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I've told you that there is hell back a long time ago: Punishment is self-inflicted. Vice and sin are their own punishments. My forgiveness is very re...

Yes, it does, because from his point of view my hatred of him and unforgiveness justifies his behaviour, because just like him, I am a bad guy who wan...

I may not want to be married with her anymore, but I would forgive her and be friends with her. Not to forgive her is to justify her actions and appro...

The problem with your approach is that violence breeds more violence. You will be seen as an aggressor, and hence the other person's aggression will b...

I'm saying hell and heaven are just reactions to Love. If you are a moral person all you have to do is be a mirror so that they can look at themselves...

Of course. It's actually part of the hidden strategies of war in Chinese history as well. Forgiveness of the enemy. It's funny that the Chinese are mo...

This is very interesting. In my experience we often tend to assume in the intellectual landscape that Westerners are the Cartesians, and Indians (Budd...

Hopefully not to put toothpaste on my face while I sleep...

It follows from the fact that a great soul can accept those smaller than themselves.

In reality no. But what will actually happen is that you will start fearing that they might take some sort of action against you because they are afra...

I agree with him regarding reconciliation. Yes indeed. A person who requires excessive contrition in order to forgive - who demands authenticity - is ...

Yes, you should always give me a break :D

Virtue and compassion are like two sharp swords Baden - they may seem weak if you haven't understood their logic. I think you are equivocating on this...

Whether they accept your forgiveness or not is a different story, but you should always forgive. Their lack of honesty is theirs, why is that relevant...

The authenticity is irrelevant. We are not to judge our neighbor. If they lie, that is their fault. But if you act and expect them to lie, that is you...

The fight for the equality of women has paradoxically been hijacked into the fight for shaping women into what men want them to be from the 60s onward...

This @"TimeLine"? :D We already know that!

Well, as much as it would be ego-pleasing to say that everything good in my life is due to my great genius, intelligence, discipline and hard work, th...

That's not necessarily the case. My point is that "the gods", or "luck" or "fortune" or however you want to call it plays a much bigger role in succes...

You still didn't tell me if you like mashed potatoes... ;)

I mean the idea itself is very old, and Tillich doesn't even express it in the best way. Also the idea itself, without the necessary experiences, isn'...

To a certain extent, but it's not that ground breaking :P lol! See, that's why you should move to a chill, non-competitive place :P

Ah, at least I remembered that... >:O LOL, that must be quite a depressing place to live then, no wonder you were depressed!

>:O I have literarily almost zero memory about what the contents of the book are anymore. I somehow remember Kierkegaard is mentioned and there's lots...

Though there have certainly been poor 45 year olds with few skills who did turn into affluent entrepreneurs >:O - it's to a large degree a matter of l...

Yes, when I was depressed I didn't find much help in books either. However, things like prayer, sports, and having a few close friends were all helpfu...

Did you find any books helpful in your depression?

Depends at what level of inquiry you are asking that. If you are asking at the level of metaphysics/religion, then it is because of the Fall - humans ...

Wow it does exactly what your whole philosophy does :D Yep, and like so globalised tendency, function and purpose are all mushed together into a cute ...

That is the way of this world (of Satan). René Girard describes this as the victimage mechanism which resolves the conflictual crisis that arises in t...

No, that's an underhanded way to say that peace requires violence, for suffering implies violence. That which causes suffering is violent. So peace do...

This theme is found in other world mythologies too. It is a justification for violence, and makes it seem like peace requires the use of violence.

He's been here too under many many names, and each time he gets banned >:O https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/439/mosesquine

Yep. That's mosesquine. He's Korean.

You're not speaking with Apo lol...

Oh? He was banned? That's interesting... What were his positions on the "big" issues? :P Anything that stood out?

I think in-so-far as antinatalism is a form of politics - trying to get others to change their behaviour - it is a hopeless affair. It's really so poi...

What was special about Gassendi1? Lots of people seem to be talking about him, but I never was on the site when he was around, so I have no idea about...

Let me know if you get anything organised by PM ;)

The issue is that in the sales agreement, I think Paul sold the site with all its content as well, so technically he cannot give that content away or ...

This thread is very interesting, and it relates well to my reading of René Girard. The logic of violence outlined here seems to be everywhere in socie...

The purpose of thermodynamics is artificial or emergent. It's like having a 12-sided dice with 11 faces having a value of 1 and only one side having a...

Let me say something very much in agreement with your philosophy. We've discussed this antinatalism so much that it's boring now. Given that your posi...

I think Paul does have all the content of PF backed up somewhere ;) - only if we could get our hands on it.

>:O >:O >:O That is a great achievement you know, not that easy...

It's not about God, your metaphysics just doesn't make sense though. The argument has already been made, you're just avoiding it.

Mosesquine? From what I've seen he has been terrorizing the blog of @"darthbarracuda" for some time >:O

I read this almost interminable discussion and I side with MU. Apo has just made an entire jumble of categories and treats them as if they were conver...

Yeah that's really terrible. I remember after it fell through I was annoyed whenever I tried to look back for things, I had to search on Google, find ...

Noooooo - how do you know our post counts if the old site doesn't work anymore? >:O Edit: I haven't tried accessing it for a very long time actually.....