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If the pessimist mantra is that "life is not worth living" or as schope affirmed earlier "life sucks and then you die" then that's a value judgment th...

The way you put it there it looks like Iceland has way less homicides than Denmark or especially the UK. So do Monaco and the Vatican I bet. But here ...

Oh, yes. :point:

Hammer has better raps than you too. :)

Unless you're some kind of dualist, he's both. Hammer has better raps.

I don't think it's that as he spoke of extreme cases. Did you read the Van Dongen story, for instance? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/17/k...

Oh, just saw you replied to me in your discussion. Will get on that. Was just filling time here. :up:

:pray:

Stopping now.

It's a matter of probability and you can measure that empirically by interviewing people about their quality of life. Extrapolate for your child's cir...

Oh, sorry, Posty. I only meant to perpetuate that in Hanover not you...

Over-iced the birthday cake there maybe... Moving to next party.

Yes, he's good at those low blows. As I said, takes it on the chin. :p

How about this? I don't think it's a strawman with regard to the OP at least. If you do, tell me why:

In Hanover's case the limit of the infinitesimal has been reached, I think. (Sorry mathematics, like Hanover, you'll just have to take it on the chin)...

@"frank" If you prick Cavacava, does he not bleed?

I'd take being King Solomon over Job in this instance. The real/dreamworld division doesn't seem to matter unless an awareness of it somehow reduces t...

The OP is about the evolution of rap into something more interesting than it had previously been, and mentions specific artists in that regard. Sure, ...

It may be that there's a certain element of catharsis involved in exploring nihilistic/pessimistic philosophies, a sophisticated version of watching h...

That's Snoop Dogg. Strawmen aren't philosophical either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-EJmYUwWN8

Thanks, man. :hearts:

I wrote a song about zombies when I was 17. It was pretty similar to the above far as I can remember. Started with: "Another mindless zombie joins the...

Unlike the horn, my post had a real point. :) That was informative and fun to read though. :up:

Another big loss. The other Thomas Wolfe was famous in the thirties and died young right? Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about him that I vaguely re...

My thought is, don't sit on it.

Best to analyze it as political art then along the lines Cavacava described. That's no bad thing. Designating it as philosophy as you originally did i...

I preferred the chicken tbh.

No, you're a Catholic priest living in a cardboard box.

You keep repeating scripts. You haven't answered my points.

Map/territory confusion. The paradoxical claim is: The realm is ultimately physics. If the mathematical models (maps) cause paradoxes so much the wors...

If there's one thing we can agree on, it's that things in the real world aren't clear cut. Mull over the example though if you would.

Wouldn't it be less of a crap shoot if training was compulsory?

Reason says satisfaction is better than pain. Love says pain is better than emptiness.

What I'm trying to get is that the reality is that you would find you couldn't. You are likely to find yourself loving even if the result is overall m...

Or even love it less for this reason? Wouldn't you, in actual fact, love it even more?

But suppose the baby was sick with a terminal illness and loving it was bound to cause you more pain than satisfaction (as it's always more painful to...

So, your description of your love for your baby would be something like: you give to your sense of self-interest the sanction to give love to the baby...

The transaction would seem to be more with your sense of self-interest than with the baby then?

Who?

No, it just wouldn't seem to make sense to call that love "transactional". "Unconditional" would be a better word, no?

And you are talking in terms of "transactional analysis" right? Because Moliere wasn't as far as I could see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactio...

Do you think that would apply even to your love for your (hypothetical) new born baby? (Who is (let's face it) not immediately capable of reciprocatio...

I better quit while I'm ahead then. :gasp:

I guess I just prefer a subtle approach than a full-on sermon, which even the most reasonable of us can fall into at times on topics like this.

Suppose you have a child Posty. And you love your child. Is it necessary or even appropriate to talk of such love in terms of a transaction?

To me though it seems to inhere conditionality, the necessary expectation of something in return, which doesn't fly with regard to love. See Un's post...

Maybe you two are using different definitions. "Transactional" is fairly broadly used in psychology to refer to relationships. "Psychology: an interac...

Happy Hangover, Birthday!

It's fairly straightforward. The 8th amendment is a clumsy and heavy handed tool that makes it impossible to draft even measured abortion legislation....