You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

unenlightened

Comments

Having said that, I'm not entirely sure I agree with myself. This discussion at least starts to make a case for the other side. https://www.youtube.co...
January 22, 2025 at 19:19
No. Therefore, Yes. Unless you meant that other question ...
January 22, 2025 at 16:41
— I don't think he is smart enough to be that fluent in such symbolic gesturing. My guess is that he was going for hand on heart sincerity and this, a...
January 22, 2025 at 16:14
"The effect may be considerablein a few centuries." Come back in another century and sneer about failed doomsday cults. :roll:
January 22, 2025 at 10:05
l You might like to explore this site a little... https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/ideologies/ ...the age of nationalism powerfully promoted the...
January 21, 2025 at 17:45
When this came out, I wasn't expecting to get this old. But here I am. And feeling the exact same way about things. That's a hopeful sign, right? "Let...
January 21, 2025 at 17:25
Book an uber to take it home, I imagine.
January 21, 2025 at 12:13
And that's the most controversial part of my comment you can find? I think you must have got out of the wrong side of bed this morning. Have you check...
January 21, 2025 at 12:05
I have an Apple phone, so (1) is impossible. My first thought would be that I had got out of bed the wrong side, so I would try genital recognition an...
January 21, 2025 at 10:46
Well now you are in my happy hunting ground - folk and folk rock. So i can correct you here; the best band ever was the Albion Band. https://www.youtu...
January 21, 2025 at 10:14
That's surprisingly musical. My ignorance of the genre is profound but listening to that dragged this from memory vault of forbidden youth. https://ww...
January 20, 2025 at 17:00
Have we had this one? Janis Ian. "At Seventeen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soew3R2N7Js
January 20, 2025 at 16:15
I dunno nothin about metal, but even country folk hate country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no00oHll06w
January 20, 2025 at 11:31
Civil war? How you doing over there, these days? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTy-hlsT4s
January 20, 2025 at 09:29
That was my first thought, and then it occurred to me that it also happens that the brain is slowly removed and not replaced, and that is called demen...
January 20, 2025 at 07:33
Cool! The tendency is usually to try to back-project distinctions we make, like that between physics and metaphysics, onto the writing of the ancients...
January 19, 2025 at 20:31
You'd have to give some details to be sure, but it sounds from that as if Sartre is confusing identity with consciousness, and identity is very much t...
January 19, 2025 at 20:19
One more, and this time with a lying acceptable image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyrwUrZomb8
January 19, 2025 at 14:29
I just discovered this man who sings almost like a woman, who was so badly treated by the music industry for most of his life, but liked and respected...
January 19, 2025 at 12:42
I prefer The Tao of Pooh.
January 19, 2025 at 09:23
With humans, you give them food, and they give you shit in return. But with plants, or at least some plants, it's the other way round. So first become...
January 19, 2025 at 09:16
Those who want to relate the Tao to either physics or information or logos, might do well to look for those connections in the much older book, the I ...
January 19, 2025 at 08:39
World Economic Forum Report. What the rich are worried about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INRaQPfy4pw https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-...
January 18, 2025 at 08:34
I think (awareness is always aware of being aware). I have basically stolen the notion from J. Krishnamurti, that thought is nothing much to do with a...
January 18, 2025 at 07:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgW2KmgIOX8
January 17, 2025 at 13:55
I'd like to join in the mutual appreciations; I've got a deal of reading up to do, and things to think about, and thanks for that. I would have been a...
January 17, 2025 at 11:18
Yeah. It's interesting that there is great scepticism of quantum effects in biology, and yet getting them into our phones is a realistic goal.
January 17, 2025 at 09:38
Microtubules. Of course.
January 16, 2025 at 13:56
It is what it is. If that is all you mean, we have no disagreement. But to say it has something seems to hint at more... ?
January 16, 2025 at 12:55
Well my ontology is that identity is a thought process and nothing else. To be hard-nosed for a minute, no fish ever thinks it is a fish, it does not ...
January 15, 2025 at 21:06
Well that is a question of identity politics. Some people like to lay down the law about what are legitimate identities, but the recognised identities...
January 15, 2025 at 20:23
Ok, this isn't a backroad, it's the cutting edge of the superhighway to the future. This is highly recommended as a great explanation of theoretical a...
January 15, 2025 at 15:52
Oh ha ha! You made a little joke about my handle! No one ever did that before; I should have thought about that when I chose the label.
January 15, 2025 at 13:10
I think therefore I am whatever I think. I am the thought of myself. I am the result of the distinction I make between myself and the world. But this ...
January 15, 2025 at 08:46
Yeah. "The record that can be recorded is not the continuing record." "Work is done and then forgotten; therefore it lasts forever." ETC.
January 14, 2025 at 20:38
Lao Tzu.
January 14, 2025 at 20:18
Hmm. "Philosopher" is an identity that identifies itself as central. But then that goes for any old narcissist too. But that's ok with me, because I a...
January 14, 2025 at 19:46
Again your expression equivocates; The world does not have any absolute colour independently of the visual apparatus and the ambient light. When I am ...
January 14, 2025 at 15:05
Endo-symbiosis. Feel the love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miWmvIDapa0
January 14, 2025 at 12:04
No, I would say the whole world looks brown, not the whole world is brown. You are equivocating here how things look and how things are, which is exac...
January 14, 2025 at 11:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ot1MA9t58
January 14, 2025 at 09:43
Despite global warming, I am confident that rice is not much grown in Devon. Furthermore, rice pudding is not, and never has been nor ever will be the...
January 14, 2025 at 09:37
Stick with manna and ambrosia, human food always tastes of sweat.
January 14, 2025 at 09:02
And yet some of us are colourblind, and some have lost their sense of smell and we do not blame the rose. Normal people talk about the world directly,...
January 14, 2025 at 08:53
The aromatic hydrocarbons belong to the rose, but the smell belongs to the nose. The reflective and absorbent signature belongs to the petals, but the...
January 13, 2025 at 20:37
Well yes, I assumed that was what you wanted to say. But I was hoping you'd have some argument or rationale for saying it. Yes, I've heard that before...
January 13, 2025 at 14:27
Great example! I feel the same way about goats. But is it that I am blind to the sexual attractiveness of goats, whereas other goats can appreciate th...
January 13, 2025 at 12:13
As distinguished from extrinsic features of our experience? What would they be? It seems to me that if the argument works for beauty and ugliness, the...
January 13, 2025 at 08:13
That's about right. Government reduced to entertainment "The Economy" reduced to "The Oligarchs".
January 11, 2025 at 21:15
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Making sense is an incurable condition. You can quote that over on the "Aphorisms I have slept with" thread if you li...
January 11, 2025 at 20:55