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This is in the vicinity of Schopenhauer, though I'm not fond of your logical progression.

Support or accommodate?

Cool. That outlook doesnt support volition either, right?

Even with parallel universes determinism prevails because in each universe every event can have only one outcome (a priori). I think this view is call...

This might be part of it: (per wikipedia on worry) "There are some who respond to mental representations in an uncertain or ambiguous state in regard ...

No. It's good because it makes you pull your hand out of the meat grinder before you lose your whole arm.

:up: Per psychologists: "Worry refers to the thoughts, images, emotions, and actions of a negative nature in a repetitive, uncontrollable manner that ...

So I follow your advice and make no claims at all about unexperiencable things. But I hear you making the positive claim that there is no such thing. ...

:up:

From a certain point of view change is the death of something. Is that what you mean?

Science does not give us any evidence that all real things can be experienced, so how did you arrive at that conclusion?

So youre saying that the scientific community is secretly confident that we're in a mass extinction? What makes you believe this? The truth referenced...

Lake Eerie is an artificial environment. They connected the ocean to it to clean it out. :yikes:

Whatever takes our place might be the coolest thing ever. Is that what you mean?

Have you experienced this?

Isn't "empirical" a property of justifications or knowledge? So you're saying there are no unstated true propositions?

His mission is to bring a little levity into our dismal lives.

Oh yea, that'll do it.

Would you agree that Marxism was a form of apocalypticism?

..Seriously? Youre an American citizen? What are doing in Canada?

No doubt about that. "Mass extinction event" has a particular scientific usage. I was focusing on scientific language.

I don't know. All you have to do is become immersed in nature for a few years and you cant miss the dispersed intentionality of the whole thing. I get...

Nos is obviously playing with us.

I read a science fiction story once that was from the point of view of a gaia-like organism. It was trippy.

In the face of the openness of the question, would you back down from claiming that we're in an extinction event?

You're saying we're part of Gaia's efforts to engineer herself?

Oh, I didnt recall that. Youre probably right.

If you want to say that human activity is associated with extinction or near extinction of a large number of species all over the world, you've got sc...

Or heart attack.

The president was taking daily baby aspirin. What does that tell you?

That would require dictatorship.

It may seem reasonable, but it isn't. Look again at the Atlantic article about Erwin. He goes into more detail about what a mass extinction event real...

Right, but just focus for a second on this: the scientific community does not support the conclusion that we're 'presiding over a mass extinction even...

Do you think it ever will be? Would voting in new councilmen make a difference? True. It's the psychology of apocalypticism that has me fascinated. Wh...

Mmm. Except my brain does it all the time.

Does phenomenology lead to answers or is it just a fun waste of time? I think it's probably the latter. Still, i like the idea that there are two kind...

"Covid brain" is a nickname for one form of COVID19-induced altered mental status. It's a kind of happy confusion. People who have it can answer some ...

This scene came to me; it's a WW2 movie and Godzilla shows up. "I thought he was fictional" says one of the characters. "Wait, how do we even know wha...

And Princess Leia goes looking for a Jedi to help the resistance. It's going to be great.

He could get along fine for a while and then take a nose dive. That would be dramatic.

Wow! You're a master!

Hopefully the vaccine will be available soon.

Parts of Europe are going into their second wave? For the most part, the US is holding steady or declining. The hotspots we're getting are mostly youn...

Same way we deal with anything, the best we can. There's some psychology to discuss regarding how people react to the threat of disaster and profound ...

Yep. My favorite tree is the Dogwood (childhood associations). They're under attack from some virus and are expected to be extinct soon. The North Ame...

Wow! Do you ever make custom furniture?

An increase in the greenhouse effect isn't a danger to human life (as far as scientists know). Primates originally evolved during the PETM, an event w...

That scientists are concerned that the earth will become like Venus due to AGW. That's not an exaggeration. It's flat out wrong. Where did you get you...

Some people think misinformation is good as long as it supports their agenda, but they may be blind to their own engagement in the bamboozle until it'...

They were giving everybody decadron at first. They stopped. None of our COVID people are getting it now.