No that is not my point, and apologies for the question. In my experience deep depression comes from unhappiness about the deepest of things. being lo...
Posty This question is totally out of order and I should not be asking it ... straight out... and I absolutely do not wish to cause any offence.. so p...
Depression is part of who and what you are. If you're not depressed then you are blind or numb to reality... and trying to get rid of ones depression ...
The fact that you have begun a metaphysical dialogue in respect of installation art would indicate that one can have a metaphysical experience re same...
"I quoted what you yourself claimed and then I disputed it with a reasonable argument. Unheard of! I don't know what I was thinking. "Nietzsche did no...
I imagine that Rand would enjoy this thread very much. The criticism of her is mostly of the Ellsworth Touhey variety.... It has even been stated on t...
This is the point or thrust of the current conversation. Does doubt require the doubter? Is thought dependent upon/come after the thinker? Is it 'gene...
. When you say "thought exists a priori," what do you mean? I suspect from your usage that you do not know what a priori means - can you clarify? Ther...
With the rarest of exception: All greatly popular men are necessarily great spoofers. Descartes was a great man who was very popular (partly) because ...
"TO THE MOST WISE AND ILLUSTRIOUS THE DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY IN PARIS. "The motive which induces me to present to you this...
Absolutely NOT. From where did you pull the chain of assumption that leads you come up with the notion that the "I" is the cause and 'thought' the eff...
"It is impossible that a thought could will itself into existence." Why have you left the ball park and started a different game. The origin of though...
If you are indeed a teen, then there is a significant likelyhood that you are stupid. I say this because I was very stupid when I was a teen and am on...
In no particular order: Walden Pond The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Catch 22 The Outsider (audiobook, read by Kenneth Branaugh) A Confederacy of Dunces W...
I have avoided Gassendi' objections because he comes at the problem with the same celestial bias that contaminates Descartes thought beyond his second...
The cogito comes in different forms. "I think, therefore I am." "This proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me...
"You really need to read Descartes more closely - or read better commentaries. Until you do, your comments don't really touch anything Descartes said....
Christian Philosophy can indeed at times be relied upon to produce fine human beings and fine specimens of logical thought/philosophy. It (good Christ...
The concept 'No-thing' presupposes the existence of things, and as all things are mind constructs, the concept comes attached to both a (P) world and ...
I think you are right and I heartily like the term 'foundational beliefs'. The idea is in harmony with Schopenhauer's 'will' as representation Nietzsc...
Watched the clip... a half hour of my life that is lost for ever. I suspect that the Climate Change denier in the clip may well be suffering from a me...
[reply="Relativist;200664" Thank you for that Relativist. Point taken in respect of reason. Perhaps it would have been more reasonable to assert that ...
Take God, for example. The reasoning for its/His existence or non existence is sufficient for the thinker and non thinker solely upon the basis of apr...
Where is the delineation for sufficient reason. The sufficiency or insufficiency of the reason is determined by the individual or individuals whom are...
The magnetosphere...... And then there's asteroids, and super bugs, and solar flares, and the immanent eruption of Yellowstone, fluoride in the drinki...
Apologies Raza But the climate change denial, and the Muslim stuff, and the tchnology will save us stuff.. all of it certainly does trigger a hyperven...
This is getting as interesting as it is becoming predictable. 'Influential Islamic partners of Western Bankers' WOW X3 I should have known that the Mu...
Ahhhhh. Now this is an interesting insight into your thought. 'Pollution does not correlate with temperature Change?' WOW! Climate change doctrine is:...
Don't recall submitting an application for any particular post. I would love someone to come up with an alternative to facism as a practical and real ...
This type of analysis is superficial and somewhat facile. What Trump means to individuals is irrelevant beyond the fact that he represents base primit...
He "never" hit a homerun, from the point that the revisionist steps in at t2 and makes the truth a falsity. It was a home run at t1... you said so you...
If you are interested in the topic in respect of contemporary Facism, there are far better examples than China. Putin for example has all the trapping...
Posty.. you can do better than that... :vomit: Hit me with an enlightened contradiction! Perhaps America is making you lazy. A more thorough response ...
Sometimes masturbation is easier. Less potential complications, cheaper by far, and readily accessible, particularly so for the ambidextrous. To conti...
Sorry wellwisher, that comes across as mumbo-jumbo, and I don't know what point you are trying to make. Could you possibly summarize same in a sentenc...
The problem is however, that many abuse the 'support' and become dependent upon it rather than independent of the state and truly free. The 'support' ...
We are drifting off topic a bit, However, I would agree with the 'both realities' idea, however I suspect that what ultimately differentiates the two,...
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