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Alkis Piskas

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Nice! :smile: "I don't know why I did that! ... I was not myself!" "I am not the same person anymore. I have changed a lot!" "What you did was very ba...
September 21, 2021 at 09:18
Of course. The question was "What counts as "forcing" people into a game?". If you are not born yet, you are not "people"! :grin: If it's by their own...
September 21, 2021 at 09:07
State: "The particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time." Knowledge: "Facts, information and skills acquired through exper...
September 20, 2021 at 17:15
Simply what the question itself says: Any situation in which people are forced --i.e. do something against their will-- (by whatever power) to play a ...
September 20, 2021 at 16:39
I have already brought this up the subject of freedom. I said "Other wars were started to gain independence (liberated from the yoke of an oppressor, ...
September 20, 2021 at 11:49
What kind of cost? Can preventing a war cost more than conducting it? What could cost more than taking lives?
September 20, 2021 at 09:33
What premise exactly?
September 19, 2021 at 14:35
You said "To give a fresh recount is always productive. You say yourself you changed." OK? Bye again!
September 19, 2021 at 14:16
OK. Bye.
September 19, 2021 at 10:32
Well, I hate to say this again (not esp. with you), but it's not OK to turn the discussion away from the main subject of the topic and start new discu...
September 19, 2021 at 10:27
I quote myself: "Ethical behavior based on helping and enhancing survival and well-beingness" So, doesn't preventing a war help survival? If so, isn't...
September 19, 2021 at 10:14
By my "thesis" I mean my "description of the topic". I used to use the latter at the beginning, but then I changed it to my "thesis" for short and bec...
September 19, 2021 at 10:06
Maybe. I don't keep up anymore! So, what is in fashion these days? :smile:
September 19, 2021 at 09:39
No, I am certainly not. I have not used the terms "self" or "I" in my thesis except to quote people's reactions like "Ah, the 'I', the 'self' is an il...
September 19, 2021 at 09:34
Well, besides being very subjective, instincts are quite vague both as an idea and in practice. And then, "best survival strategy"? It reminds me of c...
September 19, 2021 at 09:15
I agree. There's certainly no substantial issue, since people live with the same beliefs confortably for eons! Lucky ones, they don't care about philo...
September 18, 2021 at 16:52
Nietzsche is a giant and very popular philosopher. I don't know anything about his private life. Rich or poor, is certainly of no importance to me. I ...
September 18, 2021 at 15:28
Yes, you can say that. Something like "Linsten guys!" ... But not as if I was dictating it or something. It is so evident to me that I am not a body t...
September 18, 2021 at 10:54
Nothing. An exclamation mark can indicate a lot of things other than "bad"! One example is the exclamation mark in the above sentence! And in the prev...
September 18, 2021 at 09:26
I see. So, you are just spreading venom with your baseless criticism and also in wasting people's time. I am done with you. :meh:
September 18, 2021 at 07:51
1) Intuition has nothing to do with common sense. Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reaso...
September 18, 2021 at 07:31
OK, fair enough. 1) Which argument specifically is this? (I have said a lot of things and brought in quite a few arguments to support my thesis.) 2) H...
September 17, 2021 at 17:22
Right! OK. Do you mean how the body and organism works? I don't believe that either. But I can't say what exactly each one feels after a loved person ...
September 17, 2021 at 17:06
Ha, ha! Nicely said! :smile:
September 17, 2021 at 09:53
I'm glad to hear this! :smile: (Not that you are "behind in responses!" :smile:) No. No explicit questions. Anyway, my intention was not to get a resp...
September 17, 2021 at 09:48
OK, but can you also quote where does this refer to? Thanks. What else could I have in mind? :smile: What could a more strict sense be and how else ca...
September 17, 2021 at 09:27
I agree. That's what I would do too. This indeed may be true. However, I don't think that these commandments and the story behind them, work like tale...
September 17, 2021 at 09:10
Isn't yourself, the person I communicate with, the human being, ... all one? Aren't these things YOU? If not what else are they? Right. It doesn't. ("...
September 17, 2021 at 08:50
Where were you hiding all that time? :grin: I need that kind of support. More precisely, to raise my hopes! :smile: Well, you are one in a million! (A...
September 17, 2021 at 08:32
Thank you for responding! Yes, this is usual the case based on the the replies I get myself. But I thing the problem is more severe: this misinformati...
September 17, 2021 at 08:08
But if a religion or philosophy is not correct (according to the opinion of most people) how can it give them moral guidance and the rest? If, e.g., I...
September 16, 2021 at 16:40
Congrats! :up: How have you managed to create such a good and successful discussion with such a difficult topic? I just crated a topic with the title ...
September 16, 2021 at 15:54
Continuing to discuss this subject cannot and will not lead anywhere. OK, I'll tell you something I have not told anyone yet in here. It's the bottom ...
September 16, 2021 at 15:30
I can't say. You are mixing matter with ideas with actions ... You have to group them at least by kind!
September 16, 2021 at 15:11
(I would prefer that you responded to the whole topic than picking up stuff from here and there. Anyway, I guess this is better than nothing at all .....
September 16, 2021 at 15:05
Certainly. "Begging the question" means "to elicit a specific question as a reaction or response". What specific question are you referring to? You ma...
September 16, 2021 at 11:00
Hi! This is a pleonasm, since "vide" means see! :smile: (Trivial comment of course ...) BTW, this is my quote. (Actually it's part of my description t...
September 16, 2021 at 09:37
Oh, I forgot that you are only wasting my time ... OK, I am done here.
September 16, 2021 at 06:35
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tman_(Buddhism) https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Atman_(Buddhism) Next time bring in your reference(s) too! :smil...
September 16, 2021 at 06:17
But then, why are you participating in it? You could just ignore it. And thus avoid passing your hard critique as well as wasting the time of others ....
September 16, 2021 at 06:11
OK. So, if you agree with this you should also agree with bringing up a definition from a dictionary, because it's the same thing. One has just to rem...
September 16, 2021 at 05:57
I hope that I didn't say something bad or that offended you ...
September 15, 2021 at 19:42
Well, examine better what the other said before coming out with criticsm. More specifically examine again the meaing of emotion. I have put time axpla...
September 15, 2021 at 16:35
OK, I'm really sorry that I put into that trouble and waiting. I will answer with another similar question: "How is consuming and having an apple diff...
September 15, 2021 at 16:26
I looked at your reference. You say "I've been surprised at the number of times people have appealed not only to 'common sense,' but specifically the ...
September 15, 2021 at 16:09
OK, I believe you. But it would be better to look up the term "emotion": "A strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships w...
September 15, 2021 at 15:47
I can't really connect this to "I can see the physical world too." ... Anyway, this is not important. Let's drop it.
September 15, 2021 at 15:33
Right, that would generally not be OK. But I don't have to answer all the questions after some point in a discussion, when an important mismatch has o...
September 15, 2021 at 15:25
Pain and itch are sensations, not feelings. Feelings refer to emotions. It gives you fantasies ... And also makes you solve equations and think about ...
September 15, 2021 at 11:45
I knew I was special! :grin:
September 15, 2021 at 11:34