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In the quote you referred to, I was speaking more about our ability to conceptualize something that might be outside of reality as we know it and unab...
May 22, 2023 at 22:58
That's just the narrative of the elites. Society is more than that, it is all people included. Do you see many killings on your street? Fights for mon...
May 22, 2023 at 22:43
Even if I'm not fully convinced that there are some objective morals for humans, there's no denying that there are psychological hints. For instance, ...
May 22, 2023 at 22:20
No, it came out of a questioning of old norms. Even Stuart Mill questioned why women didn't have equal rights and I don't think the suffragette moveme...
May 22, 2023 at 22:08
What respect should we give misogynist and racist people? I have no problem understanding how things got where they are historically and seeing how pe...
May 22, 2023 at 16:24
I'm also going by reality as a source for how things are, but the reality is also that humanity has formed culture and society on top of delusions and...
May 22, 2023 at 16:12
Maybe that's why humanity always searches for what we ought to do because we recognize the selfishness in our nature. Then again, a selfish act can al...
May 22, 2023 at 15:33
"Progressive kool-aid" just sounds like the normal reaction fallacy you get from these people and it's beneath me to dance by such low quality. 1) Why...
May 22, 2023 at 15:19
Conservative norms vs changing norms with the catalyst of the internet as a radicalization system. We live in a time that has rapidly transformed what...
May 22, 2023 at 13:49
Is not all of our society based on us taming the animal nature of our basic psychology? Haven't we all introduced cultural restrictions so as to funct...
May 22, 2023 at 13:03
I'd say the opposite, quantum-level interactions have lower relational interactions, and sometimes objects are quantum entangled and essentially behav...
May 22, 2023 at 10:19
Isn't it the modern scientific paradigm that everything is relative to something else? Even the core of spacetime functions on relative terms. So can ...
May 20, 2023 at 15:37
I agree, but it is still an active detachement even for the sage. When I go through everyday life I do not apply the complex thought process I use in ...
May 20, 2023 at 13:36
Yes, true.
May 20, 2023 at 13:13
I'd say that's just nature and nurture, coded information in genetics as a continuum through generations as nature, and cultural knowledge past down a...
May 20, 2023 at 13:09
But the claim that the soul is a real thing, a thing that exists before birth and survives our body death, is something that plenty believe is an actu...
May 19, 2023 at 11:54
There's a difference between saying that biases are bad for rational and critical thinking, and saying there are "good and bad biases". So you form a ...
May 18, 2023 at 15:27
I'd say that's akin to basic confirmation bias, but your previous post described bias pretty well. In the simplest form, a bias is simply a statistica...
May 18, 2023 at 15:27
Could you describe in more detail what your specific ideas are regarding your own existential views?
May 17, 2023 at 18:52
I'd argue that I favor Spinoza's rationalism far more than positivism. I would even argue that even if positivists are closely related to science, eve...
May 17, 2023 at 14:44
Still, we don't embrace it, the unknown is uncomfortable and emotions is of great importance to the self-programming of our thinking. Which, leads to ...
May 17, 2023 at 14:31
Maybe fundamentalist and dogmatic are good descriptions if it summarizes the arguments as being ignorant of valid objections to them. I.e they dismiss...
May 17, 2023 at 12:51
Of course, but then again, what is good? How can you guarantee that the good that your moral education teaches people actually creates a good bias? Wh...
May 16, 2023 at 12:21
Ok, then let's take a step back here. It may be that I experience you misinterpreting what I'm saying due to us not agreeing on clearer definitions. W...
May 16, 2023 at 11:59
Define what religious belief is? Is it a proven claim? A deduced conclusion? If something isn't proven or doesn't possess any internal logic, if it is...
May 15, 2023 at 14:13
This can be because I'm kind of advanced in the English language, but it is not my native tongue, so I can end up in semantic traps. When I say "thing...
May 15, 2023 at 11:33
I think you misinterpret what I've meant. It is not a project to force change onto society, it is a mental toolset that people have to evaluate by the...
May 15, 2023 at 09:47
:up: If politics become a polarized caricature of reality by either just being individuals or either just being one big collective, then so is the ide...
May 14, 2023 at 12:20
Why would people not be able to change? Have we not changed behaviors and ways of life, culturally, over decades and centuries based primarily in what...
May 14, 2023 at 12:04
I would ask the question, are there times when killing can be considered morally good? If so, does the grey nature of that morality make killing in vi...
May 12, 2023 at 13:07
Of course, I'm not saying that these mental tools are effective towards changing someone else's perspective and concepts, even though they are probabl...
May 12, 2023 at 12:03
As a follow-up to this, imagine your internal reasoning being a room, a gallery, where you stand in distance from your ideas and concepts that you try...
May 11, 2023 at 13:26
Would you agree that these glib answers and simplified polarization out of fear can arise out of the lack of philosophical approaches? Aren't they the...
May 11, 2023 at 12:35
I think that these are the result of either not listening to philosophers, misinterpreting them, or outright ignoring them in combination with enforci...
May 10, 2023 at 16:53
Since the dawn of writing, has not the pen been developed to be a better pen? A tool is constantly being improved upon and philosophy has undergone it...
May 10, 2023 at 09:55
In my own perspective, I view philosophy as a tool for expanding on concepts or ideas with a strategy of thought. It's a toolset of conceptualization ...
May 10, 2023 at 08:54
I would answer with practical probability. I act out of probability in every situation. Truth is that which has the highest of probabilities. It's the...
May 09, 2023 at 12:16
It's stuff like this that shows just how much can be extrapolated through scientific data and math and how "it's just a theory" by many anti-intellect...
May 09, 2023 at 10:26
A common practice is to exploit weaknesses of any kind. If not financial, then any type of threat of exposure towards something bad that the person ha...
May 09, 2023 at 10:14
Real recruitments of spies happens this way for much more severe actions by the one hired. In the docu series, the journalists actually get footage of...
May 08, 2023 at 23:14
The key thing was to point to the investigation that continues to show an increasing presence of this online and IRL. So it's not really the same "for...
May 08, 2023 at 21:56
As you can see, again, you are as always unable to understand the difference between a theory that concludes a deduction, and merely pointing towards ...
May 08, 2023 at 21:24
Did you read what I wrote? I’m observing a behavior, a rhetoric similar to these tactics. The problem is, as I pointed out, that what’s observed can b...
May 08, 2023 at 18:25
It's just an observation based on facts. These people exist, these people either get other people to believe them by spreading doubt about what is goi...
May 08, 2023 at 16:05
The most interesting thing is that a part of that documentary series dives into similar types of personalities who, when digging deep into their fundi...
May 08, 2023 at 14:24
I'm not going to read any more of your nonsense. You ignore looking at the investigation that I have been talking about and referred to this entire ti...
May 07, 2023 at 22:59
Sorry about that. But since Boethius will never stop changing other people's arguments into his random nonsense and then just rant on without ever add...
May 07, 2023 at 22:44
You are the one conducting conjecture. This is the problem, you seem unable to understand what others write and come off as deeply confused. They didn...
May 07, 2023 at 17:28
Some things survive and others not, it matters little since the religion isn't practiced anymore. Midsommar still means something to people, but it me...
May 07, 2023 at 13:16
By linking to a channel of a known conspiracy theorist and disinformation spreader. I failed to see the obviousness and the fact that you did kind of ...
May 07, 2023 at 12:19