unenlightened

We can surmise you're just jealous. :scream:

This goal, by hypothesis, or by dogma, was attained by Gautama Buddha after meditating under a fig tree. One must therefore surmise that it is a human...

I do say something rather like it. The terrible is also meaningful. Death is part of life and inseparable from it. So if life is worth living, it's wo...

I'm not actually trying to actually do actual analysis. I'm handwaving to a chap who seems to be drowning. And try to keep breathing yourself through ...

Hmm. This fell into my unreality - How does that evidence thing work?

Do you want some input, or is there nothing you want? If you pick a bunch of flowers for your love, she will not reject them because they will wilt an...

Its all either loveless or unreal with you? Let me amplify a little. Patriarchy is predicated on the control of women's sexuality; for example, a man ...

Better stick with fear and coercive violence then.

Naive realism simply isnt backed up by recent research in perceptual psychology or the more sophisticated thinking in A.I.

Love.

Thus the patriarchy: a society organised around power inevitably runs on violence and fear of violence. And therefore it always has a problem knowing ...

But when the candle is all there is, snuffing it is the only game to play.

That may appear to be the case, but appearances in this if not in every case are deceptive. :death:

I hesitate to question your historical expertise, but it seems to me that the impulse against realism is a religious impulse in the first instance. Th...

The English parliament.

1653. Corrupt democracy leads to dictatorship. History is full of painful lessons.

You are undoubtedly right, but I have difficulty believing in kinds of people whether they be goodies and baddies or stupids and intelligents.

I don't think we are communicating, alas, so I'll leave it there.

I think everyone is stupid - that's an underestimate?

A hungry man-eating tiger is not stupid. That is a difficult situation. A stupid man in control of nuclear weapons is also a difficult situation. A gr...

But the only way to avoid them is to kill oneself, because one behaves stupidly oneself. IOW, It is stupid to try and avoid stupidity. Take care of st...

Indeed. :up: Actions are intelligent or stupid rather than actors. Self concern is by definition short-sighted, because in the long run, we are all de...

Logic provides no reason to act. Logic may tell you that if you walk off the edge of a cliff you will fall and likely die. It cannot tell you whether ...

I read one once, but I have almost completely recovered. There is still hope for you, but try not to talk about it so much.

I wouldn't say that at all. Well, live simply by all means, but vote -always vote unless the vote is rigged. Vote for the decent candidate, or the lea...

Vacuous, rather than centrist. Obviously labour is divided, and Corbyn is an old school socialist. And the other half is Tory-light and campaigns for ...

I'll still be disillusioned.

If you have a company that chops down trees and sells the wood, you are likely to make a lot of money, and the government will want lots of tax. so yo...

The Tories have always stood for greed and selfishness, and most people most of the time are greedy and selfish. So they mostly win. The labour party ...

In the sentence "the cat is on the mat", "is" seems to function as a grammatical placeholder. We feel deprived if there is no verb, so we invent a ver...

One can do lots of things by way of speculative talk especially if one can retreat when pressed to 'loose' or 'metaphorical' or 'metaphysical'. Nevert...

Is it? Do you agree that a cause must precede its effect? If so, what meaning do you give to a cause of time? Something preceding time seems to make n...

Time is logically prior to causation. Causation is a time-bound concept such that causes always precede their effect in time. Thus there can be no cau...

Ontology is the concern with what is - sometimes called 'the furniture of the world. - unenlightened is a unique structure of matter. Or unenlightened...

And indeed My Lord Kelvin was mistaken. Not only were there many, many new things to be discovered (Radioactivity, relativity, a slew of new elements ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtFXmS9FmA

Yeah, you sound like a caring responsible sensible person - bad luck! :wink:

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You simply cannot practically look after someone in such a fugue state as an individual while they are in that crisis mode. It is hopefully possible f...

You already have your answer, really, in the behaviour of the science forum. There are questions science does not consider. It is perfectly 'possible'...

The eventual has already eventuated. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/3/madagascar-is-on-brink-of-first-climate-induced-famine-un-warns

What is there? How do you know? What ought we do about it? what does it mean? I see philosophy as entangled questions that one cannot tackle one by on...

Well I agree with you, even if you disagree with me. :wink: But my concern is to deal with what I see as the strongest argument. One can of course jus...

And there was me thinking that knowledge was a species of belief. (justified, true...)

"Sense" has two very different but related meanings. There are the senses that inform us of the world, and the ordering of our ideas about the world b...

It's a fairly commonplace dogma, but completely unjustified and muddled. However, it is certainly possible to be entirely lacking in any care for othe...

For those who like the bad news, amid the much trumpeted talk of methane reduction, reservoirs of methane hydrate will quite possibly totally overwhel...

I generally just change my mind when I find I am wrong, which I quite often am. But you have yet to point me to where I am wrong about climate change,...

Always glad to join the ragging of a national treasure. What I find hypocritical is the way he spent most of his long career being the acceptable face...