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So education is useless? Or just ultimately not tied down to any particular purpose necessarily? Like you won't discover the purpose of education, hid...

"Do we? What about?" Everything you happen to be right about.

I don't think that is true. Aristotle thought that education was for "exercising the mind" or our capacity for reason (he also thought that you should...

Then we agree.

Yeah, and they tend to tell you that when you get the job, or even during the education process. That you don't actually start learning until you get ...

Ok?

"Just keep in mind that what you are doing here is no more than setting out your own preference." I promise you that it is not. Inferring that I'm in ...

You don't really say much that is conducive to reply. Quips, and winning and losing.

You can't answer "yes" to a multiple choice question... The first is like anything at all, any product, service, public good, it has to be satisfactor...

Of course not, you're a hippopotamus.

Do you mean like satisfaction? Like they're happy with the education they got, rather than feeling displeased? Or do you mean reaching a place where o...

Happiness isn't some ideal goal... like the pursuit of it (which originally was the pursuit of property), but never acquisition. Just ever increasing ...

Yeah, and one can have everything, and be completely better off in every measurable respect to every other person not only alive, but that has ever li...

I don't think it's complicated, and speaking of "relative happiness", a person in a society with a wider range between the well to dos, and the got no...

Was there a golden age where people were happier and more fulfilled?

You mean like reality is capitalistic, or society? I don't think that the university was originally for employment, but for the already wealthy, to ge...

We're capitalists. Institutionally it is to get jobs, or fill particular occupations, isn't it? I mean, the purpose, and even meaning is very wide, an...

Waistline is also predictive of IQ, as early as pre-school, but particularly by 40. Nerds may not be jocks, but they're at least thin.

To throw in for scientologists, more than scientology... it isn't without effect... The power of it isn't in truths about alien overlords, but in the ...

I mean, at minimum. I'm reminded of Hercules' choice. Vice and virtue come to visit him while he is solitary in the mountains. Vice offers him a pleas...

Well, I think that neurologically we have "free won't", or inhibition. We can do a lot of rationalizing to explain our behavior, but it is mostly inex...

Wayfarer said it. "I was lucky to enrol in an awareness-training group when I was in my twenties. Helped a lot, but seeing people coming to terms with...

I think that you're kinder than I am to maintain the first half. I think that expediency is what is sought. The medical industry doesn't treat causes,...

Personally, I think that one should break down, and admit the truth to themselves, and take responsibility. I think that helps, and has helped much mo...

"But even in saying that, you're setting yourself up to not succeed. It's almost like you want to believe it. Just saying." I mean, it seems mean... b...

Well, reason as slave to the passions is basically meaning that we are charged with pleasing the limbic system. That's what life's about! You don't co...

Oh, you start to get pretty energetic the more empty you get, and more tired the more full you get. There are some studies that suggest that it works ...

Have you tried fasting?

When it comes to IQs of university students, the only thing that seems harder than philosophy is physics. http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/averag...

Pilot Chef A pilot chef must avoid turbulence else the bread will not rise. The King and You Anna quits and becomes a baker. Show me the Dough A high ...

I don't know that there is any disadvantage to intelligence, besides being less able to relate, and less interested in others. When just the level and...

That does sound like a good book. Thanks for mentioning it.

I only mean to say that "death" isn't a thing, it's an abstraction, that's definition has changed over time, from failure of the heart, until we start...

It's much worse than it seems. The Angel of Death isn't content to leave you alone until your final day, but is continually attempting to hack pieces ...

Importance is relational, as in, one is of relative importance to other sentient things. So that, if I have a low estimate of my own importance, I by ...

All things in measure, perhaps? Excessive pride, hubris, or arrogance is considered negative everywhere, but there are some small prides, related to b...

That's an excellent way of putting it. As if the balancing shame generated by, or that the pride is a response to continually needs ventilation, or so...

Thanks for the reply! I think so too. Hope is the real fuel, and "willpower" is just what it looks like from the outside, I think.

It's pride that one is basking in, not joy, and the higher the pride, the deeper the shame. Basking in ones strength, beauty, goodness, superiority, a...

Okay, yeah, I agree with that.

How are you on Maslow's pyramid of needs? Just to wonder what the cause may be. The topic though... what's better, misery or agony? I'd suggest that y...

Love is the pinnacle, I really believe. I'd rather not be taken seriously, than give up on love! It takes much much more strength to love in the face ...

How do you stop feelings ways? There is definitely breathing, and calming techniques, but there is also the numbing of sensation through addiction, an...

"Take a deep breath....and another.....lather, rinse and repeat as necessary. " You know, I believe this to be not only good, but the best advice that...

You're not trying to change me? What are you doing then? Having a laugh? Wasting time? Personally I would much prefer it if you were actually trying t...

I'm with you on all but the last bit. Are you suggesting that the last part is a mistaken move? Or that it is descriptive, and it is a mistake to move...

I do agree, that in order for cooperation to get off the ground, it must begin in morality, and one can reasonably extract a common set of moral prece...

No, that is not my concern, but you can of course hold and proponent any position that you like.

I don't wish to control my emotions, I wish to control the world. Accept the things I cannot change, but change the things I can. Just changing how I ...

Emotions are felt in the heart, right? Or at least in the body, one makes different facial expressions, takes different postures and positions, and is...