Soul is just an illusion created by having a brain that is 2% of our total body weight.
2% being far larger in proportion than any other animal, hence our great mental capabilities.
If you still think there is such a thing you may want to recall where it's been the last 14 billion years.



Don't forget art, philosophy, & pseudo-science that people often mistake as science!



Atoms can be in two places at the same time, care to explain that? Most people are unacquainted with those scientific findings & thus avg person will find it hard to comprehend. However we have a long history of worshipping things including the sun so it's not surprising people are still perceiving in this archaic way vs evidence based research.

This post was edited by lodd222 on Feb 4 2016 01:08am

Oh? Someone who can't even spell 'typical' correctly is trying to tell me what I know and don't know. Okay. To add onto that you have no clue in the slightest what my background is. I fucking hate this site.

rage moar n44p

What kind of pseudo-science is that idea from

Before I ever studied any philosophy, back when i was like 14 I had independently come up with both hedonism and utilitarianism, which I'm actually kind of proud of.

Just struggling over trying to figure out the meaning of life for hours every day for months led me first to understanding the primacy of consciousness (i.e. consciousness is all that really has any significance), and then to hedonism, which I more simplistically thought of as "happiness is the only thing that matters" (this was before I understood the seriousness of suffering). Then I reasoned from there that all conscious minds deserved moral weight and basically developed a rough sketch nearly identical to what I eventually learned was created by someone else a couple hundred years ago as utilitarianism.

When I discovered that utilitarianism was already a thing I was fucking shocked.

I don't think I ever did anything as cool since then.

And unsurprisingly, today I'm a hedonistic utilitarian; makes sense because I came to the same conclusion purely through reason without any exposure to the ideas or even knowing ethics was a discipline at all, so it's not a surprise I believe that ethics is a purely rational discipline with hedonistic utilitarianism being the objectively correct solution.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Feb 4 2016 03:20am

When I was 13, I invented weightlifting.

This is the real way to reform the moral individual.
I congratulate the perfect choice for their existence.
Only through moral reform is that we will have true peace.

Let the rage flow through you young one. Embrace the dark side.



Suffering allows lives that are tragic and noble.

The struggle alone is enough to fill a man's heart.

This post was edited by Skinned on Feb 4 2016 06:41am

Merely because of biology. Suffering is not a requirement for any good feelings.

Good feels and happiness are two different things altogether.

What are we talking about, rubbing glands or having a good life?