the cost for the train...

That's mumbo jumbo armchair thinking AK.

Hume argued that causes and effects could simply be a habitual reoccurence that we observe. Hume uses an explanation of using the sunrise and sunfall as an explanation of the things that happen around us. We know from the telescopes now about the orbits of the planets and the effect mass has on...

I mean I guess it's about perspective. I don't see 25 as being a third of your life that's over, but the actual beginning of adulthood itself. Up to age 30 you're a child. You learn what society is like the next 30 years. Then you start to learn what life is from the next 30 after that. I could...

School isn't about worth, it's more about learning the basics to participate in society economically. Real learning comes from experience, and school provides you with the literal bare minimum for that. With that being said, without school the only experience you'll be creating is...

Perhaps if you want to know that, you'd go and explore the etymology of the word will and how that word was first used. The context and for what purpose.

You are focusing on the 1s and 0s and missing the meaning. When I used knowledge in the first part I mean understanding from the first person, as in the singular or particular man. When I used knowledge again, I said 'shared knowledge' which is what kids come into contact with as they know more...

I don't really have much thought on it, but I just think it's an interesting schema that uses the 5 question words to frame worldview. It reminds me of Kierkegaard's 3 stages of life: https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/kierkegaard/idea-aesthetic/ The aesthetic, ethical and religious stages.

Says who, you? Where are you coming up with this dogma?

Ah, AK, I can really feel you searching for God in this post. God will not let you down because you have faith within what you have. It's honestly inspiring. I hope that you'll do the best you can with what you have.

Hmm I would say this is a Buddhist conception. You can simply frame no obstacles as no obstacles to your own will. So as you well know, it's something that borders on soliplism. But the case with you AK is that you don't exercise and engage with nature. Too much computer "zenning" is going to...

Okay, so this is you speaking to you.

Begging the definition is usually what decontructionists do to sealion their way out of debating. This is why Derrida fell out of fashion the moment he passed away. Knowledge begins a pool of shared knowledge. If infants were decontructionists, we'd probably solved metaphysics because they...

This is matter on matter though, not matter on mind (or vice versa).

That's a decontructionist method which doesn't further our understanding. This means this definition is not knowledge.

Free will doesn't work outside the framework of Christianity. If you are a naturalist, there is no empirical way to define will, which is a word from a religious context. If you mean will by authority, then it simply means power, and in naturalist terms this means darwinian survival. If you...

There are many things in reality where things are taken as is without having scientific proof or evidence. The structure of language for example, how can you prove whether what I am saying and the meaning that's being conveyed is true? It's possible that some of the wording may be misread or...

Seeing my nieces, catching up with friends, seeing my parents happy, and connecting well on a date.

I've talked about my own personal past on this forum, I've been in 4 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 3 high schools, (even 2 diferent universities) so I understand where you are coming from. The thing about moving a lot when you are young is that it messes up your identity development...

Didn't you say you moved around a bit when you were young? I feel like that's the reason why, not that you were on a fault of your own making.

So we if we combined it, we're literally in the middle, so average. I thought mommy told me I was special, life is a lie

It's an hour long. The debate is on another platform that's linked in the bio of the video.

I haven't finished watching the video and I'm pretty sure none of you guys have either. #thisisinternet2023

I think it just tracks IP, meaning that it just has the address of the location of the servers that your ISP uses. Thus we have the flags of nations. I'm currently logged in from Japan, but when I go back to Korea, I have the Korean flag on.

A mobius strip? There's also the division of segments ad. infinitum. Tautological statements could be conceptual infinities. I think the first statement in the OP is literally a tautology. It says, how to visualize infinities other than other examples of infinities? How is there an infinity...

I watched a couple documentaries on this and apparently China has won the solar energy market, beating out Germany. I'm guessing there's a reluctance for countries to buy Chinese solar, so there's hesitation towards that renewable.

It's interesting. I think if someone made a good video about it it'd be more impactful. There's a huge MBTI craze is South Korea so this has some potential to turn into money :D

I've been taught that dreams happen beacuse of stress, and usually nightmares happen because you slept in a very hot enviornment. So dreams seem to be more tied in with how you sleep and how much stress you have, not that they have predictive qualities.

Yeah, I mean those are very profound questions. Certain realities, certain modes of life must be taken because of some constrants, but at the level of statistical understanding, these are the anomoly, not a certain diversity. What I mean by this is that, we can be poetic and be welcoming of...

Right. I think certain feminists have decried motherhood for way too long. There's not much intellectual backing for motherhood, but if you really think about it, mothers are the backbone of society. They are the biggest economic spenders, choosing what to consume for the families, and younger...

Since my words probably won't be persuasive, I'll share a video that really was profoundly impactful to me. Woops wrong video, I meant this one:

Right. But I think it's important to set our priorities straight, because if we rightly claim that our kids are of paramount importance, we then have to look into things that make their living enviornment better. If we focus on that, we will focus on whether the economy is working, or whether...

I just plainly disagree. Joy in life is contingent on society's perception of what joy is. If we were the first humans, or at least the first human that crossed over the threshhold of humanhood, whatever joy here is purely of creating a bonding with your child. Humans have sacrificed much...

Yeah. I think the taste is unique and the liquid content makes it refreshing each time you consume it. It's also relatively easy to eat and there isn't a mess with peels, like with bananas or watermelons or something.

Well, I mean if we were to be a devil advocate about the whole thing, maybe 'life' wasn't that great to begin with. What the young view as exciting or great is only because the senior generations are trying to sell them something, whether that be via entertainment or leisure. They inadvertently...

Hmm, I think pomegranate.

^ is that like a more nerdy version of reddit?

I just had a thought about AI. AI usually presents an aggregated form of information, and usually this information is within the past, or something that has developed so as to show up as metadata to inform the AI. My thought is this: the driver of new ideas is not due to metadata, but something...

:) Neither do you!

You humor me Old Things. If your measure of one's faith is positions on issues of morality, you've not understood what faith is. Faith exists beyond the bounds of rules of the world. In time you will regret having asked that question, but I won't take offense from it. What I worry is that you...

I would argue that Hume was a deist, not an atheist to the level of Marx. Marx was resolutely anti-theist. Hume raised a lot of philosophical questions that advanced philosophy, and particuarly advanced English empiricism and England's apporach to rationality during that era. As the saying goes...

I ultimately do not know where morality is ultimately based on, but I see how morality can stem from human sentiment (not public opinion), and that we turn that sentiment into logic with argumentation. You are misunderstanding the idea behind this moral theory. Here I'll give an example: though...

I think just from societal perceptions. If you had to choose between a fetus and a infant who was born, in a situation where you could only choose only one to live, I would think the one choosing would pick the living infant. Same with nearly all other humans who are born. Perhaps one would...

Seems like a simple google query puts that to rest: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-joe-biden-support-late-term-abortion-until-birth-like-donald-trump-claimed-1536686 No I get your position, it's just you haven't demonstrated any sense of why a fetus should have the same value as human...

In terms of what? Linguistically, something is the opposite of nothing. In terms of matter, anything can be the opposite of nothing. In terms of emotions, happiness could be the opposite of nothing. In Buddhism, disorder could be the opposite of nothing.

Biden is for third trimester abortion? Where in the heck did you read something like this. Uh, you've made 'no claims' but it's clear that you see women having abortions as people who have 'no problems' with it as they make their choice. It's it's the tone of your voice, don't be sly. That lack...