We don't exclude how normal people see the world when attempting to determine the nature of reality anymore than we exclude how abnormal people see th...
If you define reality as how you see it (and I mean you as in Clarky in particular), then that's that. I'm not sure that's useful philosophy. I'm not ...
Except in cases where there is a disconnect between reality and experience, meaning it's not at all goofy to say that the schizophrenic and the drug a...
I need this migraine to go away so that I can see and better comprehend what I'm reading. Maybe I'll write a short story about a guy who falls in love...
This Freudian sounding description might be autobiographical and true to your experience, but it doesn't ring true to mine or my children. The problem...
This test run has helped reduce the anxiety that was building for when we'll vote for real, but do you think you can do a few more of these to get me ...
There seems to be a nexus between the comments in this thread and the replies, despite the fact that all replies are voluntary and not coerced. What t...
Your objection is silly, as if you're so offended on behalf of the apes that they might have been used to describe a less advanced man so much so that...
Certainly traditional Christianity is dualistic, but at some level most every belief system is. That is, everyone acknowledges we experience things an...
I agree. I don't see Neitzche as evil or simplistic. I see his criticisms of traditional ethics as presenting significant challenges to it and I think...
Putting this into the greater context of his writings, I take Neitzche's superman to be a rationally advanced person who rejects the slave morality of...
I've never heard the term, but I do recall the English being really proud of their Sunday roast, which was really dry and served with shriveled potato...
To begin with, fossil fuel extraction and its wide spread use is a miracle of modern science and economic ingenuity unimaginable just 150 years ago, a...
1. If the OP is correct that the statistical likelihood of any event occurring is >0%, then: 2. The statistical probability that I will be able to acc...
Real Madrid is playing Liverpool at the local Taco Mac. It's zero to zero, or nil nil as they say. People are cheering on Liverpool. I dIdn't realize ...
You need a rhythmic external manipulation to stir internal forces with an increasing intensity and focus, slowly building pressure, until a culminatio...
Because he thinks @"counterpunch", who (many months ago) argued that tapping into the earth's magma to resolve our climate change issues, was unfairly...
it's really not ganging up or people even disagreeing with you. I read their objections as being based upon your attempt to create substantive posts i...
Speaking of whatever we're talking about, I was at a happy hour with this young associate, and I asked him if he knew what what my last name meant in ...
He has a compound gripe, which is that white people aren't allowed to gripe when they have an equal basis to gripe. It's a right to the fair gripe thi...
Having read your review, I returned him to the wild where he can live out his feral asshole existence. Good fucking riddance. WAIT! HOLD EVERYTHING! I...
Went for a walk and found a lost dog and called the lost dog people who will look for his lost people. I yelled a bunch of names at his face to try to...
I'm taking today off to extend the long Memorial Day weekend. I'll take Fred to the park and then get naked but for a cocksock and hop in the pool whe...
I have an objection to the OP in combining the mystical with the psychotic. It's one of two things, either it's an altered state brought about by depr...
The question is whether the jury can listen to the facts and apply the law and render a fair judgment. That's been the case since the first jury found...
The question of how jurors can be trusted to follow the law isn't new and now especially challenged by the trans population. Our jury system will pers...
This conversation began regarding the significance of the Johnny Depp trial, with your complaint that it wasn't being treated seriously enough philoso...
Nothing you say here is on point to the question of changing epistemological standards. That societal norms are evolving with regard to gender roles a...
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