Well, people say they are "depressed". Depression is a mood disorder, not the same as "life sucks". Maybe they are not actually depressed, in terms of...
Speaking of evolution, why did we evolve in such a way that we can be 'depressed'? Presumably, there was some benefit to either the person or to the b...
Ah, well, lack of culture... You do know that he doesn't have a lack of culture, he just doesn't have YOUR culture. (Don't get me wrong; I value liter...
In this way it doesn't make any difference whether the questions make sense or not: If conservatives consistently answer poorly constructed questions ...
Actually, I do like to talk about some areas of philosophy with other people who may or may not know much about it, but I find it fairly difficult to ...
As well they should be. Don't they serve hard liquor where you live? Do you dislike vodka, gin, whisky, and bourbon too? Maybe you could find a social...
Wait a minute, how can you call a religion conservative from the beginning that spread as fast as Islam did, disrupting one society after another? Are...
If I were you, I'd avoid talking about philosophy with people who are just then having their morning coffee. Some people are very irritable in the mor...
When does the association between conservatism and religion begin? Not in the youth of a religion, it would seem. The youth of the 3 Abrahamic faiths ...
I hate "like" buttons. Long live the Grinch. They are too blunt a facebooky instrument. How about 3 emoji that indicate: want to vomit don't give a ra...
I am afraid that "given the reasons the we may behave the way we do" doesn't help much, because our reasons for behaving in any particular way may var...
To be technical about it, admitting physicians get to decide whose wishes are very crazy. Ordinary craziness won't earn one a bed on the ward, but it ...
Interpreting the gold, platinum, paladium, or plutonium rule is well within your operational capability. "Rules" such as the so-called "platinum rule"...
Baloney. Interpreting the golden rule is well within your operational capability. No one is 100% unbiased and this case does not require a verdict bey...
There isn't any need for revisions to the Golden Rule which, if I remember correctly, was the summation of Jewish law. The various laws applied to var...
Isn't "if everything is futile, discussing how futile everything is... is futile" a tautology? If you say "all men are liars" why should I believe you...
Intrapersona I sort of assumed you were. I wasn't willing to stoop to saying you looked like a unicorn. The pink fairy needs to attend to this point. ...
Robert Koch arrived at the Germ Theory in 1875, give or take a year. Important? Yes. How long had it taken the germ theory to come about? 15 minutes? ...
This assessment is very far off the mark. When we go to work we 99% maintain and reproduce society. You may not see the point in doing that, but most ...
For picking out paperbacks and films, I find that a reasonable amount of information improves my selection success, which given the gravity of choosin...
Seems reasonable. Because, "garbage in, garbage out" as they say in data processing. Now, how much more likely are good decisions based on good inform...
Was this a serious proposal ("Everything is futile.") or more along the lines of sarcasm ("Life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on wha...
True enough, there are often major negative consequences resulting from being wrong. And there are (at least) two additional problems: a) We can't alw...
Since the answer would seem to be obvious (Someone who believes what is true and makes judgments based on those beliefs) and since there would be litt...
One naturalist - photographer recommended we stop taking pictures of wild animals, too, especially where the presence of photographers becomes a furth...
Thanks for that. "The Drinking Gourd" references the big dipper constellation. The edge of the cup (two stars furthest from the handle) point toward P...
Questions such as this, "The nature of the Self, and the boundaries of the individual" are the "chewiest gristle" indeed. Wayfarer's view that the sel...
When the existential crisis arrives (whatever it is) there is no particular model we have to follow. Rather, I think, we will follow whatever course p...
Maybe we could be mereological nihilists, but we are not -- I'm not anyway. Speak for yourself. Right, because the soup of many parts boiled over, cov...
No, no, no. The phrase "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" is not a bumpersticker slogan. Its an accurate assessment of a world in which man...
You need to get out and see more shows. I suppose Gilbert's and Sullivan's work could count as "show tunes" even though The Mikado was written in 1885...
Less than an ideology, "No risk, no reward" is more a truism, but one well worth remembering. An ideology would be "The role of a capitalism is to ext...
God forbid! Yours is a succinct summation of our situation. Just as there is no government without the consent of the governed (a statement which is g...
Gilbert and Sullivan mention liquified livers in one of their songs... A more humane Mikado never Did in Japan exist; To nobody second, I’m certainly ...
Righto. But bear in mind that in a system of wage slavery, not having a place on the assembly line means yet another more severe form of degradation. ...
When does dependence become slavery? The moment the IT Department installs filters which interfere with freely surfing the web? Slavery existed for a ...
Just curious, How much difference would it make if philosophy were merely a failure, and merely a joke rather than an "absolute failure" and an "absol...
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