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"Wrong" and "harm" are evaluations done by creatures capable of abstract thinking. Well, there's also the existence of pain and suffering. No creature wants to suffer and be in pain. It's possible that most life forms feel pain. Presumably, if a creature is in pain and suffering...

Assuming that colonizing space is both necessary for survival (and therefore has some temporal expedience) and is also realistically possible for human beings, could a successful program to colonize space be carried out entirely by an "anarchist" commune? And if there were no "anarchi...

I'm not sure how to understand your question. The premise is that there are no human creatures on Earth, but some of them are Christian philosophers? :shock: No, let me try again. Is evil strictly a human issue? Imagine, say, the Amazon jungle at a period when there were no humans. Is there ‘evil’ ...

I was originally diagnosed as "schizophrenic" before my diagnosis was downgraded to "bipolar with psychotic features". But mental health isn't a concrete science, strictly speaking. It's just guesswork and inference. So who knows.

Some in the field of neuroscience believe that schizophrenia is a process of the brain pruning neural connections (a normal process for us) that gets out of control and turns into dysfunction.

If it were the case that language is a process of pruning for our species, then woe be the one who is to be pruned.

My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing. But then we must ask ourselves what does "nothing" feel like. Have either of us ever felt "nothing"? And if so, what did it "feel" like? Nothing can ever meet or touch nothing...

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like? If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like? My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing. But then we must ask ourselves what does "nothing" feel like. Have eith...

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:25 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:21 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:19 am

You believe in fantasy?

Apparently.

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like?

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:19 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:06 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:23 am Do you believe in Gary’s world?

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

You believe in fantasy?

Apparently.

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:23 am Do you believe in Gary’s world?

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

Another lonely, pointless day in God's world. Maybe if I were an atheist, I wouldn't be miserable?

Questions can be your master, your retreat from thought, and the comfort blanket of enslavement that appeals to socialists. Considering that the right question is half of the right answer, why entertain wrong questions if not to seek the wrong answer? (Asking what the right question is, is not the ...

If humans weren't irrational, we'd be slaves to logic. If humans were slaves to logic, they would also be slaves to the irrational. The keyword is not logic, humans, nor irrational. The keyword is enslavement, i.e., attachment. To be attached to the irrational, or to be attached to logic, is enslav...

What is "true to Christ"? I'm sure you will get lots of answers to that. And is it harmless? That's a good question. There's an apocryphal book, The Gospel of Thomas, that was not included in the Bible, where Jesus kills a couple of people in his childhood years (before he fully matured) ...