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I don't know that all Buddhists reject the caste system or that it is a tenet of the faith to do so. Perhaps that critique could be better applied to ...

I'm not sure that we do understand one another, though. I am positing that 'true' suicide is impossible. Camus's problem is solved by the very circums...

My qualms with Buddhism relate more to the caste system. I can't quite get past that whole thing is just designed to get you to accept your lot in lif...

I watched a playthrough of that game because I had developed a really strange theory about it. It somehow revolved around the music piece that you pla...

I like Borges. Have you ever played the game Myst? This isn't terribly like Myst at all, but I had just thought of that for some reason.

My point is that you have only identified an exception to the rule. Murder is an extraordinary case. What we can infer proceeding from that "murder is...

To ascribe abstract laws to Ethics ignores the particulars of any given situation. Take Kieslowski's Dekalog 5, for example. A young drifter kills a t...

Whether or not murder is wrong is contingent upon the circumstances in which the murder was committed. Because murder so emphatically denies the other...

You seem to have a lot of spare time on your hands. Do you write all of these stream of conscious?

Oh, so you were just calling him an idiot. I have resorted to no such "contextomy" and I am not the thought police. I just think that this political s...

Eh, I don't agree with the standoff. The situation in North Korea should not be left up to Vice News. They did "talk them down", but I don't think tha...

There are too many books to be written!

I will say that Donald Trump really did make me feel like anyone could be president. What I mean, though, is that I think that it's part and parcel to...

I can't believe that that Durkheim statistic still holds up. The Protestant faith learned nothing from his work.

What is consciousness as it relates to Being? I'd have to write you a book or something. To give a circular definition, consciousness is the experienc...

I am somewhat confused by your distinction. I do think that it is possible for someone to level an Ethical argument concerning abstract truths without...

That, I am unsure of. Plants respond to things in nature. Why shouldn't plants feel? I would bet that that any living thing responds to stimuli means ...

I plan on reading Kierkegaard once my books show up in the mail or after I reread Being and Nothingness. I think that you're right about that. I suppo...

Partially overcast.

I concur. I always see too much in different sides of various debates and generally disagree with the terms.

How can you remember the future? This is like when I decided to get into Zen Buddhism. All that is present are the particles. There is nothing between...

Is "neutral" even the correct term? I don't know how you would say either/neither/or/nor. Nice poem, by the way.

I'm glad that you like it, but I'm not quite sure how I feel about it now. I had just thought that nothing can't exist. Presentism is difficult to und...

I would suggest that there is no needle. There are just waves, although, I don't think waves adequately describe what I mean by "'energy'". 'Energy' c...

"Being" is a term that I would use, but I have no qualms with "experience". That everything can be reduced to physicality does not necessarily mean th...

Mass is like the whatever being manifest into a measurable something. Energy, I feel like differs too much from what we understand as mass to be consi...

I was getting to it, but then I got sidetracked Terrapin Station.

That's kind of what I figured, though I wouldn't say that energy is equivalent to mass. Matter, perhaps.

I may be a Presentist. I've honestly only really given this this speculative thought. What do you think of my theory that space doesn't exist? I just ...

That'd take a radical reconceptualization of the concept of information. I don't know that I would agree, but would be curious to see what they come u...

I disagree. I see neutral monism as a rejection of the distinction between the physical and the mental. It's a neither/nor position and not a middle g...

That it may be boring does not necessarily mean that it is incorrect. Nothing is necessarily boring, anyways. It's all just a matter of how anyone put...

I would tend to be inclined towards non-cognitivism/emotivism, but don't necessarily agree with the distinction. Ethical arguments are colored by emot...

Writing is just a means to cover-up whatever havoc a person has created in the world. If the havoc was worth creating, then they are worth reading. Ev...

Yes, each and every moment is like a different universe, however, there only exists what exists now.

I don't know that I would say that Dennett necessarily rejects subjectivity, but, then again, I honestly haven't read too much Dennett, and, so, could...

Cool. I feel like you're right, but that the sum total of energy always is manifest as something particular. Each and every moment is a different sing...

The advancement of technology outpaces its social avail. The alienated experience is resultant of that technocratic regimes exploit the rate of techno...

Interesting. Do you make these videos?

Personally, I think that it's kind of a lot of talking into air, but, like I said in previous threads, I haven't really hashed this out well enough to...

I sort of agree with Dennett's postulation. The "persuasive illusion", however, just simply is consciousness. There's nothing illusory about it. I don...

Is that written in iambic pentameter?

Okay, I found that interesting. Thanks for going on about it i like sushi.

This is egg salad.

I think that the phenomenon of race is relatively new. Race is a social construct which only came into being during whatever you want to call the era ...

Well, yeah, but, like, what I mean is that the term "white privilege" didn't really appear until 1989. It just takes a while for things like that to b...

It's not a wave. We can just perform Physics experiments by identifying light as waves. The field is the ideterminable potentiality. It's not really a...

I don't at all know what to do about that Trump is president. That it's like having a New Jersey mob boss as the acting head of the United States of A...

I feel like identity politics is just annoying because it's relatively new and hasn't quite figured out how not to be annoying yet. "White privilige" ...

What is meant by "allowed"? I, for instance, think that Death in June has a 'right' to utilize Fascist symbolism in their art, but no 'right' to purpo...