Michael Zwingli

Hm, Mafo (since I think this a better nickname for you than "Fool"...I can call you "Mafo" when I am pleased, and "Mofo" when I am not :wink:), I am n...

Clearly, "blind, insatiable drive" is how Schopenhauer viewed will; it is this that he called the will. I disagree, however, that he "made a definitiv...

Yes, I think this is true. Will was certainly a central concept in Nietzsche's philosophy, largely due to the influence of, and as an answer to, Schop...

Haha, good! I've been waiting for this shit to end...

No, never think so. I simply didn't realize initially that the icon consisting of three vertical dots meant "you". I only discovered that after Verdi'...

well...so there is! Thank you very much.

On the Latin Forum that I participate in occasionally, there is, within the "user account" drop down menu, a tab which reads "your content", which wil...

I wouldn't say that, so much as I would like to revisit my thoughts on occasion. Sometimes I begin to second guess my judgements, etc.

thank you. It would be nice to have a button for "own content", no?

@"jamalrob", Given the software employed here, is it possible for one to find a listing of one's posted content, should he wish to revisit older posts...

I think the very methodology by which the universal metaphysics are developed within philosophy and religion follow an opposing order. Philosophy, lik...

THE ANTI-URBAN DICTIONARY MANIFESTO Ah, Wheatley! Wheatley, Wheatley, Wheatley... I would advise you not to cite this (um...garbage) "Urban Dictionary...

If you had kids now, you to a certain extent would be stuck where you are. Tough spot, man. Luckily, you do not. My advice is don't postpone a decisio...

I know there are a couple of physicists on here. Out of curiosity, are there any psychologists of psychiatrists?

??? "Affect", "emotion", and "feeling" are all directly synonymous, in the sense of "a person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological ...

Kinda like the "Free Beer Tomorrow" sign in the pub? I actually don't pay any attention to any of this shit because I already know what's going to get...

You are right in observing that a definition of "love" is wanted as a premise for the OP's argument. The incompatible ideas that "there is no love, on...

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Ah, good. Well, nobody has to really worry about me "trolling". I prefer my violence to be physical too much to enjoy the "virtual" brand. To myself, ...

No, I cannot say that I have. I suppose that a translation would have to be special ordered at the bookstore, allow five weeks for delivery... To fill...

Oh, yes. This makes sense. I think that my own conception about this term involving "surfing around for opportunities" was influenced by the sense of ...

Yep, from ???- ("sam-"), "along with", "together with" + ??? ("sara"), "extension", "prolonging", "stretching out". And so literally, "that accompanie...

okay, I have that: "flaming"="personal attack", and "sockpuppetry"="the fraudulent portrayal of approbation by means of multi-accounting". How about "...

thanks. A couple of questions: what is "flaming", what defines a "troll", and what is a "sockpuppet", or rather, what is "sockpuppetry"? (I don't use ...

Ah. So, what type of criteria can result in a "banning"? I just want to know as an aide in keeping a lid on those of my own inherent opinions (I have ...

You speak truly. Emotional health is one aspect of mental health. The mind is composed of intellectual ("thinking") and affective ("feeling" or "emoti...

Thank you, you're a gentleman. I am rather sensitive to percieved insults. I fully mean my characterization of myself as a "loser": only one semester ...

So, did you can him for signalling that he was Marco, or for being Marco? Just curious about how the burgermeisters on here view these things, based u...

My knowledge is very general. Quite a number of years ago, I read a book called "Buddhism for Beginners" (I forget the author's name), and I've read o...

I don't know that I can speak to the artistic symbolism which you mention, not being entirely sure of your definition of this. I believe that symbols ...

Without looking up the term, this is called something like Theraveda (?), would that be right? Practiced mostly in India and Myanmar? Within this type...

What?? This is news to me... I just checked under "Bannings", and saw nothing. Where did you hear this?

I am assuming that you mean "militant Islam". In my opinion, not only "militant Islam" should diminish, but Islam in general, and Christianity as well...

I've been curious about Buddhism for some time now. I have a friend, an acquaintance really, who practices Nichiren Buddhism. I have long wanted to qu...

Not so sure, Tim, that I'd include Afghanistan on that list. The first six months of punitive measures against the Taliban are defensible, shootin' 'e...

Yep, usually thought to be a suicide secondary to Chatterton's entrapment in poverty, though it has been hypothesized that he was taking a curative fo...

I assume that you mean "...as a result of having experienced Nirvana", which leads me to believe that you are a Buddhist. Using that assumption as a c...

Please expand upon this. Is this describing a diminishment of consciousness (I do not think so), or, perhaps, a full or expanded consciousness accompa...

Why so? Particularly in light of the fact that,

See sense 4 under the English entry below: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/significant Hey man, I don't remember even trying to offer "data", so how ...

Of course it is, in more than one sense. The very genesis of the nation was in imperialism, for what else is colonialism within an occupied country? I...

If you take, say, the "class" of corporate officers as a whole, you will certainly find an outsized percentage who come from privileged backgrounds. T...

Very nice, indeed. Thank you for sharing an intimate experience in such an erudite manner.

makes your contributions all the more valuable. Philosophy is diminished without a foundation of precise knowledge. There was another fellow on here, ...

Now, my lack of a college education (I suppose) is coming into play. Indeed, "...photons are charge neutral, not possessing it" is the only of your st...

I only laugh because you may have just exceeded my understanding of Physics, is all. Even so, I still maintain that ? "real". There exist real things ...

Yes, um...well said.

In a sense...the consideration of "God" both scientifically and logically proves the existence of God as an idea, but no more...certainly not of God a...

Haha, this may be above my pay grade.

Um... Virtual - (1) In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated; (2) Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy with...