unenlightened

I thought Aleppo was the guy who carved Pinocchio.

I didn't create that divide, its set up by the forum software. Moderators have powers of editing and areas of discussion that are not available to ord...

I am very interested in how the community thinks and feels, but I have learned to be very tolerant of how individuals feel about me personally. Nobody...

There is need for clarity. This is how the site works. The owner sets it up, recruits some folks he has some regard for to help him, and other folks v...

Moderators and admins and site owners.

I'm not sure how the Morris is relevant here, but it's part of my heritage, so I'll join the dance. It seems to me that to be self-aware is to be awar...

Good job we've a thriving armaments industry then, to counter the threats. rolleyes, banghead, throwuphandsindespair. There was this guy said somethin...

This guy has some interesting ideas about addiction.

One might say, more generally, that the oppressed can be, and very often are, oppressive. Thus the poor are just as greedy, in general, as the rich; j...

Psyche always demands three dimensions; the observer, the observed, and well, whoever is claiming there is the observer and the observed The analyst)....

The 50 most influential living philosophers. Might even be worth a thread if, you want to argue the toss about who should have been left out or died. ...

Indeed, I am the universe annihilating the opposition. Not quite so attractive an identity.

I could have written exactly this, myself; we are of one mind. But I have been rather hard on the mystical expressions in this thread; I hope I can ex...

I'm all aboard with everything being connected. 'Each thing is everything being that thing' is a fine and dandy way of understanding everything, but i...

I don't remember that, have you a quote?

Well I didn't quite say that. When making bread, I strive to make the best bread I can, when decorating the hall, I strive to make a good job of it. W...

One can however reduce it to the plastic bag is a container, horse manure smells, and I am self aware with no loss of meaning and even more satisfacti...

I entirely agree. It is intended as a reductio ad absurdum of the quoted and applauded "I am the universe becoming self aware."

As if life is a game of fucking football. I refuse to strive, even for the ending of strife. It is enough to live. Don't forget to grit your teeth whi...

One only needs security if it is worth cracking. You seem to think that what you are doing is something different from what hackers do, but bankers an...

Well, Pandora,talking of myths, I'm inclined to say you don't, and when you find it, you'll wish you hadn't. But life begins with 'suck it and see', a...

I'll toss you for the title.

The universe is the universe. A plastic bag is the universe becoming a container, and a pile of horse shit is the universe becoming aromatic. Every-da...

I am the universe becoming pissed. Which is probably why I don't remember putting those two posts up in, for some reason, a pair of different names. T...

Examining how the balance of power between the colonizer and the colonized remains relatively stable, Freire admits that the powerless in society can ...

Oh we don't mind - anything that distracts you from what's really going on.

If there are behaviours and beliefs that dominate a society or group, it seems likely that there are also minority behaviours and beliefs. Presumably,...

I think society is divided because people are divided within themselves; it is a matter of psychology rather than law. If society was not divided, the...

I like laws. I like for examples that you have to pass exams before you can call yourself a doctor, that if you sell food, you have to list the ingred...

If I can drag you away from your analogy for a moment - no, it's impossible. Well then, allowing that playing tonal music together requires agreement ...

I'm not one to defend the notion of moral facts, or of mathematical facts for that matter. (The latter because exceptions such as rotting apples and b...

Doesn't follow, I'm afraid.

Try this for a moral fact: "You ought to do good, but you will not."

I quite understand that white folks don't see it and don't want to see it. I could present experimental evidence, as I have in the past, and reference...

Prejudice is the mind's heuristic in action. Quick and dirty - women are ... something probably comes to mind and when you see a woman, that comes wit...

Yes, perhaps. But perhaps when you suspect they might be going to point it at you. And perhaps you might be more inclined to suspect that of a black m...

There may be something to that, but I think there is also a deal of truth to the general thesis that black neighbourhoods are badly policed and black ...

I'm specifically not equating them, but relating them. No, I meant fair-minded. I know from my own case that one can be minded to be fair but fall int...

I used to play music with a chap like that; he was an excellent violinist, but could not play with another, but had always to have others play with hi...

The instrumentality of "If you want..." produces morality because, as has been pointed out, I want to live in harmony, but I'd rather Mrs Un did most ...

It would be nice if it was.

I tend to agree with this, and It would be nice if it were possible to talk in a more nuanced way about things. But I think it misses an important fea...

A small child gets up early, and creates a disaster area in the kitchen before scattering the results of their efforts all up the stairs and triumphan...

Predictions are truth apt. Sometimes they turn out to be true. But they are not facts. I buy a lottery ticket; I predict that I will not win anything,...

I woo it.

She is a firefighter. Therefore she does whatever a firefighter does. This works. But the obligation only has meaning when there is the possibility of...

Well of course there is a connection. There is a connection between a prediction and a fact too, despite that one cannot derive a will-be from a has-b...

If you want to be logical, then you ought to follow the dictates of logic. This is an unproblematical conditional ought precisely because it is condit...

You cannot. It is a matter of logic. However, this does not preclude telling folks what they ought to do, fortunately. It merely precludes telling the...

Hume is known for making two important distinctions; the fact-value distinction, and the fact-prediction distinction. Yet no one seems to have much of...