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In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
:sweat: :up:
November 22, 2021 at 20:19
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
:cool: :up:
November 22, 2021 at 19:27
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Deadline for submission?
November 22, 2021 at 19:25
In: Stupidity  — view comment
Anthropogenic climate change. :mask:
November 22, 2021 at 19:23
In: Happiness in the face of philosophical pessimism?  — view comment
Albert King.
November 22, 2021 at 19:21
In: Stupidity  — view comment
Everyone is stupid and yet enough of us are also smart enough to keep the species going. So far.
November 22, 2021 at 17:11
In: The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)  — view comment
:up:
November 22, 2021 at 16:21
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
I remember "Mister Kobyashi" and Verbal Kint.
November 22, 2021 at 06:18
In: Happiness in the face of philosophical pessimism?  — view comment
November 22, 2021 at 06:15
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
Gibberish.
November 22, 2021 at 06:12
In: New Consciousness & Changing Responsibility  — view comment
Taking responsibility for your life is to survive by fighting back against those who have victimized you and others. And yes, (if you check the link a...
November 22, 2021 at 06:11
In: New Consciousness & Changing Responsibility  — view comment
Ask most women. Some are victims (silenced), some are survivors (vocal). :roll: Protected classes (re: sex & gender discrinination)
November 22, 2021 at 02:23
In: New Consciousness & Changing Responsibility  — view comment
Blame the victim (of abuse, deprivation, violence) for crying out for help and shame the survivor (of class exploitation or race/gender/sex discrimina...
November 22, 2021 at 00:35
In: Happiness in the face of philosophical pessimism?  — view comment
:death: :flower: Think on what you need and do that. Still unmotivated, Nicholas? Well, Cioran might say you are graced with sloth. Take solace in bor...
November 21, 2021 at 21:49
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Seems to me a feature and not a bug.
November 21, 2021 at 16:51
In: Stupidity  — view comment
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity " ~Robert Heinlein :point: :up: https://youtu.be/3O9FFrLpinQ plus https://youtu.be/aiaWGEomyCU also ...
November 21, 2021 at 16:48
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
That way leads to madness for an 'immortal'.
November 21, 2021 at 06:20
In: The compatibility between science and spirituality  — view comment
... including Ligotti (I'm a fan). :mask:
November 21, 2021 at 00:01
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
Immortality, in order to be fully livable, would have to consist in a memory limit of a mortal human lifespan – maybe a maximum of 100 years – new mem...
November 20, 2021 at 23:25
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
However, what they indicate is objective: bilateral symmetry, dipolarity, complementarity, etc. Same as every other real X: conditions that differenti...
November 20, 2021 at 21:40
In: Creation/Destruction  — view comment
:death: :flower:
November 20, 2021 at 21:26
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
:sweat:
November 20, 2021 at 18:38
In: The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)  — view comment
Do anything? Reminds me that "Keyser Söze" had read Baudelaire. :smirk: :fire:
November 20, 2021 at 18:32
In: The compatibility between science and spirituality  — view comment
To my jaundiced (third) eye ... I.e. spirituality : science :: ego-loss : entropy.
November 20, 2021 at 18:23
In: The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)  — view comment
This doesn't in any way imply 'infallible' knowing or perceiving – that we cannot be mistaken. You're only a "moron", Fool, to the degree you "take th...
November 20, 2021 at 17:10
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
@"Baden" This hybrid-proposal from @"Oliver5" & myself seems simple enough for member-readers to register their preferences with you via PM while allo...
November 20, 2021 at 16:22
In: The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)  — view comment
Prior to "intent or reflection", perception (i.e. interaction) is perspectival and thereby selective, or approximative (i.e. incomplete but accurate e...
November 20, 2021 at 16:00
In: The measure of mind  — view comment
And in order to use science, we had to do something the ancients did not do: (just a few centuries ago) we had to invent (A) Gutenberg's printing pres...
November 20, 2021 at 04:24
In: The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)  — view comment
(Emphasis is mine.) "Naive realism" – clearly inadequate yet also indispensible – seems to me more perceptual bias for than reflective engagement with...
November 20, 2021 at 03:52
In: The Strange Belief in an Unknowable "External World" (A Mere Lawyer's Take)  — view comment
:smirk: :ok:
November 19, 2021 at 22:42
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Friday, 19 November 21 • NOT GUILTY :death: MAGA vigilante in Wisconsin (US) • three racist lynchers in Georgia (US) (INJUSTICE & JACKBOOTS in time fo...
November 19, 2021 at 21:00
In: Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox  — view comment
From two years ago: Epicurus is not claiming "god doesn't exist", only calling into question that such a malignantly indifferent and/or impotent "god"...
November 19, 2021 at 15:59
In: Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox  — view comment
When the mood strikes you, Fool, show us how "The Riddle of Epicurus" goes wrong. Thanks.
November 19, 2021 at 15:45
In: Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox  — view comment
"Heaven" is only as real as Narnia or Middle-Earth. So to answer: anything you can imagine whether or not it makes any sense. :sparkle:
November 19, 2021 at 12:58
In: Stupidity  — view comment
:up: Okay. I guess I wasn't addressing the OP with my other posts so much as interjecting a different conception of Stupidity.
November 19, 2021 at 12:54
In: Play: What is it? How to do it?  — view comment
It's good stuff, mostly rehash/summary of significant points (especially for me e.g. the conceptual role "ludic fallacy" & "asymmetry" play in assessi...
November 19, 2021 at 12:04
In: Play: What is it? How to do it?  — view comment
What?
November 19, 2021 at 11:48
In: Stupidity  — view comment
If stupidity consists in mostly oblivious, maladaptive, even harmful, uses of intelligence, then every "intelligent person" is also (habitually) self-...
November 19, 2021 at 11:36
In: Stupidity  — view comment
"Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A phi...
November 19, 2021 at 10:36
In: A single Monism  — view comment
Oh yes, and so can you. The point of my previous post ...
November 19, 2021 at 08:11
In: A single Monism  — view comment
Not. Even. Wrong.
November 19, 2021 at 07:48
In: Does God's existence then require religious belief?  — view comment
What "it" are you referring to? :chin: "Skepticism or doubt?" – false dichotomy; in philosophy, skepticism is the methodological application of doubt....
November 19, 2021 at 06:57
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
:up:
November 19, 2021 at 06:16
In: Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox  — view comment
(Click on my handle for more.)
November 19, 2021 at 04:46
In: What gives life value?  — view comment
I agree. Re:Value.
November 19, 2021 at 04:10
In: There's something (illogical) about morality  — view comment
Intrinsically actions are habits' way of reinforcing old habits or creating new habits.
November 19, 2021 at 00:29
In: There's something (illogical) about morality  — view comment
I appreciate your words though you misunderstand me. I didn't say we "don't need logic", dimo, rather logic comes before/after living in the moment an...
November 19, 2021 at 00:02
In: Buddhism is just realism.  — view comment
:up:
November 18, 2021 at 18:57
In: A single Monism  — view comment
Similiar. :point: :100:
November 18, 2021 at 18:52
In: Play: What is it? How to do it?  — view comment
I think I have. What others make of those books will very much depend on what they bring to reading them. I'll say this in brief: I conceive of Play a...
November 18, 2021 at 18:50
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