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Well on this thread I can perhaps present my position more clearly. The Academy resides on route 66 despite its monastic origins. So I grant your poin...

I'm not sure I can add much to your understanding.The op is a provocation rather than argument, along the lines you indicate, and directed at the usua...

Because it is alive in me. As alive as opposition is in you. It's difficult to talk about Aztec religion because it is not alive; it is not practiced....

If you want to expound that cultural understanding, I am listening. But my own culture is what I speak from. But I suspect you are bullshitting and kn...

From my position, I would say that either you or Kierkegaard has misunderstood the nature of faith. Empirical evidence is irrelevant to faith. My beli...

I prefer to do my own decorating. There's a lot of scope for interesting diversions there. But I'm going to rule out politics as doomed to failure to ...

I reckon it's not the most interesting part, personally. It happens when you have actually got your knife out and bared the neck of your most prized p...

Then you need some specs. Reality is totally subservient to principled imagination. New York is built on a grid system because someone decided it woul...

This isn't fucking facebook! Say something, don't just post memes!

Pigs are jolly fellows, and i won't have a word said against them. Au contraire. I'll have a song sung in their praise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes. So what do you need old chap? That's where we start, isn't it? A bloodthirsty vengeful deity that has to be propitiated. And the Christian twist ...

Your wisdom is necessarily the fruit of other's folly.

Human digits are formed in the womb by the selective death of embryonic cells in the limb ends. Incomplete cell death results in webbed hands/feet. Bu...

I largely agree with you so I will ignore everything but this , which is palpable nonsense. To put it simply, one participates in corruption or one re...

And there we arrive at the inescapable conclusion - that principles are nothing, that values have no value. Now that's what I call a slippery slope!

Indeed, no good deed ever goes unpunished, usually by crucifixion. Principles are an expensive luxury, and not recommended for comfort lovers.

Your privilege. I won't drag you. Ha! That is rich! A moral hard line is a slippery slope! You'll have to spell out those implications if you want me ...

1 Corinthians 13:2 In the matter of what Christianity is, if in no other case, The New Testament is definitive.

Yeah, that's the Christian tradition, though. The religion of love brooks no compromise. If you blather on about the sanctity of knowledge, you have t...

There is something odd about this. Suppose an alien looks at, say, the US; they see a single society. Then the bias of the white and the black are the...

If you can be ordered about by incentive structures, you have no character. Character is that which resists manipulation.

Take marriage. Either you are married, or you are not. You don't get to choose from moment to moment, and in this sense it is not subjective. You go t...

Indeed. One man's freedom of speech is another man's indoctrination of radicalism and fundamentalism. Always good to look at who espouses which virtue...

How come no one has been fulminating about free speech an' all and the whatever amendment that guarantees it, or is it the well armed militia that doe...

I'm all for globalism as long as it's the rest of the world becoming more like me, not the other way round.

I know about stopping my crack habit. I want to stop my crack habit. I can stop my crack habit. My crack habit ends. ????? There is no argument as it ...

A referendum on independence is a curious beast. It seems to necessarily assume that the people who are entitled to vote are those who would be entitl...

Just to be even clearer, it doesn't matter what is believed but what is true. If the fallacy were true, the odds would change and become predictable, ...

If the gambler's fallacy were not fallacious, casinos would all close.

I can justify your bias! A thermometer takes no account of wind chill. We are not interested in the scientific measure of absolute temperature, but th...

Well yes to all of that, or most of it anyways - I might have a thought about the Process to express one day. But actually, I don't think that is what...

In the end, I don't think it's that important. I didn't know you cared! Of course you can beat me if it is important to you. But wait; is it important...

Alas, there is nothing in the world that reason does not think itself qualified to pontificate about. Your nobility and peasantry are the drivers of t...

Robots are not programmed to join the Union. Therefore, Labour has lost its power base. As we see, money is quite happy 'to see the bodies pile high'....

Since you are generalising the personal here, I'll respond personally {arrogantly putting myself on a par with these heroes}. In my dotage, I have bec...

This is an interesting question. I'll try a naive answer and see how it goes. Someone who has been abused as a child, say, probably has 'trust issues'...

Well the theory, if I understand aright, is that you might need someone to to be subservient,{I'm not sure about that} but you cannot be so specifical...

I had a little think, and tried to remember something you said ages ago about your own experience of violence, but I cannot make it add up to somethin...

I am free to determine whatever is within my power and ability. My post, my words, your reply, your choice.

That's personalised so as to become a tactic, not just a need. It should be "I need my intellect respected."

Yeah no kidding it's hard! But don't beat yourself up about it! There's 8,000 years of habit and social structure to overcome, and Rome wasn't careful...

Let me help you get your ducks in a row. Suppose 3 or so ducks as material objects - what you call physical. Now get them lined up in a row. The row i...

Yeah I've upset a few rakes and stepped on some women in my time too. How fragile we are!

Judgement is violence. Especially self judgement. We teach it and build society around it, but it is not necessary. https://thephilosophyforum.com/dis...

It is. That the judge's words constrain reality is an unwarranted assumption. The judge could have said anything, true or false, sensical or not. Neve...

I blame the judge. As the responsible adult, she should know better than to give warning of surprise. The prediction might turn out to be false, becau...

Boys need to develop the masculine virtues. Men need to develop the feminine ones. Otherwise, one will be lopsided. First become what you are, and the...

For fuck's sake dude! :razz: No one's telling you not to get angry. There's nothing 'nice' about all this. Anger is a strategy folks can use to expres...

It's maybe worth looking at this to understand better how the needs based process language functions. the distinction between the need and the strateg...

Marshall tells a story of a Mum coming to his seminar and saying she was worried about her 5 yr old son not wanting to go to school. And he says to as...