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I have never been able to get on board with his Debbie Downer*1 "wanh, wanh, wah" Pessimism and Roseanne Rosannadana "it's always something" — Gnomon Grow up mate. Schopenhauer is for Big School , not kindy. — Wayfarer OK. I'll leave the grown-up philosophy to those who are able to gnaw on tough gri...

This is extremely uncharitable... This is dismissive, trivializing, mocking, etc. all with admittedly not reading much of his ideas . This is a transparent smear campaign! — schopenhauer1 I wasn't talking about ↪schopenhauer1, but about a dismal worldview that is not amenable to my own . From comme...

Was Schopenhauer right? The only reason I am hesitant to say, in a very light manner, that I don't agree with him because of his denial of the will to live. ___ Shawn I still think the opening few sentences of WWR are among the immortal utterances of philosophy: “The world is my idea”. — Wayfarer I...

Oh no, that's not it. I'm just saying that it cannot do what it doesn't do. This is the law of non-contradiction: it states that c ontradictory propositions cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time. Hence it cannot simply be omniscient when it interacts with the universe. The only way...

Everything is truly predetermined. The future is what it will be. There is simply no room for choice , chance or randomness. The negative self-reference refutes this possibility. — ssu Some self-reference is necessary to have a self-concept. So I guess you're saying that Laplace's demon is omniscie...

He (Laplaca) doesn't need a math Demon or God. Because there is no selection done. — ssu I'm afraid you're getting way over my head, since I know nothing about Laplace, except for a couple of famous quotes. I assume you're referring to Laplacian Scores (I Googled "Laplace Selection"), but I won't b...

We’re the only ‘tiny fraction of the cosmos’ who know what that means . It’s amusing in the extreme that objective science, which is a cognitive mode only available to h. Sapiens, then declares its authors insignificant in the ‘grand scheme’ - a grand scheme that is their own mental creation! (I ha...

Buddhism, for one example, has had this creed of " no origin " for a few millennia now. — javra Buddhism actually has a rather strange and not very well known creation story . — Wayfarer I'm no expert on Buddhist beliefs, but a quick Google indicates that there is no single dogma on the topic of Ev...

When you read that, I don't see any reference to any open ended question rather than perhaps the difficulty of knowing "all forces that set nature in motion" and obviously "all positions of all items of which nature is composed". — ssu Your quote is exactly the "open-ended question" I referred to. ...

I'm not a deist, but I don't see that the position that something created the universe any more or any less problematic than to say that the universe was uncaused . The deist needn't posit anything to do with intent or purpose either. He need only say the universe was caused by some cause. As to wh...