Laughed a bit when I read that the James only understood Hegel when high, the first time I watched a documentary on Hegel I was pretty baked myself. B...
I think again, it depends on context and circumstance. I certainly would feel anxious if I was smoking around my family/or with people I didn't partic...
From personal experience, marijuana can certainly heighten paranoia when done in ituations/circumstances that are uncomfortable/negative or otherwise,...
Pardon my views, but I still feel as if "no" organized religion is better than any. But then again, religion is ideology, and ideology arguably, has e...
Beauty is relative-and by relative, I mean value laden; culturally, individually (for example I find nature paintings very beautiful because it remind...
I have long agreed with a total ban on organized forms of religion-if not to reduce tribal violence but also because religion is a tool of the dark ag...
Sounds like an interesting read, have some infinite time on my hands to do lots of reading in the next two months, so will be sure to add it to my lis...
This sounds interesting, and I'll (try) to get into it! Not the best at computer science outside of rudimentary HTML coding...though on that note, I s...
I never meant to generalize, human minds, but you're right. How do we define our own minds, besides in opposition from those other beings? Human minds...
What if our entire lives, especially post-scarcity, post-industrial lives, revolve around attempting to replicate nature in some ways? I feel the answ...
Like Camus put it, we want answers in a silent universe. So of course we seek to find those, often in religion, because like you pointed out it is acc...
Apathy and disinterest are certainly powerful tools of censorship in North America-such as the idea that we are always being watched. Surveillance is ...
I believe American censorship of criticism works in a different way than Russian/European. People are quick to point the finger at Russia for being "a...
I always describe to people that philosophy is like LEGO, building your own ideas/conceptions out of other people's ideas and conceptions. The creativ...
I appreciate your cynicism, and it is true that "scientism" as termed by Nagel-has become the new system of faith for the secular Western world. I don...
You made some really great points that I 100% agree with and had in mind when starting this discussion. As I mentioned earlier, so much of my generati...
One auhor I should have cited as key to my thinking is one I read a few years ago: Joel Kovel, certainly anyone interested in what we are talking abou...
People balk when I bring this up (at dinner, talk about awkward conversation) because they feel as if I'm taking away some kind of assumed inherent ri...
Definitely not a proponent of eugenics, at least as far as eugenics implies 'racial' purity ect. I mean anti-natalism, at least to begin with, encoura...
Thats a dismal outlook but I don’t blame you. I’m an undergraduate philosophy major (currently) and I get a lot of “jokes” about my useless degree, wh...
I really agree with your points. This kind of ties into what I was also trying to get at; my issues with individual culpability, that is, like the 'ec...
Interesting that you see the ecological crisis resultant of some macro-shift in political engagement. Of course I have no doubt that politics encompas...
I would like to share your optimism that there may be 'new insights' as a result, but so far, it seems that science is coming up with more piecemeal, ...
To be fair, you didn't exactly moot my point. All I was doing was highlighting the prevalence of ideology. Commitment to anti-ideology is, as you poin...
The issue is not with Islam in particular, but with religion, or even more generally, ideology. Islam is just one example (albeit a predominant one) o...
Obesity is not a “one card” issue. Meaning that being obese is not just a random occurence, it is the result of systemic issues present here in North ...
Some people have described philosophy as a poetic science. I'm not really sure. These kind of questions come up in discussion a lot with my friends wh...
Your post made me smile. Philosophy is so impossible to wrap your head around at times, not only because it deals with abstract and varying concepts, ...
Point 2: You're misinterpreting the solution "it answers thousands of scientific questions we've been wondering about for ages" religion provides, as ...
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