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In: What is a "nature"  — view comment
Usually when it suits me. Check the language game I'm playing when I use "cat".
June 20, 2022 at 04:11
In: What is a "nature"  — view comment
Ask an Aristotlean / Thomist. (I'm not either.)
June 20, 2022 at 03:40
In: What is a "nature"  — view comment
No. It's an idea of "why" stuff is stuff.
June 20, 2022 at 03:18
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
For some, no doubt. However, most philosophical positions are inconsistent with solipsism.
June 20, 2022 at 03:16
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
No one takes "solipsism" for granted in daily life.
June 20, 2022 at 03:13
In: What is a "nature"  — view comment
Perhaps. However, I was replying to your "nature of nature" comment.
June 20, 2022 at 03:11
In: What is a "nature"  — view comment
Metaphysics (re: physis = nature), no?
June 20, 2022 at 03:05
In: Do drugs produce insight? Enlightenment?  — view comment
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ~Bob Marley
June 20, 2022 at 02:53
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
Well, then don't breed, comrade.
June 19, 2022 at 20:46
In: About Assange  — view comment
:eyes: :rofl:
June 19, 2022 at 12:20
In: About Assange  — view comment
... not until he has sacrificed himself like all genuine heroes do. :fire: Your anti-"Pax Americana" jeremiads from the suburbs of the globe are as hi...
June 19, 2022 at 06:55
In: What is gratitude and what is it worth?  — view comment
Like anger (à la Buddha), ingratitude is a double-edged sword.
June 19, 2022 at 06:28
In: The US Economy and Inflation  — view comment
:100:
June 19, 2022 at 06:24
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
Communism. Reality is too messy for "paradise". I've sketched a quasi-convergence of "Marxism & antinatalism" in an old post (elaborated further in a ...
June 19, 2022 at 05:40
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Silence and Beauty, Makoto Fujimura rereading: Silence, Shusaku Endo
June 18, 2022 at 21:23
In: Where do the laws of physics come from?  — view comment
A. In science, what specifiable problem does "Enformationism" solve falsifiably? B. In philosophy, what non-trivial, coherent question does "Enformati...
June 18, 2022 at 18:40
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
Maybe AI³ is studying / testing (some of) us. Maybe AI³ is repurposing our global civilization (for what???) in ways that individuals, corporations an...
June 18, 2022 at 11:21
In: About Assange  — view comment
Apparently, since 1917 ... The question is besides the point I've raised. As far illegality is concerned, Assange has been indicted for espionage, not...
June 18, 2022 at 11:10
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/539599 :eyes: :yikes: :monkey: You've not been insulted (yet), just called out for your poor reasoni...
June 18, 2022 at 10:33
In: About Assange  — view comment
Yeah, but even a jackass isn't wrong in every inslance and I am not wrong about Assange and other "whistleblowers" who've undermined their disclosures...
June 18, 2022 at 10:13
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Macca @80 :up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TANPFMf1k "When I'm Sixty-Four" (2:37) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967 writers Lennon-McCar...
June 18, 2022 at 07:17
In: Postmodern Philosophy and Morality  — view comment
(a) One can start with reading Freddy's (belated) prefaces to his books where the old philologist makes suggestions for how to read each work. (b) I a...
June 18, 2022 at 03:10
In: Self-abnegation - a thread for thinking to happpen  — view comment
I think so. Recall that darkness before your earliest experience of being a self. Recall that moment you fell asleep last night or had ever passed-out...
June 18, 2022 at 02:41
In: Why people choose Christianity from the very begining?  — view comment
:smirk:
June 18, 2022 at 02:16
In: The US Economy and Inflation  — view comment
:100: :strong: :up:
June 18, 2022 at 02:04
In: About Assange  — view comment
Assange? Fuck him and Snowden too.
June 18, 2022 at 01:55
In: The meaning and significance of faith  — view comment
As you have ...
June 18, 2022 at 01:50
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
:sweat: :up: ... Poor silly, Zzz
June 17, 2022 at 22:03
In: Postmodern Philosophy and Morality  — view comment
Rather: mostly anti-platonist.
June 17, 2022 at 21:59
In: The meaning and significance of faith  — view comment
So, for you (believers), a human cadaver is still conscious? Probably the same "reason" you come here to talk about your :roll:
June 17, 2022 at 21:53
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
Ditto. :smirk:
June 17, 2022 at 14:01
In: The meaning and significance of faith  — view comment
No doubt, seeing is provisionally believing; however, inversely (perversely), faith implies "believing is seeing" e.g. (in the Christian context) "Now...
June 17, 2022 at 11:47
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
Read the next few sentences of my previous post.
June 17, 2022 at 11:41
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
I'm referring to the consequences implicit in 'preaching antinatalism' and not to an individual's choice to abstain from procreating. I also find reli...
June 17, 2022 at 11:31
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
:100:
June 17, 2022 at 11:11
In: Arguments for free will?  — view comment
Stoic compatibilism. :fire:
June 17, 2022 at 04:31
In: What is gratitude and what is it worth?  — view comment
I think few are the former, many are the latter and some are both. Do you mean 'without a benefactor'? Yes. 'Gratitude for being alive' is a(n existen...
June 17, 2022 at 04:18
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/T9gMsdNQSUM "Here Comes the Sun" (3:37) Here Comes the Sun, 1971 writer George Harrison, 1969 performer Nina Simone
June 17, 2022 at 03:20
In: Postmodern Philosophy and Morality  — view comment
:up:
June 17, 2022 at 03:17
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
Or both possibly insentient ...
June 17, 2022 at 03:16
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
June 17, 2022 at 03:12
In: The meaning and significance of faith  — view comment
:mask: :up:
June 17, 2022 at 03:07
In: The US Economy and Inflation  — view comment
In OECD countries, corporate welfare and malfeasance are out of hand and have long been in need of "correction". At this "late stage", I suspect only ...
June 17, 2022 at 03:01
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
Explain how any human could be "known not to be" when, due to sentience being completely subjective (i.e. experienced only by its subject), no human c...
June 17, 2022 at 02:46
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
Just like preaching against procreating —> species extinction (auto-genocide).
June 17, 2022 at 02:34
In: On “Folk” vs Theological Religious Views  — view comment
Amen.
June 17, 2022 at 02:02
In: Marxism and Antinatalism  — view comment
Setting off a thermonuclear holocaust would be so much more efficient. "Russian and China if you are listening ..." Antinatalists of the world unite! ...
June 17, 2022 at 01:50
In: Welcome Robot Overlords  — view comment
By this reasoning, it's more reasonable than not to "conclude" a human being is not sentient.
June 17, 2022 at 01:45
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
I'm one of them. I bought my first smartphone (an iPhone) in 2007 and since then my ability to write legibly has gone completely. My primary school nu...
June 17, 2022 at 01:39
In: The meaning and significance of faith  — view comment
:clap: :up: What part of the following quote are you too trifling to understand or dispute?
June 17, 2022 at 01:29
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