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    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 14, 2022 at 3:04 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (November 10, 2022 at 6:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Let me plug this series for anyone who hasn't read it yet.  Really fantastic sci-fi: [Image: https:/...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 14, 2022 at 8:51 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 14, 2022 at 5:23 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: (November 10, 2022 at 6:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Let me plug this series for anyone who hasn't read it yet.  Really fantastic sci-fi: [Image: https://ae01....
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 14, 2022 at 8:49 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 10, 2022 at 8:31 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (November 10, 2022 at 6:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Let me plug this series for anyone who hasn't read it yet.  Really fantastic sci-fi: [Image: https://ae0...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 10, 2022 at 11:42 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 10, 2022 at 5:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 9, 2022 at 9:15 pm)bennyboy Wrote: That's making assumptions about free will, determinism, etc., no? Maybe it's inevitable that an...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 10, 2022 at 6:52 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 9, 2022 at 7:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You may have goals, but that would be additional to and separate from whatever was necessary.  It makes little sense (logicaly speaking) to aim g...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 9, 2022 at 9:15 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 8, 2022 at 11:13 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Necessity doesn't imply any goals.  If you step off a buildings ledge you will necessarily fall.  The building isn't looking to kill you, or mak...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 9, 2022 at 8:56 am
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(November 8, 2022 at 6:18 pm)Ahriman Wrote: This is correct, suffering is not necessary at all, no matter how many stupid people will claim suffering is necessary. Yes, but with a caveat. Necessity...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 November 8, 2022 at 10:50 pm
    Thread: Is the Past Real?
Post: RE: Is the Past Real?

(October 16, 2022 at 7:44 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (October 16, 2022 at 4:36 pm)scamper Wrote: Let's get back to the universal question,  "Why are we here?" You don't have to...
bennyboy Philosophy 202 20825 October 18, 2022 at 7:17 pm
    Thread: Is the Past Real?
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Quote:no, it is much better to dismiss what physics says about physics in favor of folksy put downs  because, oh, untutored intuition is so much more reliable and making common cause with anti-intelle...
bennyboy Philosophy 202 20825 October 16, 2022 at 7:42 pm
    Thread: Is the Past Real?
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(October 16, 2022 at 12:10 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Physicists don’t seem to agree the many world interpretation is extravagant.   In fact many seem to regard it as elegantly parsimonious in terms of ...
bennyboy Philosophy 202 20825 October 16, 2022 at 2:26 pm
    Thread: Is the Past Real?
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(October 15, 2022 at 11:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: There is nothing outside actual physical reality. Physical reality? Like what? The solidity of my desk? The color white? The experience of "do...
bennyboy Philosophy 202 20825 October 16, 2022 at 12:55 am
    Thread: does evil exist?
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Or a table.
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 October 13, 2022 at 11:01 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(October 8, 2022 at 12:05 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Good luck with that one. Indeed. Good luck to us all.
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 October 8, 2022 at 1:52 am
    Thread: does evil exist?
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(October 7, 2022 at 12:44 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Ostensibly, because some suffering does not qualify as evil, just as suffering -and- evil do not require miasma going around spreading it out lik...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 October 7, 2022 at 10:36 pm
    Thread: does evil exist?
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Same as asking if God exists. Probably not, but you'll have to provide a definition. Certainly, many things which cause humans to suffer greatly exist. I'd say cancer is pretty fucking evil, or chi...
bennyboy Philosophy 51 3450 October 7, 2022 at 8:29 am
    Thread: Biden Losing It
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(October 5, 2022 at 5:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (October 5, 2022 at 5:35 pm)Helios Wrote: You can on one hand hate blacks and Muslims but still vote for one because they have policies you agre...
bennyboy Politics 287 16533 October 5, 2022 at 6:49 pm
    Thread: Biden Losing It
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(October 5, 2022 at 12:32 pm)Helios Wrote: (October 5, 2022 at 6:21 am)bennyboy Wrote: Seems pretty accurate.Except the part about the Airports ..... :hehe: And this is the guy that 49% of America...
bennyboy Politics 287 16533 October 5, 2022 at 6:46 pm
    Thread: Biden Losing It
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(October 4, 2022 at 10:49 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: (October 4, 2022 at 10:42 am)Helios Wrote: Rambling isn't evidence of dementia...... :dodgy: Did your mom?  :dodgy: “In June of 1775, the Continental...
bennyboy Politics 287 16533 October 5, 2022 at 6:21 am
    Thread: Biden Losing It
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(October 3, 2022 at 11:09 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 3, 2022 at 9:00 am)bennyboy Wrote: If you want to call me a liar about words said in this thread and clarified, then go ahead.  You c...
bennyboy Politics 287 16533 October 4, 2022 at 5:58 am
    Thread: Biden Losing It
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(October 2, 2022 at 1:06 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Nice try, but I saw you palm that card. Boru If you want to call me a liar about words said in this thread and clarified, then go ahead. You ca...
bennyboy Politics 287 16533 October 3, 2022 at 9:00 am