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Thanks guys. I seem to recall reading years ago that there's a theory that everything pops in and out of existence from something called the quantum vacuum. Perhaps the universe is the same as a particle except on the macroscopic scale: One universe popping into existence among countless others in a...

I was watching a Brian Cox documentary earlier and he was talking about the universe expanding from the tiny big bang point. Fair enough, red shift and background radiation and all that. I always wonder "what the hell is the universe expanding into??" Whenever I ask this question I get the...

Hi Chaz, Your ingenius deconstruction of my arguements had led me to some interesting conclusions. A moral theory is impossible because moral reality is infinately complex and contextual and to try to tie morality up in a box and label it absolute moral truth is possessive and arrogant. An immoral a...

Bill, I sincerely hope you have been watching too much Battlestar galactica. Fraking toasters.

Hello Chaz, That is not what people generally mean by absolute. You are just re-iterating that they are subjective. Let me have an example of an absolute moral standard and we can talk it over. Well then I am forced to agree with you by agreeing with the majority view of what a moral absolute is. Fr...

Hi bill,
The video has been removed. What was it about?

Chris.

Hi Chaz, I like you you know, you make me think and you don't just agree if what i say doesn't make sense to you. Yes more or less. With the additional points that anything does not go and there are genuine moral standards. But that's another topic. Er.... is it? Where do these genuine standards com...

Hi everyone. I'm bugging out of this Idealism/realism thing anyway. The waters are way too murky for me. Just quicky though on the thoughts create reality thing, I thought I did clarify after my initial post: Sorry, I have not been clear about what i mean specifically. I want to look at the weak ver...

Hi nameless,
Regarding your post, i have to agree with you. Karl Popper not withstanding.
I don't think what you said was a theory of everything.

Chris.

Hi Chaz, I meant specifically;"How much do our prejudices, judgements and evalutions of what is "beautiful" and "ugly" affect our sense of the Aesthetic?". Aesthetics is a human concept - what else could it be? Yes you're right good point. You are making the same argume...

Hi Chaz, There have to be ethical systems of some sort so that we can reasonably expect to be treated and other treated by us with minimum standards of behaviour. For example that which is spoken by a person ought to be the truth as a matter of course. People ought not to be able to dodge this presc...

Hi again Chaz, It's a bit like asking to what degree is our nose responsible for what we smell. Really? You honestly don't see the distinction between thought and direct perception? Come to think of it thats interesting. I suppose it follows that thought contamination of perception is a spectrum or ...

Hi Chaz, That is one of the useful distinctions between Morality (objective) and Ethics (sensitive to the subject). Ther was a good article about this 2 or 3 issues back. That is a really useful distinction, thanks Chaz. That is indeed the problem and I agree that morality implies a pseudo-objective...

Hello everyone, I currently define myself as a Non theist Quaker and I regularly attend Quaker meetings which are essentially an hour of silent meditation/contemplation/prayer. During Sunday's meeting I had an interesting experience which relates to the subject of Aesthetics. I started off feeling r...

Hi Chaz, No - I mean practically. At least Kant's CI, and Bentham's Utilitarianism gives you are direction and food for thought when trying to define appropriate modes of behaviour. So you have said what you cannot do. But you have not really said what you ought to do, or with what sort of criteria ...