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You are really making an arbitrary line there without any definition. Does God need to act as your personal genie all day, every day, for eternity, in order to be worthy of worship? We live in a world where every human dies of old age. What do you mean here? When does a 'human' start, EXACTLY? And,...

I've made at least five posts over about two weeks and none of them whatsoever have shown up on the website. They are all waiting for moderator approval. Is that normal?

You are really making an arbitrary line there without any definition. Does God need to act as your personal genie all day, every day, for eternity, in order to be worthy of worship? We live in a world where every human dies of old age. I'm sure if the world had your utopian concept of a weather syst...

Science and psychology have refuted direct perception, so it's a non-starter. In what way has science refuted direct perception? It seems like the brain can directly perceive electrical signals, so in that sense a brain can directly perceive electrons, and the mind therefore directly perceives elec...

From a video game perspective that includes a bit of computer programming notation it's not too difficult to understand higher numbers of dimensions when you think of a portal system. Suppose there is a video game portal system in which there is a locker for video game items to be stored. The locker...

Do you mean "government" or "the government"? Perhaps a government that actually had the full consent of the governed as a signed written social contract, with provisions of common contracts like a cancellation process, would not result in these problems. How can an organization ...

In understanding the perspective of another person, one temporarily ignores one's own perspective to some extent. That is another way of putting what the Swami in the OP is referring to. If God is both omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipotent (all-powerful) then God has maximum information and maximu...

"Turnabout is fair play" is not a common expression and seems to have two meanings. The first is that if someone uses unfair actions against you, you can use unfair actions against them. The other is "an eye for an eye" revenge so that if they damage you in a certain way you can ...

This actually doesn't in any way solve the problem it simply reframes the problem with a new definition of "unhappy constraints, dissatisfaction and suffering". Under your previous system you were perhaps unhappy with an inability to fly ion the sky with your human body alone, unsatisfied ...

I have little understanding of an atheist perspective of the universe. It seems that even if there were no souls that consciousness is formed from physical matter alone, and the matter that formed your body continues to spawn life after your death. Given infinite time, then, at some point in time th...

It is immoral and unethical to punish someone in any way at all for being obese. It is only moral and ethical to revoke a right when it is abused to harm others. Morbid obesity is a risk of harm to one's self, which is a natural right. Unless the likelihood of an adverse health condition to the chil...

Its interesting that people waited until after death to ridicule Herbert Spencer, that is quite cowardly of them. Herbert Spencer believed that the state is a role model for evil... that the state lies, cheats, steals, and kills liberally and with impunity. That sounds understandable, I don't see th...

All of science is expected to be expressible mathematically. All of mathematics is rooted in axioms. Axioms are "self-evident". "Self-evident" is a deference to intuition outside of logic. Intuition is non-logical form of reasoning. God is sometimes said to be "self-evident&...

Reddit is a heavily censored website, I'm not surprised you were unable to have a chat about philosophy on that specific website. The moderators have strong individual bias and often use that bias to delete posts they disagree with. I see that this is your only post in many months, so suppose you we...

Here are some philosophic questions I'm pondering: 1. Can a computer AI with current (2023) technology have feelings in the same way as a human? 2. What importance of anomalies (all-domain including physical and environmental) is there in terms of impact on our world view? A physics expert may sugge...