Jamal

You’re welcome, I enjoyed it. The only thing I’ll say at the moment is that neither I nor Adorno would go along with the alternative to nihilism descr...

I appreciated it. Sure, these arguments and strategies help, not least in allowing us to ask the right questions. But where I’m coming from is that th...

I read it recently. I quite liked it and broadly agree with a lot of it, but it’s ranty, dated, and often shallow. So far I’ve found Adorno more subtl...

That is quite interesting.

Note that the word is questioning, not combating. You can question X without being anti-X, just as, for example, Adorno and Horkheimer questioned enli...

Just do your best ND. It’s good to have you back.

Enough bickering chaps.

Ah, ok. I’m not interested in that.

I don’t really understand your questions, but I have a feeling they boil down to this: are religious philosophers philosophers at all? On one level Of...

It’s a fact that history is full of arguments for the existence of God and all that, but this is still consistent with the OP. Religious philosophers ...

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This made me glow warmly with satisfaction.

I hated marshmallows even before that event.

Even aside from the total lack of comfort, what I see is some gross kind of kitsch. Either marshmallows (disgusting and childish) or a cloud (sentimen...

Good summary and I agree on all points. I’m not that old but I’m old enough to groan and grunt when I get up from a chair and sigh when I sit down. It...

Quite good. I have some one-liners. I got them from my father and when I use them, it’s as if I have no choice in the matter, like he’s speaking throu...

I’ll wager you use the word “glasses” even though the spectacles you’re referring to don’t have glass lenses. Nuff said.

Although I may have implied that the history of philosophy is one of inevitable progress towards the banishment of religion through the advance of tho...

I was watching Rick Roderick the other day and he pointed out that the best books, whether in philosophy or not, are those that produce the most, and ...

I sometimes use that now, although “toilet” is “tualet” in Russian, which is convenient. The thing is, a toilet can be the WC itself or the room, so i...

Yes, I agree. I was careful not to say that philosophers were the central cause of enlightenment.

As I implied, philosophers like to criticize. Maybe those guys were freeing us from our illusions and thus contributing to enlightenment. And Siddhart...

I’ll include the next sentence this time: Their answer to why this is so is that enlightened reason itself tends to go wrong, and we end up dominating...

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Hi Beena and welcome. I deleted it because it was too religious. We do have a philosophy of religion section but we tend not to allow discussions that...

Yeah, I don't get it either. Where I am, most of the bathrooms are unisex. Nobody cares or thinks it's a big deal as far as I can tell.

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! I was not aware of Polari until I read about it some time in the early twentieth century, although I think I'...

Yes, an example is Weird Al Yankovic. All Americans think he’s hilarious, but for everyone else he raises barely a polite smile.

Those examples of Polari reminded me of Nadsat, the argot used in A Clockwork Orange, though in Nadsat a lot of the words are Russian, while the sourc...

Then this is the wrong place for it, because TPF is explicitly not the place for campaigning. It’s in the guidelines.

The next paragraph is important, because that’s where he answers the question:

:up: If I’m not mistaken, @"T Clark" agrees with James on truth, so maybe he’ll say something about it. Maybe you could say what you think is wrong wi...

Weird response. Anyway, note that some people choose to put their discussions in the Lounge, so don’t assume that they’ve all been put there by staff.

It’s clear that you’re angry. The rhetoric is a sign that you can’t think clearly about this issue. If you’re so angry about it, this is not really th...

If possible yes, or just discuss their views, or present your own interpretation of their views, or present what you see as the standard arguments, et...

Which Lounge discussion do you think should not be in the Lounge? This one is interesting, I think. It would have been nice if Benj had given his inte...

As far as I know there are no philosophers who are “anything goes relativists” or who deny the existence of the world outside their own minds, so mayb...

Little did she know I’m solidly urban lower middle class. Who’s laughing now!

I was a royalist till the age of five, when, as I was standing with my grandmother outside Holyrood Palace, the Queen’s Rolls Royce came rolling out o...

@"Hanover" Here’s where I am with this. I watched the coronation and enjoyed the spectacle. It’s an event that’s been happening every few decades for ...

That’s along the lines of what I was saying, yes. But I was suggesting a specific solution: immanent critique, or whatever that would be called when a...

Very well, I shall leave you and your little Shoutbox friends to your asinine buffoonery.

What we have to think about here is, will all of this chat reach @"T Clark"'s high standards?

That's probably what I was thinking of :grin:

Is the point to be able to engage with it more actively or something? A curious thing has happened to me that might be relevant. A while ago I read Cr...

No. Parking lot now. Impressive analysis, submitting yourself to a kind of immanent critique, knowing that only the foolish philosophers imagine they ...

I wasn't entirely satisfied with what I said, so I kind of agree with you. Don't interpret the comment uncharitably; it had an essential context. I'm ...

Formally yes--one is about "bachelor", the other is about bachelors--but practically I'm supposing that the latter, if it's ever said, usually just fu...

I know what you mean. I'm not defending the conspicuous consumption of the rich so much as criticizing the psychological or ideological source of many...

That pesky dawg!