Recent content by Eh

Can you use the argument that without the invention of fire, none of the other great technologies would have been possible? There would be no future without fire in the first place. If not, I don't know how to make the case, at least not in the developed world. Electricity seems to be the...

How am I using it in a different manner?

Are there 'things' humans can't not know? Yes, it's called sense data.

It's just a concept you get when people think irrationally and about non-existence at the same time. It probably started when people first started wondering what it's like to be dead. IOW, what is it like to experience non experience? It's nonsense, but an unavoidable mistake the brain seems to...

It does? I think you might want to rethink that one.

Any kind of eternal life would end up as perpetual bordem. Just remember how easy it is to hate a certain delicious food if you eat too much of it.

Belief in God is metaphysics. Belief in the existence of an outside world is metaphysics. The list goes on. Are you asking if posters here hold any metaphysical beliefs at all?

Let's discuss science instead of magic. What you call "matter" is mostly empty space anyway. Why is a contracting universe so absurd to you?

What exactly was the many minds interpretation about, anyway?

It just looks an awful lot like the usual religious post and run topics we're all familiar with. Maybe I'm just more pessimistic than others.

Does it matter? It was a valid question, and I'm not sure what the aim of posting that was.

Who the hell cares?

Light from galaxies would be blue shifted in a contracting universe, I believe.

But the negative isn't being used in that proper context you posted. Here we have the reification of nothing. As per the example you provided (What's happening" and I tell them, "Nothing), its clear that words have a proper use in this language. Nothingness is a reification of the negative here...

Anyone else remember the good old days when Network Solutions had a virtual monopoly on domain names?