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@"Wayfarer" @"Apollodorus" @"Gnomon" @anyone else ... Please name your top five "ancient wisdom" reads for modern (beginner) philosophers. @"The Mad F...

:rofl: STFD.

I referred to his post history on this thread so you (or anyone who's interested) can see for yourself what I had gathered in two years of reading and...

Not "the presence of black people", friend, but the presence of anti-black bigots in his (early) life.

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Socialized bigotry reinforced, even amplified, by (untreated?) cognitive disabilities. It's the first part that's the threat to (danger for) Black peo...

None of your tedious objections to my analogy hold up under scrutiny nor add much to the topic. Sorry this simple discussion has sailed so far over yo...

IMO, until transmission is completely stopped by shutting down nations for weeks or months at a time simultaneously, the pandemic will continue on in ...

:up: I very much appreciate this formulation. It crystallizes beautifully what I tried to express here. Thanks.

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Conceive of a donut hole? Good. No contradiction. Your own semantics confuses you.

I take your point but, as I suspect you know, tr45h and his MAGA-zombies bloviate bullshit as a point of partisan pride in order to be 'chaos agents',...

I have the original and the 30th anniversary remix George supervised before he died, so I won't be got by this latest money grab (sorry Dhani & Olivia...

A sophist's notion of 'wisdom' – a syllabus of self-help nostroms. :yawn:

:up: (Caveat: so far, none of the big pharma (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccines have been given full approval by the US FDA or any its international counterpart...

No, friend, you think about it. One can observe a black hole or chemical reaction indirectly by the effects on their respective environments. In fact,...

Didn't know "yw" was a thing. Just meant "you're welcome". Don't like them much myself but I seem to have acquired this bad habit from texting with my...

Apparently not.

Yw. It was just released by GH's estate.

I see. Whatever, man. :sweat:

Hitchen's Razor applies here.

If you can't think it through yourself, then documentary corroboration is just a appeal to authority (or popularity) anyway, and therefore you may lea...

Think it through. I wasn't quoting from an article when I wrote that. It's an analogy not a theory. If it does not make sense to you (in the context i...

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All facts are contingent. Explanations, even descriptions, of facts are approximate (i.e. fallibilistic). Moral facts ...

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Interesting but besides the point. Daily living, as I point out, (structurally) provides glimpses – epiphanies – of not existing (via ineluctable gaps...

On the contrary. A gap in memories (i.e. forgetting) or in an object like a donut hole, thus conceivable and, as a conception, memorable. Good job! Hu...

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Any fact you can think of – concrete, not abstract – is finite, always can change or cease to be. Thinking is also a fact (not the contents which are ...

Sure, but I didn't say that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nFxYsWCT6_k "Isn't It a Pity" (4:58) Sesson Outtake #27 All Things Must Pass, 1970 George Harrison

Unconsciousness. Forgetting. Thinking 'the contingency of thinking' (Brassier). These are as much as I can conceive of nonexistence.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E-nwAEHJvSA "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair" (3:00) BBC Sessions (Live), 1997 writers Robert Johnson Sleep...

Only when free of the "tender mercies" (any) Church.

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STFD.

Well, you've not challenged me on a substantive basis, so there's that.

"There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’...

Yes, the church – that bottomless well of gullibility, ego-fantasy and cynical conformity the sum effect of which grooms the masses from childhood for...

Suffering e.g. starvation is much more than "inner gut feelings". If reducing suffering is the goal, then 'causing / not reducing starvation' fails to...

Mere truisms^ ... Hoffman's quasi-Kantianism is contra-Platonic. "Essences"? Read Witty, Dewey & Popper. Read Epicurus, Pyrrho & Sextus Empiricus. Rea...

:up: Thanks for the article. Also, "Versailles" flashed through my mind when I'd paraphrased Levinas' reflection on war.

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Anti-realist-idealists discussing fundamental physical science. :rofl:

Too many misdirected and rhetorical questions. I never claimed or implied that "reality is simple" – less is more, parsimony demands; I find the "idea...