Baden

So everyone who existed before the advent of religion was... dead. Bit of a miracle there are any of us here at all, isn't it? Anyway, it's not so muc...

I would say if it results in or at least aims at a positive outcome and is undertaken for good reason. So, a positive or justified complaint to me wou...

It means that there's nothing inherently wrong in complaining. It's the context in which we do it that counts. Can you really not think of any situati...

That is worth bringing up. There's certainly a large amount of religious influence "baked-in" to western culture (along with a lot of other stuff) and...

What matters with regard to maturity is whether the complaint is justified/necessary as well as how it's presented, not that it's a complaint per se.

(I should add to my comment that extreme ideologies can obviously also dramatically affect the moral sense. Fundamentalist religions, cults, and polit...

Grammatically, pronouns are a closed class and very resistant to change. It's explained quite well here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/3daf1k...

Your sense of morality is more likely to be dramatically affected by a physical change in the brain than by religious belief. Whether the man in the a...

Yes, no sockpuppets, but if someone wants to change their screen name, you can PM me or jamalrob.

And with an attitude as positive as that, you'll eventually graduate high school, I'm sure. :strong: I've noticed plenty of dumb people in pretty poor...

Is that a thing? :halo: :) Anyway, not to worry, my wounds tend to be self-inflicted. The gut biome is a fruitful line of inquiry, of course. My hunch...

I've never been too concerned with food. As long as I've eaten enough, got my calories in, it's seemed a side issue. And I've never been on a diet of ...

Physical exercise—which I'm not doing enough of at the moment. Plus being creative and having positive social interactions (though I personally will n...

If it serves to end the conversation, it might be worth it.

In which case, it's not insensible for them to continue to trade among themselves. As in, to the extent that the linguistic currency forming the belie...

Proof by demonstration? If you don't trade in the currency in which someone has invested their identity, positive communication isn't possible, sure. ...

Is it any more of a positive provocation to imply the religious are merely delusional than it is to suggest trans people are?

More like a provocativist, methinks.

Bohemian Rhapsody.

You're not helping.

If I tell you there was a fire in a department store downtown, and the news tells you there was a fire in the department store downtown, and there was...

:grin:

Being Al Yankovic being John Malkovich John Malkovich gets cucked by Al Yankovic for the part of John Malkovich in a movie about the inside of Malkovi...

Some of us can't help ourselves sometimes. Anyhow, imagination is key, I think. How exactly that relates to "intelligence" is anyone's guess.

I think part of the problem is the way the OP is phrased, which seems to presume that there is some particular hidden meaning to each sentence whereas...

Language doesn't always do what it says on the tin, but you can't live on can-openers either.

Talking about death can be cathartic, I think, and seeing as we have only a finite amount of emotion in us with regard to any topic, once you've exhau...

Do you really think Kant and Marx predominantly wrote "gibberish"?

Are we of above Average intelligence? Yes. And no. No. Unless, yes, in which case, yes. Only when it does. Yes. Where appropriate. Yes. Where appropri...

Do I win yet, or do I have to do more of this shit? The biography of a frustrated philosophy forum admin*. * Any resemblance to actual persons, living...

Malcolm Y A snow leopard ponders the meaning of existence but gets poached before he can figure it out.

If you work at something you like doing, that isn't a problem. In fact, the problem is imagining work as a problem just because it usually is one. It ...

OK, so what I meant with regard to this: ...is that in the trivial sense there is obviously an attempt to assemble facts in a subjective way in order ...

Sure, that's more or less what I was trying to point out re news.

What do you want me to explain, the definition of 'salience' or the context in which I'm using the phrase?

Well, of course, facts need to be structured in order to be communicated coherently, but it's possible to overstate the issue here in terms of a discu...

Happy birthday, Posty! :party:

(I'm not saying I'm going to set the President of the United States on fire during his visit to Ireland, of course. That would be menacing and probabl...

Yes.. because they're orange and so is he. Makes sense. Fire is orange too, isn't it? Just mulling my options here. :fire:

I thought I was suggesting you... don't have a brain. But, maybe the whole problem runs deeper than that. Hmm... Yes! The proletariat are stuck in the...

Someone mistakenly supposed a spear shoved up your nose would eventually pierce grey matter and kill you?

At a certain level of firmness, the secret service get involved... and I don't have enough apples to share with them. :D

*Mops the floor with the artist-formerly-known-as-Sapientia* :100:

Not good enough. I suspect you're having a nervous breakdown or an early mid-life crisis and I insist on helping.

Why'd you dump the owl, artist-formerly-known-as-Sapientia?

Being honest, I don't think Ivanka is too fond of daddy's rhetoric either, but there's not a lot she can safely say about it.

Anyone who thinks they've got their head around all this infinity stuff should be locked up in Hilbert's hotel and not let out until they've spent a f...

(Of course, art and philosophy bleed into each other on one end just as philosophy and science do on the other, so you can get "arty" philosophy that'...

Yes, well put, art is an act of disruption achieved through the use of intuition and technical ability (in the mode of communication used), and its su...

Such metaphysical power you attribute to your supreme court. Natural rights theory is nonsense anyhow. They are both legal rights (and conditionally e...