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Sounds good to me to start with it, unless you'd like me to prepare ahead of time.

Fair.

Cool. I found a pdf in the wild world of the net.

Cool. Start a thread. Minima Moralia? Or one of the others you mentioned?

Never have I ever done a reading group with only 2 people ;) It'd force me more, and it looks like the text is more readable than the other ones I bri...

I got faith we'll figure it out one day. EDIT: Until then -- I can think of worse things to do with my time than reading and talking.

Sweeeeet. So the mouthpeice of something maybe better, with all the caveats of caution?

:up: If you can accept when you are confused that you are confused and express and rethink, you've found the right place. Welcome to TPF, or at least ...

I agree it's not conservativism. It's an expression of alienation, is what I've gathered so far from the first 20 aphorisms. There are expressions in ...

I like that.

More relevant, less hostile, but displaying a pattern I'm seeing:

More hostile, but more relevant to Peter Singer:

Less hostile:

Yeah. I did it directly from the chat window by highlighting the text and right-clicking within the chat window to bring up a menu which has "Copy" as...

Cool. So, care to rephrase everything into a coherent whole? Or are we just confused now?

I couldn't find a way to copy the chat except to copy-paste and edit -- It made me laugh, though, how much the article jumped right into my suspicions...

Glad I finished the article because it looks like he expressed more or less what I was suspecting up front. His concluding paragraph resonates with my...

Heh. My first attempt to short-circuit... EDIT: Heh, I see the article already covered that now that I'm reading it. I couldn't help but jump in and t...

Well leave it to me to be a threadkiller. There's probably something to the idea of uniqueness when I think of relativizing accounts of suffering to t...

Rather than claiming "not P", I read un as claiming the form of your argument is: P P Therefore, P Which is to say you're asserting your opinion three...

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Ooof! Well, I'm showing my assinine ways.

I'm making guesses. In trying to parse this I think "the mental representation of an absence" must be both birth and death, and in some sense birth an...

Oh, thanks goodness. I rely upon it far too much for it to be judged asinine.

No worries. I'm not exactly addressing your concern, but sort of just thinking out loud because the topic appeals to me and is something I've thought ...

I'm going to try and rephrase what you're saying to see if I'm understanding. Nothingness is non physical and anything which resembles nothingness sha...

OK, that makes sense when you put it like that. Gotcha. Thanks.

My mind implodes thinking through this because "progressive" is not "communism" to my mind. Just to tell you my feelings -- what I want to ask is "Wha...

I don't think I've said the past was better than the present. I've said things have gotten worse in various regards, but the idea that the 20'th centu...

Heh, that's how I understand the dish too -- Chinese immigrants trying to appeal to American tastes made the Tso's chicken. I can't deny, though, that...

I'd be interested in you laying out that argument, or at least the definitions you want to make the argument. So explain your point. Put out the defin...

It seems like I ought read Adorno after all, given what you've said. Looks like we might share a perspective :D I like the moral reflection. I feel em...

Another thing that I reflect on -- capitalism without a counterweight like the USSR is reverting back to what things were like in the 1800's. The labo...

Yeah I'm about 10 to fifteen younger than you, as I recall you said you're in your 50's. I wouldn't say that your views were out of time, though the p...

Interesting reflection, Jamal. We have parallel thoughts that also contrast. The horrors which humans are willing to do in the name of are disturbing,...

Heh, I didn't want to dissuade -- if anything I want to hear your feelings on it. I imagine you'd hate it, but from my perspective of what I've read a...

I agree with fdrake. He's more of a Spinoza than a Nietzsche. Meaning he is creative, but wanting new concepts which somehow encapsulate The World, al...

I'm posting the submissions on June 1st of 2025, and the deadline for submissions is the day prior to June 1st.

Oh yes, I agree with your caution and approach. It's primarily a question of values, be they ethical or political or elsewise, but I'd welcome article...

Yup -- though scientific papers and the like would be of interest, of course, the epistemology and ontology are largely decided and wrestling with the...

Disturbing imagery. It feels like a moment -- in that all the writing is describing one moment rather than a plot from moment to moment.

May 31st, 23:59 GMT.

My intended role is to allow others to bring up the philosophical questions that ought be explored while maintaining a thread which basically respects...

No.

Heh. Yes. But, as I said, now that we have the record, no more.

alas, such is the nature of forum discussions. The proper scientific discussion gets published -- we get to comment on it.

Yes it is. In order that I might have a rule to point to the rule is -- there is nothing good about climate change. So comments of the form "Have you ...

Sure. Looking for silver lining in order to say that global warming is good, actually, is not. There is nothing good about global warming, in this thr...