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There's healthy ego and there's taking it too far.

Learning that the struggle to understand your inner moral code is the same, no matter your religious views, is part of growing up, IMO.
As such,...

It's a crap ideology, designed to tell people who believe in God that they would be lost, immoral heathens if they give up their faith.

Any view of history reveals that religions are vehicles of...

IDK. By definition, a language is not limited in the scope of what can be discussed using the language by the language itself.

There are less robust forms of verbal communication, such as pidgin...

I'm pretty sure we're on the same page.

I'm not saying science will never be able to deal with morality.

I'm saying that scientific method can be applied to literally everything. Once you know...

I'd put out that observation and our internal explanations tell us what is, but they're terribly unreliable when used in isolation.
The scientific process guides us to ignore our own sense of "what...

Science doesn't tell us what is or how to be.

At its best, the results of science tell us, given what is, this is what will be (the predictive output of science).

The problem with "what is" is...

Do they work? As evidenced by what?
What specific morals from what specific stories have worked?
What do you mean by asserting they "work?"

What does the 2nd sentence mean? Possibly... (, but...

You can certainly apply scientific method to study anything.

Scienctific method, simplified:
observe, hypothesize, experiment, analyze, evaluate
repeat

Being able to formulate scientifically...

Are they so clear that you'd expect widespread consensus agreement from all people?
Or is tyranny of the majority enough?
Is tyranny of the majority moral?
If so, by what argument? (Recall:...

I may have talked myself in a circle in that post with all the IDK's in it.

On one hand, our actual daily activities are monumentally different than the vast majority of humans who lived before...

Wuf, meet Savy. He hates everything.

:p

Science is a tool to help us avoid being tricked into believing something foolish, even when the person trying to convince us of the foolish is our past self.
As such, science deals in phenomena...

Agreed.

I'd argue that whatever is applicable today is only applicable through interpretation. I.e. the actual facts in the story aren't a moral guide. Rather, the way we interpret and react to...

Genetically modern human remains have been found and dated to over 490,000 years old.
So, not 'about the same'... just 'the same,' as I understand it. This is not my field of expertise, obviously....

I agree in broad context, but not this wording.

A) That's not what science does.
B) While those technically count as cultural and moral guides, I wouldn't call them up-to-date sources.
It's...

The most common argument in favor of free will is "It feels like I have it."
However, it's shown that the feeling of making a decision comes after the making of the decision.

So the feeling is...

It was interesting the way he immediately answered "both" when asked if this appointment was something that bothered him or was of benefit to him. (paraphrasing)

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Not sure if derailing:
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Way more than a billion. The sun will still be burning in a billion years. It'll have expanded to larger than the size of Earth's orbit, as it will be in its red giant phase, but it'll still be...

If the machine running the simulation uses discrete mathematics, there will be unavoidable artifacts as waves propagate through the discrete lattice.
These artifacts are not observed. I.e. there...