Buxtebuddha

Google is your friend, friend. Well, historically speaking, education has always had a philosophical component, which goes into my lamenting that ethi...

It isn't always the teachers' faults, though. Lots of factors go into why most kids arrive at the high school level dumb as rocks. Ponderous number cr...

It would be naive to assume that successful school children didn't have "potholes" along the way. I've yet to come in contact with any of these "succe...

This is why I mentioned that schools are increasingly forced into being a parental apparatus because modern children are little shits, by and large.

At the high school level, at least, requiring most topics isn't bad, otherwise most students would not take anything. College is a different matter, t...

Not agreed. This is straight rubbish.

Agreed. Speaking of the United States, I don't think you realize the degree to which the state has its hands in teacher performance and how they have ...

Let him be, then. No sense getting so worked up.

As I understand it, John rues being an asshat even though he's just being honest about his perspective. If this is what he means, I can't fault him mu...

Teachers aren't intended to be moral instructors anymore. Yet, in reality, the expectations for most teachers in too many schools is for them to be li...

Articulate clearly what "way" he has behaved in.

Then why are you critiquing John who also hasn't thought of himself in such a way? Come on, Agu.

There's nothing saintly or mystical about anything you've written either, so I don't see why you've elevated yourself to sit atop a high horse.

It's rather naive to judge someone based solely on what they say on an internet forum. I've been a troll on other forums, even been banned for it, but...

Ya just now realized that? >:O

Explain.

I didn't mean that in some monkish sabbatical sense, but more that ignoring someone isn't more productive than to talk it out, :D

Talk is richer than silence, though O:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYb5XNVESg

Material reality forms the basis of our experiencing dreams. There's nothing completely foreign in our dreams. This isn't to say that what transpires ...

Ah, so now that Agustino has gone to bed, you've chosen me as the next plaything for your boredom? Sorry, but I find your lack of tact disturbing. Too...

Because none of that claptrap is on-topic. I was told by a moderator to only limit my use of Star Trek gifs, so... >:) Plus that's how I looked readin...

It looks like: shoulders straightened, chest puffed up, dick out, (Agustino's imagining Borat at this point), tie straightened, fedora donned, wikiped...

Stop bitching. And I don't care if you're on your man period or not. Welcome to the forum! I think the problem here is whether or not fear is an innat...

I'm still trying to figure out what went through Wayfarer's mind when he copy-pasta'd wikipedia,

This actually makes a bit of sense, damn...*scribbles down in diary* Stop being obscurantist.

How's that?

The world is nothing.

Nothing is in God? If God is being in itself, how come it can have an essence of nothing?

Agu, do you even know what plagiarism is? Here, let me tell you: Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another ...

Ah, so you do have to be blasted in order to believe in a god? This makes much more sense to me, now.

I don't think it follows that because thoughts emanate from the mind, then thoughts, therefore, are "trapped" within the brain, that that's where the ...

Oh? Where? I would argue that truth is not of material quality, therefore it need not have a specified "place."

Can you nail down precisely where your own thoughts are that made this post?

Lack of doubt doesn't just concern what I think. If you're attempting to blow people up in a market square or fuck bitches at the local bar, then your...

Why is eating someone wrong? Answer the above question and maybe I'll start to make more sense. How else might one come to moral judgement if not thro...

All this talk of balls makes me want to fix some spaghetti and veggie meat balls for myself, because I'm a selfish, callous prick, >:)

The pedophile is in the wrong for many reasons, one of which being my qualm. >:O How is this an argument? Sure, so the cannibal who finds someone that...

I'd say so. "Evil character" is an oxymoron to me. Hmm, love sparks the good in Man, although this is not to say that Man, therefore, is good. If we'r...

Perhaps. How might this be incorrect? I am, yes. And no, I don't see how anything I've said is a red herring. As I replied to you just before, if good...

I forgot to give you my answer about character. I'd say that at birth character is like an empty ocean basin that only love may fill toward having a m...

No, the reason for the action is moral, not the action itself. Slaughtering the animal is still immoral, but it is necessarily immoral, in this exampl...

Yes. Drinking water, eating food, having sex - these all entail someone taking from something or someone else that is giving. Raising your arm for ple...

Do you want the poet's answer? :D

'tis what separates one who possesses character, and one who does not.

Good feeling shouldn't be the foundation of one's actions, otherwise you allow for all sorts of vile behavior. I'd probably argue that Joe's desire to...

I prefer the gymnosaties, *ba dum tss*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALE4x9HDY0Y

No, no, no. I just meant that I'm more apprehensive about the good things of the future, and less so about the bad.

http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/speedDating2.png If you're merely having sex because it feels good, then you're doing so purely out of ego....