My own interpretation is kind of rudimentary but it looks something like this: 800s-400s BCE (Israel/Judah Kingdoms/First Temple Period) a Yahweh alon...
I'm curious, do you think the Enoch tradition had any influence on Pharisaic and Essenic forms of Judaism at the Second Temple time period? By Enoch, ...
You are making several assumptions, that I can't let stand here: 1) The very fact that I am forced in this collaboration schema is what I am talking a...
That's STILL not an answer! That is like if someone asked.. "What is General Tsao's Chicken?" and I just said, "Well, you wouldn't know because you do...
@"Possibility" It's like this... If I set up a society.. and set it up to my standards, how I want it, but not the way you would set it up if you were...
Why do you speak in such abstractions? WHAT is the "variable logical structure".. and same here: WHAT do you mean by symbolic value is oblivious to an...
Fair enough, and I think Schopenhauer would have a similar view. One point I am trying to make, that you criticized (it seemed) by saying I was overem...
Despite your protestations, you ARE making a normative statement.. X is wortwhile.. THIS is valuable not THAT. So you are making normative statements ...
Indeed it is.. Existence is a burden, hence efforts to prevent it for others. Meanwhile, we just have to "deal with it" in the ways that we do. Once b...
Ok, I wouldn't have a problem with the idea that for every possible coupling of two procreative people, there is a potential for a person to exist as ...
It’s the NOT not true combined with “based on a supernatural revelation” In other words, it cannot not fit that revelation. Everything MUST incorporat...
I can see collaboration doesn't necessitate procreation. I do not agree obviously with all you said. But I still don't get what you are going on about...
I think that definition works just fine. The parent causes a new person to BE in a particular state when they procreate them. So they are "bringing" t...
The fact that some commenters here can’t seem to separate the Gospel authors and their familiarity with Greek, rhetoric, and literary genres similar t...
Ha, I get it. But I am not a Buddhist, and actually think that Schop's attempt to point to asceticism is too optimistic, believe it or not. There is n...
Right, but that's just the thing. My gripe is that why is decisive action even needed? There is putting people in a place they are.. and then they hav...
Oh boy, I get to discuss things with you :roll:, the almighty Alkis who's gonna really show me how it is! Yes, you show how you don't know much about ...
I never said that! This is a straw man.. I said they were simply brought into existence. I didn't say that to imply that they existed prior to their b...
Hey, I just don't need to engage in unnecessary tangents that don't understand what I mean by, boredom. Here is a quote that encapsulates it: That is ...
Right, but getting to nirvana is a sort of discipline no? I’m saying this is one more burden, one of the do (not do) of Buddhism. If there’s a delusio...
Not sure what you’re getting at. My view is that self may be constructed but we can’t help but to construct a self. Was there something you wanted to ...
Nah on all that. Go back to some posts discussed on here for reference. At the end of the day, besides survival motivations, you are trying to get you...
Huh? This is more gaslighting. The world I understand is through my mediating self. It was the individual brought into existence and that suffers. You...
Ok, so gaslighting is doing or seeing something crazy and then making the other people think they are crazy for thinking what they witnessed was crazy...
Yet this self-hood is at the heart of being born at all.. The fact that we even need a way out is something to look at first. If a perspective change ...
I read it, and it looks like you are saying, "Hey, you haven't committed suicide, so X, Y, Z about life!". Examine that feeling!" You are implying tha...
Yes, this is a common objection that I find objectionable. Since there is no person prior to existing for whom consent can be obtained, it is okay to ...
Nah, it's more bougeouis, cliche trust-fund bachelor to characterize it as that.. :yawn: , at those kind of ad homs.. If I can find many instances of ...
Military action is a last resort and can at best be seen as legitimate if a country is imminently threatening your country by military force. Other re...
Putin wanting to, by an means necessary, without regard for human life, takeover a country that democratically does not want to be ruled by Russia/ a ...
Oh the "Why don't you pessimists/antinatalists go kill yourself" trope :roll:. You mean being in a position where one has to decide to commit suicide ...
C'mon proof.. Schop talked about the pendulum swing of survival and boredom.. He never disregarded survival as that is a given. He focused on boredom ...
Well, I was trying to say that often people procreate thinking that their style of raising someone transfers some sort of romantic ideal of fulfillmen...
You are just presenting a false dichotomy here. It's not awareness/connection/collaboration or ignorance. I do have awareness, and that is of having t...
Very good points. Everyone's got an agenda for you, and that is certainly to keep certain wheels churning. No one cares that it is basically a politic...
So, that wasn't my question. Do YOU agree with Putin's use of force to takeover another country? This seems dangerous. So in this view, Canada should ...
Yes, stated reason...along with a rambling manifesto about how Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union and isn't stupid how that was lost when the U...
But even this assumption is dangerous because stopping NATO expansion is not a justification for a military takeover of another country. Also, the ide...
Ok, BOTH sides were not really committed to having Russia be in NATO. Russia would have to conform to a bunch of standards it has never really had to ...
I sympathize with your points about treating the Eastern European nations as literally "second world (class)" citizens. However, I don't understand ho...
You can't get angry at Ukraine for making decisions of a sovereign nation. The culpability is purely on Russia itself for attacking another country be...
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