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In: What is an idol?  — view comment
Clarify this - how does one find truth in themselves? Consider by analogy - when one watches pornography, it seems that the images that one sees point...
January 31, 2017 at 23:15
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
So that is still an abstraction. I'm asking you practically, for you, what does it mean that your life is about love? What makes your life about love?...
January 31, 2017 at 23:09
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
So Heister, in what sense are you gazing further within yourself - trying to see God more fully - rather than your own nature? Is there something with...
January 31, 2017 at 23:05
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
Can an idea not be an idol? The Communist society...
January 31, 2017 at 23:01
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
What is an icon?
January 31, 2017 at 23:00
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
Is an icon an idol?
January 31, 2017 at 22:58
In: Post truth  — view comment
https://youtu.be/7EXoutAIG4k?t=14m29s
January 31, 2017 at 22:57
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
No, not at all. I'm trying to see where your thinking moves. Would you agree that if man is created in the image of God, then man's self always points...
January 31, 2017 at 22:55
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
Right! Right! We are created in the image of God. What does a painting of Mount Everest point to? And is the painting of Mount Everest one with Mount ...
January 31, 2017 at 22:48
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
This is an abstraction. What is it concretely? How is my life, concretely, about something? What makes it about something instead of about something e...
January 31, 2017 at 22:38
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
Consider that I give a ring to my wife-to-be. What does that mean? If you smash it, what have you smashed and what have you not smashed? Why "ought" s...
January 31, 2017 at 22:26
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
What is an image? And what is a non-image?
January 31, 2017 at 22:14
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
Can there be experience if there is just world and no mind?
January 31, 2017 at 21:00
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
Experience for one :P
January 31, 2017 at 20:58
In: Favorite philosophical quote?  — view comment
Some others of mine:
January 31, 2017 at 20:32
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Are you all tampons too? >:)
January 31, 2017 at 18:34
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Are you Prince Charles? >:O 5:44 https://youtu.be/_uP3v97D1TY?t=5m44s
January 31, 2017 at 18:32
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Who's which? >:)
January 31, 2017 at 18:27
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Man you two Brits, there's no stopping you >:O
January 31, 2017 at 18:08
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
Quite obviously the instantiations of those two. In the case of Spinoza, the modes - the particular extended things, or thinking things, etc.
January 31, 2017 at 17:28
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
If A and B are the basic components of your ontology, then everything else that exists arises out of the two. For example, A is extension and B is tho...
January 31, 2017 at 16:18
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
Whatever A and B create cannot be cause but effect. The effect is whatever arises out of the two.
January 31, 2017 at 16:14
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
A and B taken together have no cause. Whatever reality you imagine - say you imagine that mind depends on world and world depends on mind - in that ca...
January 31, 2017 at 15:14
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
Surely but that does nothing except postulate a first cause. For example... A and B mutually depend on each other and constitute the world. That means...
January 31, 2017 at 15:06
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
So then you suggest they arise together (à la Buddhist interdependent origination)? How is this possible?
January 31, 2017 at 14:54
In: Post truth  — view comment
And what does this have to do with opportunism again? :-} Opportunism is choosing to believe X because that's what it takes for you to be a winner. Tr...
January 31, 2017 at 14:40
In: Post truth  — view comment
Opportunism is choosing your views based on whether they're winning. Trump CLEARLY doesn't do this, by sheer virtue of the fact that his views are ver...
January 31, 2017 at 14:01
In: Post truth  — view comment
No that's not true at all. Being an opportunist means taking or choosing positions based on what is winning, regardless of your own views - it's equiv...
January 31, 2017 at 13:49
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
If the world depends on the mind, and the mind depends on the world, which came first? :-O PS: Your picture/gif mysteriously disappeared :-|
January 31, 2017 at 10:35
In: Post truth  — view comment
No. Trump is a Machiavellian practitioner of Realpolitik, but not an opportunist; there is a difference between the two. Hillary Clinton is an opportu...
January 31, 2017 at 10:31
In: The Mind and Our Existence  — view comment
Put down the Schopenhauer :P
January 31, 2017 at 00:13
In: Post truth  — view comment
Two superficial misreadings, which I do enjoy trolling ;)
January 30, 2017 at 23:14
In: Favorite philosophical quote?  — view comment
January 30, 2017 at 23:12
In: Post truth  — view comment
The moment Sir, is eternal. See the irony? >:O
January 30, 2017 at 22:53
In: Post truth  — view comment
You honestly think I'm a Russian propagandist? >:O You are aware that I don't even think of Trump as an ideal politician right? As I said, I don't con...
January 30, 2017 at 22:47
In: Post truth  — view comment
For once, we Sir, are in agreement (Y)
January 30, 2017 at 22:44
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Well, I still take Terrapin's analysis to be correct :D
January 30, 2017 at 22:27
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
>:O No but I know what shit you British people are up to - I've lived in your country for long enough
January 30, 2017 at 21:38
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
>:O
January 30, 2017 at 21:31
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
>:O Try to crush them and they will grow taller than you can imagine! Is that a Sainsbury's trolley that no one bothered to return after they used it ...
January 30, 2017 at 21:06
In: Objectivism: my fall from reason  — view comment
You read my posts too fast :P slow down, that way you may see the edits which actually sketch an answer for what you're asking for :P haha (joking :D ...
January 30, 2017 at 15:32
In: Objectivism: my fall from reason  — view comment
When a man loves a woman, she actually is the most beautiful woman on Earth, in the most real of senses. It's the love that makes her beautiful. I thi...
January 30, 2017 at 15:23
In: Favorite philosophical quote?  — view comment
January 30, 2017 at 15:15
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Oh well, in my ideal society at least it would :P
January 30, 2017 at 14:58
In: Post truth  — view comment
More liberal memes >:O
January 30, 2017 at 14:51
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Only quines are mosesquines ;)
January 30, 2017 at 14:48
In: Favorite philosophical quote?  — view comment
January 30, 2017 at 10:40
In: Post truth  — view comment
https://youtu.be/MKG7CZfC0JQ?t=9m18s
January 30, 2017 at 10:18
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Is it vegetarian? >:)
January 29, 2017 at 22:58
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
If the roses are part of the living, then by destroying them, you are destroying life. Simple. Not all of life, but you are destroying things which ar...
January 29, 2017 at 22:55
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