It's not you. It's me. I'm angry and despondent; not without reason, but it's nothing you've done. I'm venting, and when I'm done - no doubt I'll feel...
Work together? What on earth does that mean? Cornwell1 didn't say 'there are many good people in the world.' You did. You're agreeing with yourself; t...
I am speaking for myself, about my general impressions of human beings. I'm wondering why, for example, national economies were turned over to the pur...
Human beings are miserable, selfish, mendacious and quite often malicious. They won't struggle to secure human existence, firstly because they themsel...
I do not know that. I don't believe overpopulation is the fundamental nature of the problem; but that it's a very wrongful and dangerous mode of thoug...
I eat meat, and I respect a woman's right to choose - if and when she commits to the economic life changing, body morphic trauma that is bringing anot...
Overpopulation is not a problem...if we apply the right technologies. Currently, population is unsustainable, but that's because we have applied the w...
Are you personally prepared to go without some or all those things, or is it other people who should not have what they want and need? I want the thin...
I cannot write anything that makes sense - the idea that the universe 'came into being' seems just as crazy as the idea it exists eternally. I wish it...
I don't think so. The goal is a self sustaining fusion reaction; and I think the 'free energy' of huge gravitational forces is necessary to a sustaine...
I usually enjoy a good polling, but this question is a choice between logical absurdities, with no good reason to favour one absurdity over another. I...
The short answer is, I don't know why they are still trying to harness nuclear fusion. Maybe for the same reason people climb mount everest - because ...
No, that's not true. There have been many, very expensive attempts to develop fusion energy over the past 50 years. The latest attempt is ITER; you ca...
That's one way to go, but do you really want to disenchant people who believe in God as part of their identity and their purposes - but who have no po...
Wind and solar are not reliable, nor heavy duty enough to meet our energy needs. The UK, where I live would need about 20,000 windmills just to meet d...
At least, that you understood the premise. What I write makes sense to me, but I have no idea how it's recieved by others. I don't know if I'm communi...
It's wierd, isn't it, that despite all this technological advance, things are getting in strange ways worse — karl stone Not really, because it's the ...
Hmmm...my mind is involuntarily thrown to Descartes, doubting the validity of his senses, even as he constructs propositional statements about the rea...
I'm not sure I should be pharoah; cultural appropriation and whatnot! I'm thinking more along the lines of philosopher king of the world. But I'll set...
Shockingly, no - I do not. I did read Piaget on developmental psychology, with reference to Freud and Jung, but more for an overview of the feild. Gen...
There's often detectable traces of truth in what I say, and here it's the idea that in-depth knowledge of a philosopher's works can become a prison fo...
I was required to read Wittgenstein at university, and loathed him almost as much as I hated Heidegger. I consider them both 'obscurantists' - whose j...
Here's what I think happens after death; the same kind of nothing that pertained for all time, before I was born. Accepting that makes my life special...
I take issue with the idea of a philosopher this statement implies. There are people on this forum who have extensive knowledge of what, usually - a f...
Morality is a sense, like humour or aesthetics, inculcated in human beings by evolution in a tribal context. Moral behaviours were an advantage to the...
the miraclulous nature of everyday reality — karl stone If by that you mean reality is complex, then I agree - which is part of what makes it so astou...
Is it? Did I do a funny? You'll have to point it out to me! Maybe I can do more!! Do you not know? How absolute is your lack of knowledge on this subj...
The other half is also arse! It's half-arsed, as opposed to fully arsed. It's not half arse half-man! That aside, I have my views about the nature of ...
Not in the least. I think philosophers can be divided neatly into two basic camps, claricists and obscurantists. They'd both claim to be engaging in t...
To my mind a philosopher is someone who believes truth matters; either, because truth must be understood, or because truth must be obscured, and who c...
I clicked on the question expecting a discussion of secular democracy and scientific rationality; but quite the opposite. For the author, the enlighte...
I have some symapthy with your perspective on a human level, it's true because it's useful and useful because it's true. But then, what do you mean by...
I perhaps need to think more carefully about what exactly you've said, but philosophically, doesn't epistemological pragmatism devolve to an infinite ...
Bang On The Money, or alternatively, book of the month - which I think I'm going to start using as an affirmative exclamation, as in: 'Hey Karl, dinne...
With regard to the thesis set out in the opening post, ten pages ago, ideally, I think it's our responsibility to understand what's true, and act mora...
I've never read War and Peace. I've always meant to, but it's just too long. I can commit to a Dostoevsky or a Kafka, but Tolstoy didn't know when to ...
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