RegularGuy

It would be nonsensical to say they could. Who would claim that?

So there is a possible world where “stop” means “go” or “smoke a cigarette”?

That’s the thing. I thought I was justified at the times. The first time, I was wrongly informed that the guy had raped my ex-wife’s best friend. Turn...

I understand the effects of adrenaline firsthand. It’s impossible to control yourself when it takes over. The medication I take now is working, so I h...

Oh. Well, you did a better job of explaining your position there than you had in some previous posts.

I’ve been in a couple of serious fights, but I’ve managed to never get arrested. In hindsight, I believe that I should have avoided those fights, thou...

Do you have a professional background in philosophy?

Very good explanation, teacher. :smile:

Are you a physicist or do you just have an interest in physics?

The smart vs bad at writing? I now realize you are super smart. I’m just not accustomed to your way of speaking.

:lol: smartass

What is this from?

Very good responses to creativesoul. I understood all of it. Thanks for dumbing it down for me.

Although most geniuses are shit at teaching.

Ah, I get you. You really are too smart for us. Try talking to us as if you were explaining something to children.

Necessary to validate? Or necessary to invalidate? This is another example of me not understanding you.

:lol:

Sorry. That was meant for Galuchat.

You’re probably an angry alcoholic.

Psychiatric patients like me have many years experience with psychiatry. I have twenty years experience in seeing that it works.

He has an axe to grind. It is likely he was diagnosed with something in the past, and he refuses to take responsibility for it. This is very common.

You seem to be qualified to be able to give an adequate defense of psychiatry as you have seen first-hand patients becoming stable through medication ...

He has authority. However, he is not claiming that he is the only authority. What makes you qualified to disregard psychiatry?

You seem to think you’re some kind of authority, however.

You’re either a troll or a dolt or both.

I’m not going to research something unless or until you can give me a good reason to do so.

That’s a huge potential assumption. Where do you get off saying something like that?

Glad to hear I’m not the only one.

You’re either really super smart or just plain bad at writing. I don’t understand a third to half of what you say in any given post.

If it weren’t for psychiatry, I wouldn’t be allowed to live in the community. Make whatever assumptions you will from this.

My ex-wife’s father was abusive and hard and tough with her. Perhaps she learned to be maladjusted where most fathers treat their daughters more gentl...

Also, what of the seemingly fact that fathers tend to be harder and tougher with their sons than with their daughters? What does this bring out in mal...

Careful. You might start something even more ugly than the OP. :wink:

Why not try asking a woman who she thinks is extraordinary? I would bet that she might surprise you. Perhaps men get distinguished because it’s mostly...

To me, consciousness in itself is rather spiritual. It is so mysterious. How in the world did inanimate matter collect itself, arranging itself in suc...

You’re an older person, aren’t you? You should’ve realized by now that you can’t control people, expecting them to conform to your ideals. I think a p...

I think we need to lower expectations or broaden expectations here. Not every post is going to be philosophically profound. This is a community of peo...

My posts in this thread may have been of questionable quality, but I was illustrating the point through a couple of examples that generalizing only wo...

I thought you and I had a rather nice give and take about Beauty. Am I wrong?

I find this to be a strong argument. Rembrandt produced high quality art. That at least is the consensus of the art world. It’s rooted in Western soci...

So what makes a piece of art high quality? And why should anyone accept your standard? I’m open to arguments.

Good point.

As an example, I could define “truth” to mean having the quality of corresponding to fact or reality. Then we would argue not only on this definition;...

But with vague terms such as “meaning” and “truth” defining them just leads to endless disagreement. I’m not sure this is any “better”.

:lol: You’re funny.

My point was that it is generally a fallacious Rule. It just happens to be true in our case.

She’s the mother of my children. I don’t hate her. The love of my life is my wife, Crystal, whom I’ve been with for twelve years.

Well, most ex-wives aren’t diagnosable as “disturbed”, and ex-husbands who are called “assholes” by their ex-wives are not universally assholes to eve...

She is also an asshole and I am also crazy (clinically when I’m off my meds). I was reciting nothing. If anything, you were being a lazy thinker when ...

You said I was “reciting” the “universal rule”. I am not reciting it. In our case, it happens to be true, whereas others are usually biased towards th...