We all love a good laugh and one easy way to :rofl: is to simply listen to a joke and nothing's funnier or more ludicrous than a contradiction :point:...
:up: You really can cut through all the noise! I recall a discussion we had before on the nexus between money and slavery and I believe I've hit upon ...
I' not sure how to respond to this comment. I may have my quirks though. Nope, that's not the way I see things. However, I'm not denying that that's n...
Aristotle was of the rather deplorable view that slaves were living tools. The saving grace: If Aristotle were alive today, in the age of automation, ...
Dostoevsky argument Stoic propositional logic 1. If God doesn't exist then everything is permissible. 2. God doesn't exist Ergo, 3. Everything is perm...
All I'm saying is that the difference between relativistic velocity addition and Newtonian velocity addition manifests as a precision matter unless it...
\infty, rather loopy, don't you think? Why not ...? It's as if, eternity is merely an illusion. When we +, infinity presents itself but when we \div, ...
Update An essence is that quality/property necessary for a thing to be that thing. If an essence is absent, then a thing stops being that thing, we're...
Maybe this :point: :naughty: is normal and this :point: :halo: is abnormal. Either that or psychology has the wrong end of the stick. Who the hell is ...
Not to say you're wrong but from what I gather, the word out there, is that it's rarest of the rare to find a good person. We either need to redefine ...
It's high time I suppose we fixed the boundary for morality/ethics. However, so long as there's life and there's pain, that won't happen. Then there's...
I wonder if this makes sense to you or anyone else but I have a feeling that this :naughty: is us and this :halo: is what we wanna be. Dysfunctional? ...
Unfortunately or not, I haven't had a one-on-one conversation with a conspiracy theorist but compared to philosophers, conspiracy theorists are bumbli...
Where did you get that from? :chin: If you ask me, Saddam, more accurately Iraq, was simply a scapegoat, a fall guy in the great American game. See :p...
That's why I'm beginning to think negative utilitarianism is just what's needed for the world as it is now. @"180 Proof" would agree I think. Maslow's...
Bingo! You nailed it, señor, you nailed it! I feel like a blind man whose sight has been restored! Can you please expand and elaborate this line of th...
Essential features of a conspiracy theory: 1. Abductive inference. An explanatory framework is offered for a certain event. 2. Conspiracy. The explana...
That's the problem right there. How does Parmenides distinguish what must necessarily be, given the distinction he makes between Being and being, a "s...
I understand. It's just simpler to use concepts that we're, the majority are, familiar with. It muddies the water rather than clarifies the issue but ...
From my own experience, a complete novice, just beginning to learn the ropes, exposed only to dumbed-down versions of philosophical issues, philosophy...
@"Wayfarer" Our lives 1. Remember what I mentioned earlier about how our desires seem to be naturally directed towards, in Buddhist terms, the mercuri...
Interesting! It makes sense...in a weird way. Your view is, let's just say, rather unconventional, counterintuitive, yes that's the right word. I lost...
Nirvana 1. Seeking it is like a a magnet's north approaching another magnet's north. As you move towards it, it moves away from you. 2. Not seeking it...
:up: To be honest, what I said was either a half-truth or completely false. There's a good reason why Aristotle believed that understanding is the hig...
To the OP's question, in a sense, "yes", the Buddha does make the fox's sour grapes move. Most of what is naturally pleasing, joyful, and desirable ar...
Definition of tantalize: From Tantalus (Ancient Greek ???????? (Tántalos)) in Greek mythology, who was condemned to Tartarus in the underworld. There,...
:up: https://youtu.be/0XBENF1kgkk @"Wayfarer" can you help me? I can't seem to find the Zen story of leaving the boat behind after having crossed the ...
From an Anthony Kenny book on the history of Western philosophy: What is being, with a small "b"? In my book, it's, very loosely speaking, properties:...
Food for thought: I suffer from anxiety and for the last 10 or so hours I'm having an episode and what do you know?, I had an epiphany. Pain/suffering...
If only for the sake of consistency, it seems we're faced with a rather tough choice: ugly truths or beautiful lies. We could, if we so wish, dwell in...
Since you brought up Occam's razor, the question that naturally follows is, can this reality, keeping our assumptions to a minimum, explain pain? We w...
What I find interesting and, at the same time, almost revelatory is the simple fact that the two most popular moral theories vying for top position vi...
@"180 Proof" On the same theme... What do we want, what do we really, really want? Happiness, right? Not just happiness but ecstatic bliss if that eve...
I don't think it's got anything to do with experimental (read instrumental) precision. The difference between Newton and Einstein, their theories to b...
It's true that understanding is, from the standpoint of someone intent on conveying (say) a point, restricted to that point. For instance, if I have a...
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