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You need to remember that you replied to me with a purported objection that I admitted I didn't understand. So why don't you reformulate that objectio...

I'm sorry, cupcake, but you haven't shown this at all. You're really spoiling for a fight here. Such exaggerated hostility looks feigned to me, I must...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyCKne5RdZU

You should just read the whole Parerga and Paralipomena.

:-| Certain administrators, professors, and students do. I don't understand the demand for a conspiracy. At the moment, left-wing activists have a vic...

The administrative class at today's universities has ballooned in size, becoming highly bureaucratized and adopting a corporate model of governance. S...

Undoubtedly power. They are bills that could severely curtail freedom of expression, yes, especially in light of the fact that Canada has these things...

Many administrators, professors, and students are, yes. Both in a way. There are a couple bills he has objected to, one which would apply to Ontario a...

I would recommend going to his channel and watching his talks (not the lectures, which are a bit dry, but you can if you're interested).

Because they want to shut down free expression. Because he has risked his job.

That video was made by someone other than Peterson, who is a very sensible and well spoken man. He's also courageously battling the pomo leftist force...

Yes, and that inner conflict is best described as the tension between rival choices, not between rival wills. You only have one will. Perception, and ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_4bp8bBNVw

I find that when people use the phrase "free will," they really mean "free choice." Humans possess the latter, but not the former, and the lack of thi...

Ah yes, the moderator's life. Such a hard lot.

Mod's ways are not our ways.

"We are the Mod. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."

My replies were deleted, too. The mod who did it, if he sees this, will probably just tell us that they were deleted for being off-topic and unproduct...

I wouldn't go quite that far, but I see your point. That is indeed the question!

Still no refutation. Just dime-store psychologizing.

My "irrational" and "dogmatic" thinking. Plus, you assumed that I was religious.

Ooh, brilliant refutation. I'm, like, totally devastated.

I largely agree. Most atheists are confirmed optimists and believers in progress, so they view any philosophical or religious tradition that stresses ...

I didn't see it until after I posted. :-|

You asked several questions in an extremely long post. I felt like responding to one of them. In the future, maybe you should make your threads more c...

No. Humans are not clownfish. We can't choose our sex. If men want to dress like women or men want to dress like women, that's their prerogative, but ...

This line is a bit confusing, especially the second clause. I think you're trying to say that people deny that life is a pain in the ass, but it doesn...

I think philosophy has value, though not as an end in itself, as most philosophers seem to treat it as, but they're absolutely correct that a degree i...

>:O

You got it! (Y)

Not in this case tho.

Schopenhauerian. :P

I suppose I could grant this, but what I don't agree with is that the line from nominalism to fundamentalism is a straight one or that there are no ot...

Yeah, I'm just giving my general impression. I think the Weaver book is on my list, but I'm less inclined to pick up Gillespie or the Unintended Refor...

I don't get what's particularly "fundamentalist" about this, though. Christian fundamentalism didn't exist until the 19th century and within Protestan...

I find this very dichotomy oppressive. The scientific method is neither good nor bad. It's just a tool. It can produce good results in the hands of re...

Maybe. This book apparently shows that many Orthodox theologians had a great appreciation for Thomas. Consider also that the Platonist Augustine is re...

Love is usually equated with the interaction between the members of the Trinity, rather than to the individual persons, so I think you're correct.

I don't understand this claim. William of Ockham and others like him were not fundamentalists. In fact, William anticipated many features of liberalis...

I have a simple assignment for you. Try reading a postmodernist with an open mind, as I once did, and see if you can make heads or tails of what he's ...

Basically this. (Y)

Hippies die hard....

By the way, I think Kant's prose continually gets a bad rap, but is in fact quite pleasurable to read. He uses a fair amount of technical terms, but h...

It's not necessary, but it does make sense that it is a consequence. No, but they are certainly figures in a line leading to postmodernism, especially...

Pisces. INTJ.

Then you shouldn't have. Don't fook with my polls, man!

Who's the Judaism? Genuinely curious.

>:O

Yeah, I knew the basic idea, and I'm actually attracted to Catholicism myself. Do you mind telling us the thumb-nail sketch of why you went from Catho...