Noble Dust

As you know, I want to work for myself as an artist. The rules aren't the same.

How does one successfully work for themselves anyways? I've always felt inclined that way, but I don't seem to possess the needed skills. It's possibl...

So what? So what? So what? What does natural mean here, in relation to evolution? So what is the "natural" state?

:’( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMlK31mA3uo

Those phrases don't "only" lack narrative form, they lack narrative form. There's a huge difference between an archetypal story that illustrates exper...

The Garden of Eden seems to be the only explanation there; the other options are just observations or descriptions. The question is what the source of...

Where does "Peterson and co." say if anyone caused suffering, it's the people who are being hurt by it causing it? I'm asking why life is suffering, i...

The love is palpable.

"Come, my soul, depart from outward things and gather thyself together into a true interior silence, that thou mayst set out with all thy courage and ...

But why is suffering "just" the nature of life? That's a cop out.

Why not "turn on" a new page in your web browser?

And, more importantly, again, no where did I state that I think you're "not allowed" to have an opinion. you're conflating me not liking your approach...

And I'm just saying I don't like those sorts of threads. I was expressing an emotion. Of course you can keep making threads that annoy me; I shouldn't...

No no, I'm fine with you expressing your opinion. I just don't like threads where the questions are supposed to lead me somewhere, i.e. where the ques...

Where did I say you're not allowed to have an opinion about this? Or that you are "somehow not allowed to ask others what they think"? And clearly I p...

Again, the assumption on your part here is so obvious as to not even warrant a more detailed response.

No, I just like a good fight every now and then. The thread title is suggestive, as is: Basically the entire post, in other words.

The tone of your OP was clear that you thought it was unwise to make the stake; so I made it. I don't like these OPs where the questions are leading m...

1 vote for "yes".

Very earnest post, as others have mentioned. Thanks. A thought about this: What's the metaphysics of "the cure involving regularly using sources of tr...

Yes, that's an example of what I mean.

No, you shared this opinion: Thanks for the refresher on logic. That refresher doesn't have anything to do with my contention that emotion plays a pri...

No, emotion can do that, but, ideally, emotion drives the issues. Emotion is, in that sense, primary, and comes before reason; bias, for instance, com...

Disagree. Evidence and good reasons without emotion are husks with no corn.

Also, if emotion has no place in a philosophy forum, then I want no place in such a catatonic place.

Maybe you missed the tongue-in-cheek tone of that initial exchange, or maybe it wasn't clear by way of my responses. So how should I have responded in...

Can you expand on this?

Hold on, be right back *heavy drag*

I guess I'll take this opportunity to smoke a cigarette...

Wait, what are you suggesting about my identity? I'm "dying" to know.

For instance, when I said "you don't know who I am", I was referring to my avatar itself. Maybe too subtle for such an exchange....

Don't be sorry; I was going along with the fun you were having.

I'm a clueless home-schooler; you need to expand on what you mean.

Bullshit. 1) you don't know who I am, and 2) you don't have a grasp of the aesthetic potential of grayscale.

So this thread is a joke? I was playing the joker and the philosopher at the same time, as I always do, because I thought there was something real her...

Why would my possible death be reason to assume I should follow BC's advice? And what specifically made you think my avatar should lead to my inherent...

Read further.

I mean witch ever 1,000 years you originally mentioned; I can't adequately answer your question, because I too don't know which 1,000 years you were r...

You probably assume, via the avatars of BC and myself, that we're two old men bickering about chess pieces. I'll dispose you of that false notion righ...

Again with these edits, as I re-read. Are you just placating me here? Or is this some fodder to make your case look better? I really don't know.

Which 1000 years? I have a sense of humor, but it doesn't manifest itself when confronted with bullshit.

Thanks for the edit here; I did read "shove" as "shovel", hence my use of "shove" in my initial comment....

Well sure, my response, "bullshit", is just as probable as your entire OP, since no one knows what happens after death. Is that your point?

Bullshit.

There's nothing pessimistic about "eat, drink, and be merry"; but "shove it all in while you can!" is basically nihilism personified.

What happened to "Against All Nihilism", or whatever?

>:O

It's boring when one's manipulation is resisted, yes.

I'm right, in other words.

*glances at bookshelf* Whaa?? :-#