When is a door not a door?
A World of Absolutes?
Is it rational to be close-minded about anything? Take agnosticism for example. Is it not the most rational choice, to say "I have no clue as to how my existence came to be"?
I just feel like I can never be in any kind of argument because I choose to waiver in the middle of two sides. It's like whenever there isn't an absolute answer, I simply cannot choose a side because it may be biased. Even on chans, I see users all the time cling to one belief and spout
>no this is how it is and anything else is wrong wrong wrong
But I think with everything there can be a different point of view and thus there cannot be an absolute to it. Hell, give me enough time and I could probably justify a brutal, non-provoked rape while at the same time condemn it.
Does anyone else have this feeling? Am I just afraid of "picking the wrong side", so to speak?
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I have many thoughts
i need to write some books
Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?
it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.
Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!
Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.54747458
/1/ here
goodchristian was fine
your friendly allies #1 here
if your friend jumped off a cliff would you do it?
well,
WOULD YOU
So I wouldn't mind being fucked in the ass, I actually want to be fucked in the ass and/or suck someones biner.
I'm thinking practical here: I have a body of a 16 year old
I am therefore I think.
God is therefore I am.
Since there must be something before I am there is that which is God.
God is therefore I think.
I think therefore I am.
Is Plato watching me masturbate?
If you're an atheist, why aren't you an agnostic-atheist? Most people who tell me they're an atheist because it's only logical don't understand what they're saying.
Strictly speaking, the concept of a god, an all-knowing being who could do literally anythng, leads me to believe that Christians could technically be right. Any religion with a god could be right.
If God wanted, he could have created the Earth and then placed dinosaur bones to "test our faith". He could have done it, because "Fuck you, I'm God".
So my question becomes this: If you're an atheist, why?
pic kinda-related, I used to be a Mormon.
What are you thinking of right now thought?
"Immortality"
Well I'll give this board a try since I have nothing better to do and my feels are coming along.
What is your opinion on human immortality? Human life extension? Some believe the short life span of human beings makes them strive to innovate as much as possible with what little time they have left. We see this in people like Mathmatician John Nash, Computer Enrepeneur Steve Jobs (I refuse to consider him more than a businessman), Bill Gates (I mention him because he cared about what the masses thought of him and his business, so he got heavy into "philanthropy"), even Andrew Carnegie (did the Gates thing) Steel Titan. Lots of famous people.
The question is, would they have gone the same route if they had more "time"? Part of Jobs' rapid advancement in his re-introduction to Apple was knowing he had pancreatic cancer, so he wanted to do as much as possible (hence the joke, PC killed Steve Jobs quite literally). But what if he didn't have PC? What if he had more time and knew it?
Being a depressed bipolar aspie, I'm rarely motivated by anything anymore. At the age of 18 I find myself unable to find the motivation to do anything except be great, or get lots of attention, sex, and drugs. Thats literally all I want. Hedonistic pursuit.
I argue that hedonism will keep us innovating despite longer life spans, because we will want to keep these life styles going, and to keep our stimulation going. We will find ways to overcome being "numb" to things. I hope one day to become a bionics researcher, or perhaps a SENS researcher, to give myself more time to shitpost and fuck robo-waifu.
this is an "opinion" thread with some logic thrown in there, no need for hard evidence if you don't want to provide it, but at the same time don't be a fucking retard. I'm just looking for opinions with a little bit of logic. Shitpost pls go.
Anyone interested in Buddhism?
Maxvidya is in this board
>I think therefore I are
Should be
>I am this feel
>tfw
You can either live forever, or find out what is in this box. But you only get one chance!
rossia love
What are your thoughts on Stone Cold Steve Austin?
Space Updates
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Nuclear Thermal Rockets
NASA is about to fund renewed research and experimentation into NTRs. Public approval will be hard
With the capability of generating high thrust and 100% more specific impulse than the best chemical rockets, the time and cost-saving potential of nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) for deep-space missions is once again gaining interest at NASA. Although never flown, the NTR concept is relatively simple. The rocket engine is based around a nuclear fission reactor, which heats the liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellant instead of igniting combustible fuel.
