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Brianna Whitney

['Member']Joined: December 08, 2017 at 20:38Last active: November 17, 2018 at 02:51None discussions21 comments

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. -Goethe
November 17, 2018 at 02:48
"In order to live an ethical life, we must first identify our wants from needs. Want's can not all be satisfied, per Stoicism." All sources of gratifi...
November 17, 2018 at 02:42
Want, and need, don't exist in present tense. Gratification is a human instinct. Being primal, it doesn't discriminate. For a less philosophic answer,...
November 17, 2018 at 02:11
It’s reflecting a color and absorbing the rest. It is the other colors, it’s separated at the area we see as color. I’m talking of cold, not feeling i...
December 13, 2017 at 07:20
Here’s an interesting take... Everything we see and experience is transposed. We don’t see a color. We perceive it as such, but really it’s the absenc...
December 12, 2017 at 23:49
The expansion of the tech revolution has us people that used library index cards wide eyed in wonder. Children now have access to all information (don...
December 12, 2017 at 23:18
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scepticism Realism is the exact opposite of scepticism. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/realism
December 11, 2017 at 19:22
Sceptism is a tool that uses what isn’t or what hasn’t happened to define what is.
December 11, 2017 at 18:50
Ha. *now* I’ll quote.
December 11, 2017 at 18:08
I’ll quote. ;)
December 11, 2017 at 18:07
Objective morality, if it exists, does so without care to people’s intent. I’m hearing, If you believe in objective morality, than you believe in God,...
December 10, 2017 at 09:54
I hear the phrase as referring to us observing and creating a paradigm as events unfold, not creating new events. Input?
December 10, 2017 at 09:08
There are concepts, actions, and objects. Dissect before you amputate. They aren’t exclusive of each other.
December 10, 2017 at 08:56
Unless we all believe we’re Moist Multi-Dimensional Robots, there’s not enough common context to communicate large theoretical possibilities. MMDR Bot...
December 10, 2017 at 08:42
Hullo! Thnx! Excited to find you all.
December 10, 2017 at 08:08
Action doesn’t exist because what ‘did’ is gone and what ‘will’ hasn’t happened.
December 10, 2017 at 07:30
The process that allows sensory input to create cognition is not a physical thing. It doesn’t ‘exist’, because we’re at a single point in it at any gi...
December 10, 2017 at 07:18
I had no idea you guys were talking about human trafficking, child sex workers, and child labor.
December 10, 2017 at 06:58
Whoa. Open mouth insert foot. Awkward timing is a talent.
December 10, 2017 at 05:13
Whoa. It’s getting feely. Hearing the question as, “How does philosophy benefit human societies?”...Does anyone have some interesting historical info ...
December 10, 2017 at 05:03
More boys than not have a ceremony or apprenticeship between ten and thirteen years old. Societies use this method to teach adulthood. Rites of Passag...
December 08, 2017 at 21:53
By definition, yes. Human Nature https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nature Critical Thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking We u...
December 08, 2017 at 20:51