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Vomit.

Searle says the man on the street is a Cartesian.

Idealistic, materialistic, some combo of the two?

What a jip!

Thorongil was the one who said he's so severely mentally challenged that he doesn't really know what he's saying when he repeatedly professes preferen...

So how would you describe your common sense metaphysics?

No. I was asking if common sense speech and behavior implies dualistic beliefs.

Or possibly too stupid to realize he was a Nazi.

Common sense says ideas are real things. Common sense says physical stuff is real. Dualistic?

Maybe he was a stupid Nazi.

Would you say common sense is dualistic?

109 year old veteran of WW2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyfCGDnuWs&t=213s

I wasn't going to talk to him anymore anyway.

LOL. So he really did have an empty head?

If Emptyheady isn't a Nazi sympathizer, he's an idiot. So I guess you're opting for idiot?

Yes. There's plenty of plastic in landfills. Plenty of coal to fuel the production of nuclear power plants.

"Ground of being" is Christian mysticism. It goes back at least to Meister Eckhart. It's pretty much what it sounds like. As opposed to God being on h...

Sounds interesting. Thanks!

I think you should feel free to interpret the OP as you see fit.

Cool!

Interesting. I think the concept of divinity is and always has been what we would either call mind or life (mostly, anyway.) Is it really two kinds of...

Croissant.

He was wrong about his initial statement. Proportionally, Nazis were worse than socialists.

The Nazis didn't stay in Germany. Lol

Dude. By your rules, Nazi Europe was worse. I'm pretty familiar with what Communism did to the world. I didn't know the Nazism was worse proportionall...

How does the Holocaust compare to communist China proportionally?

How does the Holocaust compare to the USSR in terms of proportion?

Venezuela? If you're impressed by scale you should go straight for communist China.

Are you saying that without particles, there is no causality?

Calm down. The support in question was for Anglo-american dictatorship. That's crazy talk. Thus anger.

That's true. But it ain't over till the fat lady sings. There's still a giant unused nuclear arsenal in the world.

He's probably just angry about something. Give him space.

What work?

.Why should we go into outer space? For the fun of it!

I think we should be climbing off this planet. I don't think cold fusion will help with that.

Tell him he probably needs to go back on his meds.

More coal and nuclear use. They didn't finish investigating hot fusion. Might try that again. I think they'll start mining old landfills for plastic.

Could you expand on the connection to volition?

I was thinking more about idealism, materialism (either of which can be eliminative or reductive), neutral monism, etc. I think theism is generally go...

I'd say make a different thread.

I imagine it means no taxes or regulations for corporations. Then we all climb into the way-back machine and redo the 19th and early 20th centuries. Y...

Maybe they meant some sort of Derrida-like approach?

Deconstruction of the administrative state. What?

Sure. Go for it. My thought was put together specific questions, email them off, and then publish the answers in a thread. In a thread a while back, I...

I see from looking at other plush forums that there is blog capability. I don't really like it though. I don't believe they can do what I had in mind.

I'll take one with mustard. Now go practice your I Ching.

Ok. I'm actually confused about how much energy to put into it. I'll write out something like a pitch. Couple of paragraphs.

Don't you have some camels to feed?

I'm getting a "Resistance is futile" vibe from Yaha. The Ask the Philosopher will just be some threads. No bother.

So it is doable, there just isn't anybody who has the time to do it. Thus I said keep it in mind in case that changes and someone wants to experiment ...