The resulting hot gas is pumped into a separate high-pressure chamber, which, through valve 11 communicates with tube shocks. At the other end of the shock tube we find structed diffuser serves to concentrate the energy of the shock wave, and the valve 12, connecting tube with a nozzle rocket.
Duty cycle engine is as follows: pump 5 takes the working fluid from the reservoir and high-pressure pumps it through a reactor, where it evaporates and is heated to about 2500° C — and then injected into the high-pressure chamber. Shock tube at this point is still filled with gas of low pressure left over from the previous cycle. Then the valve 11 to quickly open, compressed gas, bursting into the pipe instantaneously compresses and heats the gas in the tube, causing the appearance in it of a strong shock wave.
A proposed space elevator stretching 12 miles into the stratosphere could cut out the need for rockets to shuttle astronauts into space, according to a proposal from a Canadian company.
It sounds like an idea out of a science fiction novel, but Thoth Technology has been granted a patent for an inflatable, pneumatically pressured tower stretching 12.5 miles high. The top of the so-called space elevator would serve as a liftoff point to space, potentially saving more than 30 percent of the fuel of a conventional rocket, according to the company.
"From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit, returning to the top of the tower for refueling and reflight," Brendan Quine, the inventor of the ThothX Tower, said in a statement.
By removing the need for the vertical launch of a rocket, energy can be saved, allowing space passengers to catch a horizontal flight, much like a passenger plane, from the top of the space elevator.
Aside from being a final stop for astronauts before heading out of this world, Quine wrote in a filing with the United States Patent Office that the tower could help with wind-energy generation, communications, scientific research and tourism.
While it's just an idea for now, the patent moves it one step closer to potentially being another way to revolutionize space travel.
A potential advancement in the United States’ electric propulsion capability for the future of spaceflight is being underscored by a new NASA contract to support work on the VASIMR project – short for the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket.
VASIMR works with plasma, an electrically charged gas that can be heated to extreme temperatures by radio waves and controlled and guided by strong magnetic fields.
Ad Astra Rocket Company announced today that it has completed contract negotiations with NASA on the group’s Next Space Technology Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) award and are now entering the execution phase of the project.
Long duration, high-power test
Under the award, Ad Astra is to conduct a long duration, high-power test of an upgraded version of the VX-200™ VASIMR prototype, the VX-200SS (“SS” for steady state), for a minimum of 100 hours continuously at a power level of 100 Kilowatts.
Testing will be conducted in Ad Astra’s large, state-of-the-art vacuum chamber in the company’s Webster, Texas facility.
The NASA and Ad Astra executed the contract — a three-year, fixed price agreement — on August 7, 2015 for a total value of just over $9 million.
The agreement is structured as a one-year contract with two additional one-year extensions based on the accomplishment of mutually agreed upon progress milestones, Ad Astra added in their press statement.
NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Program sponsors NextSTEP awards in a 50/50 cost partnership with industry.
Former astronaut, Franklin Chang Díaz, serves as Chairman of the Ad Astra Board and Chief Executive Officer – a space traveler with NASA for 25 years and a veteran of seven space shuttle flights.
THINKING
Ah, a /thought/ board! I see there is not much going on here, so I will proceed with a guide on how to think.
How to think?! Thought is free, how can someone impose rules on thought?! Sure you can tell someone to think about Something, but How to think? Blasphemy!
1. There are different types of thinking.
Much like we approach say - a cup of coffee, a mathematics exercise or a casual discussion with our friends - so we must differentiate between different Objects and different Fields.
An Object will be anything we choose to think about, analyse, deconstruct, conceptualize, clarify, explore, paraphrase, relate, reduce, use as a basis for dialectics etc.
A Field will be a collection of Objects, which for our or general purposes we group together.
Some Fields like - the compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich, or algebraic-geometry, or developmental psychology, or woodwork - lend themselves naturally to a Field, where relations and context forms naturally and deeply; while something like - the alcohol drunk last night, or the names of previous girlfriends, or the chairs in one flats - are most likely random, and are forced groupings and relations, of which the analysis only lends insight into the arranger .
2. The act of thinking is not daydreaming or couch philosophy.
Look at this photo of Jean Sartré, look at any philosophers desk - you will see paper and pen. Have you ever tried writing a coherent series of thoughts down? Do you know how to phrase a sentence? or a paragraph? Do you have a dictionary? What do you read? Have you read philosophy? Are you interested in something?
