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Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:10 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: The Theory of Everything.
Replies: 3
Views: 1294

Re: The Theory of Everything.

Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, has declared that “Philosophy is dead”... ...“Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” I suggest that they have indeed kept up. The problem is that hardcore materialists, such as Hawking, simply dismiss what t...
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Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:46 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Controlling the conversation
Replies: 8
Views: 2002

Re: Controlling the conversation

There's a sales philosophy that says you must control the conversation to be successful at selling. Based on experience and plenty of testing, I say bull to the disproven idea. Logic says that a true conversation entails freedom of speech, not control and manipulation. You can't force anyone to agr...
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Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:29 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Gaining knowledge for the average person is a waste of time it doesn't benefit them and will probably be edited or dispr
Replies: 20
Views: 4155

Re: Gaining knowledge for the average person is a waste of time it doesn't benefit them and will probably be edited or d

To begin, I'd like to note that I, too, have personally noticed these changes in what was once believed to be indisputable fact, but now are shown as being incorrect, flawed and often being completely overturned and / or rewritten - and I've noticed these, with increasingly frequency throughout the ...