Brett

This is possibly another reason why my posts are so critical.

I don’t think there’s any point bringing up facts and figures with you because you’ll just dispute that and it becomes an endless conversation of refe...

Yes, I know it’s the party line. I’ve done the reading. As I said I just find it hard to accept a sentence or idea containing the words ‘truth’, ‘beli...

It is strong criticism. My only concern is that it might be counter productive. The fact that you suggest particular books to read that would “change”...

It’s these sort of posts that undermine you’re position; most of humanity wiped out in a stroke, speculation, possibly, ancient mythology. How can we ...

It’s not so much an ignorance of anarchy as a refusal to accept only one of the two, and the idea that there is no long term survival without overthro...

It might be interesting to compare the number of cities affected by sea levels to those so far removed they experience nothing. It’s also worth rememb...

Is that true? I’m genuinely not sure. It doesn’t seem to add up to me. Does it mean that belief can be counted as knowledge? How so? Edit: in relation...

I don’t believe this for a minute. I do see democracy struggling to deal with modern issues. But democracy is the only system in which better systems ...

Truth in beliefs? I’m sure you know better than that.

I imagine this to be a huge clash of cultures and those workers caught caught in the middle and didn’t have the skills to adapt. That doesn’t exonerat...

So the rest of the world is fine.

I think they got just enough of an education to lead them to think they’re intelligent.

@"Athena". @"Punshhh". @"iolo" What a bunch of pathetic, self indulgent losers. I don’t believe any of you really believe what you write. You insult e...

Sometimes it’s a bit surprising to find out who we are, as if there’s some danger in accepting that. So instead we try to overcome it with ideas about...

The reason I asked your age is because it seems more like the condition of someone older, not young. It sounds like the feelings of people recently re...

How old are you? Maybe you mentioned it but I can’t see it.

Goodbye philosophyforum.

If what we call “ language” in other species is really instinctive behaviour, then could this not mean that thought is also an instinct of humans and ...

I thought my post was unreasonable. I see I was wrong.

But their “language” would not be connected to thought but to behavioural instincts. So to me it’s not so common. Is that a fair statement?

I think if supremacy can be considered a problem because it “risks sustaining divisions in race, gender and class.”, then one day the word “advantage”...

What sort of things? But it feels like that. How can that be proven? Can I think of something that I don't have a word for?

I’ve haven’t spent much time looking into language. Which comes first in a child, thought or language?

So language as a system of thought is only used rarely because it’s only required on those rare occasions when needed, and that other communication me...

Sure. But you’re feeling is that thought is communicated very rarely, and language is doing something else, except on those rare occasions.

Do you mean thought is communicated very rarely? And very rarely, does that mean not very often or not very accurately? Can you direct me to his thoug...

Actually I apologise for that outburst. Edit: bloody politics!

This is what he said. Language, not science.

What a joke. Who cares what you think on this forum? Self indulgent rubbish. You need to step back a little and look at yourself.

I meant do you regard the women in the same light?

I’m a non-antinatalist. I’ve never heard of this before but it’s very interesting. Is donating a good thing? I think it’s worth the effort to see what...

Yes, fair enough.

And the women?

I really do think the blue collar workers are waking up to things. The problem for them is that you don’t realise that they are. Edit: so much so that...

Not familiar enough to know if this is true or not. Though they do seem to have picked up a lot of Labour seats. However in elections I tend to think ...

I’ll go along with that.

No, but do I have to in making my case that Stoicism is not for the modern world?

How could Stoicism have helped the slaves in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama? Stoicism may have kept them alive, they dealt with the ...

I’m quoting from Epictetus there. Not a very good example. Maybe you have no idea of the reality of life out there in the world, it’s hard to tell. Ru...

Yes it does. But my point is that, in the world today, and I may be wrong, the constant battering from created externals is too much for what I regard...

I’m guessing that you feel the social system is equitable and that people can succeed if they just try a little harder. That may account for your feel...

Don’t make me play those stupid games, please.

I don’t know if Stoics claim this. But this is the reality.

[ Moping. Interesting that you chose to use that word. I had not mentioned, but you somehow saw the situation in that light.

I think what @"God must be aetheist" is saying is that the world of the philosophical Stoic is unreal, that they assume all externals are somehow noth...

So; hunger, your children don’t eat too well, you have no work, your wife is ill, you have no resources, you have rent to pay, you haven’t recovered f...

My second point, then, would be, is this suffering external, or is it self imposed?

Consider this; either life today for many people is almost insurmountable and beyond their control, or they’re making it up and just looking for an ea...

You both seem to have leapt at the quote by Epictetus, which was probably a bait not intended. What I meant was that to live as a Stoic today is to be...