dimreepr

You're missing my original point about Pascal's wager; there's no reason to believe in god or free will, but it's a good excuse to forgive yourself for all of your yesterdays/mistakes and enjoy today and possibly tomorrow too. That's why forgiveness of the self, is key, in understanding what the wager implies...

Maybe

I have no doubt, but can we please just go with the spirit of the question; bc I was just wondering... I guess I deserved that neg, for some reason...

I said "pedantry apart", but OK, I amend my topic title too, who will he fire first???

Oh come on, pedantry apart, you know exactly what I mean...

Given Trump's history I think it's a nailed on certainty that his cabinet will be different by the midterms. My bet would be Musk, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they fall out before the inauguration. Who are the other runner's?

Common sense, the go to narrative of the ill informed and Trump's field of dream's. Trump doesn't care what 'ism type he is, so common sense would suggest, "get the fuck out of Dodge"; you seem to be out of your depth, so grab something that floats...😉

I wonder if they knew that > means greater than?

The problem is, Hitler would have pressed the button, before he shot himself... Putin would be no different (in that he can't lose) if he's backed into a corner, but he can be persuaded to back down, if he can remain a Judo grandmaster...

Did you you miss the post about sabre rattling and how it's a sign of weakness? (I can't remember who posted it) If Putin was confident, he would have used that speech, after his retaliation. Feel free to use your critical thinking, to argue my point...

Most people only have one personality, that they're conscious of... 😉

Probably not, It's like asking how many ball's in an over...

All the major religion's have a philosophy, that if you follow can lead to contentment. They spent a lot of effort to teach other's what that philosophy is, mostly via stories and analogous explanation's. All you've done is, give them the finger for trying to explain a complicated issue, bc you don't want to understand; that's not a very strong philosophy/argument.

i see it this way: external factors > your brain > act/think So i get what you mean, think/mind listening = listen to external factors I would say your mind/brain orders/filters external factors, depending on other external factors That doesn't argue my point, your logic is flawed.

Indeed they do, how else does fascism rise? It's not out of kindness or acceptance or forgiveness. It's like every revolution, when one recognises the threat it's much too late to stop it...

But logically, if you don't have free will your mind and heart is controlled by external factor's, so it's not your mind that you're listening to. I could, but I had a feeling they weren't trying to understand, so what's the point; I'm always happy to explain if there's a genuine attempt to understand.

You should learn how to read between the line's, it might make sense... 😉

This reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Hari Seldon, AI is like his psychohistory in that it only really work's at a big enough scale; revolution's will always happen at a scale that's unseeable, until it's too late to stop.

The Heron or the Frog? 🙂

This is from a recent post, in a different thread but I think applies here. The process is a double edged sword, but you have no choice but to trust it's robust enough to survive...

This is basically Pascal's wager, you may as well believe in free will bc you've got nothing to loose. You have to be responsible for you, you do what you do for a reason that you have agency over, claiming you don't have freedom to act, is an excuse. Even if that choice leads to disaster, for instance, driving to the pub and drinking to much, knowing that imbibing alcohol limit's your ability to make a reasonable decision, freely.

You can't protect yourself from tomorrow by deciding to die today. For those that know they're going to die painfully bc of the diagnosis, would probably choose to die when the pain gets to much to bare, which is, usually, tomorrow. Choosing an arbitrary day to die, when you don't have a diagnosis of impending death is just giving up on life, I can't see how anyone can spin that to be a positive.

The problem is, you're assuming people know when they're not propperly informed; it's human nature to assume one is correct when what one is taught is by a trusted source. It often takes a leap of faith to question a trusted source, ironically. 😉

It was meant as a joke, sry. 🖖 But I do see a fundamental difference between the two: 1984 is an obvious dystopia maintained by power and fear. BNW is far from an obvious dystopia maintained by want and aspirations.

If only we knew which...