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It does ring a bell somewhere, though I haven't heard it expressed as a general rule. The body of Taoist literature is gigantic.

Apparently you believe the answer to that question to be 'yes' - otherwise I would be 'obviating myself of the need to explain some of its manifestati...

You're just going to double down on your cosmic strawman and ignore what I said then? Fine, be that way.

I never pretended to provide such a thing, nor do any of the schools of thought I named. So I'm not sure what you're getting at. You're the one who st...

Well, based on extensive bodies of thought that have remained consistent throughout the ages. If you want to call that 'vibes-based', sure. I'm not pr...

I think it's more a matter of which properties one thinks it's worthwhile to pay attention to, and which aren't. If you think it is worthwhile to anal...

My earlier reply was meant to give you an idea of which direction I think in: Taoism, Jungian philosophy, etc. - two well-established schools of thoug...

You weren't expecting an answer to "Where does sushi fit into all of this?", were you?

No, I just tuned in to their Twitter feed.

Yes, they seem to have conceived a most genius method: look where groups of civilians are, and assume some among them must be terrorists.

Oh, I'm sure they have all sorts of things in mind. But you just said yourself they have no clue where the terrorists are. They blend in with the popu...

A-ha. So Israel cannot see these terrorists - they don't wear uniforms - and therefore just starts murdering civilians in the presupposition that some...

That would put Israel outside of civilization?

At the most basic level, Yang ('masculine') represents action, and Yin ('feminine') represents rest. Even in the most masculine man or most feminine w...

I hadn't really thought of Ford as a 'leader of men', but if that's what you want to classify him as, then why not?

Loving someone is different from them embodying a masculine ideal, which is what a societal masculine role model would have to do. And I have no qualm...

Normally I'd agree, but in this thread it seems 'masculinity' in used synonymously to 'manliness' or 'things that men do', so the way in which it is u...

I don't think masculinity needs a 'modern update' - modernity seems to have no clue about masculinity (or just about anything it is doing in general, ...

I think that's a bit harsh. People do as they are taught, and if you teach kids to idolize petty criminals then that's what they'll desire and aspire ...

It was a notable event, but Covid's deadliness was on par with a serious flu, and our reaction to it was one of complete hysteria which cost more live...

I have a seriously hard time figuring out whether you're being sarcistic or not, and/or exactly whose argument you're responding to.

Men who are overly preoccupied with pandering to women are hardly ever taken seriously by their male peers. The classic "white knight" / "pretty boy" ...

The pandemic was a disaster because it came from a lab, likely funded by the US and China, and therefore entirely avoidable. As far as the death toll ...

Men aren't "still so predatory" at all. Violent sex offenders are a miniscule fraction of the population.

Growing up a a single-parent household increases criminality for both boys and girls, and it is more pronounced in children who grew up without a fath...

Life used to be a lot harsher, and neither men nor women had it very good. I think this 'historical victimhood' yarn is a modern political thing, mean...

Well said. :up:

It seems to me like taking a minor infraction as an excuse to ban someone with unwelcome opinions. Apparently we're only allowed to discuss ideas here...

Oh, I can almost hear the sad violins in the background. Anyway; women need to be protected from weird opinions? Come now. Honestly, if people were sp...

Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. I don't think that's what he actually said, though. It's a pretty silly yet common view among radical femin...

Weird decision. Some of his comments were a bit edgy, but really nothing warranting a ban. This is a philosophy forum. There should be a reasonable to...

The Dark Triad personality: Attractiveness to women Yeah, I wonder who keeps selecting those deadbeats. :roll:

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Yeah, I think that's fair enough. At the same time, amid a poisoned political climate, these somewhat low-key events are no longer so innocent. The sp...

Whether this trend will continue after Trump's presidency remains to be seen. I'm not convinced that it will. It's also a question of whether the pict...

It has nothing to do with that. I'm pointing towards a political climate that has already resulted in two assassination attempts on Trump that we know...

Well, exactly. And look how they marketed that as a full blown attempt at a coup d'etat. Now those same people are getting up in arms about this Tesla...

Do note that the political context includes the vilification of Trump, among various other caricatures likening him to Hitler and a fascist, in what i...

Europeans are being influenced by anti-Trump messaging just like Americans. Haven't you noticed? It does appear to me as downplaying - at least, when ...

What if it were Trump supporters doing something like this? Would you think the same way?

A national constitution for the most part pertains to how governments must behave towards their citizens. International law is mainly about how states...

People make choices based on such things as what type of ice cream they like. But then you insert the unquantifiable idea of a 'state of you', which i...

Where were you taking that paragraph then? Because so far it's a somewhat convoluted way of describing how people make everyday choices.

So far, so good. But what you've said earlier suggests that you're intent on taking this argument to an extreme where people have no meaningful choice...

It's a stretch to say that's what people experience. I certainly don't. You're essentially saying people experience determinism.

Hang on, do you perceive a total state of everything, including the state of you, whenever you act or make a choice?

The outcome was already determined, therefore the sense of choice was merely an illusion. However, that's is not what we experience. How so? The possi...

Determinism implies we never have a choice. Is that a better way of putting it? But we certainly experience having a choice. Or how would you put it i...

Determinism implies the outcome of our choice was already decided beforehand, agreed? But that is not what we experience; we experience agency in that...

Doesn't our experience of free will oppose itself to determinism? Whether we choose to have a glass of water or a cup of coffee, it feels like we make...