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Brett

['Member']Joined: February 10, 2019 at 10:27Last active: January 13, 2021 at 11:5634 discussions3001 comments

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Why don’t you actually try and address @"Harry Hindu"’s post.
January 13, 2021 at 11:48
So either this is true of Trump and Baden, or it’s not true of Trump and Baden? Which one?
January 13, 2021 at 11:40
That’s not what I meant. My question was are you asking me personally what is behind this will to absolute epistemological certainty, or were you refe...
January 13, 2021 at 10:38
There are no negative consequences I’m trying to avoid. I was interested if, in your theory, there really was a place or system for people who didn’t ...
January 13, 2021 at 10:27
Well you can’t answer it because you don’t know. Some random post on Parler. The usual “rambling and raving”. I mean really, is this the sort of refer...
January 13, 2021 at 10:22
Well what are you meaning when you say “a tiny number”, it’s a reasonable question. And you’ve referred to my argument, which as far as I can see is t...
January 13, 2021 at 10:15
Well, enough of these pleasantries.
January 13, 2021 at 09:51
No need. You’d run.
January 13, 2021 at 09:49
They’d smell your fear from down the street.
January 13, 2021 at 09:44
Nazi is getting a bit tired. You’re going to have to find something new.
January 13, 2021 at 09:43
20,000,000. You’re a joke. I bet you can’t wait to taste the blood yourself.
January 13, 2021 at 09:42
Actually it’s 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent of the votes cast. 74, 222, 958 wannabe mass murderers? You may as well surrender now.
January 13, 2021 at 09:38
Did you read the quote from Persson in my post? Is this sociological or addressed to me?
January 13, 2021 at 09:36
So you’re just throwing all these people into the same pot. Where do you draw the line, or is it all Republicans, all Conservatives?
January 13, 2021 at 09:32
The fuck they do. What do you call “tiny”? What exactly is my argument?
January 13, 2021 at 09:26
Who said that? What could that possibly mean?
January 13, 2021 at 09:18
They’re not going to succeed and they know it. It’s all virtual signalling.
January 13, 2021 at 09:02
So they call themselves “wannabe mass murderers”? It’s whose alleged goal, whatever that is?
January 13, 2021 at 08:54
I think you need to calm down. There’s almost a sense of pleasure in all this sky falling in stuff. From protestors to terrorists to mass murderers.
January 13, 2021 at 08:43
So, to paraphrase, philosophy is good for those who are born without the talents of the wise and realise this. They can minimise this condition in lif...
January 13, 2021 at 07:54
For or against?
January 13, 2021 at 06:11
Do you understand why the electoral college was established?
January 13, 2021 at 05:58
So no enforceable contracts on paying rent for leasing a place. Consequently there would squatters, which defeats the purpose of owning and renting pr...
January 13, 2021 at 05:42
Nor am I suggesting that. What I meant was that if it does not come to us naturally then we would need instruction. And if we did not get instruction ...
January 13, 2021 at 04:55
“ Far from establishing a rational consensus about what is morally right, and about what the ground and meaning of this rightness is, moral philosophe...
January 13, 2021 at 04:19
So in this utopian world no one would be allowed to rent because there would be nothing to rent.
January 13, 2021 at 03:15
Frege was an anti-Semite. Jews aren’t that alien to Europeans. Edit: Frege, “ Hmmm, what is meaning? Get that Jew out of this building!”
January 13, 2021 at 02:36
Not hanging around are they?
January 13, 2021 at 02:14
“Hume and Kant were racists,” I’m not asking anyone to act in the way I think they should. It just seems to me that anyone who applied an intellect of...
January 13, 2021 at 02:06
That’s a pretty bold claim. And “stop paying”? How does that work? I didn’t want to own a home for many years. That sort of commitment just didn’t app...
January 13, 2021 at 01:56
I’m not quite sure what you mean. You seem to be saying, for sample, that Aristotle’s thoughts regarding women was the result of his intellect. But it...
January 13, 2021 at 00:39
On the surface that seems like a wonderful thing. But what is the benefit? If we can’t use philosophy to hone in on something, slowly reducing it to t...
January 13, 2021 at 00:32
That’s an interesting take on things. We’re still babies on the earth. So philosophy is still very rudimentary. And taking into account our recent app...
January 13, 2021 at 00:26
I haven’t started this OP to prove anything but to follow a vague thought I had, which may be seen as the hat representing philosophy. Your post sugge...
January 13, 2021 at 00:16
I understand where you’re coming from in terms of your posts about capitalism, but not everyone wants to own a property, and there are many reasons fo...
January 13, 2021 at 00:00
First of all there’s no need to apologise. And though I began the OP I’m not the moderator of it. And even if I was I wouldn’t silence you because of ...
January 12, 2021 at 23:53
Of course. So I don’t see why you feel you can make judgements about my mental state.
January 12, 2021 at 12:59
How old are you @"Jack Cummins"?
January 12, 2021 at 12:53
No, I’m not saying that at all. (BTW I’m aware of China reaping the rewards of globalisation. I just think their success is interesting to look at.) I...
January 12, 2021 at 12:52
Unbelievable hubris.
January 12, 2021 at 12:38
Okay. The period of the video and the video itself is about globalism. Globalism may have pulled some people out of poverty, which wouldn’t have been ...
January 12, 2021 at 12:37
Yes, but that’s not how it’s used, Michael. Re. White privilege.
January 12, 2021 at 12:27
So you think it’s lack of reason that’s behind the whole violent, tangled up, troubled world? Just keep piling on more reason, eventually it’ll work. ...
January 12, 2021 at 12:25
quote="Kenosha Kid;487732"]You're obviously not going to defend the point, I give up. What point? Make it clear and I’ll address it. Is this it?
January 12, 2021 at 12:11
Well stop trying to read “ the subtle underlying message” because there isn’t one. Just because we like philosophy and just because some people have t...
January 12, 2021 at 12:07
So you don’t think it’s true that the money the government spends on public programs comes from taxation?
January 12, 2021 at 11:57
That is not the subject of the post.
January 12, 2021 at 11:52
And so it goes.
January 12, 2021 at 11:51
This isn’t in my post. It’s not even the subject. This is: “Which makes me wonder if it’s possible that philosophy has nothing to do with life or how ...
January 12, 2021 at 11:43
Sorry, a bit of confusion there. I mean globalism has destroyed so much. It’s not the great success story overall, i.e. American jobs, sweat shops, et...
January 12, 2021 at 11:32