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Creative, this is Bushidobillyclub. I am sorry to hear your working environment is such a negative place. I think I currently work in a similar environment, however take out that supervisor, and take his persona and add it to the owners. Honestly it does not sound like you are going to have...

It seems to me wholly absurd to posit a non-material interacting with a material. The very nature of interaction defines materials. What would or ever could define a non-material that could also interact with a material and yet not be material for said interaction? Its all a confused play on...

Re: What if God defies Logic, Reasoning & the Laws of Univer It all goes to the root of what is knowledge. A disagreement makes the difference between theism, deism, and atheism. Without a way to acquire knowledge of God, religion and even belief become meaningless. Theists must allow for...

I would start from a perspective of neutrality, I would not immediately give away that I am an atheist. I would make clear I have a follow up question first. "In what way do you find truth in your faith, Is it a feeling, or is there more?" Then once he confirms in a circular fashion as all...

Then you should be able to demonstrate. Make a specific claim, I have seen no such claim.

So lets say an artist appeals to one group, then over time his taste changes for whatever reason (after all it is HIS art, and other people either dig it or not) well perhaps another group of people will enjoy it, and his old group will call him a sell out becuase the new group is larger and...

So lets use this example again. What if the true balance is achieved by not helping, but not only not helping but actually working to keep this person from ever getting food, perhaps the natural order of things is that this person who cannot help themselves would balance if they themselves...

I would say from an objective stand point the difficulty is in defining "natural".

The label existence is just a means of categorization. However we must seperate the ontic (what is) from the epistemic (what we know) So if we label all of the components of our universe that are needed for our universe to be our universe, each part plays its role and without that part our...

When I am confronted with idiocy I make a few basic statements. -What can you do with your knowledge of these metaphysical things? (If they make claims then we can test them, otherwise its all talk) -What can be done with the knowledge science discovers for us? Place both on a scale and watch...

Excellent, this mirrors my experience nearly to a T.

Yes I agree, speculation just the same, but god cannot be modeled mathematically where as various shaped branes can be, so I would say they are not comparable in that sense. Neither may be true of reality, but at least we can model one . . . and perhaps one day potentially falsify it based on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_%28philosophy_of_mind%29This one works. The entire idea is bass ackwards in my opinion. Its easy to see with hindsight how forming a theory of mind while still unsure of the workings of human anatomy no less cognition is doomed to failure.

Exactly. If someone can come up with a positive definition for existence that does not deal in interactions or reference relationships of structure, id be surprised.

I personally am a materialist. From a material perspective the definition of existence is that which interacts.

Based solely on the details of behavior I am an ambivert apparently. However I think that has more to do with settings. Currently I live among a huge population of devout Christians, a few Hindu's and Muslims, the population of agnostics and atheists are tiny. I really enjoy relating with...

At light speed all events happen without time. ie all at once. If light could know you, it would know what you do tomorrow.

Reading Dan Dennets "consciousness explained" really helps understand the processes of cognition related to intuition and how multiple drafts of experience can be overwritten and updated with no trace of earlier versions. Very interesting and brings into doubt quite a lot of personal...

I have been known to become "possessed" and I rather enjoy scaring the pants off of people who lamely believe in crap like this. The entertainment value is worth the effort in most cases.

Man that horoscope fits me too perfectly to not be mine. I think they made a mistake its not yours ITS MINE!