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If two people hate each other are they really friends considering friendship is the sharing of the same interest(s)? Except friendship doesn't even always require the sharing of interests. The foundations of friendship range from either a) sharing interests b) personal affinity c) affectionate bond...

If the family has found a good husband for their daughter, she should be grateful to her family for taking care of her interests. The ingratitude of women is often astonishing: It is not a surprise that these women are ungrateful to their husbands. Before that, they were already ungrateful to their...

An Omniscient God simply means knowing before something is known to have happened. Omniscience isn't universally defined in such a way (was my point). How is Omniscience defined then? As far as I am concered if a God doesn't know the consequences of each and every single action then they are not in...

You cannot have both in a system. LOL Okay. So, which one is it, to you? Your body is subjected to the laws of nature. Your mind is free. Your mind can however affect your body when there are options for movement of your body. In your opinion, does nature not exert any influence over the mind at all?

My biggest issue with these AI related philosophical problems is that none really are able to properly explain what the motivation of an AI would be. Why would it even destroy us in the first place? Why would an AI even care if it existed or not?

Nothing can be said to be known as true without the contrast of opposites. Is the donut true because it has a hole, or is the hole true because it has a donut? That is the question. Also regarding this idea: "Reality does not take place inside of a brain." I often wonder what the world ac...

I do, I take evil to mean very harmful. Though, it's not obvious to whom. If it isn't apparent who evil harms, then it is at most relative. If evil is relative, then this means that what is evil to some is good to others. In which case, evil is not an absolute concept. Case in point: Slavery is evi...

Mind is irreducible since it makes free decision. Anything which is irreducible is immortal. Mind, therefore, is immortal. It is not certain that the mind makes free decisions. When you are in the present and look towards the future, it does appear to be so. However, when you look into the past it ...

All arguments, stemming from the point of the observer, necessitate an inherent ad hoministic nature. Each argument is a projection of the observer thus to negate the argument is to negate the perspective of the individual through whom the argument is formulated. This is the reason why many take an...

I'm not American, and don't like Trump. But still, if the guy wins reelection he'll do it because people vote for him. Is it even legitimate to say that 60+ million people are wrong, just because you're in the other camp that doesn't vote for Trump? Again, I'm not defending him. If I were American ...

not only will Trump win reelection, and the senate remain Republican, (watch the judges) but the house will flip to Republican as well as an increase in the number of Republican governors... utopia is screaming for her slaves If that's the case, then we're all GOING DOWN... and the mindless people ...

Philosophers are crazy, but is not something that cannot be cured. The root of the crazy is absolute honesty. It was not so long ago that philosophers were running for their lives from dogmatic psychopaths, and before that the Romans would literally excommunicate them from the city. And before that...

You are completely clueless ...because?!?! Read book of Revelation and see all the vials of wrath that his angels pour out on the world and the trumpets that devastate us! The counterargument to this is usually along the lines of "God throws hardships in our way as a test of character". T...

I don't know how it is for you guys in other countries, but in mine I can't even go for a jog without being afraid of getting a big fine. The government gave a Millitary Ordinance that says you are allowed physical exercise "close to home" but failed to specify what close to home actually ...

You are veering off point. I did not claim 'human' is merely a part of the brain. What is human is the whole physical body in interaction with its "external" environment. What is contended here is; What features at our present state differentiate human beings from non-human being? The cri...