No you weren't: You were disucssing a situation of which Pelosi is just one example. "Those who push for greater regulations" and their intentions are...
It was relevant, but that isn't to say that Pelosi was addressed as a left-wing agitator. My comment was at a more general level to explain why people...
If they only wanted to implement a minimal change and restrict access to automatic machine guns, assault rifles, and the like I'd have little to no pr...
Given my interest in strategy you shouldn't discount the fact that I've read Alinsky's manual, and have actually paid close attention to how the left ...
Except it's not a stupid game, because the left sometimes openly claims to want to do just that. That's why the right has to be careful. What did Saul...
Yep, what I said above doesn't contradict that. Except that I'm guarding against a possible misunderstanding that I sense in you, namely that there is...
My problem with Kojeve, much like Hegel, is that they are both largely responsible for the collapse of order in Western civilization and the return of...
That's a figure of speech meant to show that he reveals that the blame is on us. So no, God doesn't take this thing called blame that isn't already on...
Both are it. I've clarified what I meant by explaining that blame cannot be laid on someone, it is an objective fact, at most it can be revealed. To l...
No. Blame cannot be put - that is merely an expression of speech. Blame always exists on the guilty party - the guilty party places it themselves thro...
No. Because your response ignored my basic premise and argued as if it was false. God's love is perceived to be the greatest threat by those who are u...
Why surprised? Lacan was wrong. The mirror phase isn't only during childhood, it is for your entire life. Human beings, as per Aristotle, are imitativ...
The problem with this is that it's not at all clear what emergence is. Apparently, you say that non-existent properties will arise from existent ones....
Interesting thread! First let's establish what emergence is from a metaphysical point of view. It's not as simple as saying that a phenomenon suddenly...
Asking for the just punishment isn't necessarily being unforgiving though. And in either case from unforgiving not being morally condemnable, it doesn...
What if the story is told from the perspective of man, and thus from the perspective of the criminal? What if man expelled God but transfers this expu...
Well many of them do cite that the woman really wanted it as justification for their actions. That the woman seduced them, etc. So either we believe t...
We can absolutely talk like so, and there is a sense in which love is an emotion. I fell in love with a girl, there is a certain emotion associated wi...
No, that's ironically the mythical image of God that Christianity exposes. Violence belongs to man, not to God. So the one who slashed the tires is ma...
Meaning? Anger is an emotional state for example. And I go back to the phenomenology of the experience. If you seek an unjust punishment you're never ...
I already told you - a choice. Oh, of course you won't want to "unjustly" punish the one who harmed you. That's precisely how the logic of violence wo...
It is difficult to provide non-circular definitions because all things are immanent within experience. So our whole conceptual puzzle will, in the end...
Yes, we can be in an emotional state without wanting to be. That experience is quite common. Sure. Forgiveness and love are not emotional states, they...
Well it is the case that I am a determinist of the Spinozist kind in the sense that I take that things are determined, things have causes to be what t...
That is because a child takes the parent as a model of imitation. Even when the parent hurts the child, the child is still attached to the parent, bec...
Right, but this sounds more like neutral monism (much like Spinoza and Schopenhauer) rather than substance dualism or Platonic/Aristotelian hylomorphi...
Okay, let's see. Approve means to have a positive opinion of something or someone. Forgive means: With that definition, yes there is no way in which s...
No, I don't think @Agustino presumes this. Someone may be unable to forgive for psychological reasons, but this doesn't change what it would be prefer...
No, I don't think I ever said that :s - when did I say that? Believing that everything is predestined is against my spiritual position, and I don't be...
Yes, in that sense of the word, no good person approves of it. What is it then? You're willing according to the same nature that gave birth to the oth...
Absolutely. How could there be anything else if God is Love? It is of course not the one who loves who is fooled. Jesus Christ wasn't fooled when He w...
Now you're equivocating on "approval". There are two kinds of approval. There is one type of approval that involves me willing the same specific actio...
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