Recent content by Selvalros

No country is invulnerable and to believe so is to give into hubris. All the greatest empires have fallen to the test of time, England is no different as a nation, just give it a few hundred years.

This is a tough question that is really hard to answer. I would say that I started to discover myself when I discovered philosophy and then finally realized who I was when I found stoicism.

This would be an interesting case to sit in on. On one hand, he is in possession of images of children performing sexual activities while on the other hand these pictures are simply drawings. The point of the ban on child pornography is to protect children, yet no children were harmed. This...

Nope, I don't believe that my past and present actions are being weighed by a pair of galactic metaphysical scales. The reason I don't believe this is because, if one were to take the time to open their eyes, bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people all the time...

Can you provide links to any of these events? Robots were still pretty basic last time I checked and I am fairly certain that there are no implants for the brain since we largely have no idea how the brain works.

Ya... I can see that taking a while. My only suggestion is to keep an open mind. I find that a lot of people tend to look for overly elaborate explanations for their existence when, in reality, it is often quite simple. Attempting to look at life from the perspective of something such as a...

I pretty much agree with you. If you don't seek to gain experience, knowledge, and a sense of understanding of the world than there is little purpose in being in it. Sure, one can say that they live for their children or their spouse but when they realize just how fleeting the physical is than...

I see what you are getting at but I don't understand why you believe that we must have a purpose in order to exist. Maybe our purpose is simply to exist and to experience, even if the world we exist in and the experiences we have aren't *real*. But then again, if you really want to analyze this...

Proof enough if no one else exists.

I think most people feel weird about discussions like this up until they accept the fact that they will never know. While most of us seek to gain knowledge and understanding about the world we live in we must also accept the fact that there will always be some questions that simply can not be...

Ya, physical proof is pretty useless. The only thing that you can ever truly know is that you yourself exist. That is it. Everything can be manipulated except for your own capability to produce a single thought. If you can produce one thought than you exist.

The physical is easily manipulated if you have the right tools.

Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum. Responding to guy above me: Only the first half of the Meditations are worth looking at. Descartes just starts to cover his own ass after the evil genius theory because he is worried about the Catholic church going after him like they did to pretty much...

The problem of the abundance of evil and unfairness in the world is one that has plagued religion for a pretty long time. There is not really good explanation for it, but then again most religious explanations cause me to caulk an eyebrow anyway. The only good explanations I have ever seen...

I would only start getting replacements if I had to. If I lost my arm or something to an angry bear then I would be more than willing to get a mechanical one to replace it. However, I would not get "upgrades" simply for the sake of doing so since I can imagine that too much could possibly go...