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I've been thinking about that recently. It's interesting to see the AI play it out.

Your point seemed to be that a marriage (that is without any other kind of evidence) may be a feature of the world by virtue of your attitude: Note th...

Ha! It speculates about how it answered the question.

Right. The US just isn't in an aggressive mood right now. Though Biden is a hawk (one who is quick to military action), the US on the whole is isolati...

The US government doesn't want to provoke a war or attempt to bring about social changes through threats.

There are sentient beings behaving as if they have obligations. For a variety of reasons, the details of this are inscrutable. It's incredible!

Yea, I don't think he was being disingenuous. He just wasn't up for a discussion about ontology. He didn't seem to understand that his points were irr...

I think the groundwork is forming for a shift in the US toward greater authoritarianism. The trigger for the change would be something like a war. The...

Responsibility is a separate issue from knowledge of the good.

The conflict between them is whether knowledge of the good is innate or learned. I think Aristotle was a little of both.

Exactly. What exists in the world is you behaving as if there are certain rules you ought to follow.

@"AmadeusD" can settle which of us read him correctly when he said "literally no evidence." I think he meant there is no fact regarding the existence ...

No, I understood you. I was just saying they've always had an external source of grief. They don't have to generate it for themselves like Gentiles do...

Yea. The Jews have never caught a break from holocausts long enough to disappear into the oblivion of bliss.

These are two outlooks we've inherited about the innateness of goodness: 1. Hebrew: You're born blank. You don't know good from evil, and must learn i...

Ok. This is just the opposite of what I thought you were saying. Your purpose is to live in accordance with your nature.

What purpose do you have?

It's a commonplace that if no evidence exists for X, X doesn't exist. By this we don't mean you have to have that evidence in your hand. It just means...

This is true, but might not be obvious to some. Some will insist that a proposition can be true even though there is no fact of the matter, a fact bei...

You said: Are you saying people should see purpose as something they receive? From where?

I think creating your own purpose is more likely to lead you into society because humans are synergistic. For most of us, the greatest expression of s...

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Telos was cast aside by Democritus about 50 years before Aristotle. 'Things do not come into existence for a purpose, but having come into existence, ...

Not unless Biden dies or is incapacitated. So you probably didn't know today is Independence Day for Americans. Like maybe independence wasn't such a ...

The British think they're so great with their candidates who can speak in complete sentences.

How so? What makes you think this?

There was this guy who had little seashells coming out of his skin, like tiny ones so it didn't hurt. I was trying to signal to him that it was ok, he...

The Portuguese started the Atlantic slave trade. Before they set the plan in motion, they put the question of its morality to the Pope. He said, "Sure...

See, this is why you make the big bucks, because you can express a shrug in two paragraphs.

It's a lucky person who has friends who will grab them back and talk sense into them when they're headed toward a bad place. But when you're helping y...

Is there some principle you follow even though it's contrary to what you feel in your heart? I certainly hope not. That's how gang members are made. T...

Note that the quote at the beginning of your post is not supposed to be expressing the view of a CEO. Gordon Gekko was Wall Street. This is a totally ...

I don't think you can do much until he actually rapes somebody. Then you have to call the cops.

All Kripke did was change it from sensation to historic rule following. He didn't do any violence to Wittgenstein. He just pointed out the consequence...

It was his answer to the old problem of evil, right?

Right. That's what I said.

One would expect that before you kill someone, you would think about whether it's the right thing to do. In my dream, I didn't hesitate. This is my th...

I once had a dream where a mafia hitman followed me to North Dakota to kill me. There was a moment in the dream where I knew someone was going to die,...

This is pretty much Kripkenstein. You just need to apply the principle to historic rule following. For Emerson, it wasn't a wishy washy situation. Aro...

Good points, I agree.

That's ok. :smile:

The pendulum swings between two poles: understanding and judgment (I got this from cabbalism, ha!) If I fall deeply toward understanding, then I event...

After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations, Cline

You follow your nature. Your nature changes when you learn how much pain others are in and how much they're just like you. It's the nature of a child ...

But to finally act requires judgment, an end to discussion. Isn't that what it's all about?

Particularly in relationships, I've had the opportunity to be on both sides: the asshole and the wronged party. I know what the crime feels like from ...

Life isn't fair.

:grin: The NYT is protected by the first amendment. In the 1970s, the Supreme Court ruled that this extends to embarrassing military secrets. We all k...

That's interesting. I've never had it (knock on wood) in spite of being exposed to it quite a few times. Maybe I have that gene!

Yes, the NY Times published leaked documents. No, they weren't prosecuted.