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In: False Analogies???: Drunk Driving vs Vaccine Mandate, Drunk Driving vs Abortions  — view comment
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...
August 11, 2021 at 19:49
In: Unpopular opinion: Nihilism still doesn't reflect reality. Philosophical pessimism is more honest.  — view comment
Nothing matters, including 'nothing matters'. (nihilism) Nothing, especially if it matters, is safe or will ever get better or will not make you suffe...
August 11, 2021 at 18:54
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
:up:
August 11, 2021 at 18:39
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
:roll:
August 11, 2021 at 10:47
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
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 ...
August 11, 2021 at 05:52
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJ43YOiUD4&list=PLb5oAvw7DV7UjqKqcA3Fmft12RFXO0S_5 Soulville (48:45) Ben Webster, 1957 O. Petterson - p H. Ellis - g R....
August 11, 2021 at 05:04
In: How to stop older brother attacking baby brother  — view comment
Old skOol :smirk: :up:
August 11, 2021 at 04:48
In: Unpopular Philosophical Opinions  — view comment
Philosophy consists of noncognitive ideas or interpretations and does not produce theories that explain any matters of fact.
August 11, 2021 at 04:45
In: Short Story Competition: POLL  — view comment
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...
August 11, 2021 at 04:37
In: Characterizing The Nature of Ultimate Reality  — view comment
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...
August 11, 2021 at 04:25
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
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 ...
August 11, 2021 at 03:53
In: 'Ancient wisdom for modern readers'  — view comment
For sure, these last centuries our social practices are arranged around and directed by perceiving nature and thereby society (ourselves) far more alg...
August 11, 2021 at 03:34
In: On Defining Anarchism  — view comment
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.
August 11, 2021 at 02:23
In: On Defining Anarchism  — view comment
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...
August 11, 2021 at 01:15
In: Death Positivity, the Anxiety of Death, and Flight from It  — view comment
:up: No "country" for white swans, Adam Smith/Karl Marx. :mask:
August 11, 2021 at 00:28
In: To Theists  — view comment
:lol:
August 10, 2021 at 23:46
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
As I suggested previously here, looking for "ultimate answers", IMO, is not doing philosophy or what philosophy is about. Instead that's seeking – nee...
August 10, 2021 at 23:44
In: Why are We Back-Peddling on Racial Color-Blindness?  — view comment
"... 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...
August 10, 2021 at 23:19
In: To Theists  — view comment
Res ipsa loquitur. (Context matters for reading comprehension.)
August 10, 2021 at 23:14
In: To Theists  — view comment
:roll:
August 10, 2021 at 18:51
In: To Theists  — view comment
Category error.
August 10, 2021 at 17:38
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
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...
August 10, 2021 at 15:45
In: Death Positivity, the Anxiety of Death, and Flight from It  — view comment
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
August 10, 2021 at 15:23
In: 'Ancient wisdom for modern readers'  — view comment
How do you know something was lost if you don't even know exactly what that something was?
August 10, 2021 at 08:20
In: To Theists  — view comment
Sounds like but isn't.
August 10, 2021 at 08:19
In: To Theists  — view comment
:ok: Yep. One person's turd is another coprophagic's lunch. Another non-point ... bored, huh?
August 10, 2021 at 08:00
In: Death Positivity, the Anxiety of Death, and Flight from It  — view comment
Excellent. Thanks! :clap: :fire:
August 10, 2021 at 07:32
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
re-reading: The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene
August 10, 2021 at 07:23
In: Logical Nihilism  — view comment
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...
August 10, 2021 at 07:19
In: 'Ancient wisdom for modern readers'  — view comment
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...
August 10, 2021 at 06:19
In: Is never having the option for no option just? What are the implications?  — view comment
Mob-like tendencies which can be characterized as e.g. reactionary populism, ethno-statist nationalism, anti-civli society (e.g. anti-facts, anti-hist...
August 10, 2021 at 02:56
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
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 ...
August 10, 2021 at 00:37
In: To Theists  — view comment
'Nonsense' denotes an expression without any sense – like babytalk and jabberwocky, glossolalia and pseudo-science – which is neither true nor false, ...
August 10, 2021 at 00:25
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
Well, then it's "the accident" in either case that gives rise to everything as it is.
August 10, 2021 at 00:18
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
And that "mind/intelligence behind it all" – in turn, what mind ... did its "distinctly mind attributes" come from?
August 09, 2021 at 13:47
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
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...
August 09, 2021 at 13:34
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
"Evidence" such as –?
August 09, 2021 at 11:07
In: Unpopular opinion: Nihilism still doesn't reflect reality. Philosophical pessimism is more honest.  — view comment
Defining your keys terms (a sentence or three will do) will make your OP clearer. Thanks.
August 09, 2021 at 10:38
In: Short Story Competition: POLL  — view comment
:smirk:
August 09, 2021 at 10:34
In: Good Stew by 180 Proof  — view comment
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 ...
August 09, 2021 at 10:07
In: Short Story Competition: POLL  — view comment
:up:
August 09, 2021 at 09:15
In: Good Stew by 180 Proof  — view comment
I did and I still don't get it ... except the grub. :yum:
August 09, 2021 at 09:13
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
:up:
August 09, 2021 at 08:55
In: Dating Intelligent Women  — view comment
I don't think they are "inferior" either which is why I use scare quotes.
August 09, 2021 at 08:52
In: Dating Intelligent Women  — view comment
"Superior" trick seeks "inferior" hookers – I wonder if that Ad works.
August 09, 2021 at 03:57
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
Okay. Seeming "deep" just because the bottom can't be perceived (or conceived of), however, doesn't make something deep.
August 09, 2021 at 01:12
In: An explanation of God  — view comment
:up:
August 08, 2021 at 23:38
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
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...
August 08, 2021 at 23:32
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
And that "perennialist" sentiment is shallow. Whatever is "ultimate" necessarily is beyond all traditions made up of non-ultimate, or proximate, minds...
August 08, 2021 at 22:45
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
'Comparative religion' is all well and good for gaining (some) understanding the cross-cultural phenomenon of religion as such. Likewise, 'comparative...
August 08, 2021 at 22:21
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