unenlightened

Not I, you or the Good Lord want you to be authentic. An authentic asshole is invariably full of shit; the project is to be fake - to fake humanity. F...

Well perhaps philosophy is impossible, but if the unexamined life is not worth living, and the examination of life is philosophy, then it seems that p...

Cause precedes effect, temporally. Therefore, there cannot be a cause of time. Causation is internal to the world. Whatever is external to the world, ...

The tories have a new solution to the problems of brexit: a unilateral trade deal. It might even work, (not really) except that this government cannot...

I'd clap you in irons for that remark if I could. But it's a fine example of weaselling, which is what I thought you were objecting to.

You mistake my claim, which is that the spiritual is unreasonable. In matters of fact, truth and reason are king and queen; in matters of faith, beaut...

This is what happens when philosophical literalists meddle with religion and try to organise it. Zen Buddhists are smart enough to head them off at th...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/worst-hour-for-trump-after-convictions-for-manafort-and-cohen At the risk of injecting a serious note ...

So the John that is conscious of himself is not the John he is conscious of - is that what you are saying? That consciousness entails an unconscious.

Radical improvement proposal: let's do some philosophy. :sparkle:

You need to change the heading too, as it's no longer "All Discussions". I'd suggest "Philosophy Discussions", except we still have other stuff...

Well, perhaps that was a bit hyperbolic, but... I think it is reasonable to distinguish the physical, the social and the personal as aspects of the wo...

I voted for discussions sans lounge, on the assumption that the categories don't have the latest comment/thread link of the old pf. If it were possibl...

This is not a reply.

In any finite discussion, someone has to have the last word. When's me, I always wonder whether it is too feeble to worthy of response, or so incisive...

Let's not. Rather, let's assume that there are values necessary to the survival of the kind of social creature that we are, and that these inclination...

Youtube made me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXLGVDOd7yk

My nomination for the next president. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/15/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-act-richest-companies?CM...

It is well known that a lot of unpleasant physical symptoms - inflammation, muscle spasm, fever, and so on, are the result of the body's healing proce...

Treason? Betrayal? Personally, my rage is not against the abusers, who I can think are themselves fucked up, and need stopping, and then helping. Rath...

"Waste of a good millstone." unenlightened.

When you finished laughing, be angry, disgusted and horrified. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45190355

You are insane. You are now arguing that nuclear weapons are the way to get rid of nuclear weapons.

Then you should be paying rent to them, obviously. Let's call it 'tax'. In the case of real estate, it is very easy to allow the tax to accumulate as ...

I don't imagine it would change the consensus at all; if anything, it would demonstrate the need for 'us' to have nuclear weapons - because 'they' hav...

But the solution is trivial; take the gun out of your mouth, get rid of the weapons. One doesn't need to be perfect to understand that, and it needn't...

I thought it was about impressing the chicks.

Your spell check needs a new washer.

But that is not an answer to anything. We would be better off without the constructs of race and nationality, but we don't have the option. And not ha...

Well actually, the narrator denies that he was insane. But what can one say of quality about quality within the confines of a thread? That it is the f...

It's taking a while to convince you, though you don't seem to have much of an alternative.

Yes. If you try by force to take away the gun, it will go off. So you have to tackle the reason the gun is there.

How does it help, to focus on the gun? Why not focus on the mouth and the hand?

So living in a mad house with lots of mad people with guns, everyone is full of fear. Most people try and pretend it is not the case - that they are n...

Dude, take the gun out of your mouth, get off your excessively high horse and engage. Yes we are mad, now, moving on, what are we to do? Oh wait, no p...

I have more visited Russia than anyone. I am a tremendous visitor, and when I visit somewhere, it stays visited.

Ok, but he looks like a dead hedge.

And here's some more evidence> https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/blog/8395/

Boris is weird and oppressive. He should be banned.

Or, Other people have been to Russia more (times) than I have. Or, More people have been to Russia than I have (had hot dinners). Or, If it doesn't qu...

Oh, I agree with you, but then your distinction loses its bite. Let me lay it out a bit. We know that people can feel that their own limb is alien to ...

But you seem to be claiming that introspection can only be done by reference to publicly assessable criteria?

Tell me more. What is the difference?

Let's do some philosophy, and find out. Why do we have nuclear weapons, or any weapons? We call it defence, and it is aimed at security. We feel insec...

So a higher order volition is one that you approve of - a desirable desire. I've no problem with that, but it's not quite what wiki is talking about. ...

What's a rational evaluation, Harry?

People who are very hungry will eat whatever they can find: grass, bugs, boot leather. But one would not generally say that they desire these things. ...

Right. I'll go and talk to wiki in your new thread. Tomorrow. Now it's time for some wine.

I'm not sure what it means to be 'higher order'. First, my example of wanting intoxication and not wanting the hangover; that's short term v longer te...

We are passionate; we give a damn, we want to do, to have, to be all kinds of stuff, and we use our noddles to get it - ie reason. And there are lots ...