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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School January 20th 2019 in the forum Sunday School 15 hours, 50 minutes ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

For many millions of people life means being born to suffer. They live on the edge of starvation and famine and often know nothing other than civil war and conflict.

Add to that the supreme irony of being born at all on the planet Earth, the only place we know of anywhere in the cosmos with any life on it at all.
Unseen replied to the topic Why must disney hire a gay actor for the first major gay role? in the forum Humanism 1 day, 5 hours ago

Davis wrote:

Should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man”

LOL. I can only imagine once Earth makes contact with aliens, the outrage they will feel when humans use “animation and special effects or humans in costumes” as opposed to actual alien actors. I would imagine the alien “…

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Unseen replied to the topic Why must disney hire a gay actor for the first major gay role? in the forum Humanism 1 day, 15 hours ago

To be totally consistent and ethically pure, should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man” in the movie Elephant Man?
Unseen replied to the topic Why must disney hire a gay actor for the first major gay role? in the forum Humanism 2 days, 5 hours ago

It’s called “acting” for a reason. Hell, wasn’t Yul Brynner (Hungarian) great as the King of Siam in The King And I? And Espera Oscar de Corti (Italian-American) played A Native American in many a Hollywood “B” Western under the stage name Iron Eyes Cody. What’s wrong with that?

Jon Lovitz says it best:
Unseen replied to the topic I never existed, and neither did you, or the entire cosmos, for that matter in the forum Small Talk 4 days, 5 hours ago

Noel wrote:

About 3 Billion more years more or less. Should we be worried?
Unseen replied to the topic Is logic a subset of math or vice versa? in the forum Science 5 days, 1 hour ago

Hey, guys, this started out as a nonreligious discussion about how to relate math and logic. ROFLOL
Unseen replied to the topic I never existed, and neither did you, or the entire cosmos, for that matter in the forum Small Talk 5 days, 5 hours ago

_Robert_ wrote:

will there be a band playing like on the Titanic.

The last few humans will be a tattered looking lot for sure….I feel sorry for them already 😉

Humans will be long gone before the universe vanishes.
Unseen replied to the topic I never existed, and neither did you, or the entire cosmos, for that matter in the forum Small Talk 6 days, 10 hours ago

I’m comforted concerning my death that not only am I going to go “the way of all flesh,” but the way of everything, it turns out. I not only won’t be getting a worse deal than some other person but I won’t be getting a better deal than the entire universe itself.
Unseen replied to the topic Is logic a subset of math or vice versa? in the forum Science 6 days, 11 hours ago

Simon Paynton wrote:

God would not have to have a “real” existence in the sense that we ourselves understand “real”
Unseen replied to the topic Is logic a subset of math or vice versa? in the forum Science 6 days, 14 hours ago

Simon Paynton wrote:

Yes, but the physical world has physical logic, and I think the basic laws of logic are an abstraction of that physical logic.

But the physical world embraces the subatomic, which isn’t logical at all by everyday standards.
Unseen replied to the topic I never existed, and neither did you, or the entire cosmos, for that matter in the forum Small Talk 6 days, 14 hours ago

PopeBeanie wrote:

It’s all semantics.

Which ultimately will be irrelevant, because it will have never existed as well.
Unseen replied to the topic Is logic a subset of math or vice versa? in the forum Science 1 week, 1 day ago

Simon Paynton wrote:

I think that logic is grounded in the physical world

No, it’s grounded in the need of the human mind for things to make sense, and to think in a manner resulting in reliable and repeatable conclusions.
Unseen started the topic Is logic a subset of math or vice versa? in the forum Science 1 week, 4 days ago

To me, it’s obvious: Math is a subset of logic. You can take the math out of logic and informal/verbal fallacies remain, but you can’t take the logic out of math or you are left with nothing at all.
Unseen replied to the topic Atheists are angry and bitter because they have divorced from God in the forum Atheism 1 week, 6 days ago

Simon Paynton wrote:

If God exists, then He just wants you to be a good person.

Wrong. Since Christianity is built on a medieval model involving kings, lords, and serfs, clearly God just wants you to be a good and obedient serf who inflates his God’s ego through neverending praise. Otherwise, you go to Hell and spend eternity in agony.
Unseen replied to the topic Atheists are angry and bitter because they have divorced from God in the forum Atheism 2 weeks, 2 days ago

I’m no existentialist, but here’s an existentialist view: “That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.” — Sartre

What does he mean? He means that (in the context of his philosophy) man is condemned to freedom by the absence or nonexistence of God. This makes humans 100% responsible for their a…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic I never existed, and neither did you, or the entire cosmos, for that matter in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Noel wrote:

I’ve always felt that we were insignificant in the whole scheme of things.

But there is no “whole scheme of things” that can overcome the fact that, in a sense, it will have never existed.
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School December 30th 2018 in the forum Sunday School 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Sect. 43 of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations says that: “For a large class of cases–though not for all–in which we employ the word ‘meaning,’ it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

What is the meaning of “meaning”? How do we use the word? What is the meaning of “belief”? How do we use the word?…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic MGTOW in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks, 6 days ago

My cat makes my life more enjoyable than almost any human ever did. I’m sure many men (and women!) can say much the same about their dog or cat
Unseen started the topic I never existed, and neither did you, or the entire cosmos, for that matter in the forum Small Talk 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Due to cosmic inflation, in 5 billion years, it’s estimated, the universe will come to an end, and when that happens, time will come to an end as will any evidence I, you, or that any “thing” (as we think of things) ever existed. The acts and accomplishments of the world’s Einsteins, Hitlers, Newtons, Ghandis, Stalins, and Shakespeares will…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Cant Think Of A Title in the forum Survivors – A group for everyone 3 weeks, 4 days ago

I find the lullaby from Thomas Pynchon’s V. (the period is part of the title) to be helpful:

Dream tonight of peacock tails,
Diamond fields and spouter whales.
Ills are many, blessings few,
But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Let the vampire’s creaking wing
Hide the stars while banshees sing;
Let the ghouls gorge all night long;
Dreams will…[Read more]
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