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Yes, he problematized the question of the meaning of being. That's prior to the possibility of any sort of anthropocentrism, and by reducing it to ant...

I don't think this is a faithful reading of Heidegger at all. Heidegger would be quite appalled by the humanism and anthropocentrism that emanates fro...

Yes, the point of religion it may be to provide transcendence and a link with the divine, but a dark age in the history of mankind is precisely an age...

Yes, how dare he be sensitive? :s

Our own "self-indulgent despair" is the symptom of our society and our times. What you do not see is that a man cannot be the shining light of a dark ...

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You're not that far left lol - you're about as far as I was before ;) . But you're very libertarian lol.

It's because I hate multinational companies who dominate the economy. I wish our economy was more based on individual and small-scale entrepreneurship...

>:O - what you didn't know that? I was even more left 10 months ago! >:O

:-O I never heard of this word.

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I have grown more capitalist on the economy, and less authoritarian on social issues... Now: https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-2.13&soc=-0.77...

How do you know, have you already spoken to Him? :D

I think this was the wisest post in this whole thread >:O

How is it possible for anyone to be drunk on Thursday? You must be rich or a student >:O Are you the type of guy who is drunk from Monday to Monday? >...

Yes, but not around non-Western Eastern European countries lol. Here it's harder for the student to accuse the teacher, even with good reason. I suppo...

Can I call @"Michael" by a nickname of my choice even though he says it's not his name? >:)

Oh my... this is a typical case of projection, where one side dreams that the other side has what they lack. I think neither of them have "class consc...

Right, but when you're say the President, you can't really expect that your employee is going to report you - you pretty much control the power struct...

:-O Oh dear, class consciousness....

Like, think about yourself. The first memories I have of my sexual desire aren't of some biological kind but rather I remember hearing around, in musi...

No, the Chinese emperors needed Eunuchs because they themselves had 100 concubines. When you have that, you naturally cause other human beings who hav...

Do I become, as Nietzsche said, a "blonde beast" going around and pillaging things?

So if I have power do I just spontaneously start having desires to rape women and such? :s Presumably I must have already had those desires, and the p...

First of all, they won't be sexually corrupt if their culture wouldn't have taught them that being sexually corrupt confers high status and is really ...

*facepalm* :-} Right, if it's not Hollywood, then something else will control our culture, whether it's Plato's poets, or whatever. That isn't of much...

I'm not so sure that the natural tendency is clearly towards "sin" and "evil". I think we are corrupted by society to large extents - when society dec...

In fact, your retort is laughable precisely because there's nothing about high heels that is supposed to turn you on - this is manufactured by your so...

No, but you can bet that his society taught him that a real man forces himself on as many women as he can. Even the Greeks and the likes of Alexander ...

Hollywood manufactures desire. Yes, there is a biological component to sexuality, but all research that I've read shows that this is highly mediated t...

And desire just arises all by itself, it isn't mediated through your culture? We're not told that we should desire women and lust after them, especial...

What's the cause then?

Okay, but that doesn't make it moral or right. Well, just because it happens and everyone knows it (which I agree with you) doesn't mean it's right. i...

It's not an excuse though. Both Clinton and Trump are fully responsible. My point is that the focus should be on the source of the problem, which isn'...

Yes. But Hollywood should be attacked first, because that's the source of the problem. Otherwise, if we focus on Trump, etc., this source is masked, a...

So it's not even so much that Trump gets a free pass - it's that his actions reveal something important about society, they perform an unmasking. Trum...

I agree with this.

It's not political partisanship. I clearly said that the two cases play a different political role. Bill's case suggested there's something wrong with...

Okay sure, but the rape could be interpreted as retroactively justified, even though it's harmful, the same way the power differential which compels o...

Well there's a difference here. I view Trump as a positive element in the overall political picture, precisely because he unmasks the pretensions that...

Yes, but I see this as hypocritical many times, precisely because the result is allowed to retroactively justify the activity that got it there. It wo...

Steve Jobs wife (Laurene Powell Jobs) was a student when she met him doing her MBA and Steve Jobs was a big time CEO giving a speech. Here's the story...

! Exactly! How many times have I not said this... Sure, but how can it be stopped? The problem is that I think this kind of social interaction cannot ...

Hope belongs to God. One hopes for God, for salvation. To place one's hope where moth and rust doth corrupt is foolish - indeed, it is as stupid as yo...

Then why are Adam and Eve damned? They were deceived afterall.

I'm not sure how this would work. You seem to postulate that self-deception comes after sin, but I think that's the other way around. Adam and Eve wer...

Right, but it is first self-deception that is willed (can we say with full knowledge? clearly full knowledge ends once self-deception is willed), and ...