I like how the shoutbox is a kind of place where hyper-intellectuals can spout off all of their suppressed emotional baggage. Someone should start a p...
This is familiar territory; I get the feeling I'm never going to understand this. It means that meaning relates to something outside of time. For star...
I was, just then. You're confusing the points of my argument. Meaning and purpose only obtain teleologically; otherwise it's just a nihilistic sham. I...
>:O It's a fucking scam. That's the classic mortal view of eternity; eternity viewed through a mortal lens; "heaven would get boring!" 6-year-olds und...
So evolutionarily obtained happiness is your meaning or purpose? Within your moral life, which will end in your death? I didn't say I don't have an al...
*Raises hand* had to do a google search. Also, for all of the "surprised at" posts...we're at 19 votes so far...I guess that's pretty good, but still ...
A meaning or a purpose is inherent to any argument, fundamentally. So you can't even make whatever argument you're trying to make here without one. Me...
I just meant to highlight that the promulgation of hunter-gathers is meaningless if there's no telos that gives promulgation a purpose beyond itself. ...
At least in theory, you're using the techniques that draw one into the divine, but using those techniques for one's own accomplishment in a temporal l...
Sure, the original was not a cash cow; but it turned into a cult classic. So, to make a sequel to a cult classic that is not based on any material fro...
Blaire White? If I have to explain this to you, that's not a good thing. The video is made for people who agree with it; a 20 second hit piece with a ...
Simple observation. When I see a beautiful bird, my experience of beauty is formed by all my previous, human experiences of beauty; experiences of the...
That seems fanciful; I'm taking a simple experience of the beauty of a bird, and then magnifying it one "level" higher in my analogy; primitive philos...
The point I try to make is that the bird isn't aware of the beauty that we see in the bird. We see something that is categorically not apprehensible t...
Maybe; but the nest serves a utilitarian purpose, or at least it serves our conception of what a utilitarian purpose would be for a bird. But even if ...
"Belief" and "beauty" suggest abstraction. There's no reason to suppose animals possess these things (thus abstraction); I guess they'd be able to pai...
I agree that the images are beautiful, and the music actually contributes more to the emotional mood than the visuals do. It's a great opening sequenc...
There’s a chapter in Evelyn Underhill’s “Mystcism” about the distinction between the two words, magic and mysticism, both of which are outdated and ha...
Yeah I know; so what? So what? Hunting and gathering for what purpose? To promulgate more hunter gathers, to promulgate more hunter gathers? So what? ...
Yeah, sure. I'm not sure what you're arguing. My guess is that we're talking at cross-purposes. An artistic expression has more to do with mystical ex...
Woah, we just jumped from "dishonest art", to the basics of web code. Not the same. I was just saying that, within the context of art (is web design a...
That's fair. In that case, my best foot forward would be to present my work, and see if the market bites. I've somewhat failed, and somewhat succeeded...
In that particular case, photoshop drawing a straight line despite my inability to do so would be an example of me dishonestly presenting content that...
Ah, so you're suggesting I could be a visual artist for money. I'm not visually talented; I can understand the aesthetics of visual art, but I don't h...
You're preaching to the choir. It's not impossible, but it's a crap-shoot, it seems. Not sure, but love Bukowski. Philip Glass was a taxi driver well ...
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