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“Mother's methods are so hard. By the luck of the dealers card Mother Nature selects the dead from White, Yellow, Black, and Red Mother has no favorit...
July 16, 2019 at 03:57
"If you are really going to guard your borders so that NO ONE gets in or out, you have to do it the way the Soviets did it in parts of Europe: double ...
July 15, 2019 at 19:00
Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you. The reality of climate change is something eats away at me as it seems to me like a slow eugenics movement wherei...
July 15, 2019 at 18:14
That's fair to say, I apologise. The way I see it, some forms of depression make a person see the world in a brutally honest and critical way. However...
July 15, 2019 at 17:42
"I understand there is risk. It’s risky to engage in anything. It’s risky to value freedom of speech. If your aim is to avoid racism, then your intole...
July 15, 2019 at 17:36
"The rejection is on the grounds of him (a) apparently not even understanding what morality is, (b) having no understanding of emotional reactions abo...
July 15, 2019 at 15:53
in fact that probably wouldn’t be satisfactory to Socrates, as it would imply knowing something.
July 15, 2019 at 13:48
“Offspring are of you but other than you. Self knowledge is of you but not other than you.” But offspring are part of you or part of you makes up the ...
July 15, 2019 at 13:45
“You deliberately misunderstand my point, presumably because you're emotionally overwhelmed.” I don’t think he’s misunderstanding you, I think he’s ju...
July 15, 2019 at 13:33
“so that child-attackers don't give a fuck about attacking children in return” This is where we run into problems, this implies people will universall...
July 15, 2019 at 13:11
“I think what you're ambling toward is the recognition that "good" is relative.” Well outside the human universe of discourse it is all relative, even...
July 15, 2019 at 13:03
So if you were to see a child being attacked on the street, would you be apathetic to it and let it happen or would you intervene? If yours is the sec...
July 15, 2019 at 12:54
Oh and one more thing, Immigration has been at record lows over the past few years. Borders might be there fro reasons but this governments attitude t...
July 15, 2019 at 12:39
"We can do a better job of caring for people, especially children, who are detained at the border. Doing a better job doesn't mean just waiving and wa...
July 15, 2019 at 12:37
Just heard about 19 month old Mariee Juarez who died of a lung infection days after leaving an ICE detention centre. https://www.independent.co.uk/new...
July 15, 2019 at 03:22
Very well said! I'd also add there blatant disregard for the disabled demographics contributions and of childrens futures with their animosity toward ...
July 15, 2019 at 01:34
“what is the offspring of ignorance and wisdom?” I love this question! Really well put. I would say the ideal offspring would be self knowledge. For o...
July 15, 2019 at 00:48
I’m an espouser of pragmatic ethics so I see some justification for aspects of both views. There is a distinct difference however between disagreeing ...
July 14, 2019 at 21:26
“What's the precept of ethics? What is it, in its most basic?” - Value theory! Jesus Christ, this is starting to get old. If you have no care for ethi...
July 14, 2019 at 20:44
“I therefore have the ideological right to deny any value in the work of people who work in ethics because their findings can't be anything but useles...
July 14, 2019 at 20:22
“That is true - causality is just an axiom - derived from empirically observed behaviour. - The micro world may truly never be fully understood (due t...
July 14, 2019 at 15:20
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocausality someone beat us to it haha. This is good though, means our thinking is seen as justifiable to philosoph...
July 14, 2019 at 14:41
“ If it should be that there are causeless effects, or 'reverse causality', it would be too easy to unconsciously deny such a thing by pretending that...
July 14, 2019 at 14:38
“Or it may have meant something totally different. My bet is that Heidegsteinbergerbaumfeld would say, if he were alive today that "philo sophia" ulti...
July 14, 2019 at 14:14
“You shouldn’t take my criticisms personally — Mark Dennis This is a ridiculous demand.” It’s not a demand it’s a recommendation and a good one. Not m...
July 14, 2019 at 13:31
“So this is what I meant, via quoting H., who is obviously a make-belief figure with a make-belief name, suggesting it's a joke what followed, but a j...
July 14, 2019 at 10:58
“Presumably, proponents of the hard problem became convinced there was a gap because of arguments in favor of a gap, so they could become unconvinced....
July 14, 2019 at 10:18
“I think fuck would be coitea, not Pornea, but that's good too in my books." Can you please cite where you are getting this information from please? C...
July 14, 2019 at 09:05
Actually, I used Caused correctly there as I was referring to the past contributing factors of the inventor such as childhood, interest in music, form...
July 14, 2019 at 02:28
You should check out Epicurus and the concept of Euadaimomia Philos means love, Eros would be love of the sexual connotation. Source of the ero in ero...
July 14, 2019 at 02:21
You're probably right. I also don't want to reach the conclusion that events can only have one cause instead of myriad contributing factors. Let me tr...
July 13, 2019 at 13:31
I'm not sure yet, this has been something that has been playing around in my head. Just an observation that Events can be the cause of themselves when...
July 13, 2019 at 13:01
This was very well said! Rest assured I have no issues with homosexuality. How would you respond to the justifiable intolerance of dangerous criminals...
July 12, 2019 at 14:10
In what world do they not have anything to do with ethics? If we are asking whether or not there is a right or wrong statement to be made by either di...
July 11, 2019 at 21:34
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July 11, 2019 at 21:15
Fuck, how did I mix those two up!? I'm a fucking gnostic and I forgot Sophia hahaha Now I know how my Highschool chemistry teacher at school felt when...
July 11, 2019 at 20:42
Philosophy comes from the greek word Philosophia, Philos meaning Knowledge and Sophia meaning love, so love of knowledge. That's the original etymolog...
July 11, 2019 at 20:08
"IMO, the best philosophy tries to break new ground. That isn't easy, but that's no reason not to try, is it?" Couldn't agree more. As for QM, it is d...
July 11, 2019 at 19:16
Is this that non Euclidean geometry? I’ve so far only read about this in reference but don’t quite understand it. However, It would be a rather strang...
July 11, 2019 at 02:20
I wouldn't even waste your time with him anymore. I contacted the moderators and they are aware of this guys behaviour and will be watching him. They ...
July 10, 2019 at 21:03
Oh piss off. You insult me by asking if I have antisocial personality disorder then you wish me luck with my conditions like you understand a thing ab...
July 10, 2019 at 20:18
Your model is idiotic and serves only to get the conclusion you want. So it isn't philosophy and you have an absolute cheek to speak about what is log...
July 10, 2019 at 19:29
Why do you believe that? Is it intuitive or does the belief come with an argument? Who said anything about different sizes of infinite? Are you just t...
July 10, 2019 at 15:25
Contrary to what?
July 10, 2019 at 15:06
I personally agree with you. I think there isn't much that can be Known about the concept of infinite so I don't like to play around with it too much....
July 10, 2019 at 14:58
I think it does make sense to you, you just don't see the value in the concept as it's just a fantasy of pure mathematics. The reality is that numbers...
July 10, 2019 at 14:56
Why would we have expected him to have counted every number? When did he start going back from? The scenario doesn't make sense. The scenario uses the...
July 10, 2019 at 14:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEebx72-qs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA Are you familiar with these concepts? Let me know what you thi...
July 10, 2019 at 14:10
You really would enjoy the preface to logic by Cohen I think. He agrees with you that logic is not contained within the study of thinking or mathemati...
July 10, 2019 at 13:33
"Oh my argument is right because my bold claim with no evidence is also right"
July 10, 2019 at 13:12