Thorongil

I just see claims being made, not claims being argued for.

Well, seeing as my currency is brilliant ideas, I don't doubt that I gave you some. I'm very charitable in that regard. Willkommen.

Btw, were you on the old forum? I can't remember.

Man, this thread is hilarious. "Colin" is pulling your legs, guys.

>:O

I say Hillary wins but both houses stay Republican. That would be best for the country too, I think. I predict Hillary will be a one-termer. Btw, I wo...

What you call ad hominems I would call rather hilarious, witty, and accurate descriptions of Hegel's writings.

As I am now? No. Something like the Christian afterlife attracts me, though, wherein one's current existence is transformed and elevated to a higher o...

Define God. These people haven't presumably had these experiences of yours, so how are you to blame them? Many of them would likely start believing in...

Not until perhaps after death.

I can feel the condescension from here. I think my post answers these questions. I don't know what you want me to say. If this were true, then I would...

Good to hear. Neither do I.

Well, it means I'm an enigma to myself, among other things, I suppose. Your question might benefit from greater specificity.

Well there's part of your problem. Tough nuts I say. That's how democracy works. If you don't like the decision, then you probably don't like democrac...

Yes. Kant's categories, though boiled down to time, space, causality, and being an object for a subject.

Yeah, but you want lower taxes and still drive your fossil fuel machine, too. Appearances are everything I suppose.

Couldn't agree more! I like me some Napalm Death too.

We should hold them based on the facts, such as human nature. Of course in an ideal world we wouldn't need a state, but ideal worlds don't exist excep...

Well, again, it's what the Vajrayana say about themselves. It's in a general religion textbook I have, too. Thanks for the link. I'll take a look at i...

Oh, are you a black metal fan, Baden?

>:O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82NftpKai3E

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana#Third_turning_of_the_wheel I haven't heard of Yogachara being the third turning, but that's very interesting. ...

I indicated people like them when I mentioned the religious sophisticate. Religion is by and large for the common man. Those who are philosophically i...

The Mughals came much later, though. Buddhism began disappearing from India before Muslim rule, or perhaps I am misremembering. They say it is. I was ...

One could easily advance a Straussian or Schopenhauerian interpretation of religion to answer this question. To them, religion serves as the metaphysi...

The word "meaning" in your question would refer to life having some end or goal toward which it strives. I think life does have such an end, but that ...

I believe there are alleged to be 24 different schools of early Buddhism, the only surviving one being Theravada, which preserved the Pali Canon in Sr...

You look rather despondent there. Perhaps you should unfriend that peach colored sweater wearing fellow petting you. He seems patronizing.

https://youtu.be/pyZ0RxUVYQE

Victoire.

Cioran is not pretending to be anything other than he is, which is a somewhat disheveled, absent-minded, anxiety-ridden, pessimistic aphorism coiner. ...

It's the whole package, man. If you don't see it, you don't see it.

He's from another time. The look on his face is utterly unpretentious.

Let's see. There's Ortega y Gasset, who here looks perfectly normal, even with his pipe: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Jos...

That's my favorite of his photos.

You damn hedonist.

I don't know, most all of them except for the postmodernists? I've always thought this portrait of Kant makes him look like a total nerd: http://www.m...

There are a whole host of examples that are continually brought up. The main one I come across is his not living the ascetic life he so exalts in his ...

My interlocutor derailed with me, so I don't see the danger in that case. Be that as it may, sure, I'm all for context.

Well there's your problem! Your standards are stratospheric, jamal, sheesh. To be honest, I don't all that much, and would not have brought it up were...

Dear andrewk, as someone interested primarily in Schopenhauer, I can't tell you how many times I've read, both on the last forum, on this one, and on ...

>:O >:O >:O

It would be silly of me of me to say that "French intellectuals look like douches, therefore, what they say is nonsense." That would be an ad hominem....

I'm not sure I like the idea that posts can be deleted due to one person's subjective appraisal of what counts as "low quality." It sounds like you ha...

How dare you expose me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A0pg4oN8

For shame, jamal. Why did it have to be like this? http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/7b/7b0d7db1293ca47eba970b69be4b02150b5a7e647d3ef952d6447a04d2a09fd0.jpg...

Well, I wouldn't deign to think I could adequately answer such a question on a mere Internet forum, but for starters, I would say that we ought to inv...

That they're educated badly. I naturally agree, but when it comes to human rights violations, I take a pretty firm stand that they must be stopped and...

Well, then we no longer disagree, it seems to me. I'm satisfied. I mentioned the scholastics in the post to which you originally responded. They wrote...

Consider the following example, chosen for its relevance to the thread. For many classical theists like Aquinas, they stress that God is not, and cann...