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Unenlightened said he was quoting the article here: I thought that was from unenlightened until he insisted that it was in the article.

I can't find it either. Unenlightened found it somewhere in the article. Maybe he could quote a larger portion that includes that claim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD3F7J2PeYU

True! And human extinction could happen tomorrow. It just takes one asteroid or the right bacteria.

Take a breath, unenlightened. I'm not your enemy.

To me as well. I initially thought it was just unenlightened who concluded that human extinction and global social collapse were likely due to global ...

I won't interfere with discussion of the article. I will continue to encourage people to seek information from reputable scientists. I don't think tha...

The claim that human extinction and global social collapse are likely due to climate change in the next 10 years is unfounded. No reputable scientist ...

I'm just suggesting that people refer to reputable scientists. There are a lot of them out there. :)

If you like. Remember folks, refer to reputable scientists before seriously considering the lunacy mentioned in the OP.

Look, if you want to believe that human extinction is on the horizon, feel free. But to the stray five or six people who read this thread: please refe...

OK. You're not the idiot. The author of that paper is.

@"unenlightened" Did you not see that Marchesk quoted you? But I'm glad to hear you're backing down on that. Now on to global social collapse. The pap...

No one suggested you did. You were just talking about human extinction (for some odd reason).

So unenlightened meant frog extinction? Interesting factoid: frogs have survived many mass extinction events, but might not survive human-produced pol...

I have the same qualifications you do for prophecy.

@"Echarmion" I think the global social collapse and extinction bit was unenlightened, not the guy from the two-bit college.

I didn't say he was an idiot. Any prediction of global social collapse and extinction is idiotic. There is no reason to believe the entire 100,000 yea...

Massive disruption, yes, sooner or later. But that would be true even if there was no anthropogenic global warming.

The part about global social collapse and extinction is idiotic.

The author states: "We do not know for certain how disruptive the effects of climate change will be." That is correct.

The Japanese feel that one should have enough grace to allow an opponent to save face. But they used to have a tendency to go straight for ritual suic...

Yep. Feeling for others, feeling remorse, I think those would be examples of direct intuition of ethics.

There are a variety of things that can render people blind to ethical truths. There must be something fundamental about ethics else how does anyone ev...

Why do I say "There is a hand"? Comes down to your assessment of people: are they fundamentally good, and evil is defiance of nature (as a Roman stoic...

I drove home thinking about Tolstoy's story. I pondered the Augustine quote: "Love and do what you please." I thought about thinking. I went around in...

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I haven't read that. I'll check it out.

Then what?

I don't know. What's your moral outlook? Is moral good just whatever we as a community decide it is?

He's still following his own rule.

Morality has no bearing on a non-volitional action. If one can make decisions, why couldn't one follow one's own rules? One could keep track of the ru...

Are you saying that a human can't be self-directed?

I think Witt's point was that the concept of a private language doesn't make any sense. So it wouldn't be useful because it can't exist. I don't Nietz...

I agree. The same is true of racism.

Have you ever written this as a magazine article or as a book? It's fascinating. (And hilarious)

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I see what you're saying. We're on the same page.

How did you come to be obsessed with that?

That's not what the private language argument is about though. It's about a language that can't be translated.

I don't think he ever suggested such a thing. To relate to the private language argument, it would have to be a moral rule that even in principle can'...

There is a jello-ish quality to Peterson's sexism. He basically creates a dog whistle for sexism in his book about order and chaos. And that's charact...

As soon as I get mine working, I'll swing by and pick you up. I've had weird dreams and done weird art since I started getting into Warhol. I read tha...

@"tim wood" Think of some dream you've had. Imagine that you contemplate images in the dream as being symbolic and you find within yourself various ti...

Money is the great equalizer. When it becomes concentrated, the masses scramble for what's left. It's then that doors are closed to advancement. The s...

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Love is a battlefield.

I'm not clear on what war you're talking about. Could you specify?

So the scholarly comments on the APA were also about what's wrong with the USA? I didn't realize you saw the US as a land of scholars. By and large th...

This is interesting. Along with this. I didn't look into the objections to the APA guidelines because your spokesman, Baden, had advised that the Swed...