At last - at this final cathartic moment - PF has delivered the true enlightenment which all these years I have laboured to acquire and through which ...
-Seems I'm an irredeemably damned soul indeed! (- And btw what a model of graceful articulacy that first para of yours is!) :) Anyway, my old Collins ...
Baden: I don’t want to protract this thing, though your comments are more constructive. However here for reference is the post at issue that was remov...
Heister: I'm not saying jamalrob 'necessarily' made a bad move there or anything - he sounded broken-hearted enough with no hint of gratuitisnous at a...
Well, there really is nothing like constructive advice - and that reply of yours was indeed really nothing like that but instead rather a clueless exa...
Yeah - Seems some more than others must be required to inculcate that virtue of stoicism being the sole prescription recommended by atheism as the omn...
Thanks for comments. Of course individual contentment is contingent on personal aspiration as well as situation, and restrictions resulting from disab...
Well, exepting the remedies cosmetic surgery may perhaps provide for the less endowed and most inexcusably disatisfied, It's nonetheless a commonly ad...
A rational answer - though also one, forgive me, which I think is at times representative of a somewhat egocentric point of view emanating from the pe...
From our egocentric human view point, I'd suggest prima facie that the more pertinent question surely is - inasmuch as the answer would determine whet...
Yeah - I would say that the two alternative life scenarios which I initially presented here boil down to a choice between whether on the one hand you ...
Timeline: - Without intending to be patronising – it’s refreshing to hear a female voice, for a change, in this forum! I’ve always been a bit curious ...
Yeah! - And to think I know quite a few similar types who seem capable of confounding the laws of reality by being able to reconcile an apparantly suc...
Sapientia: I would say that the general point to recognise concerning such discrepancies of personal experience among individuals regarding their inte...
-Ah yes, that!...Well, on reading it again, I think in retrospect that I have in fact answered the question - that it's all essentially a subjective m...
The principle surely is that our interpretation via sensory perception of external stimuli must by definition inescapably involve an interplay between...
Yeah, I've noticed that as well - how farting can sometimes feel like you're releasing an egg, that is! Wonderful, isn't it - how all these centuries ...
To expand on what I meant in my last post btw: - asuming anyone’s still watching that is! - The methodology of Science – proceeding as this does by me...
Still - regarding the point of my opening post - Isn’t there something intrinsically demeaning and tragic towards the self respect of a human being co...
Have to say though that - All-in-all - I've been lured into descending worse kinds of rabbit-holes than this particular site represents - if also ones...
Maybe there's a 'Queen of Hearts' type figure presiding over this site - its' (the site's) ideas also sometimes similarly existing in a sort of parall...
As a, 'By the way’ - I’ve always been rather curious myself as to whether the blatant incongruity of both the attitudes of Left and Right towards 'Abo...
Er...touching photo of young Hanover there - Only hope that wasn't his good side! Anyway, in a gentler vain..."Lawyers, I suppose, were children once....
Sure and Certain sign? - I once knew a guy who was foolhardy enough to deny the existence of God an' then - eight months later...his goldfish got up a...
Bitter Crank: Yeah - Seems the now traditional conceit peculiar to the Modern Popular Music movement that it’s shock effect on older generations deriv...
NB:- Among various personal regrets of my own, some more significant than others of course, is one whereby as a teenager - when at the time it represe...
There is a concept - surely intrinsic to most human beings regarding any situation characterised by a manifest imbalance of moral equilibrium, as exem...
Darthbarracuda – Thanks for your response. My own view - regarding this question as to why our human situation, at its’ most irreducible level, seems ...
Nils loc: Problem there I think is that, to a certain extent, your examples involve a conflation of the idea of adherence to a moral code emanating fr...
Mcdoodle: The psychology of some in terms of their life choices can indeed seem somewhat perverse to others. But there is evidence nonetheless to sugg...
15...30...45...60 - Bam!...Never mind all that 'Where am I comin from/goin to?' mularky – Just how come's so friggin short? - An' how's such a blink o...
Javra: "There is nothing contradictory between a hierarchy of morals and there being an invariant, objective good." - The idea that generally accepted...
As far as I’m aware, moral relativism is the view that moral values are hierarchical rather than absolute and that - whereas most human beings from wh...
- Ironic how this type of question is paradoxically prompted in the modern angst-ridden world in which we live by an age-old anxiety occasioned by the...
Just a few general points:- How are we able to know, to the extent we can know at all, that a phenomenon exists? The irreducible answer must simply be...
Er, no - Oh Wise and Holy One! :) Inequality derives primarily from pre-existant inequity which in turn consists in factors - like talent, serendipity...
The pecuniary fruits of individual talent might conceivably be equitably distributed by a progressive tax regime - but not the fulfilling experiences ...
- That it is objectively the case that inequity, though innate to our situation, is nonetheless intrinsically unjust - even though that idea doesn't n...
Why is inequity wrong? For lack of a better explanation – because it just is. Inescapably, some have to dig drains whereas others can attain to superb...
Terrapin Station: Your recent post in this thread - I've only just noticed it - that as an atheist you don't think our situation could in principle be...
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