This bearded fellow is lodged in billions of minds, mine too. It's the children's Sunday school story that doesn't grow up with us. Some enduring effo...
Please don't give up reasoning. Like Jesus said, we must be as harmless as doves and as wise as serpents. You are in a fix because the two categories ...
I didn't know, still don't know, how to find "work I love". I stumbled into three or four jobs that I liked reasonably well (lets not go overboard wit...
Charles Ives, 1874/1954 an American pioneer in selling insurance (estate planning products) was also a composer. This piece is interesting, or the sou...
Never mind thousands of children in need! They could put their $50,000 of cash in my hands so that I could complete my education before I drop dead of...
For a wedding, I would tend to agree. Many weddings seem to be less a celebration of an important event and more an occasion for extremely conspicuous...
You may think that the assertion 'life in itself is good' is bollocks or bullshit or whatever term you like. There are many who, for various reasons, ...
I currently take a small 'maintenance' dose of generic Effexor. I feel normal and function well. I've taken it for quite a few years. When I try to we...
To say "Ben & Jerry's ice cream is good" is "a judgement relationship between an observer and a thing" -- definitely. To assert that "life is good" --...
I haven't finishing reading your post, but if you hadn't shown up pretty quick, I would have sent you a telegraph alerting you to the topic's bright, ...
StreetlightX made a good suggestion. I'll add to it with this: Concentration is improved when you "work with the text" by underlining what look like i...
I have pretty good Sitzfleisch (the ability to sit still and read for quite a long time, for instance) but I haven't read much philosophy. I came to i...
Some people feel that "life is like a sewer: What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." I don't suppose these people went far out of the...
Why did Nietzsche think nihilism would become endemic? He lived 1844 to 1900... what had he seen, heard, read in the 19th century that convinced him o...
Life is good, but society has plenty wrong with it, I'll readily agree. But most of the people in this post Nietzschean world are NOT nihilists, yet a...
Since I said life is good from the get go, I won't endorse your position that we have to somehow make it good. That life is inherently good is like gr...
I wasn't ruling out individuals finding purpose, just that it wasn't an installed feature. I don't like antinatalism, but I also don't care for people...
Why isn't 2500 years of philosophy effective prophylaxis against nihilism? The nihilist didn't read it, perhaps? Is there something about post-Nietzsc...
I assert that LIFE IS GOOD, but there is absolutely nothing stopping you from trying to... I agree that life and I earnestly urge you to get on with m...
I don't think my statement rules out philosophizing. Should not the philosopher also seize the day? Our philosopher doesn't know how long he has to re...
Quantifying pleasure and pain is a rhetorical device. There can certainly be "more pain" and "less pain" -- I've experienced more pain and less pain. ...
And god forbid that anybody should call capitalism "exploitative" when every school boy knows that capitalism is merely the maximization of opportunit...
anything like sleeping, because one presumably will never dream or wake up. Sleep is a euphemism for death, which has no ending. Life just stops, and ...
Oh, sorry about that. Didn't mean to rain on the parade. Let me offer you an umbrella. I have nothing against religion -- if it works for you, it's gr...
Was the Pied Piper of Hamelin pedophile propaganda? Shouldn't that tale be banned? Rattenfängers luring children to unknown fates is surely subversive...
Our existence makes us biased in assessing the significance of our existence. Since humans became a species, there have been perhaps 100 billion of us...
Except that it isn't a lack of ethical knowledge that causes people to behave psychopathically. It's a developmental flaw in the structure of the brai...
In my long history of taking antidepressants and anti anxiety drugs, I certainly found that to be true. If they work, which they don't always do for a...
Well, Posty, psychopathic and remorselessly criminal behavior is considered a severe mental illness. People found to act out psychopathic murderous th...
Sure, but remember: we're talking about human society here, not a society of saints and angels. Well, people with significant illnesses are dysfunctio...
One of the simplest things to try to learn how to do is slow your heart rate during meditation. It doesn't require great spiritual capacity. Very expe...
So, postface, where are you??? Have you abandoned your computer to deal with wild fires, or something? The least you could do is respond to my penetra...
That seems to be the case. Perhaps the basic mechanism of affecting mental performance with drugs was present in the first generation of psychoactive ...
Conflating immoral and unethical behavior with mental illness would seem to undermine the concept of responsibility. SOMETIMES people behave badly bec...
How about "Mental health is present when individuals are satisfied by their functioning within broadly defined intellectual and emotional standards"? ...
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