https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6200658/ Be careful to read about the consistent trends in childhood temperment, put on a nice little gra...
A cool idea I thought of that pertains to this thread: Upon reviewing my thoughts on this, it occured to me that I can't really find sources of racism...
Brilliantly asserted, my astude friend. And most true, indeed. To claim an immaterial reality, is to claim a contradictory assertion. One must have ev...
Evil defined. The sacrifice of the Human Consciousness for the sake of another's. Humanity must be a ceremonial animal for you. Loving someone is figh...
relativistic mass -- mass when an object is in motion, as opposed to at rest This is what light has. Has no rest mass, but has energy which has mass, ...
Got any historical examples of non-violatory socialism? You understand socialism is murderous when not predicated on the above stated primary principl...
No, we just existed in primitive, agrarian tribes. There was nothing that was an established framework of thought on the subject, that was an Epicurea...
I just explained to you how that psychological process unfolds as a development. I too was speaking strictly from what I know of how the brain stores ...
You'll notice I'm the one doing the de-categorization. Hence: amorphus concepts. People are too complex to really categorize like that. It can work a ...
Yes. It's very funny too, because, even those doing the threatening are doing so out of some perceived threat of the exact same kind, just inversed. N...
Yes, it doesn't actually require it taking place, humans need only perceive such a threat to respond in defense. That's why when you're dealing among ...
No, you're misunderstanding entirely. You've practically just reiterated my exact point and then criticized a conclusion that I didn't express. Let me...
A completely fair assessment, my friend. However, a couple things. The only people the stand outside the purview of the paradigm I am suggesting, are ...
This is a funny mixture of composition, hasty generalization, and division fallacies all at once: https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/fallacies.html#:~:t...
Good, I have no wish to. But, it is specifically idea in your head that you are talking about, nothing more. The absolute truth you told me is going t...
If conceptions of the world were always present in the world, then unicorns would be real. That's why Kant was not very good at this philosophy thing....
Yep. I can tell you that such is an inevitability of stealing money to give to others on an institutionalized basis. If you feel as thought it is your...
I keep getting this strange feeling while studying neuroscience, that the ability for us to ever understand how consciousness actually arises from the...
Cowards? You have to imagine that such a decision to vote for a lesser of two evils, is done out of what you fear could be the outcome. We sure we're ...
This is true. But, it is through the empirical verification of truth from whence we start. To dismiss that which is established as truth with the evid...
Well, of course there are going to be the psycho/neurological reasons for depression. Many are going to be some sort of chemical imbalance, or circums...
Did you miss the part where everytime somebody attempts socialism from a state administrative level, millions of people get slaughtered? Maybe you sho...
Well, empiricism is the legacy of Epicurus, from whose views Stoicism and Skepticism were emergent. Epicurus was the direct challenge to Platonism and...
A Romantic way to look a murderer in the eyes and say "I see you, motherfucker." I love it when people look evil in face like that, if only to simply ...
Any truth that could be found in the not absolute category, would at that moment constitute a place in the absolute state of truth. It's completely re...
Democratic systems that are systems defined by monopolized use of force, are precisely at fault for almost everything we're talking about. Russia's cu...
lol, there's no such thing. Never has been. Everything I'm talking about, and everything you could identify as an issue that you're talking about is c...
A little bit of all of it, really. There's something sick about all of this that we've all been detecting for sometime, blaming on things that are con...
Hah! No worries. In the end, ethics is individual pursuit. I know there's no saving anything. I just wished more people valued what they really are. I...
If the current system of violation remains standing, this is what I mean. And yes, that's what seems to be the case. But, if we all can at least hold ...
No, it's sociopathic to attempt to convince them that they aren't controlled by the single most sophisticated and complex system in the known universe...
My bad, I meant among the first things. Typo. But, if I recall, the first thing I learned as a student was the history of the tradition. So, you kind ...
I see. You and I are in accord. Yes, the emergent universe is beyond wonderous, but it is wonderous in its own majesty. For what it is. As far as logi...
This is correct. No, the attempt to relegate the complexity of the brain so as to be defined by nothing, is exactly what was invented by murderous soc...
This disconnection in your mind is a big issue. One has to inform the other, or it isn't philosophy. THere's no intellectual contention there. Just on...
No, like I said, if you are using a delimited definition, it is your job to explain that. Not my job to understand all definitions of a term that appl...
You see how not ALL? You see seeing that detail you're leaving out for some reason? The child to whom you've not presented an argument, but have arbit...
What does this mean? You believe something for which no evidence suggest, and no reason would provide you to believe. He wouldn't, good is a human con...
The definition doesn't care how reductive you are about it's usage, you'll need to actually clarify that you are ONLY speaking about monetary profit, ...
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