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If someone suffers phenomenologically, we usually try to corelate that to some physical event. E.g. if my leg hurts, my doctor looks for what could be wrong with it. In that way, there is a practice of corelating phenomenology of the patient with medical treatment in standart medicine. I think...

^never gets called by his full nickname at rl meetings.

A: Feeling happy is the the end to which all other ends are means, so there ultimately is no benefit to anything beneficial other that that it makes you feel happy or leads to something that does. That and urge redemption. Q: If you had a button that, when pushed, would kill all psychos, what...

A: Yes Q: Do you play a style of music you usually do not listen to?

To clarify my notion of "empirical" in my above two postings: What is empirical about a perception or experience are those parts of it, which, if two distinct cognitive systems of similiar type (e.g. human) percieved the same phenomenon, would be the same (not strictly identical, but of the...

There is no thing both empirical and sujective. Empirical is that which is open to be percieved by any similiar cognitive process, subjective is that which pertains to only one, specific such process as it pertains to it. So while one epxerience will have both subjective and empirical elements...

Good point, before the beginning of the world is another beyond that is beyond enough to hold a god who is empirically inconsequential. While it may be argued that it is consequential how our universe came about, I would hold it is only important how it turned out to be, or rather, that this...

The statement is mostly polemic and seems to strongly imply a christianistic idea of god, that is a morally good god. You can then follow the Argument From Evil to the seeming conclusion presented above. On the other hand one could also suppose that whatever god there is, it at the very least...

I means what is intended in it!

People do all that too, do they not? Choices in general depend much more on circumstance and subtle emotional states then on rational thought.

I like Mermaids. I'd like to meet one one day. I always wondered...

Now, to also state my religious stance. I personally do not believe in any god, nor any world above or beyond ours. I think that most god-ideas people carry around can be shown to be either internally inconsistent or inconsistent with the world. There are a few exceptions to this, though...

I think I just kinda stumbled upon them in metal magazines and by being friends with some people who were very much into DT at the time. Took me some weeks of repeated exposure and since then I've been an avid fan.

That was a very good movie. Definitly a pleasent surprise!

First off: Rahvin: I see your point about pronography and it bears thinking about it. Morals are a notoriously vague and difficult terrain, but I do believe that there is very little (espc. about the first couple of commandments and the sacrificial technique prescribed in the end) accordance...