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Thanks fresco. I guess I'll have to reread The Gay Science then. I spent too much time analyzing Nietzsche's decision to amply utilize aphorisms and e...

Nothing is in our control StreetlightX. You give someone who is running late 5 dollars to catch the train and they trip, fall, and land smack dab in t...

Suicides, of course, occur. What I mean is that it is impossible for someone to actually flip the switch. You can create 99.9% of the circumstances th...

In a negative sense, the human confrontation with death results in denial. This has catastrophic consequences. The denial of death can be resultant in...

Well, the status of "'facts'" and negotiations of what is agreed "'to be the case'" is kind of the same thing. I would argue that "'things-in-themselv...

Someday, it will be an actual reality. The future is so strange to think about even though it has already arrived. I think that a suicide actually req...

Neurophenomenology sounds pretty far-out! I'll have to remember to look back into this if I ever take another class on Philosophy of Mind.

I feel like it's sort of strange to think of the military as just any old career path. That it's treated as such is so that people will have less rese...

Well, I just picked up Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscripts. Are you saying that I won't find what I'm looking for in those...

I honestly suspect that people naturally desire to live indefinitely. For me, there is no question as to whether or not anyone wants to live longer. T...

I don't agree with Hollywood, but I think that people in the military have a radically different relationship to whatever country it is that they serv...

It's been forever since I've read Kierkegaard, but he does declare that "Subjectivity is Truth" in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosoph...

Well said, ssu! The established distance of the war is disconcerting. I, myself, had once come to the realization that we were still engaged in the Wa...

Responsibility arises out of that there are others, but I think that your conclusion may still assume that it can be soundly considered. Because it is...

Well, you don't have to. I was just sort of tossing that out there, and don't necessarily care to get into an argument. I honestly don't know all that...

I see what you're saying. I just don't think that Metaphysical methodology is any longer all that useful.

You claimed that I had made a metaphysical statement. I don't think that I did. To me, proceeding from Platonic forms, Metaphysics seems to assume tha...

I'm sort of critiquing the metaphysical assumption that abstract truths exist. I'm not stating that there is an abstract truth which Metaphysics seeks...

Eh, it's just speculation. I think that we will only be able to prolong life for up to upwards of around 200 years given the current technocratic esta...

I think that for eternal life to be possible you would have to assume that technological progress will continue exponentially. I honestly think that i...

That was an interesting anecdote. Thanks for sharing ssu. Stalin was notorious for purposing anti-Fascist praxis for totalitarian repression. I once h...

My assumption is that what Metaphysics originally set out to do was to discover what could be referred to as "objective reality". The methodology beca...

Eh, it's fine to get off topic. Have you ever seen My Perestroika? It's a pretty good documentary on the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam Curtis als...

Yeah, 9/11 conspiracies are kind of depressing. You always have to wonder. They weren't as common as you might expect, but fairly common during Occupy...

Well, I'm in favor of a complete withdraw. I think that, since it's still kind of a powder keg, non-military efforts could be made to transition peace...

You necessarily have to presuppose some information, but ideally it seems like you shouldn't presuppose anything at all. It's unlikely that I would ag...

I don't know that I would define a priori as being equivalent to presupposition in a Philosophical sense. Philosophically speaking, a priori truths ar...

To be honest, I do have a fairly rudimentary understanding of Metaphysics. From what I glean, the methodology does sort of assume that there is an abs...

I think that I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that I would define Metaphysics as being "presuppositional". Metaphysics assumes that...

I'd also like to know whether or not people think that it is useful to capitalize "Absurd". I did so in order to refer to the concept by Camus, but fe...

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. If you do have a really good point, then, you ought to learn how to get it across in a manner that can be easily understoo...

Is that Metaphysics, though?

I think that they'd be acutely aware of green. I don't necessarily know a lot about water, but I feel like a chemist would be be able to tell you all ...

Metaphysics is more complex than I have made it out to be. In so far that Metaphysics addresses "What is?", I feel like "Science" is better suited to ...

I would recommend reading Sartre, but it is a rather daunting task. You've kind of got to read Heidegger first, and while I get the gist of Heidegger,...

I think that there ought to be a loosely affiliated set of freely associated societies who decide upon matters through participatory democracy. I kind...

I just let the lines go. I'd rather miss a line than disrupt the action. I can keep up with most anything, though. Sometimes I feel like I should watc...

I haven't argued for forced egalitarianism, though. I'm an Anarcho-Pacifist. I feel like we're talking at cross paths here.

Both. Functional egalitarianism necessitates an equitable distribution of resources. How that is to be done, I honestly don't know. I don't think that...

I define Socialism as being a political philosophy that prefers egalitarianism. I'm also from the States, but I don't think that the American attitude...

What do you mean about the Frankfurt School? The Frankfurt School was just the institutionalization of what we know as Critical Theory. There are plen...

I don't actually agree. I think that the people in WG would have a plethora of terms to describe "green". It'd be like what they say about Inuits and ...

Oh, God! The Left... I consider for the Left to consist of everything from Marxism-Leninism to libertarian Communism. It's the whole school of thought...

Even Bob Black has no place on this graph. The entire history of Anarchism could not be placed on this graph.

What is it with Libertarians and these graphs? Why create more thought-terminating clichés in politics? You have totally denied that the libertarian L...

A Nihilist does choose to become a Nihilist and can choose to unbecome one. There is no inherent inequity concerning the human psyche and the patholog...

I like them as well. I just wonder if I haven't added another layer of abstraction to the experience. You have to read the film as you watch it. I act...

I can't remember why I brought up The Power of Nonviolence. That doesn't really have too much to do with what I'm on about. I don't actually agree tha...

Dubbed films are ridiculous. I'd much rather read the subtitles. I can't even stand dubbed anime. It's only tolerable in karate films. Translations ar...

As much as I actually have somewhat of a bias against the preference for "logic" within scientific reasoning, I actually don't think that scientists h...