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Oh, and no joke -- I thought you were uncertain about the locution since it invokes various meanings, but your later post suggested that you were unce...

No worries. It's my interpretation of Derrida. Which is informed but... I'm an autodidact and Derrida is hard. Writing in the big sense is the cliche:...

That's the imagined issue. As @"Baden" has pointed out, that fear isn't based in facts.

Something that's been mentioned is this 0.5% marker -- this is traditionally the reason for special accommodations. It's recognized that in a democrac...

Surely with the bathroom you agree that it has always been a gender-based policing? And that's where we started. With sports I feel like the only reas...

Ah! Then another blunder on my part here. The picture of hoarding, to explain the psychology I'm thinking through, comes from anxiety as explanation f...

I'm content with changing the locution from "wary" to something else -- it's the verbal aspect of fear and anxiety that I was picking up on as the imp...

That's obvious, yes. I'm only objecting to the use of biology as an obvious thing -- it's not as obvious as we thought, in my opinion at least. The re...

"biological males" -- that's not a biological term at all. In general we call males those who provide gametes to eggs, but there's nothing about Weste...

You'll have to do a genetic sequencing. Which should at least hint at showing how the biological isn't what we mean, but only refer to.

:D yup those are my favorite. I had a friend joke that I live on salt and fat. I'll probably die younger but damn I love me a hot sandwich and fries. ...

I love phillys. Was mystery meat philly good? (probably was some mix of meats)

This speaks to something I'm worried about. The pressure on trans people is to "pass" -- they can be themselves as long as cis people can't tell and t...

Yup. And what I'm claiming is that we don't use biology to police gendered spaces. We use gender. So putting "XX" or "XY" on the doors won't address a...

At the folk-biological level, yes. At the molecular biological level? No. Not even close. We're all so very different, and don't know enough about our...

"Woman" and "Man" are older than biological classifications. Especially at the chromosomal level. If they are biological then they are a folk-biology ...

That's a helpful distinction, and I accept this correction. There is something about being able to articulate an emotional life that changes it -- dis...

We already do and have done so, because the "check" at the bathroom door is a social check, not a biological one. Even if you put "XX" and "XY", these...

I'm not sure that many people live entirely without anxiety, so hopefully this clarifies: my confusion. Anxiety seems pretty common to me. I'm not sur...

For fear of being tiresome (but admitting that I hold things flexible and open, and it can be tiresome): Is that not the desire to be invulnerable? He...

I agree. There has to be something aside from the emotion in order to be able to say that a fear is unreasonable or reasonable (it can even be another...

Because then we can be more correct than the other guy, objectively ;). "He can carry on with his thoughts, but I know the truth, and here are my reas...

I think that chicken had too many cooks

I've seen the numberwang skit before. This is a pretty funny follow-up skit. The bit where he had to look through the book just to disappoint his daug...

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A curse! ;) One of my cravings is for boredom. May I never have another interesting thing happen to me again. I march to the drum of the blinking last...

Then I've misinterpreted you in my own way as I try to mark out distinctions and such. I agree with this in that I don't reject or renounce negative f...

The expansion just adds even more cards -- but ultimately the rules are up to you, so you could switch 'em out or even reduce them for various purpose...

Makes sense. The genre is even called "Eurogames" often enough, so it's not a surprise that it's an anglophonic phenomenon.

For fear of revealing my true Geekiness, I have done so on multiple occasions :D My brother bought Gloomhaven and we've yet to finish it. That was 2 y...

I love Carcassonne! I don't know how many times I've played it. Yes, there is a whole world of board games out there. I love them. Something about col...

To retain some amount of Epicurean credence, the beginning of the letter to Monoeceus: I think Epicurus is right on happiness, and I think happiness m...

Yes! I bought that expansion for meta-game reasons. The cards look nice, and the mechanics don't take too long to teach and figure out yet there's eno...

Hrmm... I'm wondering if the forumites have ever played Wingspan? Given the love of birds you might like it just for that, but it is actually a pretty...

But for me ethics can never be finished. It's always a reflection which I come back to and think through. Which isn't to say I can say, in the abstrac...

Heh. Then for all my studying you are more devout than me, and you'd still ask "Why not hedonism?" where I would say "well, sometimes anxiety is worth...

Right! Answering my own hook question: that's where the hedonic ethic starts to fall short. There are some circumstances, namely political, which the ...

I'm sorry! I should have posted a link and not just assumed we might use the same acronyms. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a p...

Heh. I think the people I read and like would say you cannot have that definition :D. Or suggest it, in various ways that doesn't assert it. I'll gran...

Sorry to hear it my friend. I like the quote you chose: stoic courage means nothing.

I'd say that this can be resolved, though it's not resolvable internally to the thoughts of Epicurus -- going back to notions of resonances and balanc...

For myself, at least, while I've lived in intentional community spaces I'm of the mind that they're more like personal projects and less like politica...

I'd say that our legal system is doing the work for us here -- Epicurus made a decision as to when it was time to intercede on the basis of self-harm,...

Cool. Then I won't re-iterate the point :). Yup! So goes it with Epicureanism. The closest I could find were Buddhist study centers, but the emphasis ...

Epicurean philosophy and the purpose of science -- rather than truth, it, too, is reduced to its ability to reduce anxiety. As human beings, however, ...

Another reflection: The main reason I like the ancients is because, through study, you can start to get a sense for how different life was back then w...

Sure. What if I'm hurting myself, though? If goodness is living a tranquil life, and tranquility is what leads to independence, then the material cond...

Though students and masters aren't unusual -- where it's unusual to a modern ear is on the topic of ethics.

Heh, that's what's different to our ears about the Epicurean philosophy -- it's an authoritarian philosophy. It's the student who is wrong, rather tha...

And yet -- there's value in reading a text from the standpoint of its own truth. While he is not my master I had to think through the text to really f...