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OK, I think I get you, sort of like being into philsophy is like being a goth or emo. I don't really experience this, though subcultures might have th...

And you'll notice I didn't say that it did cause any particular individual.. However one of the effects of the advertising is that more people will bu...

but what's the attitude?

1) I am pointing out that the story is actually humbling, since it is based on the idea that they are not the center of the universe, generally, it is...

Where do you get the statistic that most people who genuinely feel hatred at undergoing intense CBT? And what is intense CBT as opposed to the usual C...

How does it seem to be about this`? I'm not skeptical, I just have no idea what this means.

Except if core drive is to feel special would you make up the existence of entities more powerful than you are. And 'specially made' fits, in some way...

All our emotions are knuckle-dragging ape like things. We're social mammals, primates.Just like the other emotions hatred is not a philosophical thing...

So can we consider it causal? Use of advertising at point in time A leads to increased behavior B during time period X. In context overestimation of e...

This an answer to that question, not one related to particles. The experience.

Artists would just be people making it seem like life is better, less painful, part of the natalist propaganda. And in truth, to antinatalists, it wou...

What an amazing coincidence. I remember a guy presuming that the idea that the earth is hexagonal has predictive value as part of a strawman argument ...

So the effects are exaggerated, but there. People need to know, or they wouldn't come buy them. So putting the advertising out there increases the lik...

I think there's some truth in that, but there is also a lot of malice out there, and sometimes in here.

And this is confused also. Desire is not a lack, it is a fullness feeling. There are problems when desire cannot be satisfied or met. But then unless ...

Desire is like a wound when it is very painful. Few of us posting here ever experience hunger as a wound. I enjoy desire, I enjoying just being about ...

So you think that these corporations are wasting their money and haven't figured this out after so many years? And, yes, I realize people can believe ...

I think it might have even been useful if they were out of balance. They were the one who checked the sentries, the nets, the cave opening many times....

I did find this. I can't see the whole article... It's just a hypothesis, but if you read the verbs they mention one can see how they might benefit th...

Or cofused minded people. We make mistakes. But in any case I don't think hate is evil. I think it hate can be horrible and many acts justifed by hate...

What religious texts are not interpreted by man? And if there is one and you've read it, how did you avoid interpreting it? The various religious text...

It was locked but not deleted.

I don't agree with everything I will quote Thomas Szasz on below, but your post made me think of his, and I thought he brings a bit to the thread as a...

I tend to agree. In fact, I tend to look at truth in a few ways. I am eclectic and ad hoc. I actually think most people are. But where it is important...

Can you link to something that supports this idea? I think this would actually support my thesis. If a pattern that causes suffering in one culture le...

But you don't face down strong criticism, you just bark a lot. Facing down strong criticism, involves interacting with the ideas you encounter, not di...

There's someone who is a good role model for adult behavior with a suggestion above. Unfortunately scrolling down this thread led to his very short in...

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I'm wondering why you feel like you should be in an improvement coach role with someone you don't know, and how you know better than they do about how...

I am sure I am blocking sincere people with real products. They're just marketing. I use the highest settings. Sometimes things get blocked that shoul...

l haven't seen it. There is the pleasure in a bad movie.

yes, it doesn't seem to work/be there.

I think both more realistic and less realistic styles are interesting and have their aesthetic uses. I don't think we have to choose nor should we. Of...

One can do this, but it is easier to get drawn in. While a spam filter on my email is dealing with a great deal more things I want weeded out, the pri...

Ignore list? I asked about this in another thread, I couldn't find the function, either the one for threads or for members

I think this depends. When does the hate come up? Is it habitual - iow are there other emotions we have a harder time facing, so we convert fear or gr...

...and at this time period.

Yes, I am intentionally muddying the water. These cultural neuroses may be milder in individual cases, however they are vastly more widespread, cost u...

Hats off to the treating the question as an insult, allowing you a 'justification' not to answer, so that when you continue to present the false dilem...

Sugercoat. Again the false dichtomy. Just argue the case, show the errors. Right. But that has nothing to do with my point. You picked a poor example,...

So do you agree or disagree with what I said, or do you think the options are either being nicey nicey or being insulting. Is it possible to be respec...

Re: my comment in the other thread. You didn't have to be nicey nicey to me here, but there's no reason to say 'speak dumb' here. Now you made up a de...

this is a false dilemma. You are presenting it as if the options are say surperficial nicey-nicey stuff or be insulting. You can avoid both and focus ...

But that's what pragmatists do. They see process where other see final forms. To a pragmatist facts in minds are actually processes. And they are part...

He said it was only true with regards to utility. The only way to see if it is true is related to utility. There is no knowing something is true witho...

Actually it has too matter if it is useful. A fact that has no predictive value is meaningless. At a bare minimum the idea that the earth is not flat ...

I get you here. Hm. I guess we should avoid conflating things. I think elegance and sense of understanding can lead to it being useful - seems like ma...

I tend to agree, but then I am a bit of an instrumentalist. So,I would strengthen to say we can do more than speculate, less than determine which is b...

Also, when scientific analysis is available, that analysis is sitting on implicit and/or explicit metaphysics. That's what models are, that's what ass...

I agree with your concerns. I think the concept can be useful if the person themselves feels like they are not enjoying life as much as others who hav...