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A war is a large scale expression of natural aggression. We can imagine that energy being redirected, but you're asking if we have the power to do tha...

Poke the crocodile, get eaten.

Yes. The First Amendment protects journalists, and the spirit of it might have been extended to Assange, but the information about that war crime was ...

I'm already aware that embracing a Utopian vision is dangerous. I thought you might have insight about that. This is about global warming, not God.

That's not true. The authenticity of the data was confirmed by the US military and a public discussion about the legality of the action took place.

How would that help?

I'm not sure what that means. This is the sort of thing they want to discuss with him.

It only helps the US for people to believe that. There's no downside.

They want information.

They know how he got that data. I don't think they have the CIA leak or the Clinton source.

They don't care what you believe.

When?

Absolutely. What's the secret to avoiding the bad outcomes?

You guys never seem to know when to believe the US government and when not to. They don't care about war crimes.

Other things that are like that include tools and medicine. Every medicine is also a poison. The pope's view was that faith is about healing.

If pressed for an example you just resort to a no true Scotsman fallacy. We've already seen that the pope disagrees with you, so, no. .

Supposedly we're already in the sticky phase (where it's happening because it's happening). Every day another bank ceo announces that were going into ...

They probably want to ask him how he got the Clinton data.

I'm saying Deleuze wouldn't know Schopenhauer if he was bitten in the ass by him. Actually, I don't know anything about Deleuze. He may have dwelt pro...

No, in WWR, he pictures Will as the thing-in-itself. I don't understand that quote from Deleuze. His Will is what moves everything. Your body is how y...

Of course not

What do you mean?

And the last episode launched the neoliberal era. If we go into stagflation, which would mean the Fed's interest rate hikes don't bring inflation unde...

Sounds like you have a bit of a chip on your shoulder.

He's talking about S's idea that the will is the thing in itself. S eventually decided against that. N is here agreeing with Kant.

Most of the quote you posted isn't contra Schopenhauer. I didn't say he was a faithful disciple, but you seemed to be asserting that N turned against ...

It rains diamonds on Jupiter.

I checked in with some professors on reddit. In some ways the later N is opposed to Kant, but he never strayed from basic Kantian metaphysics, that is...

I missed that. Where does he shoot down Kant?

For Schopenhauer, the only way to keep the will active is by, well, creating drama, problems to be solved, evil to be overcome. Nietzsche’s point is t...

Opposition to Schopenhauer's pessimism, yes.

If by that, you mean he didn't incorporate supernatural causes into his philosophy, yes. For N, truth is always a metaphor, though, so he certainly wa...

What I've been trying to say is that the two directions don't have to be in conflict. They can work together. Engineering is an activity where the two...

That makes sense.

You could probably use the word that way. Jim's faith in his ability to fly finally resulted in his death. The Sierra Club's faith in the justice syst...

Suzy was certain that she'd won the lottery, but she was wrong. Suzy believed her shoes allowed her to fly, but she installed a net below her window j...

If they would redistribute with the welfare of everyone in mind, they would be our heroes.

I don't know. Possibly delusional. Going back to faith as a movement toward healing (as laid out by the pope), reaching out for a solution (as @"unenl...

yes yes yes

Have you read Fear and Trembling?

Ha. In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard says Abraham had the hope that takes the form of madness. Sometimes maybe madness is needed.

In a way, you do. When Kierkegaard talks about having faith in your own acceptableness, think about the emotions that keep you from embracing that. Em...

I know what being deeply entrenched in pessimism means, so there's no shock value here (not that you meant that). I don't ail so as to need hope as a ...

You mean in order to live, you need faith?

Hopeless people tend to be misanthropic. Belief in God supports faith in people. It did for MLK Jr anyway.

Is this an unthinking faith? Is that what you mean?

I'm not sure what your point is here. How would you define philosophical optimism?

I get that. I dont have that particular allergy. If I can learn something from religion, I won't let that sort of thing stand in my way. It's a kind o...

You may be right. As I said, I'm exploring hope and optimism. The Judeo-Christian tradition just happens to be centered around oppression and overcomi...

How do you think they relate?