'The world doesn't actually need saving.|||That is quite interesting.  Do people generally think of themselves as good in a general way?  Like you, I would have to give that thought before answering.|||I would be too worried about my lack of parenting skills to consider it now - but there is something attractive about passing on a little bit of myself to the next generation.  (That ubiquitous...|||I am still making up my mind about my morality system.  Even questioning whether there can be good at all, due to our inherent and inescapable selfishness.  For practical purposes, I consider...|||1.  Be glad you don't have complete knowledge, as this gives you the opportunity to discover.  Don't you find discovery to be the best thing about knowledge anyway?  2.  I so have this issue with a...|||Sweet, another INTP (even if they are an aussie (j/k)).  Especially if they quote Bertrand Russell.....|||Not INFP, but can I add my 2 cents?  Everything we do, we do for our own reasons.  Unselfishness is impossible.  I only do what I want to do.  If I didn't want to do it, I wouldn't.|||Trolling or not, you are a weird dude.....|||Aaaaaaaagh!:sad:  Even having the freakiest jaws ever doesn't help when it comes to beaches....|||I enjoyed them.  Individuality is good.  The actions of self-interest are inherently more efficient than those of altruism.|||You can't trust anyone absolutely.  Everyone has their price.    But trust is the only thing that makes society possible.|||I'll add another vote for Trainspottting. Also the first Matrix movie. Also the LOTR trilogy. Also Casablanca, oddly.  Probably because the first time I saw it all those old quotes suddenly made...|||I'm reading Catch-22.  Again.|||If I had to be a non-human, I think I would like to be a Sperm Whale.  Nothing messes with a Sperm Whale.  Plus they are intelligent.  And eat giant squid.|||It's 3pm and I should be working.  I'm doing anything but.  I think my boss is getting suspicious.|||Favorite = Science.  Any science. Least favorite = Languages.  I studied German, and hated it.|||A creepy premise for a story could be a mirror that slowly becomes less faithful in the accuracy of its reflections, and starts showing the world in a subliminally more evil and twisted way.|||The faith of most religions would seem to be a lot less supportable than the epistemological version of faith you speak of here.  Most religious faith cannot rely on consistency of experience, or...|||I'm envious of the depth of your emotional experience.  I can't say I've ever been in love. I've had someone in love with me, however.  Reading their love letters and not feeling an emotional...|||I grew up in a fundamental christian household which believed in the literal truth of the bible.  I too believed, at least until I began to realise there were problems in fitting the biblical...|||It seems I am a Jedi Master.....|||I think I'm on about the same schedule as you.  24 and about to start a CS degree.  So - I hope you're not old......|||This is totally what I would do.  I would like to see great minds of the past at work.  I would also like to watch the ancient chinese, indian and arab scholars do their stuff.   Oh and the greek...|||If time travel to the past was possible,would you take the opportunity?  To what time would you travel?  Assume the many-worlds theory is true, meaning each time-traveler arrives in a past...|||Although he would be an INTJ, probably Horatio Hornblower.  A flawed, self-doubting genius.|||I have been told I look like Pete Wentz. http://thespotlightreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/fall_out_boy-pete_wentz-2006.jpg|||I'm not INFP but I will post this anyway.  One of the reasons I enjoy historical fiction is that everyone in the stories has died, perhaps long ago, and have mostly been forgotten.  For some reason...|||How dreary to have the duty to sustain one's own life when its continued duration threatens more evil than it promises satisfaction., in Kants own words.|||Procrastination....... On my last assessment, I completed the last 50% (including learning some of the material) on the morning of the day it was due. But I get good grades and my teachers seem to...|||It's your own life.  Do what you want with it.|||That observing feeling is so familiar.   When it hits I start to marvel at the enjoyment people get out of seemingly trivial things, and the way everyone is living their life, so bound up in the...|||I would change nothing.  We will always find dissatisfaction with our circumstances.  If things were perfect we would be bored.|||Definitely one of my favorite webcomics.  That and Dinosaur Comics.|||Did you ever see the movie Pi?  Very eerie.    And primes are fascinating too.  The way a pattern seems  be just out of reach behind the numbers.|||I'm taking calculus.  Not because I enjoy it, but because the theory is useful for other things - physics and CS.  I suppose part of the beauty of maths is that it underlies every other science.......|||I tend to keep a list of topics mentally stashed to consider when I have some quality thinking time, which is not really that often.  Most of my time is taken up with study and work. Anything from...|||You must have some pretty interesting family discussions/arguments.  Or do you all agree on stuff?|||Good point.  Surely a monotheist must assume that his one god has everything planned out i.e. with the coming rapture.  So anything that happens is in some inscrutable way leading directly to that...|||If the Romans had maintained a single coherent empire, would the christian religion have taken off so strongly?  The fall of the roman empire always strikes me as a melancholic thing - the...|||Tlatoani, in another thread you mentioned evolution being some sort of guide to ethics/morality.  How do you see this?  Just plain might makes right/survival of the fittest?  Or indirectly through...|||Yeah, I think that if the world 'ends' it will be a 'black swan' event, and we are very unlikely to hit on the right cause now.  I also like the last question - what would the world be like today...|||So I'm the cutter.  Interesting.  I agree with the solipsist bit anyway.|||So we are all actually just 3-dimensional (or whatever) representations of our real 2-dimensional selves that exist on the surface/event horizon of our universe?  How does causation work in that...|||We humans are a morbid lot, aren't we!  You would almost think some of us want  the world to end.|||Perfect example.  That's probably my most used idea when arguing with my religious friends.  Just because something in the universe seems marvelous and complex, doesn't mean we won't eventually be...|||Is consciousness really so complex?  Perhaps it is simpler and more prevalent phenomenon than we suspect.  More like a spectrum of awareness levels than simply a yes/no attribute.|||Perhaps it is just a by-product of this decision-making mechanism, with no inherent purpose?|||This definitely resonates with me.  I keep fighting it but I seem to slip back unconsciously into it, even when I know its futility.|||I agree. I like this quote from Bertrand Russell;  It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion. Nobody feels any passion about the multiplication table or about...|||A real definition for existence and consciousness?  A nice easy job for a Monday morning.'