If you can answer these questions positively and elaborate on them, you are a cultured man. If not, you are not a culture man,, yet. Philosophy, much like jazz improvisation, has a sort of paradoxical association with it - while actual philosophy is quite strenuous and requires effort, the "philosopher" is a guy who writes outlandish gibberish and then sells books ( the jazz artist just plays whatever he feels like). This is nothing like it, sadly it has penetrated the field so much, it is becoming impossible to distinguish proper gibberish from gibberish.
3. How to think.
What are you thinking about? Clarify it.
Are there Objects similar to the actant? Substitute, see if it follows.
Is the questions Field valid for the Object? (f.e. can a chess piece can be used in poker)
No? The question is nonsense, try figuring out how to paraphrase.
What assumptions are you making? Throw them out, tweak them.
Can you clearly phrase your thoughts? If not, then keep clarifying.
Problem or question too difficult? Try simplifying.
Are your ideas tied together? Relate them.
Do you know what Field you are thinking in? Google it, read what others have thought.
Do you keep a track of your thoughts? Only throw out what's wrong.
Do you correct your thoughts? Judge and deliver.
Do you dedicate time to thinking? Spend an hour doing so.
Do you know what assumptions you make in thinking? Try to avoid making extra ones.
Are you critical? If you don't critique, you can't be sure if you are correct.
Are your arguments within the Field? It doesn't work.
Are you getting depressed?
If you are thinking sense, then your thoughts represent a fact in some regards. If you are sad about a fact of life, you are too idealistic. Your ideals must be a goal to reach, not something to cry about. If you are not an idealist, you have no sense to be blue, since you are thinking in facts, they are facts, if you are sad about a fact, you are disillusioned with reality and you should try thinking about how a fact is not something that has direct impact on you and how your happiness is more worthy than the limits of reality.
Good luck!
P.S. Everything written here is wrong; when what is written here is mastered and attended to then one must realize the invalidity of the method and continue how one sees fit.
P.P.S. Wittgenstein
Is spam free speech?
Are there things more important than 'free speech'?
If free speech had the capacity to destroy something that you loved, would you allow its existence?
Checkmate, atheists.
>"Every rule has an exception".
If we assume that to be true, and to be a rule, we must conclude that it, as well, has an exception.
But if every rule has an exception, and this is true, there can be no rule without exception; therefore, it is a rule with no exceptions. Which makes it, coincidentally, the exception of its own rule.
But if it is true that this rule has no exceptions, it betrays itself in that it affirms that every rule has one.
However, it is also truthful in that having no exceptions, it is its own exception.
Therefore this rule has an exception, by not having an exception.
It contains two self-contradicting premises, which are nonetheless both true and complement each other. It nullifies itself while reinforcing itself.
>"Could God make a rock so big he couldn't lift it?"
The answer is yes, he could, for he is omnipotent; and at the same time, no, he could not, for he could always lift the rock; he is omnipotent.
Both statements are self-conflicting, but at the same time, truthful. God could both make and make not the rock; as the rule both has and has not exceptions.
Such is the true meaning of omnipotence, and why the human mind cannot grasp the true form of the Divine. Only in the Pleroma, the infinite realm, can such a reality make itself understandable to our minds.
This exercise in logic is but one of the methods through which we achieve understanding of the Divine Nature. Realistically speaking, there are actually various rules with no exceptions in this reality, as is the understanding of the many sciences through which we analyze it; but in reflecting on these self-completing impossibilities, one may acquire a brief glimpse of what lies beyond the many rules which constrain the material plane; the True Logos, which is both limitless, and its own limit.
You have but glimpsed it. Strive to see it.
India Strategic Uranium Reserve
Department of Atomic Energy is carrying out nuclear energy programme in India.
The Indian Nuclear Power Programme has the following three stages.
The Indian Nuclear Power Programme has the following three stages.
