Well, honesty is a pretty good policy. If that's how someone feels, I'd rather hear that than something they made up. However, because you clearly don...
Well ok, this reply doesn't surprise me, as I've seen it a thousand times on Catholic sites. There's a great deal of talk about "dialog" in Catholic c...
Does this help? 1) Is it rational to challenge a group consensus with reason if that group consensus was not formed by reason? 2) To what degree is an...
The talking of the talk is credible and persuasive to those already in the Church. Perhaps it is also persuasive in the third world, I admit to not be...
Yes, I agree with this. My favorite stat is that Catholic Charities is the 2nd leading provider of social service to the needy in the United States, t...
Thank you for understanding my life. :smile: I actually thrive on the hornet's nest of disapproval. In many cases it's been me against an entire forum...
Yes, I agree, it would be better to move on to particular cases. Nothing has been stifled or shouted down, though that is a likely outcome of some top...
I can't really speak to this other that to suggest that the existence of "things" depends on boundaries. Boundaries clearly exist in our conceptual fr...
None of the above matters, because in my secret basement workshop I'm on the verge of successfully harnessing the hot air on forums to power the entir...
The way to do a better job of preaching is to let go of the talking of the talk, and channel all that energy in to the walking of the walk. The walkin...
Well, I don't know about that. First you would have to prove that you are infected with the ridiculous stupidity of youth, because the Space Cowboy Pl...
I'm pleased to be able to share the Space Cowboy Party theme song in two forms. First, the live performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwoiy-Fwm...
Yup, done did the vote thang. I'm so grateful to our Tweeter-In-Chief because I no longer have to think when voting. Now I just go down the ballot and...
This is a common pattern for sure, but it's not a fixed universal truth, as so many posts on the forum seem to imply. If this is what Schopensour is s...
Thank you for engaging, and for making this distinction between the person and the idea. I probably should have done that from the start. To clarify m...
The constant lacking is typically covered up by busyness of various kinds, but yes, underneath the busyness the lacking is there. The lacking is a was...
If meaning is a story we attach to certain events and situations then it would appear that suffering, or anything else, is not inherently meaningful. ...
Meaning no disrespect to you personally, I utterly reject such blame shifting operations. These kind of rationalization systems are exactly why so man...
Right. So they should stop exercising individual choice. They should submit themselves to the law, which has presumably been thought through by traffi...
Suffering and meaning are two sides of the same coin. Meaning is a story that we like, and suffering is a story that we don't like. I would agree that...
I'm serious too. You're turning to discussion of me personally because you realize you've lost the argument. No offense taken, no grudges held, and I ...
Ok, fair enough, but.... About an hour after I get what I want... I'll start wanting something more. A new basis for comparison will be created, but t...
I'm ready to stop giving people advice that they don't actually want and didn't actually ask for. Except for one little thing. I'm not actually ready....
Agreed. Yes. Through thinking, I discovered that I am very happy on a sunny day in the woods, which is great, but... Now I use those awesome beautiful...
No, no, no and no my friend. "Never minding" the posted speed is why people who are willing to obey the law have to contend with those who aren't. In ...
Yes, agreed. What I'm attempting to here is apply the principle of challenge to my own desire to puncture such hypocrisy. Is such a process valid if i...
Thank you for engaging. When it comes to philosophy, why is the speaker's personal opinion a matter of importance? Well, some perspectives are highly ...
Then the police you know should be fired. It's not their job to make the law. It's their job to enforce the law as it currently exists to the best of ...
To refine and focus my question a bit... It seems philosophers can serve a useful function by exploring the boundaries of the group consensus, because...
They get pulled over and ticketed all the time. But everybody assumes it won't be them, so the speeding continues. In your scheme, where everyone is s...
It's illegal. I'm happy going the speed limit. I trust highway engineers to know more about traffic safety than I do. I was responding to this.... ......
Well, I am an optimist on this matter, in that I feel the God debate could potentially serve a useful purpose. I am an optimist in that I feel the God...
This just came to mind... Many of your posts seem to somehow reference a social disability of sorts, if that's an appropriate way to put it. But then ...
It is human nature to be divided within oneself, which sets the stage for conflict within ourselves, which is then mirrored out in to the world. Fear ...
Assuming you avoid student loans, what's to decide? Just saying, you won't be in your twenties much longer, time's a wastin. The window where you will...
Yea, student loans for a philosophy degree. Not a great plan. How about this? You seem perfectly capable of studying philosophy on your own, and with ...
I cast my vote for this. As example, I drive a particular 4 mile stretch of road a lot. It's scenic highway on the border between city and country. Th...
My message is that we can adapt to the revolutionary new era which the success of science has created if we try. But as your posts illustrate, a great...
It always makes me smile when people yell at me for not typing enough. :smile: Why am I relentlessly addressing the subject of our relationship with k...
If I understand where you are trying to go here... Yes, philosophy seems an attempt to arrange the symbols in our mind to represent reality as accurat...
So if I were to walk around all day every day with a loaded gun in my mouth you would consider that a successful management of my handgun, given that ...
We have thousands of nukes aimed down our own throats. Are we handling it? Except that there is no plan to take us to this level of sanity, and vague ...
My wife and I are nature nuts. I'm an avid hiker, and she is focused on wildlife. She always has a number of birds and squirrels under her care while ...
Why are American Indians and blacks less wealthy than white Americans? 1) Our ancestors ruthlessly stole from Indians and blacks for centuries and tod...
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