Philosophy Now Forum

The intellectual world and the real world are not mutually independent of each other because one is the map and the other is the terrain Sometimes it is too complex to understand and sometimes it is too much information and sometimes both and sometimes neither of these And while it can be experience...

Dont you think our guessing improves over time ? Scientifically yes / psychologically no Dont you think our miscalculations are less wrong over time ? Scientifically yes / psychologically no Dont you think that our access to reality is less and less restricted over time ? Scientifically yes / psych...

I agree with much of what you have said there . Extinction is the only way guaranteed to end human suffering in all of its various manifestations . Far from being something to be feared death is a release from such suffering and so should not be feared at all . I think death is eternal and that is t...

I am NOT attempting to be understood here in this forum You would have to wait till I write somewhere else and relate it back to what I post here to best understand the ME You may very well not be attempting to be understood here in the forum but that does not mean I should not try to understand yo...

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Good to see you back by the way

I will no longer be posting on the forum as it is not actually necessary for me to do so any more
I will however carry on trying to understand you as best as I can based upon what you post here

I still have to read all of the posts you have just made but accept most of what you have said here
Some of it I do not really understand but shall just have to see if you will provide any clarification

Human beings can choose to do or not do evil because they have the freedom make both moral and immoral choices
This freedom exists whether or not there is a God and so in that respect it makes absolutely no difference either way

Different minds can observe the same thing simultaneously and yet have different subjective opinions with regard to its quality
No two will think exactly the same all of the time and so there is no universal standard for determining what quality actually is

Why do good people do bad things ? Labelling someone a good person just means that they do good things most of the time just not ALL of the time So it does not mean they cannot or do not do bad things as well but just not as often as the good things they do Equally too a bad person can do bad thing...