unenlightened

I hesitate to say it is impossible, but self righteous conviction most often looks naive and ugly to me: And yet the man himself is the epitome of sel...

Er, not really, I'm sorry. I call it darkness because it isn't clear. It seems necessary that there should be such a darkness, or blind-spot or whatev...

Well it occurs to me that I was perhaps dealing with poor benighted utilitarians who thought me presumptuous and irrelevant in imputing motives to pos...

"Help me, weird old man, help me." I try so hard to be unpleasant, and you are still not satisfied. It is the cliched essence of womanhood to be insat...

Guys like that should have to wear a burkha and be accompanied by their mother in public. If he fails to do so, he's clearly inviting whatever weirdne...

Well, I have been having some disagreements myself recently in the world of practice, which you commented on briefly. Without, hopefully, resurrecting...

Does anyone do this? It seems to me that if what we ought to do determined what we do do, there would be no need for a moral system at all. It would j...

Well the way I understand it, is that there can be partial order without love. As there is partial order in a fascist regime, but the order is really ...

Source. I think I cannot say, from here, what love is. Perhaps it is love to say, brutally, to a friend, you are walking over a cliff. But perhaps if ...

Everyone and everything. And it's your fault. It's not like I'm hard to please or anything.

Is what what what is?

Ok, I'll have a go.You'll have to excuse a bit of pontification. Moderators should be drawn from the best of the members, both in terms of their philo...

I am absolutely not asking for anything in this thread to be deleted. In this case it would amount to tampering with the evidence and a cover up. What...

Whatever I'm doing, it's not lurking. I'm not pissed off either. And I don't want to come back to the fold because I'm not a sheep. I'm taking a stand...

Indeed it would. And yet this is how the law works every day of the week, except Saturdays and Sundays, and it is fundamental that justice must be see...

For your aesthetic delight... https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/trump-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-business-links-putin-family-paradise-p...

I always said that morals were objective. Evidence of what ought not be at last! And it's universal.

Say to the judge that you are stressed, and that you hate being put in the position of having to side with one parent against the other. Say that you ...

I can show, that is, you will see if you will look, that your attachment to objectivity is an emotional one, that your not giving a shit is an emotion...

I like Nagel, but I don't think it does follow. Or rather it does, given the condition that it must explain what it cannot explain. As if whatever I c...

Sometimes I need a bit of an anthem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooh1uD2AD8

Do you then think that I am sexist because I propose that it is, as I am being officially told above? I'm sorry to be so much trouble, but the fence h...

Ok, I've given my feedback. I've given references. In the end, the staff decide for the forum, and members decide for themselves. It is rather a shame...

To regard philosophy as an analogue of war really says it all. The truth will prevail by aggression? War is madness, and this philosophy is also madne...

I didn't expect you to be thrilled by my complaints. I do expect the moderators in general to respond carefully to reasoned and evidenced criticism. I...

Anyone is entitled to hate me, and every staff member is likely to be hated by some. I'm really not interested in justifying my own posting habits her...

Hello Kevin. I wish it was nice to meet you. But it isn't. It's petty unpleasant. You lower the tone of the discussion and exemplify what I have wante...

There are two traditions that conflict. We are in a community where those two traditions are meeting, and it is necessary to choose. But then one exam...

If you are a scientist, or a priest, or even a mathematician, you still have the same problems. One cannot check everything, and must rely on the comm...

Oh the priest, obviously. We're not short on manipulating matter, but very short on living well together.

They claim it rather more than argue it. Yes. So all one can do, at best, is to seriously question received wisdom in one area, and take most of the r...

They are not arguments. They are descriptions of ways of life. Of course. I am neither a sage nor a saint, because either takes dedication and time an...

We can say it, but does it mean anything? I would; rather say that the beginning and end of things are their boundaries rather than that things are th...

I just stole this from wosret in the shout box. https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_your_words_may_predict_your_future_mental_health#t-5899 Suppo...

I don't think so, or not quite, anyway. It seems that both the views you identify start with the ego. If I were you I wouldn't start from here. Rather...

Well I do, but only in the sense that I would put the world outside those boundaries. One can know a person very well, but it does not entitle one to ...

Forgive me, but I want to jump quite hard on that 'not everyone'. There can be no elitism to this, no path to originality or individuality, no hierarc...

I think this is an almost but not quite response. I have a goal, and you have a goal and if we have a common goal then we have a team. It still starts...

Yeah, that's cool, and I'm pretty cool too, but not in the ascendant right now. Perhaps edit it to the politically correct term "Pussy".

I won't. He'll be reelected because he represents the worst of the insanity of the human race, and that is in the ascendant.

Well if my thoughts are internal to you, then, ... no I'm not going there. I have to shrug and say never mind at this point.

I think the way I would go would be to say that "some mammals lay eggs," is scientific, but not a theory but a fact, that falsifies the theory, "No ma...

I'd like to see him banned for the troll he is, but in the meantime he's on my ignore list too.

Mm. I really struggle to make any sense of this. My voice, as expressive of my thoughts and posted on this forum is not external to you? But never min...

I am not a snake oil salesman. I am saying what I think is true, and my motivation is that the truth is liberating. I do not want or need your trust, ...

No, not at all. I'm inviting you to question an assumption and apply your reasoning, which I assume is not different from anyone else's reasoning. I a...

Yes, that is the question, how come the unity of self? But when you ask "Why would I accept this unity of society as a higher unity than the unity of ...

Ok, let me try an analogy. Left Hand cooperates with his brother Right Hand to bang a nail into a post to hang Stomach's tucker bag out of reach of th...

Well some people hear voices, and some people think they are alone. "We experience ourselves as individuals" Is this not performative contradiction? W...

I'm glad this has gotten revived. Just suppose, that we take a really radical, far-out psycho-ceramic view of psycho-ceramics ... entertain it for a m...