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'Awareness Test'
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Objective Morality Misconceptions
Cross-posted from here.
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A lot of people have the misconception that objective morality means that there are bunch of things that are right or wrong, regardless of the situation or context.
They also usually have a misconception about what morality is. Their idea of morality is something like specific rules that if you follow, you are 'good ( Read more... ) -
Fun Quotes
Rebuttal to the citation that atheism is 'just another religion': "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby."
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Incident when Wolfgang Pauli met Paul Ehrenfest at a conference for the first time ( Read more... ) -
Romance Hurts Fangirls, Too
There's a common thing of anime fans (usually fangirls) falling in love with an anime character. It's sort of like when people fan over celebrities, but it's a lot more personal. Anime fans will roleplay with that character, and that character will be in their minds a lot, and so on.
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Problems Are Good
"I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you ( Read more... ) -
Yay4Progress
Proof that:- We're moving away from being a static society - at least when it comes to technology.
- We (the West) are the best friggin' society to date, and we're continue to improve at a very fast rate.
- Final Fantasy is trying to take over the world.
- We're moving away from being a static society - at least when it comes to technology.
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Qualia and Art
Here's a quick definition of 'qualia' for those who don't know what it is: "(singular: quale). Often referred to a “raw feels”, qualia are those subjective, qualitative properties of mental states such as sensations and emotions-the “what it is like” to see red, feel pain, be angry." - Lifted from Google's dictionary function ( Read more... ) -
Morality is objective, I tells you!
http://www.curi.us/archives/show_category/16 (Third post down. Permalink doesn't work.)
"The statement that "morality is relative" is a contradiction, because it says something about the objective nature of morality. The statement "morality is relative for me" similarly fails, because it implies that my morality is also relative, and that everyone ( Read more... ) -
School is a Horrible Anti-Rational Meme
Interesting words of a teacher. I started skimming some bits in the end (parts of part II and III), but here are some good parts ( Read more... )