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@"DingoJones" OK. But did socrates really come across as humble in the dialogues? He came across as a pedant who gleefully liked to make people squirm...

@"Tom Storm" That's because philosophers have low self esteem or have been damaged. How else to explain their theories having little relation to norma...

@"Tiberiusmoon" Look at your use of the word subjective here. Now look at your view from nowhere chimera of truth. How many perspectives do you need b...

@"Tom Storm" Truth CAN be identified? So we don't have access to innate truths? Only philosophical questioning determines truth? I like food. Do I nee...

@"180 Proof" A perfect example of gaslighting and bullshitting. Turn your dialectical skepticism on your own provisional certainty!!! Provisional cert...

@"180 Proof" Go to sleep mate. You are flapping your gums only.

@"DingoJones" It's extremely rare to find a philosopher with "humility". Give me an example?

@"180 Proof" Your "self esteem" consists of quoting nietzeche as an authority!? Bravo!

@"Tiberiusmoon" If you read my post you can see where I'm coming from. The parable is goofy. It's easy to understand but not a good parable. Why not a...

@"Tom Storm" Well,low self esteem can lead to some trying to know and control everything,AKA arrogance. ( an impossible and delusional task!) I don't ...

@"skyblack" Common sense is criminally underrated!

@"Tiberiusmoon" And how many folks spend their life 20 inches from a tree?! The point is from common sense we would say it's a tree. That's not a bias...

@"Jack Cummins" You worry too much Jack! Remember there's more than one way to skin a cat!

@"Tiberiusmoon" The blind man and the elephant is a bad parable. When I look at a tree what is the observational bias?

@"skyblack" The word Soul carries a lot of baggage. Personality then. Everybody should know what that is. Past is known as a term but in this context ...

@"Tiberiusmoon" Time dilation is common sense. Everyone experiences it.

@"skyblack" You could change the word past to Soul and I think this would be clearer and less abstract. Other than psychological time,the other time i...

@"Tiberiusmoon" This is where excessive reliance on definitional words can lead to trouble. Your viewpoint here Is leading to skepticism on even the s...

@"Jack Cummins" Yes,on this site we should have diversity of opinions and views,I agree. I think reading ideas is in fact a kind of verbal competition...

I totally agree with @"skyblack" here @"Tiberiusmoon". To think common sense is culturally biased is to fall foul of postmodern skepticism.

@"skyblack" I agree! Common sense should be more common! I mean there are things that are obvious to non academically-corrupted folk.

@"Tiberiusmoon" Yep,that sounds good!

@"skyblack" Always the past? Mutation in psychological time? Could you clarify these two a little?

@"Jack Cummins" Thank you! I might dig up that thread! I am what I am,I make no apologies to those who worship science or dialectics! Yeah,most folks ...

@"skyblack" Dialectics miss the immediate intuitive certainties of life. Dialectics are a sign of uncertainty and wanting to conceptualise/control lif...

@"skyblack" Truth and certitude can be regarded loosely as similar. I'm using the word belief in a non technical way. Substitute know if needed.Can tr...

@"Jack Cummins" Silence does say so much! I agree! In the general public people conform to avoid discomfort. I don't foresee any explosive upheaval. P...

Most philosophers and scientists are weak and lazy thinkers,stuck in their dogmas and comfort zones. Trading common sense for conformity. @"Tiberiusmo...

@"skyblack" Do you believe in intuitive or non discursive truth? Rather than authority let's say certainty. Do you believe in certainty? I say yes to ...

@"Jack Cummins" Compare sartres fiction to his academic work. Academia is many times dry and pedantic. Too abstract. Continental philosophy at least i...

@"Jack Cummins" It is extremely naive to think that society is pluralistic when it comes to ideas and expressions. Censorship,direct or indirect is a ...

@"skyblack" Cheers for that suggestion! The irony is that a lot of the posters on that wild thread are probably well read in novels,plus they have lif...

@"Foghorn" Dickens or Ayn rand???!!!

@"skyblack" I agree with a lot of what you say. Many folks will never give up appeals to authority and the worship of experts and fear. But there are ...

@"Foghorn" Lol! It was your use of the words wanker and nitwit,etc. And FYI,we english have the best language in The world! Its good to laugh!!!

@"Foghorn" Yep! But I think it's that the ruling class loves it's land and business interests and is willing to cheat steal and murder to keep them. J...

@"StreetlightX" For sure,I'm against state warfare as both sides justify collateral damage. It's more the morality of supporting any cause where colla...

@"Foghorn" I wouldn't say its necessarily rhetorical violence in most cases. Sometimes it's just venting by posters,which speaks to a kind of paranoia...

Collateral damage. What a horrible and anti human concept. A euphemism for innocent,non combatant deaths being acceptable. So what do folks make of th...

@"Foghorn" I do like this concept of dethroning the scientific clergy! Science is used by politicians through the media as a dogma and solution for ev...

I found David pearces thread on transhumanism a product of a paranoid authoritarian mind. Dissolution of the material body is inevitable. Those that a...

If ones taste is to value truth that's great. If not,then it's just second hand car sales. Which is what most of philosophy,science and religion is.

You don't really need to convince a skeptic. Many people are too wedded to their ideology to entertain serious questions about life after death. Some ...