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One can be aggressive toward powers that be while being fully civil (reasonable and not rude). Tree huggers and water protectors, as only two examples...

Nah. Wait for the reprisals. :smile:

And some soldiers have been known to urinate on the corpses of the enemies they’ve brutally killed in celebration. (Sometimes far worse happens.) For ...

Since I’m not big on defeatism: Too late relative to what? Too late for us to live as we’ve so far lived in relation to the climate? But of course it ...

I get you. And there's something of what was saying regarding ignorance to all this. And I'd rather step on a bug than release fishes into the ocean w...

The difference is in the intention behind the act. At least, the intention that is assumed to be the cause of each act. As one alternative example, it...

Yes to your overall post. I however take democracy to be pivoted on a checks and balances of political power among citizens. This either via direct de...

I think what was getting at is that the yin/yang is rooted in the notion of nondualism: (boldface mine)

I'm not in disagreement with this "if". And I've heard of other concrete proposals regarding improvements in general, that of a universal property/dea...

You know what, I'll bite a little. It can't be, since reason evidences itself to be fallible, rather than infallible. See the previously arrived at co...

Only when one's temperament is driven toward infallibility, much as Descartes' was. This doesn't apply for the fallibilist. But trying for a simple ap...

I take the situation to be in line with what @"Pantagruel" just said. What you evidence is that normative reasons cannot be used to justify the use of...

Seems like you’re nearing the threshold of (global/radical) fallibilism. :smile: Yes to the quote, but, all the same, eppur si muove - as evidenced by...

The only thing I can currently think of in regard to this is that for it to stand a chance of working there must first be an ideal that is aimed at; o...

Just saw that Banno beat me to it. I'll post this all the same If memory serves me right, paraphrasing a comment once made by Darwin to the captain of...

Yes, it's why I think that the solution can only be via some form of global governance, toward which we are already inching our way toward. Brings to ...

Thanks. I'm relieved it didn't fall on deaf ears as it usually has. In case it wasn’t known, the IMF reports that over 6% of the global GDP is spent i...

I thought myself to be aiming for tact there. Speaking for myself, just because something was said by Mr. Nietzsche or some other great doesn’t automa...

Without taking him to be a demigod, I like much of Nietzsche. But this I think is either flat wrong or else points to deeper truths via equivocation, ...

Don’t know if this post will be of help, and it will come out from the left field. But it intends to illustrate that space and time being contingent o...

:rofl: OK, got it now. It's been a while since I read that book. Cool.

Darn it, I'm embarrassed. Can't pin the figures. I give up. Now I'm curious. Mine remains Pink Floyd, despite my rather eclectic tastes.

One approach would be to divorce the materialist mindset from the prevailing materialist worldview. Because, materialists are materialistic. Else have...

Well, fyi, this is not an accurate representation of my view. And I have quite an aversion to the Cartesian notion of res extensa and related themes. ...

Interesting. Not 100% on this, but what about: that which is is that which stands out as a whole, and thereby stands out as an entirety which is other...

This perspective seemingly differs from mine and it intrigues me. First, to be clear, I acknowledge that I have not read Husserl and so cannot offer a...

This would depend on the metaphysics espoused. In Platonic Realism, for example, the Aesthetic is as much a singular universal Form as is the Good. He...

Fair enough. Wanted to clarify that I offered Peirce’s metaphysics as one possibility that I personally envision could facilitate a constructivist not...

I'm in agreement with your comments on intra- and inter-realities. I am interested to better understand your critique of category three, which, for th...

I haven’t read most of the thread, and by now there’s a lot to read. Wanted to throw out an interpretation and see the critiques. Building on this: “R...

:rofl: Yea, point taken.

What definition of inherent are you using? Then again ...

See my answer below: Was this written material purposely written by you? I'm not asking if your existence has "a purpose". I'm asking if you were purp...

You are in essence saying that the "we" you're addressing is the "second sort of thing". Does a quark assign purpose? You and I might both agree on a ...

While I think I can see the commonsense understanding you're likely espousing, I also see an inherent logical contradiction in terms of the monism whi...

Please reread what I've written more carefully. From my previous post: Again, "if I've misinterpreted, please clarify". I'll again ask from two day's ...

Ah, shit. Fire is raging in this thread. Pardon my interruption. So, without “purpose sauce” in a materialist or physicalist universe, either: a) Ther...

Well, for what its worth, I think Aristotle's intent was that of this ultimate telos/aim/goal being metaphysically fixed, or pre-determinate; not in a...

So I take it that for you it makes perfect sense to deem material substance, or the physical, as purposeful. This conflicts with the history of materi...

Here is one difference I find pertinent: the reality or unreality of a goal-oriented processes, aka purpose, aka teleology. Minds are purposeful. In a...

:grin: I here that. For my part, I find that when people's ideas become a tangled confusion between the reality of science and of science-fiction, the...

Don't like being one of them cheerleading folk, but I don't have anything significant to add. Yours is a very nicely expressed post.

:ok: I'll cease my questions. ... back to others discussing the importance of immortality, then.

Right. Just asking. So I take it that for you intent is nonexistent, else stated illusory, then. Hence making intent itself not relevant.

I confess to curiosity. Do you then find the material substrata's intent relevant to the topic. Or is intent itself not relevant?

By "it" I assume you are referring to the notion of a self. Hence, the self which is specified in a situation is irrelevant to the notion of what beco...

In his post about the self being contingent on material substrata? How? Here's one concrete example: Some humans have been known to lunge with knives ...

... or our current communications. But if I understand you properly, how does that deny that the self is that which intends a perfected self-preservat...

You’ve overlooked this part (and the preceding argument for it), which I found pivotal to my last post: -------- Everybody? Including the optimal happ...

How does stipulating the self to be contingent on material substrata deny the self's intent to preserve the substrata for the sake of the particular e...