unenlightened

No I haven't, I have explicitly denied it. Reason can say "If you don't want a hangover more than you do want to get drunk, then do not drink lots of ...

No it isn't. It is anti-Zionism if you like, but not even that; it is a claim with evidence that the Israeli government is doing it's best to undermin...

Yes. It is multiply confirmed by a staff member of the Israeli embassy in the documentary I linked. In the second part he attends and is active at the...

There is a natural localisation of identity - people like us live in places like here. There is a natural loyalty in such identity, to the colours of ...

... and that's what kids should do. All's right with your world Tiff.

This is a misunderstanding of what Hume means by passion. Will is passion, not a part of reason. Whatever has power, whatever motivates, is a form of ...

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the halls of Oxford, I will show you something that will make you change your mind. https://www.fetze...

I sing the praises of Hume the Romantic. Let us be clear, that passion is giving a damn, and is contrasted by reason that gives not a damn. Reason dec...

People can vote for censorship, and they can vote for tyranny. They can vote for oppression and injustice. Hurrahs for freedom and democracy can lead ...

I've never set foot in America either, but it sets foot on me quite a lot, and I feel entitled to fulminate.

Well I would say that body integrity disorder is a 'what it is like' that we can see in the behaviour, in the expressed preferences. So I suggest that...

I think we are quite close, except that I think the elite is always vampiric, and it's a matter of economic power whether they can suck the people dry...

I'll buy this if you can explain why. Why now? Middle class self-satisfied do-goodery has been with us - forever, more or less. Otherwise, it seems li...

That's how they get that expensive coffee that @"Hanover" drinks all the time, but surely no one does it for peanuts?

In the interest of playing the ball, rather than the man, I suggest that criticism of identity politics on the grounds that it oppresses a minority (o...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can we not say that desire is fascistic by nature. Whether i desire to make America great again, or make unenlight...

Well by hypothesis, his motivation is irrelevant. Perhaps he is interested in self-aggrandisement, or perhaps he is selflessly saving America from wha...

You referring to he of The Mass Psychology of Fascism? Long time since I read it. It's a seductive game, the psychologising of politics, and one of th...

Have you noticed that the BIV scenario is a remake in scientific garb of the notion of a 'higher reality' beloved of religions everywhere? This vale o...

More fake news for you. https://www.palestinecampaign.org/press-release-london-council-to-debate-banning-those-calling-for-israel-boycott-on-grounds-o...

Here is some news that is so fake even google won't report it. A letter. Here's the conspiracy theory that it exemplifies... https://www.commonspace.s...

A house is just a pile of bricks; why don't you live in a pile of bricks? I find that when the bricks are arranged just so, I can live in the space be...

I always eat my partner after sex. It's only natural.

http://jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/the-ending-of-time/1980-04-01-jiddu-krishnamurti-the-ending-of-time-the-roots-of-psychological-conflict

I commend to you unenlightened's first principle as a guide to leading a meaningful life: It's not all about you.

You'll have to ask Jesus about that one, dude. All I can point out is that 'what I want' and 'what I ought' are images that often conflict, and 'what ...

Can one be wrong about one's pain? I think it is an unhelpful suggestion to make to one who is suffering phantom limb pain. Can one be wrong about one...

Yeah, but actually, don't. I live in a house, not an illusion, and if your house has ever been knocked down, you will understand that destruction is n...

Well I'm only talking, and only even talking about thought. Physically, there is no division, obviously. So there is a division in thought, and a ment...

Yes, exactly, learning without accumulation, one could say. https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/‘learning’/learning%20without%20accumulation So my i...

I don't think it works quite like that, in most cases. One needs a bit of psychology here.There is 'what I am', and there is 'what I think I am' (my s...

It is a biological fact that people are 6 ft or over, or less than six ft. That some people wear high heels in an attempt to pass as tall, and others ...

Seems like a straw person to me. There is perhaps a solid stick hidden in the straw, which one might assent to, which is that "I" am independent (pote...

Let's consider the philosopher's friend, phantom limb pain. I seems I cannot be deceived or mistaken about my own pain, because it is experiential. Bu...

The will of the people is that Aldi remain cheap.

More importantly, it should be 'there're'. I don't mind starving, but bad grammar is intolerable.

The man has convinced you that a job is a great thing to have. It isn't. It's pay that you need.

If you want to be really paranoid, ask yourself which country has a vast swathe of territory too cold to be much habitable, that might benefit from a ...

But surely, self-contradiction is impossible?

I don't think belief requires much consideration. Hear the bell, start salivating. I'm not the lizard whisperer, but the folks that I know of, cats, f...

Let me tell you the story of the emperor's new clothes. Are you sitting comfortably?

Yes, I think I agree with your parsing. Right, I think I get what you are saying here. If one says out loud, "I believe X and X is false." there is an...

Man, you got it bad, ain't you? No, Trump is best buddies with Putin, and Putin is looking to undermine the alliance against him, and foment conflict ...

Not really. The point is that Store owners didn't ought to be best buddies with store robbers. And if they are, folks start to talk about 'an inside j...

If I am mistaken about the fact that I am a good philosopher, and someone points out that my thinking is sloppy and my ideas confused, then on seeing ...

But it might be a plurality of awarenesses, a plurality of intentions, or one element of several of a person. You seem to be ruling out a division on ...

A heap is not a plurality of grains? A mind is not a plurality of thoughts? A brain is not a plurality of neurones? A body is not a plurality of cells...

Seems like the US is overrun with Muslim terrorist news... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/20/muslim-terror-attacks-press-coverage-study?...

Two people love each other, have children and come to hate each other. The children tend to become weapons in the parental conflict. Consider the non-...

It is hard to answer, because in saying anything, I am going to be making an image. But as near as I can get, compare : 1. I am an English philosopher...