'The world doesn't actually need saving.
That is quite interesting. Do people generally think of themselves as good in a general way? Like you, I would have to give that thought before answering.
I would be too worried about my lack of parenting skills to consider it now - but there is something attractive about passing on a little bit of myself to the next generation. (That ubiquitous...
I am still making up my mind about my morality system. Even questioning whether there can be good at all, due to our inherent and inescapable selfishness. For practical purposes, I consider...
1. Be glad you don't have complete knowledge, as this gives you the opportunity to discover. Don't you find discovery to be the best thing about knowledge anyway? 2. I so have this issue with a...
Sweet, another INTP (even if they are an aussie (j/k)). Especially if they quote Bertrand Russell.....
Not INFP, but can I add my 2 cents? Everything we do, we do for our own reasons. Unselfishness is impossible. I only do what I want to do. If I didn't want to do it, I wouldn't.
Trolling or not, you are a weird dude.....
Aaaaaaaagh!:sad: Even having the freakiest jaws ever doesn't help when it comes to beaches....
I enjoyed them. Individuality is good. The actions of self-interest are inherently more efficient than those of altruism.
You can't trust anyone absolutely. Everyone has their price. But trust is the only thing that makes society possible.
I'll add another vote for Trainspottting. Also the first Matrix movie. Also the LOTR trilogy. Also Casablanca, oddly. Probably because the first time I saw it all those old quotes suddenly made...
I'm reading Catch-22. Again.
If I had to be a non-human, I think I would like to be a Sperm Whale. Nothing messes with a Sperm Whale. Plus they are intelligent. And eat giant squid.
It's 3pm and I should be working. I'm doing anything but. I think my boss is getting suspicious.
Favorite = Science. Any science. Least favorite = Languages. I studied German, and hated it.
A creepy premise for a story could be a mirror that slowly becomes less faithful in the accuracy of its reflections, and starts showing the world in a subliminally more evil and twisted way.
The faith of most religions would seem to be a lot less supportable than the epistemological version of faith you speak of here. Most religious faith cannot rely on consistency of experience, or...
I'm envious of the depth of your emotional experience. I can't say I've ever been in love. I've had someone in love with me, however. Reading their love letters and not feeling an emotional...
I grew up in a fundamental christian household which believed in the literal truth of the bible. I too believed, at least until I began to realise there were problems in fitting the biblical...
It seems I am a Jedi Master.....
I think I'm on about the same schedule as you. 24 and about to start a CS degree. So - I hope you're not old......
This is totally what I would do. I would like to see great minds of the past at work. I would also like to watch the ancient chinese, indian and arab scholars do their stuff. Oh and the greek...
If time travel to the past was possible,would you take the opportunity? To what time would you travel? Assume the many-worlds theory is true, meaning each time-traveler arrives in a past...
Although he would be an INTJ, probably Horatio Hornblower. A flawed, self-doubting genius.
I'm not INFP but I will post this anyway. One of the reasons I enjoy historical fiction is that everyone in the stories has died, perhaps long ago, and have mostly been forgotten. For some reason...
How dreary to have the duty to sustain one's own life when its continued duration threatens more evil than it promises satisfaction., in Kants own words.
Procrastination....... On my last assessment, I completed the last 50% (including learning some of the material) on the morning of the day it was due. But I get good grades and my teachers seem to...
It's your own life. Do what you want with it.
That observing feeling is so familiar. When it hits I start to marvel at the enjoyment people get out of seemingly trivial things, and the way everyone is living their life, so bound up in the...
I would change nothing. We will always find dissatisfaction with our circumstances. If things were perfect we would be bored.
Definitely one of my favorite webcomics. That and Dinosaur Comics.
Did you ever see the movie Pi? Very eerie. And primes are fascinating too. The way a pattern seems be just out of reach behind the numbers.
I'm taking calculus. Not because I enjoy it, but because the theory is useful for other things - physics and CS. I suppose part of the beauty of maths is that it underlies every other science.......
I tend to keep a list of topics mentally stashed to consider when I have some quality thinking time, which is not really that often. Most of my time is taken up with study and work. Anything from...
You must have some pretty interesting family discussions/arguments. Or do you all agree on stuff?
Good point. Surely a monotheist must assume that his one god has everything planned out i.e. with the coming rapture. So anything that happens is in some inscrutable way leading directly to that...
If the Romans had maintained a single coherent empire, would the christian religion have taken off so strongly? The fall of the roman empire always strikes me as a melancholic thing - the...
Tlatoani, in another thread you mentioned evolution being some sort of guide to ethics/morality. How do you see this? Just plain might makes right/survival of the fittest? Or indirectly through...
Yeah, I think that if the world 'ends' it will be a 'black swan' event, and we are very unlikely to hit on the right cause now. I also like the last question - what would the world be like today...
So I'm the cutter. Interesting. I agree with the solipsist bit anyway.
So we are all actually just 3-dimensional (or whatever) representations of our real 2-dimensional selves that exist on the surface/event horizon of our universe? How does causation work in that...
We humans are a morbid lot, aren't we! You would almost think some of us want the world to end.
Perfect example. That's probably my most used idea when arguing with my religious friends. Just because something in the universe seems marvelous and complex, doesn't mean we won't eventually be...
Is consciousness really so complex? Perhaps it is simpler and more prevalent phenomenon than we suspect. More like a spectrum of awareness levels than simply a yes/no attribute.
Perhaps it is just a by-product of this decision-making mechanism, with no inherent purpose?
This definitely resonates with me. I keep fighting it but I seem to slip back unconsciously into it, even when I know its futility.
I agree. I like this quote from Bertrand Russell; It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion. Nobody feels any passion about the multiplication table or about...
A real definition for existence and consciousness? A nice easy job for a Monday morning.'
