Between now and 2118 our period will be evaluated and re-evaluated numerous times, just as the period between 1900 and 2018 has been evaluated and re-...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Studying history is actually a pretty good way to make the people and societies of the past, even 100 years ago, (und...
As the population grows this century and as temperatures, humidity, disruptive storms, droughts, floods, and other disasters become more intolerable, ...
When I think about the likely rather dystopian future coming down the pike, I am glad that I am 71 and not 21 years old. I expect to be dead of natura...
Project Implicit (the implicit bias measurement test site) is a good example of the problem of social science as a whole. Thinking and behavior are di...
I'm too armored in white male privilege to fell any slings and arrows from your response. Just kidding. It is not possible to address macro and micro ...
I used to think JFK conspiracy theories were baloney, but after 55 years of deep denial, I'm now willing to entertain the notion that perhaps, possibl...
You may be giving the "passions" too negative a spin; they are not the 7 deadly sins. After all, your desire to pursue logic above all else, is a pass...
Fire and Fury the book about Trump's campaign and arrival in the White House, elaborated on 3 characteristics which are alarming: 1. Trump doesn't, an...
There is a difference between being a white male, and putting that status forward in terms of blood, virility, fatherland, and all that. As Peterson p...
Uncultured barbarians who have the means generally want entre to the class with matching amounts of money. The Cultured barbarians who got there first...
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. David Hume The mains...
Imagination would be decidedly helpful in getting through the 1000 year stretch, but imagination has to have something to work on. Think about how you...
So, Agustino, a lot of the stuff that gets batted around these days from the left and the right both is like fako interior decorations. It just isn't ...
Paul Fussell wrote a book a few decades back, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, that explains all this. There are certain features of...
No. Then God would be in his heaven where he belongs and all would be right with the world, sort of. Yes, decoration is supposed to look nice. It aime...
Oh dear... So now we know what your mansion will look like. Hint: if you're going to go for the ruling class look in decor, go all the way: fako wood ...
Peterson is a good talker, have to hand that to him. He does a good job of supporting his points, pretty much. I do have difficulty connecting Karl Ma...
Without eyes to see or ears to hear, how would you even know you were in a women's locker room? For all you would know, you might be hovering in a die...
It isn't the case that Marx focussed on conflict between haves and have nots: He focussed on the conflict between producers and owners -- the working ...
Didn't Marx hold that advances in production, technology, and so on would result in new kinds of thinking? That seems to have been, and is the case. B...
One probably wouldn't become an atheist in order to overcome nihilism; indeed, having an anchor in a faith tradition helps one deal with nihilism more...
Here's Wikipedia's definition of existential nihilism: Existential nihilism is the belief that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. With respect to...
True, of course. Nothing to regret, nothing to be happy about. And that is my belief: death is nothingness. Babies, especially lobotomized babies, wou...
It doesn't need "to sense a future". All that needs to happen is arousal, insertion, ejaculation, sperm meets egg, egg turns into offspring, voila: re...
BTW, it's "dead ringer" not "dead wringer". What is a dead ringer? A ringer is a horse substituted for another of similar appearance in order to defra...
Glad you liked it. Oh definitely, you are a dead wringer / dead ringer for the 1000 year post-mortem meditation milieu. You're well read, you know pro...
Bad memories are not good to have. Mistakes will happen; avoid the ones that you can. Politeness will produce more good memories than bad ones. If you...
It would depend on how good the cake was. If it was a day old discount store cake, no -- just taste it for politeness sake. If it was a really good ca...
Good idea. Enjoy it, because you won't be able to smoke in the near total vacuum of space. How much do your cigarettes cost? Apparently you have been ...
There are people who believe the mind is a non-physical thing, not really coextensive with the brain. They think the mind is immaterial. If the mind i...
You can talk to God and get away with it, but it is decidedly more worrisome when God starts talking to you. How do you know it was God? You might hav...
I'm pretty sure that in the conventional heaven which people imagine, there are no gonads or orifices of excretion. White clouds, white robes, white f...
The disembodied mind operates for 1000 years starting with the moment of death -- no options on that. It's 1000 years whether you like it or not. Then...
You're not paying attention. There is no heaven, as well as no media outlets or bookstores, fine restaurants, or sex organs. That's why you need to st...
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