unenlightened

So here's the fundamental difficulty. I, as a rational honest and good person, am perfectly willing to admit you also to that status, and then we can ...

I'd like to flag up the assumption built into your recipe, that I think is exposed in the conflict we have been having, that is always a central conce...

Why? Define and control. Don't. Let. Anyone. Tell you what is art. Because... It' ain't philosophy. It's fucking the whole world.

Do you seriously think I have made an argument against logic? I'd like you to quote me on that or withdraw the claim. If the question is "what do elep...

No Harry. As you see, I am not mistaken. @"Pantagruel", @"creativesoul" and myself, (and @"fdrake" can speak for himself), but three of us are fairly ...

I didn't realise you suffered from internal conflict. Well I don't think logic can create values. It might be that you have found for yourself a limit...

So, how's the conflict resolution going, chaps? Is all that truth and logic doing it for you?

Also this guy. https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/structure-self-centred-concern

So did I, but this thread has been left; the one that was deleted lacked the passion and humour of this one.

It is clear that you are complete tosser. Asthma is a chronic condition, as in one that persists over the long term. Most people with asthma can expec...

"What is geography?" is not a question addressed in the topic of geography. It is not pondered or debated by geographers. Rather, along with "What is ...

Look at the post history. Every day was a bad day. And this particular thread did not even reach the dizzy heights of wooly un-researched theological ...

Imagine me standing at my front door behind a suitably pretentious podium, and flanked by my Chief Street Gossip-monger. The chap opposite has asthma ...

There's no discussion being had. You contradicted the usage of a professional in the field and have been corrected. An apology is in order, rather tha...

I think if you study it, life has sustained itself through many crises without the help of humans or scientific innovation. Over several billions of y...

I suspect you rely more on your senses to read those instruments, though you probably don't remember. Jesus, how hard do I have to press the Non-Sense...

Yes I always rely on my non-senses, for proper evidence.

I read that too, but I didn't believe my own eyes. This is the problem with skepticism; the more I believe it, the less believable it is. But I have n...

Yes it was an argument. Your hallucination agrees with your potent argumentation, and is completely convinced, and this is evidence that you are not h...

Totally convincing argument, dude. Your hallucination is convinced by flattery, where logic utterly failed.

News just in. The people down the road, that have the children Mrs un used to tutor, and who rushed up to hug her a couple of weeks ago, have tested p...

Just your perception dude. I'm not even here, I'm just an hallucination.

And what, pray, does skepticism recommend we use to make this evaluation? Given that even if we find what we are looking for in the way of reasons to ...

Well from there, you have no more reason to believe any answer you might get, than the original perception. In fact there's no point my talking to you...

I asked Mrs un if you were saying what I thought you were saying, and seeking to corroborate what you're thinking with what I'm thinking, and she said...

I don't want to discuss what I think you ought believe about what I claim to believe, because, apart from being off-topic, I cannot expect you to beli...

And you think you're the mad fool!

Circumstances, dear boy. Sometimes less is more. https://phys.org/news/2015-11-colour-blindness-aid-efforts.html It's not a principle at all, but if s...

Sometimes it is wise to shoot yourself in the foot. You might face a firing squad for cowardice, but the risks of remaining in the frontline trenches ...

A blind man lacks a common sense. But he presumably has all the other common senses.

I'd like to reprise common sense for a moment, and suggest that it is common, not in the sense of there being no shortage, but in the sense of it bein...

Is motivation not a factor in criminal law in the US? Malice aforethought and stuff? In the UK being a piece of shit is the difference between murder ...

Except that food production and distribution has not shut down. Millions of people are dying around the world from a lack of foreign holidays, footbal...

Sorry, are you saying we shouldn't be discussing how to resolve conflicts of opinion or that we should be? I take the latter view - do you agree? Note...

Oh. I'm glad we agree.

I blame that Caxton fellow. When everything had to be hand written, one copy at a time, folks were more careful about what was being promulgated.

That's right Harry, I forgot, there's no conflict of opinion in politics is there?

I would like to suggest to you, in relation to the topic we are supposed to be discussing, that this conflict cannot be resolved, because no genuine c...

And so we find ourselves arguing about the length of the stick and who has the better grasp on it. And the original question is quite forgotten.

It is as others have said the Platonic method of dialogue. But one can say some more about the elements of dialogue. First, it requires an assumption ...

Yup. The medical model fails again. Mind can just about operate on the body as an externality. It's mad, but cosmetic surgery and body-building can be...

I think you can do that and be damn good at it. As long as you keep enough calm and resilience. Some heavy shit can come down the wire at times, but y...

Yes indeed. Shall we call purveyors of medicine purveyors of death? The crack or spice addict and the alcoholic are not a long way from the suicide. W...

This is about the only question that psychology has given a clear and unambiguous answer to. If you want an obedient docile horse, or dog, or child, r...

Chefs have to wash their hands whenever they have handled raw food, and before they handle any cooked food or food the will not be cooked especially d...

Well personally I'd vote for Lord Buckethead if I thought he'd beat Boris the professional turnip, so wet dish-cloth Starmer will probably get my vote...

I'm pretty good, considering, thanks for the concern though. I have a daughter working in a hospital and that's a worry, but I'm loving the less traff...

Good for no one = no good at all. Yes. but he thinks it is justified; we don't. But Let's try and give devil his due here. Imagine a really bad life, ...

Yes, I think one should take the suicide seriously. But I think the non-suicide such as thou and I should also be taken seriously, and clearly our int...

I don't think it can be. Humans don't experience absence and they don't experience non-existence. It's quite hard to articulate the nonsensicality. "I...