Jeremy Murray

Of course I did, I sent it to you, after searching through his 2025 in review post for the article I read previously. I read nearly everything Turley ...

I see a lot of tortured, hypothetical reasoning in 'woke' argumentation, but I think the judge (Lodder) is pretty clear. Per Turley, "Lodder makes cle...

I found the 'racist man in bedroom' free-speech story, https://jonathanturley.org/2021/05/26/toxic-ideology-english-neo-nazi-given-four-years-for-his-...

Hi Flannel. Mine was a subpar response to your OP. I couldn't find my own example via Google either, for one thing, but mostly, having been cancelled ...

right. I support trans people, and I agree with those statements. and in that data you found the evidence about the much higher number of detransition...

https://theonepercentdetrans.substack.com/ Here is Kinnon Makinnon's substack. Try anything he writes. You will find nuance. I mean, you know he is a ...

I am non-partisan and ProTrans. You, apparently aren’t, since you can’t be bothered to do basic research, as demonstrated by your lack of basic knowle...

I read this thread from beginning to end before posting. I believe your 'stats' have already been debunked.

Great. Problem solved. It is true, I'm a Canadian, and I have no idea how you can spend so much time living in the UK and not know this to be true? Cr...

You need more and better research than 'according to Google'. According to actual expert debates, research, historical perspective, and most important...

Thanks for the question J. I'm not confident in my deployment of logic, (or really the language of academic philosophy in general) so I should have us...

Thanks. I sincerely believe this to be a reality that gives one a unique perspective on ability, as taken with a broad perspective. Are you a proponen...

Right. I've had similar concerns. I guess my premise is that there is something about that 'stuff' that furthers the project, meaningfully, for some p...

Some people enjoy the mania. I agree, ultimately, that the individual gets to choose. I don't know what my friend might have done differently had he r...

100%. I've enjoyed this thread, but with no real educational background in philosophy, some of the nuance is lost to me. that said, your comment here ...

My friend's suicide in high school most likely triggered my brother's schizophrenia, which lead to his addictions, which lead to his OD death, which m...

Sacks inspires me still, and I loved "The Man Who...". When I read it for an intro psych course in the 90s, I thought it was 'objective' and recall it...

Fascinating thread guys. Aren't religious concepts of 'omnipotence' or 'omni-benevolence' just as impossible to comprehend as scientific concepts of '...

Hello Banno, sorry for the delayed response. The black dog barks loudest this time of the year. I feel your counterpoint tragic, but I can't tell from...

I agree with you Moliere. Prior to a string of bereavements and tragedies, I was able to find that balance in life. A functional depressive, if you wi...

My ex was an audio describer for blind people attending public gatherings, and gradually came into contact with the 'dis-arts' community and various a...

Helping others is as good a practice as there is for people with depression. And I certainly think it is easier to support people when you, too, have ...

Great quote. I need to read Emil Cioran, where's a good place to start? A phenomenology of depression? Interesting idea, but I don't think it inevitab...

Fair enough, and it does. I can't believe in the mystical stuff either, but I do see value in ritual for those that do, or who practice it as ritual. ...

Hi Moliere, what a great ritual with Camus. I was reading "The Outsider" for the first time in the summer when my neighbors little kids came by sellin...

How does one live authentically with 'injustice'? The 'injustice' of chronic illness you suffer from, the 'injustice' of multiple tragic bereavements ...

I struggled with the 'triteness' of a lot of the advice I was given as my bereavements mounted and my mental health and illnesses worsened. Almost alw...

It's a dark thought, 'life will only get worse' but perhaps an accurate prediction, in some cases. I have read about the classic U-shaped life-long ha...

Hi Hypercin, thanks for that response. Seeing a 29-year old woman in that situation is terribly sad, and yet a part of me feels happy for her, in that...

Isn't determinism a fairly common thread in philosophy? I was arguing for the choice to believe among those that have considered the arguments against...

Also a too-broad generalization, also contested by the indigenous people I know. Isn't this stereotype referred to as 'the noble savage'?

I'm not talking about woke types retconning trans identities on famous figures. Historically, anthropologically, there have been people who we would l...

I had to look up 'apophatic'. I love that about TPF. I can be an atheist and still respect religious belief, and I agree completely with the way you h...

Trans is a 'true' identity, and has existed historically everywhere. It's just that this modern iteration of that identity does not align with how it ...

Excellent questions. I am new to philosophy (apologies if this is obvious), and have always thought of the problem of evil in the lay sense - why do b...

Are you making a deterministic argument here/throughout? Who was it that argued that they 'prefer' to believe in free will? I find myself aligned with...

Hello PS, What we are seeing globally in terms of immigration is vastly different than what was happening even 5-10 years ago. Here in Canada, hundred...

Depression is a 'mental illness' but it is neurotic, rather than psychotic. I think it better to view neurotic 'mental illnesses' as skewing or limiti...

Hi GreekSkeptic, Sorry to hear of your existential suffering. I share that burden myself, and despite the gap in years between us, found myself relati...

Not so, if it occupies the world pre-judgement, which I believe is what you are illustrating when you say the cat and mouse are not 'selves'? Is it no...

Sorry for the late response Joshs, but to answer your questions, Sure I would. And yes-ish? I am a lay philosopher, recently interested, but I have co...

Thanks! And sorry for the delayed response, I continue to battle the black dog. Did you leave teaching due to the turning tides? I'm not sure I could ...

Going back to your OP, I increasingly like this definition of the 'purpose' of philosophy. Why indeed. I should frame my questioning to reflect just h...

That, alone, is interesting. I have no formal philosophy background, but perhaps naively came here looking for a new way of looking at current events....

Thanks for the reply Philosophim. Three points that all seem "made for philosophers to tackle". Am I correct in thinking that philosophers are general...

Lots of good articulations of the 'purpose' of philosophy. I came to TPF as a lay philosopher, rediscovering interests I had set aside due to no longe...

Hi Philosophism, thanks for the reply. Is this form of religion really groupthink? I am a staunch atheist, so I have no skin in this game, but it feel...

A nice, succinct take on the subject. Do you think the Doomsday cult scenario in which cultists simply 'double down' on a reinterpretation of their in...

Thank you for saying that! This question, or versions of it, seems central to many western conceptions of mental health and mental illness. I describe...

Hello unenlightened, I agree with you here. I think it entirely worthwhile to keep the limitations of science generally and brain science specifically...