Yes, Hitler still has his followers. But that does not prove him sane. Unwavering dedication can also be stubbornness to the point of monomania. Princ...
You are so busy arguing, you are missing the point, and arguing against your own position. Jesus, Socrates, and the principled man of peace, not to me...
No I don't think that. I think that personal survival is part of earthly success, along with having rendered unto one some of that which is Caesar's, ...
Well you need to educate me about this, because it's a use of the terms 'earthly', 'spiritual' and 'success' that is wildly different from my current ...
I would say that Norman is a cockroach. He is like the vicar of Bray in adapting to society, or like the decent citizen who becomes an extermination c...
Just to feed your paranoia a little... It is obvious that they are feeding you stories about false news being so influential to make you so distrustfu...
With great caution! For example, a heightened sensitivity, or even a new sensitivity to some environmental/social factor, may look like a weakness. Fo...
'Mental strength' could be seen as functioning analogously to 'fitness' in evolutionary theory. One cannot say much about it in advance, and what is f...
Well I agree, and that is not what I said, but rather the inverse, that if one makes an effort to be be genuine one is automatically not. But the impl...
Yes, this is the two-fold problem; once we reject 'normal' as the measure, on the one hand it is hard to find the appropriate diagnostic authority, be...
I apologise for not following your instructions, but you yourself have said nothing original; there is a long tradition of alternative and anti - psyc...
Well if God, then all of these are possible worlds except the atheist world. But it still seems to me that God only necessarily carries sentience into...
It doesn't clarify to to substitute 'with respect to'. Compare... Necessarily, every work of art requires an artist, and necessarily, an artist must b...
Yes, that assumes immanence. There is a difference between necessary for, and necessary in, which you elide above. So God can be necessary in the sens...
I'm finding this one hard to make sense of. Why should God 'carry' sentience to all possible worlds? God creates a possible world consisting of, say, ...
It's an excellent exposition of presentism until you apply it, and then it all goes pear shaped. When I wait for the bus, it is not because I desire t...
I love how all the deep philosophical problems are laid out Janet and John, first reader. "Spot sees the ball." It is called naive to suggest that Spo...
In Scotland I once came across a tree (silver birch) that had fallen thee times. each time it had turned its growth upwards again from where it lay. I...
Striving for rest is exactly that unnecessary, contradictory, and fruitless stress creation that I deny is necessary. Like the war to end war it is bo...
1. This is undeniable, one cannot know the future or control the whole world. 2. This loses its rhetorical force once it is clear that stress is not n...
Not only did I not know it, but also it is not true. The two words have different origins from latin via Old French. Or so google tells me. But even i...
Well hang on. "Exposed to stress" is to my understanding a term of projection, as if stress were something in the world, rather something in oneself. ...
Yes, I broadly agree with your distinction, and also that stress is generally harmful. By analogy with the engineer's understanding, I would suggest t...
And then there's the self-imposed stress of looking more closely. I mean, stop stressing me, man. ;) If the options are boredom or stress, and stress ...
For example, "I'm afraid your leg is gangrenous, and it needs to be amputated or else you will die." Generally, whenever causing them stress is the on...
I've been thinking about your Zen Master's classification of anger: - attached, reflected, perceived, loving. "Attached anger sometimes lasts for thre...
So you have an ambition to stop being absurd and foolish. Well death doesn't seem to fulfil that ambition. A fool does not become wise in death. And y...
Can you explain the difference for me? It certainly seems that one sustains oneself with the purpose to avoid death, and that death is inevitable, yet...
I thought everyone knew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcvng9u7REE It does only last once, time. Sustained by the need to relinquish. The requiremen...
Your purchases are not really my concern. However, if you look both ways before crossing the street, you are implicitly valuing not getting run down, ...
In that case you have already answered the question implicitly without having thought about it. If philosophy has value of whatever jectivity, then li...
Reason is the slave, not the master, so your question has no rational answer. One might say that psychological time is created by identification; and ...
That is certainly possible. However, if, as a matter of fact, and unknown to you since you haven't considered it, life has no value, then it surely tu...
1. If life is not worth living, then philosophy is not worth doing. Therefore, the worth of every other philosophical question is dependent on the que...
Yeah, well. Not that I'm trying to persuade any rational other here, but... Is Sam harris worth reading? One needs to answer before one reads him, giv...
Not at all. The joy of soapboxes is that they are freely available at small cost, and anyone can climb on one and pontificate about about what it seem...
Life is too short to build your own large hadron collider or read every philosophy book, so you have to take other's work on trust or live in the ston...
No, no reason, no proof, no method, no effort. It is so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLsugnd2HOQ Of course, to be happy all the time, one needs to...
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