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Maybe we'll need to agree to disagree, but Harris has never said anything particularly note-worthy on this front to my mind. O'Connor bites many bulle...

That definitely sounds like Peterson's kind of leap-frog conclusion. Which sucks - despite probably inviting the Hoardes, I think Peterson is great as...

I think this is true. We cannot point at life. We can't point to the button, switch, mechanism etc.. that causes or in which consists, life. We must, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmXAiHTzJVs Swoooooooning.

Sounds like Jordan Peterson.

I think Sam does a typically bad job of grouping his emotional position - that human well-being, on his account, is an objective basis for Morality. E...

Are Chet and Kizzy the same guy responding to each other? Constant conjunction and all that...

There seem to be many critiques 2,, 3. and 4. I've not fully vetted these sources.

Junkies do opt out when they have sufficient reason. I've done so. And it is the opposite of suicide. You just have to dress up the same for both occa...

I think that's a little far, But i'm, generally, with you. This seems to be a Universal consideration not derived from, or even best embodied in the B...

"Or they're... talking to themselves" - Metatron Heh. They nearly got it right

Why are you talking to a non-existent audience in a performative act reminiscent of a broody 15 year old? And further, why have you taken Twitter spea...

I'm with it! If you guys can throw out a date, I'll set another one up and hang out for longer.

My suggestion is to grow out of being a broody 15 year old. Might be taken seriously.

Ill take that rent now.

I have to say, I find absolutely nothing praise worthy in this story. It seems like weirdo childish moralising about things that don't make a huge amo...

There isn't one.

Genuinely think it's the low-hanging fruit. It's always going go through phases of people wanting the easier meat.

You could have not made your comment. But you did. I shall collect the rent next time.

It doesn't, so that's a reasonable response. But you have (imo, wilfully) misread the point. God communicating in any way that cannot be teased out fr...

I don't think you're adequately engaged with this exchange. This does not say anything, whatever, about the claim quoted. That said, I appreciate what...

I think it would be a relatively short thread, for my part. I am fine being in the experience machine.

I think I am pretty much on this same wavelength. None of it matters, ultimately. But its all a lot of fun!

I think you're missing the specific point i'm making here, which accepts your criticism of what's being asked. I agree, if God was termed to speak thr...

While it's probably impossible to reject the underlying idea (that relationships are unavoidable, and carry meaning even if we ignore it) I don't thin...

Around the end of the second century, apparently. There are other ways these things have changed over time, also. Ah, this sort of begs the question. ...

Yes, that's the part that is 'rub'-y. Harris (Sam) put its well - how is it possible that a decaying mind(dementia) that no longer recognises one's ch...

Yes, we are. But that wasn't quite my point. My point was that the motivational factor seems to stem from merely a discomfort with certain answers, re...

What a horribly bad existence you must lead. Take acid. Buy a hooker.

FWIW, I read this as a great question, not any kind of dig or gotcha. Yeah, that is the question (in this context - i also am making this same claim a...

Hmm. Okay, I appreciate you. I do not think you addressed what i'm saying though. You've restated it. This speaks the same language as what I was enqu...

This is the thing. The thing. It simply isn't needed, until we can assess why. At what point what a being need phenomenal consciousness? It's an accid...

Fair enough. I guess I'm plumbing the 'I don't want' part of it, which seems a little more personal. To me, it seems that this wish has informed a hug...

You can find it many other places, depending on your dispositions. I think it's reasonable to know this, a head of time, so you don't despair if those...

Do you see a lot of historical baggage in this view?

I agree, and I actually vaguely recall that this is what the research shows regarding some recurrent elements of dreaming, qua human dream, rather hta...

:ok: This is hte perfect place for Hume's 'constant conjunction'.

As an outsider, who has spent significant time in the USA, I think the charges of the kind OP makes are over-blown, somewhat hangover concepts. Not ma...

You continue to astound.

This is clearly untrue, without much need to qualify that. We can understand 'direct' without a perfect conception of indirect and vice verse. Even a ...

I have no clue what you're talking about now. I didn't claim you lied. Not sure how your first utterance is either true, or relevant here. I don't car...

I think you're just wrong about people's thoughts. I don't think I've heard anyone make the former claim without acknowledging the latter. It's Islam'...

Thats true. I take Churchills line on this.

You are free to ask. That may be your defensive position, but I don't take it all that seriously. I am aware of socialisation in many animal genii, sp...

I don’t quite recognise my claims in its responses to me.

So, yes, rule of the majority. And it is tyrannous if the basis for that interference with 'transgressors' is violent or restrictive.

This doesn't establish any knowledge, my man. This merely puts you in the same position of 'other minds' worriers. It does not establish anything abou...

I think this is a bit of red herring for Moralists. There is never going to be a consensus. There is going to be a majority rule. I cannot see my way ...

Yet, you intuited it perfectly in your next paragraph? I smell nonsense. I genuinely, given the above making little sense to me, don't know which aspe...

That is a shame; it's been a long whirl :P MUch appreciated!