unenlightened

Dude first you deny my analogy on spurious grounds, and then you try and play it back at me in garbled form. No thanks.

That, sir, is the thesis of atheism, that reality is not the way it is because the inventor said so. But it is not clear to me why it would make a dif...

Exactly. The rules of chess are the right rules for chess because those are the rules. There can be other rules, but they are the rules for other game...

Circularity is a good thing for a theory, as long as it isn't vicious. A theory is a way of looking at things; at least, this is a way of looking at t...

You can't make a universe without breaking symmetry.

You can't have friends; you can only be a friend.

*something even wiser about eggs falling on stones and vice versa.* *Mumble, mumble, 'cosmic egg'.*

No, from Albion.

*Something wise about omelettes and eggs.*

Yes. I think that was the price of thinking 'we won the war.' Britain was never humiliated the way the rest of Europe was, by invasion, defeat, or col...

Doubtless you think Hitler was right.

Engineered! The rich minority maintain their power by sowing dissension and setting the poor against the destitute, the slum-dwellers against the home...

Thanks for sharing your story, dude, and with such devastating clarity and eloquence. Alas for Mr & Mrs Average in this situation. Here in the UK, our...

Not you or I of course, but ... https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/communication-success/201601/7-signs-covert-introvert-narcissist

Explains a lot. The people of the Land of the free, don't know what freedom is.

Actually, I don't see at all why this is so. It is quite a popular idea, and I think it comes from an analogy with causation. "A person's action is ca...

Here's how I heard it. The good stuff is reserved for medical staff and rich fucks. The rest of us use crappy makeshift masks that provide almost no p...

Firstly, you are correct that 'all x are Y' statements escape my critique, so if U were to claim a more modest and precise Fmust be able to imagine se...

And made by hand and muscle and patience, not by machine. If you think love is a feeling you have rather than a labour you work at, there is not much ...

Just means you've looked at it and nothing has been added since. Don't panic!

The thesis is that words carve the universe, that is they make distinctions. So 'Washing machine' carves the universe into two pieces that I will call...

Is it my imagination, or did you say that already?

Good grief! That is a really terrible way to do philosophy. I will not engage with you further.

Did you make an argument?

Deter me from what? You destroy my arguments like I was making them for real, rather than parodying your arguments. You seem not to have noticed in yo...

All unicorns have a single horn. Nico is a unicorn. Therefore Nico's unicorn horn exists. Happy days! I'm sure i can come up with one for god on the s...

I do not need to be convinced of the fatuity of all such existence arguments. If you can find a valid proof of the existence of any damn thing that do...

Sure, good proofs always work by the conclusion being contained in the premises. What did you expect? Let god be something for which there can be no e...

Only one. You are only one, and what is most important to you is singular. Don't worry about everyone else, unless humanity is the most important thin...

LET God = the most important thing, person, idea, or principle in your life. IF you exist the most important thing, person, idea, or principle in your...

I understand it is a personal choice what to or not to believe in, but in this case, appearances are deceptive. I wonder if you would be interested in...

The word in psycho-babble is "desire". The absence of beer that sends one to the fridge. (We don't want to say that the beer in the fridge is capable ...

You might find that no journey is necessary to discover oneself; rather, it is in a fruitless effort to escape themselves that folk rush about.

No, it presumes your point, and concludes that nothing can at all be known because knowledge can only be of the past. Accordingly it ceases to engage ...

I don't know. Do you remember making an argument, or did you imagine making one?

Ok. But since I cannot tell that you said that or presented any argument for it, it's not worth responding.

You are missing out, and I am sad about that. To choose to love, to choose to care, is to make oneself vulnerable. In the end to be alive is to be vul...

Yeah it's fairly fundamental, the distinction between fact and fiction, and unfortunately, as a matter of psychological fact, it is quite easy to impl...

Yes. I agree. I don't know what brains actually do with the data, but I'm fairly sure they don't make a picture, because there is no point - there is ...

I have never seen my brain, let alone seen it doing anything. Have you seen your brain? Do you know anyone who has seen their brain? Have you read any...

Is it? I'm fairly sure I don't have apples in my brain, though I confess I've never looked. And for the same reason, I've never noticed any representa...

Then you have no argument with me. It's like the perception of red.

How do you know? Have you seen it?

I literally live in the world.

Google is your friend.

But we are off topic. It's the darkness - how do we see the darkness? Only in the darkness of the mind can the darkness be seen. Those of us who do no...

I just noticed the weasel: "the implicit assumption that the apple is red the way it looks red to the perceiver." In what way does does a red apple lo...

Ok. We represent apples in our brains, and we represent our brains in our brains, and we represent ourselves in our brains and our eyes in our brains ...

Not a problem for naive realists, I see the apple as distinct from my seeing already. Sometimes, when I peep round the back of what seemed to be a red...

A classic. If you were blind, apples wouldn't look like anything at all. Moral of the story is you can't see them even if you can see them.