1.First Stage: It is already commercial now, comprised setting up of PHWRs (pressurized heavy water reactors) and associated fuel cycle facilities. PHWRs use natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderator and coolant. The देसीgn, construction, and the operation of these reactors are undertaken by public sector undertaking the NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited). The company operates 16 reactors (2 Boiling Water Reactors and 14 PHWRs) with a total capacity of 3900 MWe.
2.Second Stage: It was envisaged to set FBRs (Fast Breeder Reactors) along with Reprocessing plants and plutonium-based fuel fabrication plants. Plutonium is produced by irradiation of Uranium-238. The Fast Breeder Programme is in the technology demonstration stage. Under this stage, the IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research) has completed देसीgn of a 500 MWe PFBR (prototype fast breeder reactor) being implemented by BHAVINI (Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam).
3.Third Stage: The Indian Nuclear Power Programme is based on the thorium-uranium-233 cycle.Uranium-233 is obtained by irradiation of thorium. Presently this stage is in technology development phase. The ongoing development of 300 MWe AHWR (advanced heavy water reactor) at BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) concerns thorium utilization and its demonstration.
Over the past one year, India has been pursuing its case to buy uranium from different countries including Australia and Canada. It is also procuring uranium from Russia. India renewed a contract with the Central एशियाn country to procure 5000 MT of uranium.
After a record production this year, India is working on creating a 'strategic uranium reserve' to ensure its atomic power reactors do not face shortage of the crucial nuclear fuel.
"The reserve pool could be anywhere between 5000 MT to 15,000 MT which can last for 5-10 years," said a senior government official.
India's first indigenously देसीgned 500-MW fast breeder reactor at Kalpakkam would start nuclear power generation by September.
This project will be completed at any cost now," Mr Fadnavis told PTI.
The Jaitapur project, where the French company Areva is setting up six nuclear reactors with a total power generation capacity of about 10,000 MW, has been stuck for long due to differences over the cost of electricity.
Canada will supply 3,000 MT of uranium over the next five years at a cost of USD 254 million.
"For a developed country to be a partner country of a state is not a small decision… I will return home tomorrow but I can never forget Canada's love," he said.
Prime Minister Harper described Mr Modi's visit as "historic" and said his country wanted to work with India in enhancing trade, investments and working in the security area.
India will sign a contract with Kazakhstan to procure 5,000 metric tonnes of uranium Kazakhstan is one of the major uranium suppliers to India. It has 15 per cent of the world's uranium resources and became the leading uranium-producing country in 2009.
Apart from Kazakhstan, India also has an agreement with Uzbekistan, another Central एशियाn country, to procure uranium.
India's reactors had been running under capacity for all these years due to lack of fuel.
India and Australia had last year signed a landmark civil nuclear deal, clearing the way for Canberra to sell uranium to the energy-starved country for power generation.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on Thursday to locate the first internationally-controlled bank of low-enriched uranium in the ex-Soviet nation to ensure fuel supplies for power stations and prevent nuclear proliferation.
Set to become fully operational in 2017, is intended to provide IAEA member states with confidence in a steady and predictable supply of fuel even if other routes are disrupted.
The storage facility will be located not far from Semipalatinsk where the Soviet Union tested nuclear weapons. By the time of its 1989 closure following growing popular protests, Semipalatinsk had held 30 surface, 88 atmospheric and 340 underground tests.
The mineral-rich Central एशियाn nation of 17.5 million is the world's Iargest uranium producer and holds more than 15 percent of global uranium reserves, second only to Australia. It has no nuclear power stations of its own.
Probably. My friends are all pretty sane and rational people, and it would be unlikely for them to all spontaneously and pointlessly jump off a cliff. Therefore, I conclude that they're jumping off to escape something/someone, and that jumping is easily a better option than staying on the cliff to face whatever the fuck it is.
Sayings to ponder
From Sayings Usual & Unusual of the Wordsworth Reference Series (2007)
He will never have a good thing cheap that is afraid to ask the price
Better alone unattached than unsuitably matched
He that laughs when he is alone will make sport in company
The unexpected always happens
He that asks faintly begs a denial
If you wish to know a man, give him authority
It takes two blows to make a battle
He who begins many things, finishes but few
/goodchristian/ is down, destroyed by the end times
Posting /goodchristian/ oc and memes
Here, you can talk about religion and philosophy.
