We are in general agreement about this. I think that the only point of disagreement between us revolves around the issues of confidence in the efficac...
But, Tim, this only pertains if you lack confidence in the vaccine. With as reasonable a man as you appear, all your loved ones should have their head...
I don't even understand the issue that people, both people in government and folks on this site, are having at this point in time. The vaccine is read...
All "external objects" are the products of experience based upon the shortcomings of our human sensibilities, and so lie within the realm of subjectiv...
Having not studied or deeply investigated Buddhism, I have no knowledge of whether this belief was overtly stated, but it is certainly implied, in my ...
I do. If I don't "know better" than an Iron Age philosopher, given all that humanity has learned in the interim, then God help me. Old Siddhartha beli...
This is a really succinct, really full, really nuanced, and really subtle definition. Basically, I take it to mean that a "gentleman" is a man who is ...
Congratulations, Tzeentch...you have been successfully propagandized. You seem to have subliminally bought into the ("democratic"?) concept that the s...
In order to understand "reality", it behooves one to distinguish between objective reality ("the universe"), that which has existence apart from the s...
Yes, these things can enrich one's appreciation afterwards, but as you have noted, first comes the love. I will try to find more new poems for you to ...
Hey, I can imagine that being said in the world of Country Music, especially by the older Country musicians, who often came from hardscrabble places. ...
This like of the poem relates particularly with another, let me explain my view regarding this. Note that while the first stanza of this poem, followi...
I have found myself doing this as well. I have never seen a hole cut through a headstone, but love the symbolism of it. Many of the symbols to be foun...
Haha, and I thought I was the only one... Actually, I walk through graveyards, especially older portions of graveyards, for another purpose as well. S...
Absolutely. Since this slide towards the end of the Quarternary Glaciacion (the climactic period within which we have existed for the past two and one...
Myself as well. Owen served as a Lieutenant in the British Army during the First World War. Through his poetry, he was one of the major writers chroni...
Not particularly philosophical, though obliquely expressing a philosophical outlook, I wanted to post this rhyme about the apparent futility of indivi...
I believe that this is simply a matter of (particularly frontal) brain development, which has enabled homo sapiens to develop the "higher mind", which...
They, corporations, do frighten me as well. I'm no lover of the corporate concept...just more power-seeking abstraction, as I see it. Yep, but that's ...
if corporate officers and board members were made personally responsible and subject to swift arbitrary (this being the key word) prosecution for corp...
True, but need the government be so large to do this? I don't have any figures immediately available, but all the same, I'm not thinking that the port...
This is exactly the type of thing that I resent my government doing; my government too often sticks my American nose in where it doesn't belong. Frank...
Haha, that's only because I'm stuck here for the time being. The thought of joblessness, bread lines, and all that shit kind of sucks, so I don't part...
I don't like deficit spending by Republicans any more than by Democrats. In my view, both parties are utterly corrupted, and all but worthless to us. ...
Okay, I might be a little out of my league in this discussion, but I have some thoughts upon this issue, nonetheless. The "p-zombie" is an obvious imp...
It is hard for me, given the way I think, not to draw a delineation between what I personally call "hard philosophy", more traditional philosophy whic...
These things are not below the philosopher at all, but neither are they philosophical questions...at least questions fit for "hard philosophy", maybe ...
Yes, of course. I recognize the differentiation, but also realize that it is, along with an individual brain's ability to produce a "higher mind", pre...
I am currently chewing over...thinking about these two "principles". I have another question. Is "the indiscernibility of identicals" a proposition of...
Never having read anything by Leibniz, I am assuming that the "principle of the identity of indiscernibles" would dictate that two items which are utt...
Both...and neither. Since people on here are probably getting tired of reading my posts involving the battling Superego and Id, I'll not go into it ag...
Philosophy is valued thusly today because it adds but little value to the creation of wealth, which is the icon by which all subjects are evaluated in...
Despite felling a bit loath to indicate a percieved error in someone I have come to consider my philosophical better, I must say, Ennui, that I think ...
This is a congruent approach to the situation I was considering when I said that, The salient issue pertaining to this, is that if humans had remained...
Haha.. wise man, he. Yes, perhaps, but the important part for abstract thinking, upon which all art and science depends, namely the frontal region, ha...
From "Advice to Lovers": "Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to h...
Are you Yuval Noah Harari in disguise? Sorry, just being a smart-ass... I do miss all the hunting and gathering with my chums, though. I think that to...
!? We can mentally conceive of the universe, and consider ways, given our current technological state, of interacting therewith, but... Ummm...how doe...
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