Hi everyone, I'm pleased to report that thanks to Ken Batts we've now posted a full length video presentation on naturalism given to the Freethought ...
Happiness depends on the interaction between one's world and one's worldview, the latter being much more influential than the former. In other words one's...
Hey ken, thanks for your reply, I hope you will be willing to explore this issue with me for I believe it is more complex than it may appear. What do you see...
... It seems to me that the idea of befriending man-made machines doesn't have solid implications for anyone alive today, at least for the moment, there are no...
Capital idea, Ken! Your friend, Steve ... It seems to me that the idea of befriending man-made machines doesn't have solid implications for anyone alive today,...
I agree about what I should do right now and am currently pursuing multiple angles to gain interaction with other people. I always make sure I have at least...
... wrote: <I think one of the things I really don't like about religion is that it tricks us into thinking we already have immortality. Ironically I probably ...
... Here's my candidate for a greater goal than achieving immortality: to accept mortality as calmly as possible, to not let the fact that I'm going to die...
In a message dated 09/06/2007 17:50:56 GMT Standard Time, ken@... writes: Still, there's no denying that getting along is hard, I'm still working on ...
Tom, This is fine stuff. Especially the link to 'Death Nothingness and Subjectivity'; which seems to me to be a very timely up-date/restatement of Epicurus....
Hey tom, Thanks heaps for putting me onto your essay. I found it quite interesting. Unfortunately though it hasn’t really given me much in the way of piece...
... James: You don't need to let go of purpose or meaning, just "ultimate" purpose and meaning, an incoherent concept I'm guessing was a big part of your...
... James: You don't need to let go of purpose or meaning, just "ultimate" purpose and meaning, an incoherent concept I'm guessing was a big part of your...
... Matt: Since our individual pursuits of pleasure will inevitably conflict, we need a system which deals with those conflicts, that system is called...
... Matt: Since our individual pursuits of pleasure will inevitably conflict, we need a system which deals with those conflicts, that system is called...
"I don't believe in the freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's saying, that a human can very well do what he wants, but can not will what he wants, accompanies me...
... Matt: If you did that you'd miss out on the highest pleasure of all, being a decent, moral person. Read Epicurus, that bane of the "great" desert religions...
... Not sure what you're getting at; are you looking for a system which will work regardless of the morality of the participants? I doubt you'll find one. The...
Christopher Hitchens made an interesting comment in "God is Not Great", he referred to the current "great" monotheisms as "desert religions". It got me to...
It's interesting that all the information in the popular media about Einstein suggests that he was quite a religious man and that by implication believed in...
Matt, Look inside yourself and ask if you could love someone you deceive and act against. If you find the answer is no then ask yourself if there is a greater...
Hey ken, I did have a religious upbringing but not the Christian one you have in mind. My mum was and is part of an obscure Japanese religion and as I gained ...
I have written to Scott Adams and he has not returned my messages. Steve ... about ... implication ... remember it ... fairly ... his ... work but ... ...
It is indeed unfortunate that more people didn't and don't understand what Einstein understood... well, not everyone is an Einstein. Steve ... that a human can...
... Life certainly comes with no point, you have to make one up. The one I recommend is enjoyment (while following moral guidelines, of course). My theory: if...
"death is inevitable for all and not all are depressed" From my experience those who hold that death is not inevitable or at least not as it seems tend to be...
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