Judaka

Isn't this just your way of saying that you like it when people think for themselves? Does the distinction do anything except create a value in thinki...

I feel there are two major misrepresentations of reality in your laying out of things. 1. History of Success There are many countries which are democr...

I think such an overthrow of an Australian dictatorship would be relatively simple and painless. What made the middle-eastern wars so difficult was th...

I am not against hostile diplomacy with rogue nations or despots who harm their own people. Pressure should be applied to non-democratic nations to se...

I don't think the topic would be as controversial if everyone thought that the US was invading Iraq on behalf of the Iraqi people, for the purpose of ...

US involvement in WW2 and the Korean war resulted in tremendous victories for world liberation, also their support in NATO has been crucial for establ...

I think the context matters but if an individual has their well-thought-out, fact-based assertions dismissed due to an emotional reason such as findin...

I would summarise the problems eternity poses as an idea or as a framing as including making the intellect feel small, insignificant or inconsequentia...

I think "positive nihilism", which could describe my own beliefs, is not a restrictive term and simply means that one sees no inherent meaning but is ...

Fear is being sold as a commodity by the news and politicians, consumed because people enjoy being scared and enjoy the drama. Surveys I've read indic...

What death equalised are not our opinions on life, fairness, what we want for our loved ones, ourselves or people in general. It is from the perspecti...

Rules are created by the intellect for the characterisations they make, for what exists and how to describe what exists. Solipsism is established by r...

I've lost all faith in sarcasm over the internet.

Wrong, I am incompetent at using formal logic and therefore it is useless, I refuse to see it any other way.

I think disagreement for the sake of disagreement, proving someone wrong, asserting your views as correct is nearly pointless as anything except as so...

Firstly, I find people who are overly excited irritating because they're loquacious, noisy and overbearing, not all the time but especially if I am ti...

I would suggest that meta-ethical relativism (moral relativism) should not be considered necessarily frivolous. You do not need objective morality to ...

I just find your descriptions to be objectionable like you say this; but who is that even in response to? Perhaps the reason why people can't answer w...

Religion is an example of people reaching different positions through different processes. This a simple problem since it's just a matter of whether y...

I have never encountered an example of someone thinking clothing is necessary. I also have not really encountered anyone saying that the issue of whet...

Stance into belief yes, influence to conditioning, I suppose very nurture-orientated thinkers could say that but I wouldn't. I think you are correct i...

Personally, I'm confident the answer is no.

It is the absolute nothingness which results through death that makes it an equaliser and neither the manner of the death nor the circumstances have a...

You are missing my point, which is to refute what you said when you said "it's about recognising we can change it", I am addressing desire only to add...

Let me be specific, there is a choice but the pattern of people choosing to obey the law in this instance is so concrete that this pattern becomes mor...

I'm an atheist but I find your invocation of God here something which should be understandable to anyone, it is a basic point. I was recently discussi...

When I say "capitalistic" I am using the term similar to how Lacan used the term, to refer to the culture of capitalism. The "capitalistic arrangement...

I have been talking about similar concepts on this forum lately, it is interesting to see a different way of explaining it, thanks for your post. I wi...

It's not a PF thread without some stupid one-liner from Banno.

What "choices"? To go to the supermarket naked? It's against the law. What choice are you talking about? Nono, you cannot reasonably talk about "we" w...

Certainly and that's often what people are buying. Often this is how things work, in politics, morality, religion and such.

Thanks for your response. I suppose this discussion has become just as much about "the truth besides the truth" which can be seen in the perfume adver...

The choices you make are forced upon you, your preference for wearing clothing isn't required. Similarly, the types of clothes you wear are often not ...

When we talk about capitalistic arrangements, we would describe things differently if we tried and all the same problems would apply here as they woul...

These subjectivities are arrangements and rely on psychologising, characterising, narrativising the role being inhabited or just existing which consti...

The fairy example is not a criticism of theism, it is a criticism of agnosticism. A theist's beliefs will not operate as I described. The difference b...

Both atheists and agnostics can agree that we can't prove God doesn't exist and both agree we can't prove God does exist. The difference is what that ...

It seems to me that this is where you're going to get the most disagreement. There are a set of very contentious issues such as global warming where t...

Misunderstanding me once is acceptable but to press on even after I clarified that I agreed with you? Yes, it is good that the argument is rational as...

I agree but that's that I said. We can promote rationality without agreeing with all rational arguments or thinking they always lead to good results. ...

We should want to be rational but I can challenge my rational thought without questioning its rationality and this can be done on several levels. My a...

I warn against this kind of idealising of the past, what makes you believe things were better before? With the exception of trolling, which I suspect ...

Why do insults have to be fair? :( I did watch the video, very funny and sums up my complaints.

180's is a significant and ideological definition of racism, whenever someone defines racism this way, I feel it becomes clear that their primary conc...

I think that nature and time are overexaggerated by Peterson as a selective force. Let's say you started a business, you are going to be continually c...

I disagree with this approach but it seems you are resolved. Certainly what you propose, getting out of your comfort zone, may help. I think oftentime...

I feel like what you're proposing is similar to cutting out one's stomach because they're tired of being hungry. Technically, you're right, if you had...

Even if there were ways, these things are crucially important, how could you trade them away to stop being self-conscious? I can be self-conscious, I ...

Hm, self-consciousness can be due to any of the four things and more, I don't think the solution can be to let go of your sense of self, or ego, or pr...

If Streetlightx and nos4a2 have a ratio of 1 and the idea behind OP is that people with a ratio of 1 or above are good contributors then I think the t...