Well, they know they believe in the trains enough for them to be dangerous. (lol, but also seriously) We often talk about belief like it is binary and...
Sure, but the other model leaves room for finding value in what the other person is experiencing, but putting it in a different context: metaphorical,...
I think it might be better to say that the diagnosis presumes it, rather than proves it. So we have a way of determining something is not there or not...
YOu can't trust it to be infallible, but you rarely need infallibility. Michael Jordan was not infallible, but coaches, fellow players and he himself ...
Well, I suppose, in the sense of apart. But it would be like, oh, you like this way of life, here's a universe for you. Apartheid in the south african...
In a multiverse you could have the people who like war, say, and keep out the people who would like other kinds of challenges. Store them in the 'hey ...
I think there are a bunch of scientific attitudes: 1) let's make sure it's what we think it is by eliminating other possibilities 2) let's do it a lot...
IOW you're not especially effective at spreading the ideas, but you know people are curious, especially philosophers, and presumably hope that they wi...
Let's say that's true. Then us knowing this or thinking this wouldn't matter either. Whatever happens in the mind of creatures that do not matter, wou...
We need a definition of happiness. But right off the bat we do things to avoid pain, or unhappiness. And parents would die to save their children, whi...
What if a parent reads this, feels like they have committed some kind of crime against their kid and kills themself`? Shouldn't you get consent before...
Of course, they do this. In school I was not allowed to defend myself physically. The teachers, at least many of them would if they were attacked on t...
Sigh. I mean, sure. I am not arguing that parents are infallible. Mine weren't. But the truth is you, when you were younger, had to listen to your par...
The whole point of my argument is we may not be in a postion to know. Just as a child might not know. Just as a civilian might not know what was neces...
I think the problem is even deeper. To not give a shit about what other people do (to you) requires not giving a shit about everything. A person might...
That would require something equivalent to setting up a prison state inside myself. IOW John's argument would be even stronger in related to my giving...
I think it's a floppy misleading term with moral baggage that is of no use. I think the only fair use of laziness is when someone has a particular goa...
Officially people may support only one school, but in practice pretty much everyone is eclectic. They will use a number of different epistemologies to...
Right but my point is that we accept that already at the human level. Right. But that doesn't really affect my argument. My argument is that we accept...
I'm not an Abrahamist but I think there are parallels in behavior we accept in humans with extra authority and power. Children are often told not to d...
There is a marketing approach from pharma that leads to new diagnoses with the first and strong motivation in creating new markets. This is not remote...
On the one hand it is less empirical, but on the other it is often more empirical since sociological studies can show correlation and cause related to...
I'm sorry to hear this. It is a money making paradigm based on poor philosophy and questionable science. My mother ended up 'in their care' and her me...
Certainly possible. Sean Penn has said sometimes he hates acting. My impression is it was being taken over by the character he hated. Gestalt therapy ...
If you pay attention carefully over time to yourself in waking states, you will notice that it is not so different. Different subpersonalities take ov...
So when you refer to humans as the most insecure and weak species, you mean when they are babies? This was regarding the selfish gene and personality....
I don't think we are the weakest species. Not in physical strength, nor in adaptivity. We have driven a number of species extinct. We can beat up many...
But then they have to smuggle the drugs which risks prison and more. They have to hire criminals to sell the drugs and monitor that whole process. The...
No, I am asking you questions... According to you we are... .... the most weak and insecure species. and... Our DNA, the selfish gene, drives us to be...
And with us, our DNA, the selfish gene, made us the most weak and insecure animal on the planet? As you say this gene that drives us to be the fittest...
I assume the prices would drop radically once the risk of growing and selling was radically reduced. It is in the interests of the cartels that the dr...
Even logic, in application, depends on intuition. First because the premises are made up of language and language is floppy. We can't logically analyz...
I agree but I also think (oh, oh) that 'thinking' and 'logic' aren't quite terms in the same category. Like I would change your quote above to... and ...
I think there needs to be a distinction between reasoning and intution, the former verbal, logical (at least ideally), the latter black boxed, the pro...
In context this is interesting to me ironically. Here the corporations listen. If something might cost them sales they may back down, change approach....
It means it can be a rationalization to do something that might not be good at all. If the choice is presented as feel terrible about it forever or ta...
Probably. It can be painful to notice what is really happening or that things might be better. Hopefully there comes a time when things shift or you d...
Yes, their values have shaped the world. I don't think for the most part they are the creators of these values. They are taken from traditions and eve...
1) love is not logical - that is like faith. It is non-logical 2) there is faith in involved in tfhinking that those feelings of attraction can lead t...
There are always legal ways to take revenge. I agree. It's something I struggle with. I think if one gets passed certain kinds of stages in ones own l...
These people will stand in the rain and snow outside of planned parenthood, willing to talk or yell at anyone for months. You're just making stuff up ...
Those are not a solution to most people's pain. Let's say you think the world is never going to provide you the love you want, you're heart has been b...
No, but either way we have a large group and the group continues. It does slowly change its beliefs. The mob in Rome (cause I think that's what the Ro...
I am sure some don't, though I see a lot disappointed: in God, in life, in their country...and changing. The mass may stay the same but individuals ca...
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