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In: Atheism  — view comment
:lol:
April 22, 2022 at 17:38
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
I've always seen Morrison striving to be shaman and Jagger as an accomplished burlesque performer.
April 22, 2022 at 17:37
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
The p0m0 sophists, it seems to me, are deliberately, perhaps ironically, not saying anything (i.e. nihilistic relativism) whereas Freddy Z 'internally...
April 22, 2022 at 17:31
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
Smith, maybe you should actually read his books Beyond Good and Evil AND On The Genealogy of Morals. To translate Freddy's famous phrase, it means "be...
April 22, 2022 at 16:47
In: Atheism  — view comment
Your "dignity" is fine, praxis; @"Hanover", however, ain't looking so good (re: denialism) it seems to me.
April 22, 2022 at 16:34
In: On The Origins of Prayer  — view comment
:rofl: :pray: A-men!
April 22, 2022 at 16:25
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
:sweat: Okay.
April 22, 2022 at 08:22
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
I'll pass on the "analysis" since I've been familiar with Clapton since the late '70s, mostly his years with The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, and so...
April 22, 2022 at 07:16
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
Stevie Ray Vaughan. IMO, Hendrix was the best showman and guitarist of his generation. Clapton has always bored me to tears (very overrated), not near...
April 22, 2022 at 06:16
In: The basic default of what a person must get out of life  — view comment
:up: :100:
April 22, 2022 at 04:59
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
What a joke: if "Clapton is God", then what does that make Hendrix? Santana? SRV? :smirk: :up: In my book, Nietzsche is an anti-Romantic Romantic who ...
April 22, 2022 at 04:31
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
Sinatra was Morrison's favorite singer. "Jagger"? No. :lol:
April 21, 2022 at 22:52
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
Exactly! Yeah, wtf?! :sweat:
April 21, 2022 at 22:47
In: Atheism  — view comment
:clap: :up:
April 21, 2022 at 21:44
In: Atheism  — view comment
:clap: :up:
April 21, 2022 at 21:44
In: A priori, self-evident, intuitive, obvious, and common sense knowledge  — view comment
:100: But introspection illusions, no? :chin:
April 21, 2022 at 21:29
In: How May Nietzsche's Idea of 'Superman' Be Understood ?  — view comment
By übermensch I understand the culmination of Freddy Zarathustra's centuries-long, or millennia-long, cultural project of "breeding and education" of ...
April 21, 2022 at 19:30
In: Atheism  — view comment
:roll:
April 21, 2022 at 13:13
In: Can minds be uploaded in computers?  — view comment
:up:
April 21, 2022 at 12:33
In: Atheism  — view comment
Memento mori. Memento vivire. No, I do not. Since time "wastes" all things and us too, gaining some understanding for its own sake seems like a more e...
April 21, 2022 at 11:27
In: Atheism  — view comment
:smirk:
April 21, 2022 at 03:08
In: Atheism  — view comment
Again, this topic ain't about you. :roll:
April 21, 2022 at 02:55
In: Atheism  — view comment
:up:
April 21, 2022 at 02:10
In: Athiesm, Theology, and Philosophy  — view comment
:up: Consider these distinctions from Banno's recent thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/682234
April 21, 2022 at 01:25
In: Atheism  — view comment
:roll: Another D-K troll just as I'd suspected. The more you make the topic under discussion all about you, Hanover, the more you merely rationalize y...
April 20, 2022 at 22:50
In: If there were a god, are they fair?  — view comment
The god of Abraham (i.e. religious theism). Ask the OP; I think my assumption is consistent with his / her query. Only fictions are "unconditional". C...
April 20, 2022 at 22:42
In: Atheism  — view comment
If I were trying "to assess your subjective state ... actually experiencing", I would agree with you, sir, but I have not claimed or implied any such ...
April 20, 2022 at 19:22
In: If there were a god, are they fair?  — view comment
If there is a "creator god", then suffering (e.g. animals eating animals, incapacitating birth defects, catastrophic natural disasters, psychopatholog...
April 20, 2022 at 19:08
In: Applied Philosophy  — view comment
Freethought (i.e.metacognitive hygiene / fitness). A habit (for a few decades now). I seek to understand what I already know and (reminders) that I do...
April 20, 2022 at 16:28
In: Atheism  — view comment
Does "religion" make the believer's life "meaningful"? No more, it seems to me, than alcohol makes the alcoholic's life "meaningful". Like other forms...
April 20, 2022 at 15:57
In: Atheism  — view comment
:up:
April 20, 2022 at 13:17
In: If there were a god, are they fair?  — view comment
:up:
April 20, 2022 at 13:16
In: The basic default of what a person must get out of life  — view comment
:cool: An excerpt from my foremost blues philosopher:
April 19, 2022 at 23:44
In: If there were a god, are they fair?  — view comment
Okay, so my third point doesn't interest you. What about the other two? Surely not the handiwork of a fair-minded creator deity. :chin:
April 19, 2022 at 23:40
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
Enactivism (which was the focus of my graduate work) is not an "antidote" to prospect theory but, IME, a complementary model.
April 19, 2022 at 18:59
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel, Vladimir Sorokin
April 19, 2022 at 10:29
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
"What's the value of" hygiene or fitness (or any adaptive practice)? We are macro machines made up of trillions of micro machines "who" make and use m...
April 19, 2022 at 09:47
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
More or less.
April 19, 2022 at 05:45
In: If there were a god, are they fair?  — view comment
A "god"which i. created nature that is wastefully indifferent and ravaged by gratuitous suffering and/or ii. created us sick but commands us to be wel...
April 19, 2022 at 05:41
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
No sensory organs (or pain receptors) inside the brain; so yeah, it is "impossible" for the brain to "feel" itself doing anything.
April 19, 2022 at 05:26
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
For a post-Freudian/Jungian (woo-free), Nobel Prize winning scientific treatment of functional interactions between the un/subconscious and "conscious...
April 18, 2022 at 19:29
In: Localized Interaction and Metaphysics  — view comment
Well, you're entitled to your ... that.
April 18, 2022 at 19:26
In: Localized Interaction and Metaphysics  — view comment
What does "phenomenology" or "pragmatism" or "Rorty" have to do with anything I've argued?
April 18, 2022 at 05:20
In: The separation of mind and reality  — view comment
A "new" plague / birth defect: Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. :mask:
April 18, 2022 at 05:18
In: The separation of mind and reality  — view comment
:smirk:
April 18, 2022 at 00:05
In: Localized Interaction and Metaphysics  — view comment
You've lost me ( by conflating your anticipation of apokrisis' position and my own).
April 18, 2022 at 00:04
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
:ok:
April 18, 2022 at 00:00
In: Is the Idea of God's Existence a Question of Science or the Arts?  — view comment
In what sense do you consider these men "greater thinkers"? IMHO as a lifelong reader of cognitive neuroscience (& cognitive psychology), both Freud &...
April 17, 2022 at 19:43
In: The separation of mind and reality  — view comment
Only unreality (i.e. fiction) is "separate from reality".
April 17, 2022 at 19:07
In: Can minds be uploaded in computers?  — view comment
Pure gibberish.
April 17, 2022 at 19:04
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