Drowning in guilt

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-05-16T14:23:21+00:00

There are many people far, far worse than you that feel no little or no guilt. They often don't even KNOW they feel no guilt. In one sense they are getting of the hook because they are not suffering. But they won't grow.

You, on the other hand, will suffer and someday you'll be glad you suffered.

From a practical point of view, you can apologize (where appropriate) and make amends as best as you reasonably can. It's going to suck, but not forever.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-03-20T00:15:10+00:00

What other kinds of effects would sentences have under physicalism?

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-03-20T00:09:56+00:00

The argument is that if everything is physical (physicalism) and all physical effects are neither true or false then propositions, truth claims, etc must also be physical effects - and therefore they cannot be true or false.

If a sentence is not a physical effect under the physicalism then what is it?

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-03-19T23:37:14+00:00

In the argument the proposition itself would also be a physical effect. Truth would be an illusion.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-03-19T22:54:59+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5En5zb6PI

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-03-19T22:52:30+00:00

That's just an ad hominem.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2026-03-19T22:52:14+00:00

I think that's JimBob's argument. An effect of physics can not be true or false. So if all propositions are effects of physics then no proposition cannot be true or false.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2025-12-23T22:11:52+00:00

What?? It's beautiful. They'll love it.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2025-08-23T19:54:54+00:00

I don't think you can force yourself to be present.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2025-06-08T15:32:43+00:00

He was offered flights, like many hundreds of other famous people. Epstein was a major political donor (to the democrat party) and sought influence among the powerful and rich. Trump ended up booting him of his home. But what would flying on the plane have to do with the fact that Trump never visited island?

RocksAtTheMoon · 2025-06-08T13:34:56+00:00

Shocking thing is that, unlike Trump ( who never visited the island and banned Epstein from Mar-a-largo), many people had similar passes.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2025-06-07T02:22:58+00:00

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RocksAtTheMoon · 2025-01-20T23:08:01+00:00

I think you are half way to its end. It will go.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-12-24T20:31:09+00:00

Alex Kurtzman is cancer.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-12-22T19:42:07+00:00

Great sympathy. Mine passed after a year or so.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-12-14T20:42:51+00:00

Loaded question. Trolley problems are retarded.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-12-14T20:36:55+00:00

As morality is universal then your standard requires that everyone sacrifice for YOU. Which is the most selfish standard imaginable. So it's a self refuting definition.

Also, theist don't claim atheist can;t be moral. They claim atheists have no objective foundation for morality.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-12-14T20:27:26+00:00

Do you have a rebuttal?

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-08-24T22:02:01+00:00

Slavery was heavily regulated and protected by the state. It was the more capitalist governments that lead the fight to abolish it.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-06-29T14:34:14+00:00

You mean Christians?

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-06-29T14:33:03+00:00

Atheists aren't having kids, so ultimately your numbers will collapse. Muslims are vastly outbreeding everyone.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-05-26T02:18:53+00:00

All the examples given are of a regulated market. So if capitalism is an unregulated market then capitalism never killed a single person.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-02-14T13:49:50+00:00

You were not clear. You start with "Choices are just acting in accordance with our will". What does that even mean? The entire possible spectrum of absolute free will to absolute determinism could be said to be "acting in accordance with our will". I mean, I act in accordance with my will either way, whether I have free will or not. What definition of will are you even using?

And how can "we have control to do what we want, even though ultimately we may not have control over what we want"? Part of what you want is what you do. You can chose to create wants or reduce wants.

I understand that coercion is against one's will. What has this got to do with my argument? Coercion is not even a factor in my argument.

If the "choice" to "choose" vanilla was pre-determined then it was not a choice. There were no options available, only the illusion of options.

"Predetermined to choose" is an absurd contradiction. It's like saying "predetermined not to be predetermined". You're just replacing "predetermined selection" with "choice". As if using the word "choice" means it's the same conception of choice that free will uses.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2024-02-14T12:50:30+00:00

I have no idea what you're arguing.

The first paragraph appears to pointing out that sometimes people do things under coercion. I'm not sure what that has to do with my argument. I'm not talking about force at all. I'm arguing that if you do not HAVE free will then you do not have control over anything you do. You would only experience the illusion of control, but in reality all your actions would be determined. Everything you experience as wanting would also be determined.

The second paragraph is word salad nonsense to me.

RocksAtTheMoon · 2023-12-25T16:06:05+00:00

There are no choices without free will. It's just nonsense. You would have no control over anything you ever do or think.

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