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It's one of those bias's we're unaware of, like why is that brand my favourite? A flash of genuine understanding, in the fog of life, is always worth striving for bc you will never be disapointed; believe me, it's far more satisfying than the best <insert drug> high and it lasts a lifetime. Like who thinks?
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No to the idea that there's objective truth (whatever definition) to be told or taught, for life to make sense we have to self contextualise, then our story can flow. There is no correct perspective, not even your's.
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That's a good reason, thanks for the info...
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If it ain't broke, why fix it? The only way it affects me is, two Sundays a year I'll wake up, either a bit earlier or a bit later than I expected...😉
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Do you imagine you're any less trainable? It won't be a dead end, but it will never lead to the 'ultimate' truth... 😉 Indeed, that was my point... Any notion that we're somehow special/spiritual is purely subjective, if you want to believe otherwise, then good luck my friend, but: I've always thought that that quote should end with the word, 'honestly', just to remind the pseudoscientist's...
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TBH I thought it was you that brought up the number's related objective, but OK let's bin that; what's left is objective purpose (unless you have your own definition), which, when we drill down to the fundamentals, is to continue living; but that's not a universal given for all people or creature's, some of them get the urge to shag themselves to death, they wake up one day and their purpose has changed they now fundamentally, want to die and some people chose now to end their life. Like I said, "whatever way I parse this, the answer is no."
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Employer's only really care that their employees aren't sad enough to pull a sickie...
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But what's left is a spiritual aspect, and there's as much evidence for that as there is for a god. My ant analogy was meant to illustrate that a simple (binary) response can give the illusion of intelligence (thinking), without a conscious mind that control's their action's. Even if we do come to understand our own consciousness, which we don't, that wouldn't be evidence of any other entity's qualification. How do you know they're not lying, or suffering from a bias they're unaware of? Just acknowledging that bias exists doesn't mean you're not free of them, it's like the oft heard excuse from someone accused of racism "I can't be a racist because my best friend is black". That's like saying, "when I'm tall enough to see out of this window, I'll be able to see the whole world." No, it basically means the potential for the right neuron to receive the message; in wiring term's, a big enough charge to bridge the gap.
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We're either talking past each other or you're being obtuse. I seek no objective in life, I'm happy to just sit here and think about thing's, what number would you give that? Either I'm to stupid to understand or you haven't explained it well enough, it's bad form to refuse a request for clarification. Ok, please show me the mathematics of how you would model the reality of fun? You do know that we haven't got a TOE, nor the prospect of getting one, don't you? Irony, I suspect, is just as difficult to pin down for a mathematician. 😉
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Employers care, they want more natural light during working hours, all that free vitamin D makes less sad worker's... The night shift, on their own... 🤞
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And you're not making any sense... It has to me... What is it I'm projecting? Whichever way I parse this, the answer is no...
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That's just diving down a rabbit hole, that we don't need to explore; for instance, an ant can do some very clever thing's in real estate but it's no architect, it never thinks (as we understand it) it just processes very simple data according to a relatively simple algorithm. Trees communicate, but they never think about why... 😉
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Essentially, the fall of Rome is the same as every other epoch, IOW "This too shall pass"...
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That doesn't mean its objectively measurable by anyone else. Like I said you're confusing the word, and yourself, in the context of the question asked.
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What if Biden get re-elected, but drop dead, who will replace him?
dimreepr replied to PeterBushMan's topic in Politics
Who, in their right mind, cares? Trump is definately 'East of Eden'... -
Well, you could have put that a lot more concisely, 🙄 but what I took from it was, you're confused about what objective means in this context. For instance, there is no objective measure of my subjective experience, which brings us full circle, bc that is the nature of our existence. 😉
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Do you feel a lot better by using a bigger screen phone?
dimreepr replied to kenny1999's topic in The Lounge
Depends on what's on it. Some stories are easier to parse in person...