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Here is a logical phallacy: The dominant farming practices today are harmful for the biosphere, therefore ALL possible farming is harmful. Obviously t...

You are never too young to make decisions, and the capacity for becoming responsible of your actions increases gradually with age. When those decision...

It is true that agriculture and farming can be way less cruel than nature, and provide a life to farm animals and domesticated plants that is both mor...

Chatterbears, you need to decide which question you want to debate, the title of your post or the final question in the text. Notice that they are dif...

Not even Hitler was really Hitler. Hitler has become a Darth Vader figure, a quintaessential villain. It´s no wonder than stupid people deny the facts...

I own two canary birds and a blue-gold macaw, and I can confirm canary sounds are way more bearable. I can report also, from years of direct observati...

yes, but bear in mind that "Feminine" in Taoist and similar traditions in the West is not synonym with "womanly", but a way to refer to a trascendent ...

Okay, I will re-read your comments to try to understand better

"So, given this frame of mind: To represent that which is metaphysically formless is to assign it form—thereby not capturing the formless given which ...

The Guardian is not a reliable source of what happens in reality. It´s very biased, very full of obsessions about race, gender, more race, why whites ...

very interesting approach to truth as being Eternal. It makes a lot of sense. Javra writes: "Thing is, if all symbols are of our creation, and if trut...

Stability is sometimes represented with a square. The square, or number four, means stability because it is a point of dinamic equilibrium between opp...

]it´s not made of particles, but of what particles do. And particles are made of what the Source (whatever that is) does with itself. It all goes down...

I think we are always dreaming, always unconscious, because we can only perceive inner representations. In our wake state a little more of our sensori...

what is Consciousness anyway? For me consciousness is subjective experience, that is, physical data that are represented in a symbolic -or imaginary- ...

I wanted to answer this question but, overwhelmed by the many notions I would need to explain first, I decided not to. Where to start? Ufff... Does it...

Relativist, you need to re-read my last comment, this time trying to make the most of it, really putting some effort into comprehending what I say in ...

I assume you are all smart human beings because you comment in a philosophy forum and shit. You must understand that, if people voted for a real ape, ...

Let´s suppose Trump is corrupt, a liar, and possibly a reptile in human disguise. It´s still the American´s President, elected in real elections, unli...

you can not understant something until you place it in a context.. That is why, even if we do not have an evidence for ulterior dimensions, we can sti...

Ying weeds and hardcore plants´ role in Nature is to pave the way for more delicate, but longer lasting, plants. They practice "terraforming" in badla...

sounds like the next summer hit

I understand that many Americans consider owning guns, or at least having the right to, a very symbolic element of their democracy. Guns are never jus...

what exactly is consciousness Leo, and is it the same concept as subjective experience? We know how animals and plants have their experiences, and hum...

this makes more sense, thank you. It is possible than popular science videos are a little misleading. Perhaps what you mean is that time is probably n...

To remove guns from homes, you have to remove first guns from the streets

I don´t understand how spacetime is considered as space and time inseparable..., but then we can talk about what happened "before the Big Bang (Space)...

"There will be another pair of directions, but I'm not sure what requirement you are putting on these directions by saying eccentric and concentric".h...

We have right and left, back and forward, up and down; so I think the four spatial dimension might be outwards and inwards, an eccentric and concentri...

I think new religions are about to emerge, that will redefine our current notion of what religions are. The main religions now are totally out-dated a...

As some of these predictions are mutually exclusive, I hope that the colonization of Mars and the Moon is the one that comes true. I also hope those n...

I´m currently a determinist too, because I can not even think of real processes not fully explainable via non deterministic causes, whether we know th...

I suspect that Philosophy is too much focused in truth and abstract ideas, and not enough on feelings and relationships that is what women are (genera...

Ying, why do you think women are less interested in Philosophy than men? And what is different in women who are actually interested? Is it a natural-c...

that attitude won´t get you laid Ying. Women want men with an important ego, because male ego evolved to help women to keep in check their sea of feel...

Formal education is partly what makes people, people. Do you think society must help those people to share basic values and ideas of the world? Like, ...

when I think of democracy, I do not usually think of voting. Voting is just a technique to gather information about the citizens´ will on different is...

I don´t know about colonial mentality, my country never had those and it´s a concept a little foreign and strange for me. Europeans ARE smarter and mo...

America is ALSO Europe. Europe is not a geographical concept; it´s a civilization. Before Muslim invasions, Europa was just a princess in a fairytale....

Athena made a very good point about the importance of Consciousness. Revolution is a word with many meanings, but its political meaning, for historica...

the climate in Southern Spain and California is identical, and the idea that wooded areas need to be cleaned to protect fires is not even an opinion, ...

Trump and (true) enviromentalists agree on this point. Forests need care, to prevent big fires. In my country Spain we have a very sad recent history ...

you kan´t agree with him perhaps becouse you don´t feel the same urge he and other people like me experience to find some ground for the defense of li...

the post was about women getting more interested in philosophy...Never mind. What I think and believe is irrelevant for other members; you only need t...

Thanks for the correction on "because"! To me sexual anomalies like the ones you are referring are chimaeras of some sort, but I´d rather leave those ...

yes, but that human aspects, well undestood (contextualized) is also positive. I think Kant just wanted to avoid the mess we are in the XXI century. I...

I never do that, when women ask me about dresses and hairstyles I´m brutally honest. They themselves prefer it that way, when they realize they can co...

the example of the Holy water, that in my mind scenario is contaminated by a zombie virus, it´s just to show that there are no universal actions that ...

drinking water when thirsty is NOT always good. Consider going to Church and having a glass of Holy water during the Mass; it´d be inappropriate even ...

lying is good, lying is what tells apart intelligent species from not so intelligent species that give us milk. But the act of lying in itself is mora...