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I'm just calling everyone who disagrees with me "dumbshit" today. Yea, he recognized that he wasn't living up to his own ideal. Dumbshit.

It's Nietzsche, dumbshit.

I was agreeing with you that the whole species doesn't need to discover new energy sources, just the part that wants to remain hi-tech. Everyone resum...

Condemnation creates idealism. When you hate the world, you're refusing to accept it as it is. You're fixated on an inner vision of beauty.

25 N says that the early on, the Hebrews had a relatively easy relationship with nature when their god was an image of victory and justice. When they ...

I agree. Most of the human race should revert to a Stone Age level. The small number who hold onto the progress we've made will eventually leave earth...

I think it was also the view of Mubarak. What happened in Iraq post invasion wasn't just an eruption of pent up violence, though. The US fostered sect...

I havent read anything by Gerson, but I'm familiar with the view that Plato is compatible with later Platonists. Plotinus was influenced by Stoicism a...

I had meant that for Wayfarer, whose lecture included some misinformation. But true, there are several centuries between Plato and Plotinus.

Wow. Could you be a little more full of it?

Appollodorus was describing pre-Christian Platonism.

This year China is buying all our Eastern Red cedars. I hope it's not going to a ghost city. I need some.

That's weird

Check out early Stoicism. It's fascinating.

Oh. They have empty cities?

Which they couldn't do without Japan and India. Dealing with climate change is a global problem.

What assumptions did I make? How did I argue against them?

The conceptual framework for atheism, as we know it, did not exist then. Stoicism, which was influenced by Socrates, was the closest thing to it in th...

You seemed to be saying that above. Good to know you weren't. Again: Plato was not an atheist. Period.

None of them say Plato had nothing to say because Socrates knew nothing. That's absurd.

No. It isn't.

:meh:

Yep. The oceans will eventually absorb all of the CO2 we emit and the climate will return to baseline. In the worst case scenario, most of it will be ...

If it's a wicked witch or Osama bin Laden, it's fine.

Ah yes, the most bizarre movie ever made. :up:

If you dance around after the witch was just killed, her sister will show up and promise revenge, and then there's a great adventure involving talking...

Just go ahead and acknowledge it, then. What's the problem?

It's not zealotry to point out that Plato wasn't an atheist. Its just a fact.

Yes. As @"Metaphysician Undercover" mentioned, Socrates wasn't an atheist. He just had unusual ideas about divinity. Plato certainly wasn't an atheist...

People try to remain civil to preserve the foundation and utility of speech. Where a lack of civility rules, it's just a verbal cesspool. So people wh...

I noticed you were finally referring to Plato instead of Socrates. That's good. :up:

My thoughts as well. Nobody asks for civility. Civility is a matter of natural selection.

He was a war profiteer, though.

Have you read Shakespeare?

Barney?

At the point that you suggested that we're looking at Socrates rather than Plato because Plato doesn't speak much in the dialogues, I stopped paying a...

Hey! You finally noticed it's Plato, not Socrates. Good for you!

I don't think the SDG's really have much to do with climate change, and I doubt Australia has much of a problem with: " (1) No Poverty, (2) Zero Hunge...

The people rule through laws. One way to create a drag on lawmaking is to require a super-majority. Another is to allow filibusters. Another is to hav...

That's not real. Nobody would name a country Netherlands.

Had to skim the part about Buddhism because it was utterly ridiculous. 24 N has something to say about Jews: "The Jews are the most remarkable people ...

17 As it turns out, the disintegration of a people turns their god into a cosmopolitan. "...just what is the significance of such a metamorphosis? wha...

Which flavor?

If you roll it up into a ball, you'll find that it bounces (if you've kept it chloral hydrated).

That's interesting, but we need a different source. Two of Dr Sax's books have been criticized for inaccurate information, misrepresentation, and dist...

16 Nietzsche explains that an ascendant people have a bloodthirsty god, full of anger, revenge, and violence. Only when they lose hope of ever becomin...

really?

True. Democracy needs drag mechanisms to avoid having the will of the people become the will of the mob.

I think you say that when you're trying divert an investigation into your porn habits.

Very hot and deeply disturbed.