Noble Dust

(Y) Suicide jokes notwithstanding, hope you're alright.

Isn't the difference that at a gay bar, everyone (who is actually gay, at the gay bar) has a shared interest, namely, gay sex, or at least gay experim...

Ah, so the article is just updated tech vs. trollies. The real issue with the dilemma that no one seems wiling to address is the issue of more loss of...

Thnx

(L) The record needs to be heard as one piece. That being said, Myrrhman is my current favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNZljhwLfs

A track from my favorite record of all time (used to be my favorite track from the record, actually, but not anymore. It's one of the more accessible ...

(L) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA

Is there a theoretical scenario that is more realistic than people being strapped to tracks?

Nah, right thread. Giddeup

I can think of plenty of things to do with that, just off the top of my head. I may or may not credit you.

Such power.. I don't want to get pedantic, but I'm still not seeing an argument for music requiring more knowledge of form. The only reason I care is ...

Don't literary and plastic arts also require knowledge of what the given mediums, the forms, can and cannot do? One aspect of creative innovation is b...

And, if someone dare suggest a point of reference to understand the work of the hallowed creative genius, she doth role her eyes. The point I want to ...

I disagree. Of course an artist or philosopher builds off of what comes before. It’s well known who was influenced by who. But what makes it compellin...

I believe mind is not the same as matter. I’m not a materialist. What exactly the distinction is between the two is not so clear. I tend to think of b...

I voted “no” to philosophical progress. First, the purpose or telos of philosophy isn’t static over history in the first place; from the pursuit of wi...

Ah, the old telos debate. Surprised it took this long.

I dunno, I thought that was off topic and not related to your argument. :P

How are they “supposed” to do anything? The role the humanities have played in history isn’t static.

I was bringing up an assumption in your argument, that’s all. I agree with the result at least. :-d

It’s not an issue of whether we have a belief within every possible, ridiculous hypothetical scenario, it’s an issue of whether belief is foundational...

So? No, I made one, that consciousness would be the software. My issue is that if belief is only situated in the physical brain, it’s essentially inst...

It’s an assumption in your argument, and it influences your argument. For instance, if conciousness exists outside of the brain, then the brain is jus...

Who exactly is the “you” who has a brain here? The way you’re wording your argument sounds more like an argument against the idea that it’s not possib...

Have you read Berdyaev yet? I really think you'd find him interesting.

The scenario was within Timeline's concept; not mine; so you appear to be arguing against her, not me.

I don't know; are you responding to the scenario I wrote there, or to what you think my moral position actually is? I can't really respond properly un...

:-d

No; I'm using my own moral system to interface with yours; do you have one, or just Kant's?

Not within 's concept of my moral worthiness being only my own, no. If I dictate my own moral worthiness, then nothing I do could be too morally unwor...

Who says we do? Kant?

No it's not; if it is, I can do whatever I like, no matter how morally heinous. Are you equating the two? I have no idea what this means.

Also, '"The grounds for belief in own virtue" are what constitute your moral worthiness' is circulatory, which is actually the main issue with your ar...

And, if the conflict is ok, what predicates your personal moral worthiness within the actual world?

If "The grounds for belief in own virtue" are what constitute your moral worthiness (but not mine? Does my moral worthiness come into play there, or n...

How is this different from nihilism? Again, only you know the answer there, but that sounds like what I was describing with 2).

Also, the main thrust of my point 2) there was that this was someone who hurt you. You asking me to put myself in your shoes and consider "how you may...

It does; I've been there. He knew, too, and he was one of my closest friends. I've also been on the other end of the spectrum, where one of my closest...

Who can say other than you? Via your description, it sounds like you're pure of heart (self-doubt/reservations and all). But, given the fact that you ...

-Daniel C. Matt - The Essential Kabbalah -The most recent edit of my brother's forthcoming sci-fi novel

Anyway, on a more serious note, I'm resolving to start taking care of myself this year; physically, spiritually, emotionally, etc. Can't kill yourself...

Mr. Rogers lookin good. Glad to see you're on the celeb avatar train.

Dude, birds were last week.

Ah; are you catching on to me? Are you, BC, finding a pattern; are you finding something oh so characteristic in my writing that, as a reader, as an i...

Kramer approves. I also like short sentences. Semicolon use is an all-or-nothing affair. I say either go all the way, or don't go at all. Brevity is o...

I'm the opposite of you; I resolve to use less semicolons; I'm someone who often has multiple thoughts firing in the brain at the same time, and becau...

god, I need to release some new music. I'm constipated right now. So much shit that hasn't come out yet.

I think the visage of Kramer telling you about your mistaken aesthetic assumptions, your failure to see the essence of the "me-centric" ontology of es...

So far, I've become Kramer. I'm exploring

I can't stand this crane avatar anymore. He's not me. I jumped the bandwagon, joined the trend. But I can't keep hiding behind this bro-ish shell any ...