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Because people tend to associate with ideas through others and if someone says something you deem sensible then you may ask them, or read up on, how t...

Does he bother to consider the connection between common religious practices - such as fasting, prayer and chanting - and ASC’s (Altered States of Con...

What I meant was it may not be best to ignore the horror by dressing it up as a treat. To look at the death of a billion people as an “opportunity” ha...

It may also be worth recognising that “western thought” is most definitely NOT confined to the west anymore. Many western ideals have been adopted all...

This is the doctrine of the Salvation Army:

They are fertile recruiting grounds.

“God” is more like the word “and,” “or” or “thought” than the word “chair”. In my experience people just as much difficultly in expressing what they m...

They, like all positions, are just positions. Meaning they’re perspectives that can be applied with different degrees of success here more than there....

Why did you switch from this: To this: You seem to be asking a genuine question yet omitting and inferring so much that it’s quite incoherent. Are you...

“Philosophies” under severe circumstances have led to the death of millions.

If you’re really interested check out prominent university courses on the subject and look at their reading lists. I cannot honestly say I know a grea...

It’s for no one and no one needs it. Mere “love” of wisdom is akin to porn addiction.

“Teaching” is self-deception, and “philosophy” is 90% pretension, 10% pedantry. “Teaching philosophy” is the lowest of the low.

I don’t believe they had ready access to deposits. The middle east and europe had access to rich deposits and time on their side. It is also interesti...

I’ve just started reading it myself. From my understanding it helps a great deal if you’ve read his previous works too (especially BGE apparently). Ho...

I have only skimmed over a little of the thread. I was responding to the post before mine and trying to express a much neglected issue (education of y...

I never suggested they weren’t technologically advanced and stated so in my last post. I said this for a reason: Just because they were stone age peop...

Technically speaking they were stone age peoples (I was talking in archeological terms).That doesn’t demean or belittle the advances they made at all....

I think people simply prefer a single answer to problems. Blaming “Capitalism” for all the woes of the world is kind of silly, yet deeply appealing to...

To add a little to this thought here’s a quote from Schiller:

My mistake! I guess I was just taken in more by the manner of the reply than the content. You chose to exterminate the human race via suicide. Why? Yo...

Probably for a number of reasons. Logistics were not so big over there with the lack of horses. Perhaps that fact that these civilizations were effect...

You mean personally you’d rather ignore the hypothetical in the OP and make up your own. Why? If you think it’s badly thought out or trite then why po...

It’s just the same. Putting a nice suit on a corpse doesn’t make it breath or smell better. I completely understand the instinct to shy away from the ...

We must be honest with ourselves and, contrary as it sounds, we’re never likely to be sure when we’re lying to ourselves or not. “Happiness” is a term...

It doesn’t appear to me that you expanded from your “...” Maybe my use of terms is unclear? I was trying to differentiate “Social Phobia” from inbuilt...

This is what concerns me. I wouldn’t call it a “gripe” exactly, but I do sometimes get the impression that the “psychologist” and “psychiatrist” may d...

There is a fair amount of academic disagreement about what Aristotle meant by “Katharsis”. The modern usage IF the same would’ve still been applied to...

Perfect! I’ll make my next post in this subject at some point during the next couple of weeks. Hopefully it will be an interesting and worthwhile exch...

We are framing this as a set hypothetical so you wouldn’t know the person and only be able to make judgements from their actions. If the person is act...

I am still curious about how you’d feel about someone else making the decision? Would you actively block someone else from pulling the lever or prefer...

I feel maybe that this thread is focused more on what is or isn’t “offensive” rather than the underlying nature of “Comedy”. Of course I mention this ...

Thanks for the replies :) I’d like to add something to what’s been said, but don’t really know how to. I do find it miraculous that humanity has manag...

I would say hubris is present in all realms of medical science. I think it’s a bit steep to say “incurable”, but I do understand the concerns given th...

Most festivals and celebrations are an amalgam of other traditions. The winter solstice was replaced by Christmas and the spring festival was replaced...

What would you say is a good minimum age to be a clinical psychologist?

I didn’t think it was funny really. I did find the comment about contacting the FBI funny though :)

I was not saying that the biological/survival mechanisms at play are “phobias”, yet in a social setting they seem to be about irrational fear - althou...

It is and it isn’t a moral problem. I altered the parameters a little to highlight this.

Thanks for the relpy. I don’t have a trouble with anything but this: Suicide is certainly not the norm nor is it “rampant”. We don’t “try” to exist we...

Sure :) That is what I am going to go into in another thread. I don’t see the hypothetical question as mapping 1 to 1 onto reality at all. That would ...

I can see the conflict you’re presenting. It still doesn’t hold up from my perspective. I assume that people generally want to live and having to do s...

You’ll have to explain further? I didn’t back off from the purpose at all. By revealing the layers of reasoning and personally limiting your answer as...

And what is the point of this question? If you’d posted this what would the reaction have been? Disgust? Revulsion? No doubt you’d have been mocked an...

I make no apologies for this. I was actually expecting people, between the odd protest, to answer it in part or come at the problem in as level a head...

I don’t agree with this. Just like the suggestion that there are people who have no prejudices. That is not to say that people do general act from day...

The point of a hypothetical is for people to think about it NOT fro me to tell you how to think. If you wish to establish some fiction as to scenario ...

I spend months on a painting, hours upon hours, sleepless nights, neglect personal relationships, etc.,. It’s finally complete so I put it in a frame ...

Thank you :)