Topics include religion, philosophy and thought.
To clarify
this board is for ALL religions (including made up ones>) as well as ALL philosophies (no matter how weird looking) and ALL thought (no matter how lack of matter it contains)
If you can't find what you're looking for, make it
the moon
the moon makes me do it
asd
why do we fart master wayne?
ded bord
The Buddist book of the dead and my Discordinaist view on it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkbd8v8gkQWatch the documentary first ideally..
my Discordianist take on it…
1)Just in case ask china for permission to reincarnate.. its really mostly for teachers… but well might as well inundate them with forms :p
2) the first stage is basically just a bright light so bring sun glasses or a welding mask if your that sensitive…
3) the peaceful deities you should confront with aggression and ill intent snarl at them and chase after them with a base ball bat…
4) the vengeful deities you should confront with love and affection possibly bordering on the pornographic…
5) when they are all confused as fuck steal their accordion and run of cackling like the madman you are.
6) when you meet Yama wait until he has tallied up your sins and good deeds then before he has a chance to do anything grab the biggest pile and challenge him to a game of go!
(it helps if you've been a dushbag and you grab the white stones as that will limits the moves he can make..)
7) when your watching your potential parents get their freak on look for the ones with the kinkiest most expensive bdsm gear… they will be bitter about you being born to them but if they can afford a sex swing and luxury leather arm-binders penis gags and maybe a some giant over sized dildo then they can probably spend a little money on regular toys for you for x-mas… you might be spending it with your grand parents a lot but who cares right? presents!!!!
also there is a risk the woman might be on the pill.. so if your unlucky you might have to go through all that again… Yama might not fall for the GO trick again.. try to challenge him to Othello this time…
If that fails try 4 in a row.. or possibly checkers.. be creative…
You might also be able to distract him with accordion music who knows :p
What do people think about the philosophy of judaism? Is it legalistic or is it best suited for another age?
Should we just kill all the jews?
The Importance of Europeans having own world view rather than a Semito-centric one...
In case you are not aware of it, the holiday coming up soon is not a Judeo-Christian holiday, it is a European Pagan celebration called Ostara or Eostre. These videos are for Europeans brave enough to at least to consider taking the leap of worshiping our own Gods rather than bowing down to a Communist Jew god like slaves. https://odinia.org/cosmic-ostara-podcast-mini-series/
fat nigger
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/07/so-you-think-you-understand.html
1. The argument does NOT rest on the premise that “Everything has a cause.”
Lots of people – probably most people who have an opinion on the matter – think that the cosmological argument goes like this: Everything has a cause; so the universe has a cause; so God exists. They then have no trouble at all poking holes in it. If everything has a cause, then what caused God? Why assume in the first place that everything has to have a cause? Why assume the cause is God? Etc.
Here’s the funny thing, though. People who attack this argument never tell you where they got it from. They never quote anyone defending it. There’s a reason for that. The reason is that none of the best-known proponents of the cosmological argument in the history of philosophy and theology ever gave this stupid argument. Not Plato, not Aristotle, not al-Ghazali, not Maimonides, not Aquinas, not Duns Scotus, not Leibniz, not Samuel Clarke, not Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, not Mortimer Adler, not William Lane Craig, not Richard Swinburne. And not anyone else either, as far as I know. (Your Pastor Bob doesn’t count. I mean no one among prominent philosophers.) And yet it is constantly presented, not only by popular writers but even by some professional philosophers, as if it were “the” “basic” version of the cosmological argument, and as if every other version were essentially just a variation on it.
Don’t take my word for it. The atheist Robin Le Poidevin, in his book Arguing for Atheism (which my critic Jason Rosenhouse thinks is pretty hot stuff) begins his critique of the cosmological argument by attacking a variation of the silly argument given above – though he admits that “no-one has defended a cosmological argument of precisely this form”! So what’s the point of attacking it? Why not start instead with what some prominent defender of the cosmological argument has actually said?
Lets chat about Evola
Based Julius Evola
What is belief? Is it really belief if you base your belief on no facts at all?
Are facts complementary to beliefs
ISIS and Liberalism
Does Liberalism allow for itself to be destroyed be other ideologies? Is it really all that great? Could ISIS do a better job?