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Clinton's practices exposed classified documents. That's not fairly common.

I wonder what that implies about hermits. Maybe the hermit has become her own audience. Ok. I'd rather not be overly insane. Just averagely.

I think you just described me. It looks kind of fucked up laid out so simply.

The American people want you to rejoin S. Korea, become a dedicated ally of world peace, and make lots of Korean barbecue sauce for the world market.

My understanding isnt deep. It's like this. A sense of self could be a by-product of receiving attention. Attention is like food to a developing ego. ...

Jefferson's ideal was Athens, but he probably didn't realize that the majority of the Athenian population was in slavery. There's never been a giganti...

That passage expresses a particularly Chinese aesthetic, or so westerners imagine. They invented the clock and stored it in a basement.

Like recognition for Hegel? Is there a master slave aspect? Maybe not necessarily in a negative way? Requiring generosity?

Yes, although the chess analogy is mine.

Goodness. The British Board of Trade is sensing some injustice.

Any individual is inextricable from a story arc? Think about a series of chess games where the pieces play out different games each time. If we zero i...

I was just thinking of being lost in the crowd. Unseen, like a ghost. Versus being the center of attention. Some people feed off of being the center a...

but aren't you the camera-man in this movie?

Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw...

I hope NK enters into stable relations with the rest of the world very soon. The people there have suffered for too long.

I wasnt thinking that belief provides a motive. Belief would appear to be necessary to the existence of motive. And if motive "remains" inscrutable, d...

Kierkegaard also opposed systems, jumping from one voice to the next among pseudonyms.

What does it imply about culpability if beliefs are ad hoc explanations? Is there such a thing as pre-meditated murder? Maybe you could start a thread...

I suspect the uses are related in some way.

You have to read Schopenhauer before you read Nietzsche.

Probably neither. It's not like you were advocating child molestation.

I don't think we can lay out specifically what early Christianity was. It was a well of potential. If you see an essence to it, you're looking in a mi...

Im going to give your comment some space. :razz:

I don't really know what it means to affirm joyful immanence. The affirmation I saw Nietzsche refer to was not about anything particularly joyful. I t...

I think Nietzsche was a proto-existentialist and that he would deny that there is any knowledge in the ground of our being. He expected some kind of s...

The words are in common use in the real world. There's absolutely no reason to stop using them when we ponder philosophical questions, the whole point...

Not really.

Subjectum is a translation of hypokeimenon. Meanings evolve like everything else. There's nothing stupid about the Cartesian outlook. Yes, it produced...

Some want to use Bookchin's view as an antidote to Jordan Peterson. I don't think it works. It becomes self-undermining. To the extent that the natura...

Exactly. So in light of this, let's dispense with "white guilt" and any need to compound it with more weirdness. :party: Eternally, the young peer at ...

I came across the above video. It's an interesting view. The concept of dominance is entirely a product of the human perspective?

That's a very weird way of looking at it, wellwisher. Though you may enjoy the benefits of the sins of your ancestors, you are not responsible for wha...

So it doesn't really mean anything beyond a vague white supremacist sentiment? I think if we subtract out the internet effect V was talking about, tha...

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:meh:

Have you ever driven from Detroit into Canada? It's like driving into the Land of Oz. Everything is in technicolor. It feels safe and happy. Detroit i...

I don't think I've ever met a Canadian that I didn't like. They're awesome.

Do you write music? For some reason that's blowing my mind. The South seceded because Lincoln was elected. Lincoln was elected because the southern de...

Get off your high Mongolian horse. :razz: The TTC is expressed in 3rd person.

It could be that in some cases this is true, but there are also cases where nationalism wells up from grass roots. It's apt to be a response to a soci...

This passage of your post caused me to have a stunned look on my face. I think I still have it. Really? Couldn't it be that the internet facilitated a...

To do what?

Question the wisdom behind what? I don't understand what you mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP2_4wrCmkA&t=236s

What if the nation is a republic?

Imagine that we're in some sort of multi-dimensional dreamworld. We speak of things beyond the horizon. Upon waking up we would realize that the dream...

You didn't quite catch Posty's point earlier. You are treating objective statements as if they're truth apt. That's all you need to be an embracer of ...

"Objective" is a kind of narrative, usually in third person.

In the US, nationalism is expressed as severe isolationism (as if maybe the rest of the world might do us a solid and disappear). As I mentioned, blac...

That's incorrect. Are you having some kind of reality overload here? Can you not look away? Ill ask the mods to delete this thread if that's the case.