This kind of thinking just makes you feel helpless and doesn't get you anywhere. I recommend a turn to the Stoic way of thinking - whatsoever is in yo...
I doubt that - if you read Plato's works, most of them have a fair balance between the esoteric and the exoteric. And there are Platonists like Plutar...
Good, thanks for admitting you hold a bias :D On another note, @"Baden", I have to go before a judge in less than 2 hours, you think they will capture...
One question that interests me, is why did the Platonist school, even though it was more widespread than Stoicism, didn't produce important historical...
Well, there are two cases you could be referring to here given the context. The person who suffers from anxiety will direct their attention either to ...
I read a little bit about it when UN posted that thread, not sure what to say though. I haven't seen a theoretical explanation for how it actually wor...
Top choice always gets 100%, easy. It doesn't matter if you agree with that person 100%. And bottom person always gets 0%. So 100% = most agree with (...
Doesn't change the point that you come into the world alone. Sure, it takes other people to conceive you, but when you're born, you're still born alon...
And yet... we are born alone, and we die alone. So I say that one can only cope alone. Others may be of help in teaching one how to stand on their own...
Okay, I can grant that. What does that change though? Sure. Why can't thought be initiated by directing our attention towards a problem we want to thi...
Yes. It is a process of learning to think through your problems in a manner that is actually productive, as opposed to ruminative. It's also very simi...
You read Feeling Good no? Quite a decent book. Then who would be paying to go to the therapist, or even better have the state pay for them to go to th...
Sure, please make an effort to read what I write charitably, trying to understand what I am actually telling you. My statements are made in a certain ...
Why is the illness different than just the thinking there is a conspiracy against him? I would say the illness is the thinking itself. That has certai...
False analogy. I have seen buildings, I have seen France on TV, etc. Easy for me to imagine. The analogy of the man born blind that I gave is more fit...
Sure, but the reality of that would be meaningless to the person lacking the experience. What does sight mean to someone who has never seen in their l...
One can compare this to trying to convey the taste of pineapple to someone who has never tasted it. Whatever you say, the argument will in the end be ...
I am a theist and I do have faith in a Heaven where all tears will be wiped away. However, I freely admit that I do not know what this would look like...
The answer is yes. You just write on a piece of cardboard "Lawyer", stick it on your door, invite people in, and start charging them! I once spoke to ...
No one here does. Interesting. Well, let's take a condition where rumination is one of the primary symptoms. What would you say about the case of a ma...
Impossible. Peterson has a good understanding of everything after Nietzsche, and there are some important philosophical traditions there - existential...
I'm finding out that pretty much all these middlemen, unless you have prior connections with them, seek not to do anything and get paid. At some point...
Congratulations. Oh really? Then why is it that you told me: You told me that for no reason? :s You brought up the fact that Ben Shapiro has a JD at H...
No it's not. When people talk of "before time", they are talking of "before (scientific) time". Scientific time is the time physicists deal with - the...
Right, I'm glad you finally remembered the subject of this thread after you brought up Peterson, and after you thought that having a JD from Harvard i...
That's not the same as being a Professor there. So my point was stated very well, thank you. Maybe, so what? Peterson is more learned than even a lot ...
>:O >:O >:O Yeah, but he enjoys running a tennis club. He has other coaches working for him too, so he doesn't do as much of the coaching himself nowa...
Riiiight, a Harvard Professor compared with Shapiro. And Ayn Rand. Nice. >:O If you don't see there's a huge difference of culture and learning betwee...
Hmmm if authentic means original then they are both authentic and inauthentic. Authentic in the sense that they are fleshed out clearly and other sour...
I think his main advantage is that he's a guy who is slightly more cultured and knowledgeable in a sea of idiots, which is what modern culture pretty ...
Jordan Peterson certainly has dominated his opponents so far. There are very few people on the left who could stand up to him at the moment I think. F...
No, sorry, I don't want to do that. I think @"Baden" should add propositioning to the bannable offences list >:O I don't see how that's trivial :s . I...
That's true. Also statistics can be used to deceive or they can be made up. Everyone who worked in research knows this. It's not difficult to twist st...
Why is that unreasonable? That's how it actually is, life is complicated. That position could be rebutted if you had another position like Hanover doe...
Being short did not stop Napoleon from becoming Emperor, even though people have a bias for tall people. Neither was Cleopatra stopped from reaching t...
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