In many instances 'depression' can be willful in that its persistence is willed or is in accordance with the will and the self. The depressive, compla...
"No, the atheist just claims not to believe in the existence of one or more deities." You have missed the point entirely, and I apologize for having n...
Is it outside the realm of possibility that "depression" is the mind's way of dealing with the inability to adapt to being a prisoner of conscious exp...
"When an atheist claims to be an atheist he isn't claiming not to have a pursuit or interest which he follows with great devotion; he is claiming not ...
If God=Panda. then Panda=God Most religions would agree that the Panda is indeed a manifest form of God. And indeed, from the perspective of the Panda...
"cherry picking" :( Perhaps there is an element of the game of words in the distinction between theist and atheist. The point that is being attempted ...
Perhaps your google is different to mine here is the entire definition: religion r??l?d?(?)n/ noun noun: religion the belief in and worship of a super...
"What a bizarre non sequitur. " If the ritualistic burial of the dead, dressing the dead and furnishing them with jewels or material objects, is not a...
So up until the magical " advent" of religion (dates yet to be provided): the burial ritual should be considered as an irreligious exercise; one of em...
What kind of an odd-ball statement is that. Religion did not 'advent' at a given point in human history, it is essential to human history. Neanderthal...
What confuses me is that atheist have ethics they believe in. We religious people only work with them because we believe in the test (which if i expla...
There is so much error here on this thread that one does not know where to begin. Grammar is never a "convenience". It must be exact, in that it must ...
"So in the end, if we want to reduce this polarisation, it would seem necessary to come up with a societal project where more people can believe to be...
Someone who rejects gender, implicitly rejects my gender as well as their own. Gender rejection as such is little different to homophobia. Notwithstan...
A small amount of kinetic energy contained within a shoe moving at a safe velocity, transferred in a single short sharp burst to the soft tissue about...
Q: It's always been there. Just haven't addressed it enough as of late. I still wallow around and feel some hope for the future. I guess you can call ...
But, what about disidentification?Doesn't that seem like a solution to the meta-cognitive depressive realm? No NO NO! I suspect that your depression i...
Posty Depression is the manifest form of self loathing or self dislike, it is the conscious or unconscious yearning for an alternative self, one that ...
BC You are a brave and kind soul, and I admire the fact that you choose to engage with the 'horrible' OP, rather than join the chorus singing the old ...
Thanks for the note on diction BC, poor English corrected.. I'm tempted to blame the spell check on my phone but in truth I often make this err with t...
Thoreau would have said the same as what Rand has asserted here. — Marcus de Brun "Nope. Not at all. Thoreau wanted an empowered individual through th...
I am assumng from this question that you have not read much Rand. Another poster here on this forum has offered an opinion on Rand and never read anyt...
I don't doubt that. But, what is this grounded on? The satisfaction of wants and needs? Again, psychologism. Is there something more to the world... o...
In that sense, I think the subject is simply too stark and obscure to discuss at length. It's heavy, dark, and conclusive. It just has no real appeal ...
I don't think its a question of hedonsim. Death (imop) is only difficult when there are regrets that pertain to ones life. If one has few real and few...
Indeed.. but lots of presumption here. What does it mean to have 'lived'.? What does it mean to identify with ones self.? I think if one gets a really...
Do you have to be of above average intelligence to engage seriously with philosophy? No, stupid people engage in Philosophy with the greatest enthusia...
So, why is it taboo to talk about death? I read a quote once I forget by who that reads. He was afraid of death because he never lived. Or words to th...
Take into consideration that Ayn said, "The achievements of his own happiness is mans highest moral purpose." As with most philosophical assertions th...
Now we are idealists in the sense that we do indeed construct the world as to how we wish to perceive it But also, we have evolved to perceive it in a...
I suppose the most important contribution that Rand has made to contemporary Philosophy is her assertion of the supremacy of independent thought. What...
Rand is entirely correct here. — Marcus de Brun Oh, my mistake. Everyone who doesn't entirely agree with her on that one is obviously mistaken. Rand i...
If one reads the Fountainhead, Rand's notional construct of what freedom means is typified in the persona of the protagonist (Roark) Who lives for ple...
Is this a discussion of Rand or Social welfare states? I happen to live in one and am very fond of socialism. Rand's criticism of socialism runs a lit...
Ayn Rand: The way everybody feels, except more consciously. I feel that it is terrible, that you see destruction all around you, and that you are movi...
To be awake, to be alive, to think and to interact with others in an honest way to see the world... is to be depressed. Yes indeed I am depressed, it ...
Oh, so we're in agreement, cool. We are indeed in agreement on most things. We do not know each other but from an objective analysis of much of what y...
"There's always stuff that can be dis-identified from" One (by definition) has only one self to identify with. The true and entire identity of the sel...
"She dismisses this evidence and assumes with no reason that anyone that doesn't act under her definition of selfishness and desires things like socia...
If it is impartial to right and wrong then it cannot exist because within such a truly impartial space.. there is nothing to dis-identify from. There ...
Ah! I knew it was going to raise its ugly head. wrong and right. Fuck wrong and right. Listen to Nietzsche and move beyond right and wrong. Fuck wrong...
Because its validity or the need for it arises out of internal conflicts such as the following: "I think I lean towards being straight" It is the unce...
The philosophical conflict between Hoard Roark's ideology and that of Keating and Ellsworth Touhey, is a profound personal and social philosophy, one ...
I think you might be right in the sense that you do not 'wish' to discuss the issue, but that is a little different to the notion that one 'cannot' di...
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