If there is one thing I know about all this, it is that the main question for every sensible person is that of freedom. Freedom from an apathetic natu...
1. The desire to be rich 2. The desire to be cool But that's not really human nature. Human nature is flexible. It depends on your particular circumst...
Yep. I mean, we're no Gods. We know very little, and most of that comes from without rather than within. When we see lots of people doing something, w...
I can't really be sure, just like most other things I suppose. I myself never bought into that whole torn jeans charade myself, and the torn jeans I w...
But at the same time, one must remember all the good that this sytem has actually achieved. Quality of life is better than ever before in all quarters...
If I had to guess, those desires mostly come from advertisements and other tactics businesses employ for profitability. Whether that is a good thing i...
Hey Wallows, just curious. You have almost 8000 posts. I read a few of them, and to be brief I quite liked them. Have you written something in print a...
Thanks, but apparently that's not it. According to wikipedia: "In Karl Marx's critique of political economy, commodity fetishism is the perception of ...
Yes. Being happy means feeling good, regardless of the morality of the means of that feeling, while being good means feeling good while helping others...
They failed to understand the concept of chemical energy. Directed by instructions in the form of electrical energy from the central nervous system. A...
I'd like to disagree. Soberness is the quality of not being drunk, so it's just a negation. Before alcohol was invented nobody was drunk but that does...
This is like saying soberness is older than alcoholism. A fallacy. Only after alcoholism can there be soberness. If alcoholism didn’t exist, soberness...
Now look at it from the viewpoint of a hypothetical psychic from the past, and someone from the future when there’s a machine that can look into the m...
“But that's not possible since we are not eternal beings, but beings who were created at certain point in time. So, nothing can ultimately originate w...
And no I’m not whoever you’re thinking I am. To your speculation about whether I’m trolling, please be advised that such things depends more on one’s ...
History has everything to do with the present. In fact, is it only history that has anything to do with the present. Simple case of causes and effects...
Firstly I don’t think it’s right to view time as an arrow, because that implies direction. As in a starting point, and ending point and many intermitt...
“So can a person have private morals?” There can be no other way. Everything else is making others give you what you want by making them think it’s fo...
Here I ought to remind you of the not-so-long ago history of two world wars, Cold War, postcolonism wars, opium war, famine-ridden British raj in Indi...
Socrates said it best: the unexamined life is not worth living. Many other great philosophers have endorsed this opinion. But it is important that the...
Causation is a logical phenomena that encompasses physical and hence biological phenomena, which is what happens and that’s all very good. But likewis...
An armed society is a normal society. Society without arms don’t last very long. But whether we elect a few people to do the actual arm bearing, or wh...
I believe the original post contradicts the quoted passage. In fact, I think precisely the opposite is implied. On the second comment I would like to ...
I would normally say ethics shouldn’t be based on intuition but rather on concrete principles, but as I get older I realize how human intuition is oft...
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