Emerson Green 🪬
@waldenpod
philosophy of religion enjoyer • immaterial mind haver • podcaster / youtube person • intuitor of various necessary truths • friend of the raccoon
TOMORROW: Live debate on the interaction problem! youtube.com/live/-P2k1pGKA…
Wise advice
You should check out Ralph Stefan Weir's book on dualism. There's a pretty good case to be made that non-physical mental properties commit you to mental substance!
Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.
"I also want my balls to be my balls" - @waldenpod Ladies and gentlemen, this is why I listen to Emerson when doing grueling physical labor out in the humid July weather on a Sunday morning.
And unravel my enigmatic aura? Nice try.
Share a piece of lore about yourself
"They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer: and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!" (Nietzsche, translated by Kaufmann)
Literally the second sentence: "the quality of even the best lives is very bad." If turns out the quality of my life is "very bad", unbeknownst to me and contrary to everything I think & feel, then I might as well just be a global skeptic, cause what do I know at that point? 1/
Pray for me, I'm about to start reading this one
Putting my hand on a stove because nothing happens when I die (the universally accepted definition of atheism)
If I believed there was nothing when I died. Why would I care about anything? Morals come from religion. Atheist are mid-wits
The New York Times has just published an op-ed by an Israeli genocide scholar who agrees with all the other genocide scholars and human rights organizations who say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost.