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Philosophy & Science / Re: Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary?
« on: July 21, 2019, 11:00:04 am »
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Rather, science studies predictable physical phenomena.
So this guy's argument is because people can't predict unpredictable/noisy/chaotic/computationally-untractable systems that means that somehow science is flawed? Is he familiar with the stockmarket, weather forecasting, biology etc.?
Sounds like a false dichotomy to me.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: The taboo against meaning?
« on: July 14, 2019, 05:40:34 pm »
I see what you mean, but on the other hand we do live in an age where people are profiling the contents of single cells, and so far there's still no sign of the Soul, so to speak.

Can't there be a God without souls?

Also, I thought you were a theist?
I don't like putting myself in boxes, I just identify a lot with the Tleilaxu POV.
But yes, there could be a God without souls, or meaning, if you ask me.

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The physicalism of today accepts four fundamental interactions: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. It does not accept mental force. The ultimate, counter-intuitive and thus mostly unwanted implication of this is epiphenomenalism: that mentality is completely useless, like the steam from a locomotive engine.[9]
I mean, according to 'physicalism' wouldn't 'mental' force just be an instance of the other four forces? And how does he arrive at that spectacular conclusion, i.e. that 'mentality is useless', citing only some paper from 1874?

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Philosophy & Science / Re: The taboo against meaning?
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:18:31 pm »
In brief, since evolutionary scientists haven't been able to explain/prove everything about how life came to be what it is today, it's false or at the very least doesn't disprove there is a god/God. I agree with TL to some extent, but I don't think the author is going as far as Creationists and simply stating something apparently true which is the matter is not yet settled.

Yes, in my view, if the show does not go on after death, I consider that loss/lost. There are a few here who claim relief if we prove there is nothing - I'm the opposite, though I will say I would certainly accept oblivion over eternal torment is what's in store for me  :)

Ah gotcha...I see the Creationist and Reductionist arguments as inverted versions of each other. Creationists look for possibility of God in the gaps and Reductionists try to squeeze out the same possibility.

As for death being a loss...maybe. But the author of the piece is a Transcendental Idealist, so you'd be arguably entering into Oblivion any way... ;D
I see what you mean, but on the other hand we do live in an age where people are profiling the contents of single cells, and so far there's still no sign of the Soul, so to speak.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: The taboo against meaning?
« on: July 13, 2019, 08:35:58 pm »
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Today, the vast majority of scientists extrapolate the little we know of molecular biology and assume that life is merely a mechanical process at a molecular level. In other words, we are just machines,
This is literally the same reasoning as creationists saying that "you can't explain how the eye evolved, therefore the bible is true."

Wait, what is like the creationist argument? The idea we are just machines or the critique of the idea we are just machines?

In brief, since evolutionary scientists haven't been able to explain/prove everything about how life came to be what it is today, it's false or at the very least doesn't disprove there is a god/God. I agree with TL to some extent, but I don't think the author is going as far as Creationists and simply stating something apparently true which is the matter is not yet settled.
Yes, the argument lies in framing the knowledge-base as being unreliable (e.g. "extrapolate the little we know of molecular biology") to cast doubt about some narrative, using specific examples or by simply wording the sentence in a certain way.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: The taboo against meaning?
« on: July 13, 2019, 05:08:54 pm »
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Today, the vast majority of scientists extrapolate the little we know of molecular biology and assume that life is merely a mechanical process at a molecular level. In other words, we are just machines,
This is literally the same reasoning as creationists saying that "you can't explain how the eye evolved, therefore the bible is true."

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General Misc. / Re: Quotes
« on: July 04, 2019, 09:31:01 pm »
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“The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.”

― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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The hand dispensing salvific murder is absolved of responsibility for it is the expression of a common will, the sacrosanct will of the Just.
- Ad Arma! Ad Arma!

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General Misc. / Re: Board Games and Miniatures
« on: July 04, 2019, 07:15:55 am »
I sometimes browse the games workshop website while taking breaks from other stuff and I noticed they've got some new Slaanesh models. The Keeper of Secrets looks marvellous https://www.games-workshop.com/en-DK/Keeper-of-Secrets-2019

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Enzymes lower this barrier by stabilizing an intermediate, or “transition,” state that allows the reaction (such as the movement of a hydrogen atom within a molecule) to take place.
As if taken from a textbook! Made me happy to see. Had no idea about the tunneling thingies though, but it doesn't sound super convincing, but as was also written, thinking about them is worth it in itself.

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Haha, it's hard to say what exactly it is they want, but the whole album is about the instauration of a new world order that seems to end up destroying humanity. No salvation here! Just like in TSA...
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You cannot even find the ruins
of the jewels of yesterday
they’re ashes gone
memories wiped clean

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Deathspell Omega - Renegade Ashes

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Our holy duty is not to govern the City, nor the fight to gain power: it is the attainment of perfection on earth, the instauration of an Order so perfect as to last a thousand years and then forevermore.
Therefore, anyone turning their backs on this blessed mission renounce their right to life.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: The mindfulness conspiracy
« on: June 15, 2019, 08:14:32 am »
I think the key assumption here is that a person trying to be mindful, or practicing mindfulness, is incapable of both critical thinking and active engagement. Which... is ridiculous.
If it's ridiculous then how do you explain them practicing mindfulness in the first place? A person capable of critical thinking would not do that.

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I dont even know if its possible, but since PC I'm sure there's mods if nothing else, but would turning down the difficulty ruin the experience of playing the games? I got about 2 or 3 bosses into DS3 and basically decided I didn't have the time to invest in it all. Seems cool though!
Yes it would. Overcoming obstacles through practice and learning the mechanics is a significant part of the game. If you genuinely can't beat them in Dark Souls 3 you can always summon a spirit to help you, at the risk of being invaded by dark spirits in return.

Also, stoked for this game.

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Philosophy & Science / Re: The Worth of an Angry God
« on: June 08, 2019, 01:42:11 am »
What about Buddhism tho. I mean it's moralizing but there's no angry god.

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Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia
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This world contains neither meaning nor justice!
That is, the world of yore is unintelligible, unless God conceived History as the History of the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. Therefore, the here and now shall be torn down and we will bless this world with meaning and justice.

Arranged as they have been in all eternity, Man and the natural order cannot have been made for each other. We shall dissolve Man and mould him into a new shape, as you would mould a malformed limb, into a shape that fits the aforementioned order.

We will act as though the principle of our actions were to become, by our will alone, a universal law of nature. We shall bear a world so perfect that its realization will undo us, we shall name it NEDE. This is the promise of our Providence.

Hearken now : «Everything is degenerate as it leaves the hands of the Author of nature; everything becomes good in the hands of Man».

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