Frank Apisa

What do you suppose I was trying to say in relation to this thread?

I want no such fucking thing...and have never suggested any such fucking thing. I am merely pointing out the absurdity of the notion. I also am pointi...

Indeed, Sushi. Just posted in the forum and got notice of this post. I LOVE it.

This thread is so long, I've not read through it, but two days ago I met with my sister (in from California) and we walked through the Metropolitan Mu...

The so-called moralistic and naturalistic fallacies are not things that "ought to be avoided"...but are observations that should probably be considere...

YOU may be trapped in a cage...and probably should be. I am not. In any case, thank you for showing that my comments have rattled you as much as they ...

Bingo!

And those who choose to guess they are all that exists...are not doing anything more absurd than peole who guess there is a GOD...or who guess there a...

Yup. George Carlin was a hero of mine on this issue...which is an issue I have written about for decades now. He recognized the absurdity of some of t...

That should have been, "Frank, you're much older than I." Yeah...but my "philosophy" does not suck. And I am not interested in censorship on this issu...

I'm sure you do. You've had lots of time to adjust to it.

I did not in any way compare myself to Socrates. I compared myself to people like you. But I will make an attempt to lower my game...so as to be at a ...

Actually, we are not that far apart, VS. But as I said in an earlier post...on issues like this, my side of the issue cannot concede ground at the beg...

Philosophy has always had that problem...people judging reasonable discussions to be low quality or injurious to certain sensibilities. Socrates was p...

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I can't even figure out why you thought that a clever response, Shamshir. I gotta ease up on your. I see the strain is taking its toll on you.

I'm the guy using "Fool" for that fool who thinks he is a philosopher. I apologize...and will use his/her full name from this point on...although "foo...

On something as personal as this...it is for HER to decide...not any regulated anything. Her parents apparently conceded that she was unhappy to the p...

If that is the best you can do...you probably should not have done it.

I did not call my veracity into question. I merely mentioned that you were not being accurate. You ought to work on that. I will leave the "digging" t...

Yup. That is the reason why NKBJ has decided she/he gets to make decisions for others in situations like this. I just do not understand the "LIFE no m...

Absolutely. But the "I know better buttinski's" want their decisions about someone else to take precedence over the wishes of the individual.

You are aware of what I say my chronological age to be. Try to be precise...if you are going to continue this pretense of intellectualism.

What does that have to do with "believe" is a word that disguises a guess. Don't let the pressure get to you. Stay as real as you can.

Except for that extra "a" in the last word...I suspect that may be true.

But there is NO way for me to know I am conversing with a "you"...or just having a conversation with myself in an illusion in which I am the only bein...

No...at 82 (83 in August)...I am far from a child. There is nothing vacuous about any of my comments or claims. I understand that you are not yet up t...

Okay...then I am not sorry your marital situation is so bad.

I do NOT know that you exist, Harry. You may be part of an illusion attempting to make me think there is no illusion.

You would need to climb a ladder to get "to my level", Fool. But nice try at attempting to get to where you think I am...after pretending you would no...

I find it impossible to refute.

You assume wrong...I actually see the irony. I intentionally did what I did. You are an insult to philosophic considerations...because you do not grok...

Hey, Iolo. How things going?

Thank you, Alan.

Sorry your marital situation is so bad, Shamshir.

This is about confusion on religion, Tim. EVERY comment on the "tenets" of EVERY religion...is a blind guess about the true nature of the REALITY of e...

Obviously there are people here who would have preferred the young woman step in front of a moving train or tractor trailer to end her misery. It is t...

And, of course, YOU want to be able to decide if a person is "cognizant enough...just as I am sure you would want ME to be the judge if YOU are...righ...

Whatever does the job for you.

There is no cage!

You actually are arguing that you may NOT HAVE A GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER????? Apparently I am talking with someone who should stick to the playground...

You are an intrusive individual who apparently wants to substitute your decision for the decisions of the people who actually have the right to make t...

DEATH IS A DECISION THAT EACH INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE FOR HIM/HERSELF...WITHOUT THE INTRUSION OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU...WHO THINK THEY CAN DECIDE...

Sorta like the forest that hides the trees.

HER final decision. SHE also gets to make the decisions on what "alternatives" must be considered. YOU do not get to "feel" what alternatives must be ...

One is unknown. There may or may not be a GOD. But every goddam person who has ever lived has had a father...which means everyone's father has had a f...

No...they cannot. But it requires a functioning brain to see the difference...so you are at a major disadvantage here.

Good thinking and reasoning. Thanks for speaking up on the issue.

Excellent post, Benkei. Right on the button.

And "death" is a decision that each individual should be able to make for him/herself...without the intrusion of people like you. YOU...the ultimate d...