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Eskander

['Member']Joined: December 29, 2021 at 17:40Last active: December 02, 2022 at 12:255 discussions20 comments

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This is up to debate and l haven't reached a conclusion on this topic. We know the role of the Moors in triggering the enlightenment and historians ha...
April 29, 2022 at 09:44
Before Nietzsche, there was Kierkegaard, a deeper thinker. His famous slogan "truth is subjectivity" doesn't undermine the objective angle with which ...
April 29, 2022 at 09:19
I hope people never conflate my criticism of modern western civilization with the hatred of westerners. Everyone who shares a similar viewpoint as me,...
April 28, 2022 at 22:50
I think we can agree to the fact that people face the greatest danger (physical and psychological) in a war. World War 1 changed the historical narrat...
April 28, 2022 at 22:38
I should walk the talk but l won't be surprised to see myself crucified. I am under surveillance already ( confirmed by third parties). I am apparentl...
April 28, 2022 at 21:56
I'm definitely not the first person to take this stance and l won't be the last one. I use the tools/understanding developed by western civilization t...
April 28, 2022 at 21:28
Funny (ridiculous) propaganda from Sky News https://youtu.be/ZIjGjooK8bU
March 02, 2022 at 14:33
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March 02, 2022 at 08:47
The primary motive for the Ukrainian invasion from the perspective of Putin is obviously out of a security concern and the threat of further NATO expa...
March 01, 2022 at 08:08
The Denazificatiom claim of Putin is valid. The Azov battalion is a neo-nazi right wing militia and an actual unit of the Ukrainian national guard. In...
March 01, 2022 at 05:42
By reasonable l mean someone who is mentally sane and for a hinge proposition, there's a mutual understanding between people, a shared practice of tak...
January 17, 2022 at 06:39
There's actually a big disagreement between Wittgensteinian philosophers here ( esp, whether religious statements are cognitive or non-cognitive). Mos...
January 17, 2022 at 02:48
The problem with using the word "belief" is it implies the bedrock hinge statements are epistemic. It's a matter of being a part of a form of life. Pe...
January 17, 2022 at 02:24
Doubt in religious game is not the same doubt you have when you are doing a scientific experiment in a lab or when you are guessing. The problem with ...
January 17, 2022 at 02:11
Axioms are self evident true statements we use for a foundation. This is meaningful for mathematics but l am not sure if we call hinge propositions se...
January 17, 2022 at 02:02
I think the problem with taking "God exists" a hinge proposition is that, every reasonable person doesn't take this as a given. Whereas the statement ...
January 17, 2022 at 01:52
You don't get my point. You are still concerned with dimensions. The concept of dimensions doesn't apply to God. That's why l used the word "transcend...
December 30, 2021 at 13:26
The second is far from boring, but it's definitely more meaningful as you have pointed out. Asceticism should not be caused by a sour grapes mindset. ...
December 30, 2021 at 10:54
I don't see how nihilism as a philosophy is practical, it leaves you with nothing. "Life has no meaning", now what ? Where do we go from here and is i...
December 30, 2021 at 05:39
God, the creator of everything. A Transcendent being, who isn't confined by spacetime. I described God in my OP as the source of peace and contentment...
December 30, 2021 at 05:39