RegularGuy

Perhaps it WAS that ideal combination of circumstances that you prefer that hasn’t gotten old yet?

Have you ever seen the movie, American Beauty? The drug dealing teenager with the Army dad found beauty in ordinary things, even macabre things. Maybe...

You might still prefer that certain combination of sun, sand, and sea; but if it became ordinary it would somehow lose value to you. No?

I think rarity is a necessary condition of beauty. I think horrible things can be rare or ordinary.

I think aesthetics are all preferences really. Many people agree on certain beautiful things, but this doesn’t imply objective beauty. We just have ce...

I think something has to be less common in order for people to see beauty in it, yes.

But what about that ideal combination makes it beautiful to you? You prefer it somehow. However, if that experience of that perfect combination became...

Suppose that ideal combination occurred every day?

I was referring to experiences. If you had the Mona Lisa hanging on your living room wall for ten years, would it have the same quality on the tenth y...

Well, the saying “familiarity breeds contempt” came from somewhere. Perhaps we don’t find ordinary things so beautiful?

Reminds me of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. What happens to the quality of a song that has been listened to a zillion times? If it was go...

I don’t have an argument in mind as to why we should be gentler with the youth, as I’ve never thought I needed to give one. I guess it’s because they ...

We should be gentler with the young. I was just warning you to go easy.

S/he’s very mature for his/her age.

He or she is just a kid as s/he reported to me in a PM. Go easy.

Not in all parts of the world, but, yes, it is relatively peaceful; the most peaceful it has ever been.

I don’t know what is happening right now.

Did someone open up the gates of Winnebago Mental Health Institution?

LOL I’ll bite. How?

This assumes thinking in terms of an abstract relation, and there are billions of people who have difficulty thinking in the abstract.

I finally read that post I was referring to in its entirety. I agree that choosing the “better” option is what normative ethics is based on, similar t...

Not what I was saying at all.

I think it is more engaging to mix up sentence lengths. I find it cognitively exhausting to read many consecutive complex sentences.

I just read a little more of your post but gave up again. I would find it more enticing to read if you mixed in some short sentences with your more co...

I don’t even read your posts because they’re so long. I’m being lazy, though. I just read your opening few sentences, then skipped to this last part.

Do you get your view of “individualism” from Ayn Rand?

I think “empty bellies” is the cause of the strifes of history, not a subconscious fear of death. “Empty bellies” being a placeholder for any given wa...

It also can leap from an individual to a group that it is perceived an individual belongs to. For example, a lazy thinker might have a bad experience(...

But that would put communism on the far right where some put laissez faire capitalism on the far right. I think there is a spectrum for capitalism all...

I believe there is a spectrum from libertarianism to authoritarianism. There is also a spectrum from anarchism to communism for economics.

This is a very productive discussion.

Haha! That’s funny. :up:

Ah, Jeez Rick. I already said you are good at philosophy.

Yes, they created the White Album. My original point was that saying that @"T Clark" was saying that morality was somehow created was a straw man, but...

I understand what that means, and I agree with it in the conventional sense. But in a metaphysical sense? Never mind. It doesn’t matter much.

But doesn’t that suppose by the regression of causality that the Beatles created themselves? I’m not saying that society should also be paid for the a...

Okay. I appreciate your viewpoint even if I don’t totally agree with it. I am tired, and I probably shouldn’t be posting right now. I think I will jus...

I don’t think he is saying that. That’s a straw man.

That’s a shame.

I unequivocally agree.

@"tim wood" I agree. Good job.

I still do “stupid” shit.

Is this a fact? Because I see morality as more than just a “personal” justification. It is a collective justification determined by social pressures a...

Well, if that’s your only vice, then you are a much more moral person than I am. I argue morality, but I don’t always follow it. I know what I should ...

Fo sho :smile:

Well, we should note that I’ve never actually studied or read anything on meaning.

Perhaps I will start having to give @"S" more credit. He’s good at philosophy.

No, I don’t think meaning is a thing. It’s a relation between the associated mental thought and the referent given how a word or symbol is used (I thi...

I will have to re-read your post when I’m not so tired. Right now I am not able to comprehend it. I also don’t have the energy, concentration, or moti...

I agree.