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Agustino

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Indeed. But this is very important, because worldviews are the glasses through which we see, perceive, feel and navigate our own experience and the wo...
August 29, 2016 at 22:38
Yes indeed. I see that you do not want to share your knowledge of the transcendental or of what a transcendental proof would look like. So I will proc...
August 29, 2016 at 22:29
Interesting. So then you will clearly be able to show me how you have gained that knowledge, will you not? Moreover, since you have transcendental kno...
August 29, 2016 at 22:21
Well if you will know whether something is transcendentally true or not my friend, then clearly you must have an idea what the transcendental is. Othe...
August 29, 2016 at 22:07
Will you trust me? If you won't, then please provide me with a vague notion of what the transcendental means for you. Define it. Then I may be able to...
August 29, 2016 at 22:05
Well sir, if you do not know what "the transcendental" refers to, how will you recognise it when I say it to you?
August 29, 2016 at 22:04
What does "the transcendental" mean? What does this word refer to?
August 29, 2016 at 22:00
Well sir, I am asking you this question. What would you be willing to consider as proof? I've already explained what proof looks like in physics, and ...
August 29, 2016 at 21:58
Yes sir, I can see that already. But I'm not quite sure what would count as proof for you. Because you see, as Aristotle has taught us, proof is diffe...
August 29, 2016 at 21:50
To show you a proof sir, first you must elucidate for me what such a proof would consist in, so that I can deliver to you what you're asking for.
August 29, 2016 at 21:40
This is just another statement sir. Where is the proof?
August 29, 2016 at 21:37
So? How is that proof for or against?
August 29, 2016 at 21:32
But you sir, I suppose you can prove that nobody "sees" (ie, experiences) the transcendental...
August 29, 2016 at 21:31
That is your belief sir and you may hold it if you wish - I know it to be otherwise, and I hold it to be self-evidently true, as if it weren't, I woul...
August 29, 2016 at 21:26
Yes, and the color-blind I suppose should also say the same about the existence of colors they cannot see, that they don't exist, and their sight is p...
August 29, 2016 at 21:13
The is/ought distinction is founded on a category error. Values don't exist in the sense of the way a chair exists, somewhere to be found and touched ...
August 29, 2016 at 21:08
Values are values. Not my values and your values. Me and you, we can assume things to be values, we don't decide what they are. I am against the alt-r...
August 29, 2016 at 21:00
Progressives - like all leftist groups having a tendency towards totalitarianism and decadence - must always create this "Other" who is a false image ...
August 29, 2016 at 20:35
No - desire can exist even if they don't have the capacity for making it actual.
May 24, 2016 at 22:56
This is such crass nonsense I won't even bother to address it. It just shows how insane progressivism has become.
May 24, 2016 at 22:51
The more important fact is that such species do not display a desire to change their sex. They accept their nature as it is. Man is the only animal th...
May 24, 2016 at 22:34
Have you seen signs of them being unhappy with their gender? :D
May 24, 2016 at 22:22
I've just researched it out of curiosity (so no agenda). I've decided against it before that though. People can decieve themselves that they are happy...
May 24, 2016 at 22:08
I thought you'd ask this. No other being even attempts to. Even men hasn't attempted to for a large share of his history. Again - I simply don't think...
May 24, 2016 at 22:06
Not according to statistical research published. No doubt there are some people, just not the majority of them.
May 24, 2016 at 22:05
It's unnatural. No other living being but man has and acts on this desire.
May 24, 2016 at 22:01
I don't think it will prevent them for living a better life. Quite a lot of research shows that people who do successful change sex do have serious ps...
May 24, 2016 at 22:00
I hope not. I'm certainly trying to convince people to accept nature as it is instead of try to fulfil crazy and unnatural desires. But we'll see :)
May 24, 2016 at 21:47
Moving the goal posts :)
May 24, 2016 at 21:34
Does the fact they don't outright reject it mean that they accept it? Of course not.
May 24, 2016 at 21:32
I was honest, but if that interpretation pleases you lol :D - go for it!
May 24, 2016 at 21:26
Creation is also destructive in-so-far as Being shows its primacy and triumph over non-Being. It appears you do not think that creation is destructive...
May 24, 2016 at 21:24
I don't think these more open minded people agree to such a usage.
May 24, 2016 at 21:22
Yes - you have studied this, probably in school, why you don't float into space. I haven't studied how words evolve through time, and I have literaril...
May 24, 2016 at 21:22
Sorry, the transexual community isn't large.
May 24, 2016 at 21:18
I am not a linguist and would not like to pretend I am one. I really am sorry, but I just don't have knowledge to converse about this. Nor do I think ...
May 24, 2016 at 21:16
I guess also because I have faith that the West can recover to its former glory. I would really like to see Aristotelian morality and Aristotelian val...
May 24, 2016 at 21:15
So if I decide that "red" means "gay sex", then I have the right to call people who disagree with my usage ignorant and behind the times? :s
May 24, 2016 at 21:13
If they do, then the rest of us have a right to say that they are speaking nonsense. I don't know to be honest. But I will not assume that this is how...
May 24, 2016 at 21:03
That's the common usage, and meaning is use. They can't redefine words as they please. They have to speak the same language as all the rest of us do.
May 24, 2016 at 20:59
I have seen no reason as to why, except that you think it is immoral (cruel, inhuman, etc.). But that to begin with is what you should have justified....
May 24, 2016 at 20:58
The link you provided is some revisionistic, liberal mockery of science. Gender simply is the sex you're born with, end of story. That's how the word ...
May 24, 2016 at 20:26
Creation is destructive of non-Being on a metaphorical level. That's what primacy or triumph of Being over non-Being means. No, I use that argument to...
May 24, 2016 at 20:23
Okay I see your misunderstanding. As I showed before, Being can only have the structure of good. Furthermore, I will make the position stronger - Bein...
May 24, 2016 at 19:07
No more than me saying the sun is a golden ball does violence to it by suggesting you can play soccer with the sun... Is justice a good? Does justice ...
May 24, 2016 at 18:43
Good, then I also dismiss everything you've ever said, with the same handwave you dismiss what I say. Let's see where we get with that :D Failure to r...
May 24, 2016 at 18:38
Creation is itself a metaphor for the primacy of Being - what have I been saying all along? It's an allegorical way to show the primacy of Being. Now ...
May 24, 2016 at 16:13
It doesn't follow. A metaphor does not have to make sense literarily. It shows the primacy of Being by showing how Being triumphs over non-Being. The ...
May 24, 2016 at 16:11
The hero dares you: be great! Alexander the Great dares you - be great as I was great. So yes - the hero absolutely mocks you, because he knows that i...
May 24, 2016 at 12:07
Yes - but these are made in the context of his larger philosophy. Also: The quotes you have given do not illustrate that S. considered boredom to be a...
May 24, 2016 at 11:50