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My condolences. In my case, it seems likely I'd contracted Covid-19 on one of my visits to my doctor in her waiting area at Emory Hospital (near the C...

Nothing matters, including 'nothing matters'. (nihilism) Nothing, especially if it matters, is safe or will ever get better or will not make you suffe...

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All I will say is that I know some believers who do manage mostly to practice what's been preached to them. Being a secular absurdist freethinker, my ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJ43YOiUD4&list=PLb5oAvw7DV7UjqKqcA3Fmft12RFXO0S_5 Soulville (48:45) Ben Webster, 1957 O. Petterson - p H. Ellis - g R....

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Philosophy consists of noncognitive ideas or interpretations and does not produce theories that explain any matters of fact.

I'm surprised the poll hasn't gotten more votes. I'll probably wait till the last minute because I've got skin the game and can't decide between 2-3 o...

If "ultimate reality" is remotely conceivable it is expressed, for example, by ancient Hindus as Brahman (in the formula/mantra Tat Tvam Asi) and Spin...

Religion as such makes far more hypocrites than it "makes us better" people. Read Dante. Read Erasmus. Read Spinoza. Read Paine. Read Nietzsche. It's ...

For sure, these last centuries our social practices are arranged around and directed by perceiving nature and thereby society (ourselves) far more alg...

Yeah, in the context of the thread discussion (link @ my handle) that quote is lifted from, it's a dig at other political philosophies & tropes.

I appreciate the deep dive, comrade. :fire: After about four decades of activism ('80s) and study ('90s), the OP recalls my own distillation of the st...

:up: No "country" for white swans, Adam Smith/Karl Marx. :mask:

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As I suggested previously here, looking for "ultimate answers", IMO, is not doing philosophy or what philosophy is about. Instead that's seeking – nee...

"... And then came the shot!" :100: :fire: But to put that tune in some historical context of what we are up against: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sc...

Res ipsa loquitur. (Context matters for reading comprehension.)

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Category error.

If "praxis is the cornerstone", then why many, actually most, e.g. Christians do not 'act Christ-like' very often (i.e. live Christ-like lives) and ha...

Yeah, it's true ... "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." (link to article) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUhO8IMyIY

How do you know something was lost if you don't even know exactly what that something was?

Sounds like but isn't.

:ok: Yep. One person's turd is another coprophagic's lunch. Another non-point ... bored, huh?

Excellent. Thanks! :clap: :fire:

re-reading: The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene

So this conclusion is not a law of logic. Okay. Nothing to see here, move along. What? Mathematics in its entirety lacks a foundation. Yep. Spill on a...

I recall what a shock it was back in the day when I was still an engineering undergrad to read Horkheimer (and Adorno ... re: The Frankfurt School) ab...

Mob-like tendencies which can be characterized as e.g. reactionary populism, ethno-statist nationalism, anti-civli society (e.g. anti-facts, anti-hist...

I'd found I didn't get anywhere, or progress in my understandings, until I gave up seeking "clear answers" (mythos) and switched to reasoning towards ...

'Nonsense' denotes an expression without any sense – like babytalk and jabberwocky, glossolalia and pseudo-science – which is neither true nor false, ...

Well, then it's "the accident" in either case that gives rise to everything as it is.

And that "mind/intelligence behind it all" – in turn, what mind ... did its "distinctly mind attributes" come from?

Intelligence, or goal-directed agency, neither follows from nor is presupposed by the mere mathematicity of nature. E.g. a vacuum (void), insofar as i...

"Evidence" such as –?

Defining your keys terms (a sentence or three will do) will make your OP clearer. Thanks.

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I like eating well-cooked game outdoors or in the wild. If it was as good as the Old Man said it was, oh yeah. Also a full belly and rainfall make it ...

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I did and I still don't get it ... except the grub. :yum:

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I don't think they are "inferior" either which is why I use scare quotes.

"Superior" trick seeks "inferior" hookers – I wonder if that Ad works.

Okay. Seeming "deep" just because the bottom can't be perceived (or conceived of), however, doesn't make something deep.

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Your point escapes me. I accept the cosmic scale fractal as a mathematical analogue to "as above, so below", but what does that have to do with anythi...

And that "perennialist" sentiment is shallow. Whatever is "ultimate" necessarily is beyond all traditions made up of non-ultimate, or proximate, minds...

'Comparative religion' is all well and good for gaining (some) understanding the cross-cultural phenomenon of religion as such. Likewise, 'comparative...