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Yes. The burden, then, is on him to show he had inescapable grounds for what he did and that it was not gratuitous. All I'm saying is subjective belie...

Too facile, even equivocal. Nature causes nature itself (e.g. creatures, exploding stars, slipping tectonic plates, wildfires from lightening strikes,...

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By gratuitous I mean 'easily preventable harm, yet allowed to happen to the victim due to callous disregard or enjoyment'. "Relative to the perpetrato...

I refer to distinctions between sense and nonsense, not between sense and sense – p0m0 is notoriously lacking, or avoiding, (in/formal) standards of i...

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~F.N.

Metaphysical? Psychological? Moral? 'Evil' is clearly real as a limit-condition, like war as Levinas says, that reduces persons to unthinking (banal) ...

I don't need to have a broken back or third degree burns over most of my body to know they are excrutiating, even unbearable. I've observed and have k...

I don't know what that one is supposed to mean exactly, and that's why I like it. I only use :smirk: when I agree with a post which says what needs to...

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Yeah, well, I gave up on that 'fashionable nonsense' more than three decades ago on my first pass through many primary sources and even a few lectures...

No, never, as best as I can recall, which only became clear a short time after I'd "broken" with the church and before I'd graduated from Catholic hig...

Differences in degree and not in kind.

Evil?

More or less how I've always done it.

"False belief" (i.e. make-believe, delusion) is "faith". :roll:

This seems to have always been p0m0's raison d'etre to occult, or obfuscate (i.e. "defer"), any distinctions, most explicitly between nonsense and sen...

The start of conceptually coherent, self-consistent, clearly stated speculation (i.e. making up shite) perhaps. (Don't ask for examples or exemplars –...

Philosophy – (free) thinking – only costs (free) time. If you're financially secure or independent, and do not have to spend most of your waking hours...

Shadowboxing with strawmen again, I see. :100:

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We can also agree that bread alone is bad. "Faith" may be a viable suppliment, it's just not a necessary or indispensable one, and doesn't sustain eit...

My point is that 'placebos (mere ideas, or fantasies) require faith, but facts do not'. Evidence warranting assent to this statement is, I think, over...

Thanks. I just try to keep 'world affairs' in (a) historical perspective of the nation-state world system (vide Wallerstein, et al) created by Europea...

Talking about the role quantum mechanics plays in any purported 'theory of consciousness' is like talking about the role QM plays in a theory of music...

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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." ~Hanlon's Razor Hold on. Why didn't these imperialist powers, which thems...

:100: My experience was quite similiar. It's not even Talmudic, most p0m0 (philosophy, critical theory) is just sophist bullshit (H. Frankfurt).

Yeah, I'm quite familiar with USAID's deliberate under/maldevelopment effects on developing nations which has not been all that different from Federal...

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Another woo-of-the-gaps is "a new paradigm"?

He's a borderline case in my book – post-structuralist, aesthetician, mixed-genres novelist, cultural critic – a medievalist who reads a lot of mediev...

Ah yes, much closer to my historical understanding than Michael Hudson's. Still, I want to track down some of his work.

Foucault, Deleuze & Eco I've found were worth the trouble; the rest, however, not at all (though e.g. Žižek & Bataille are interesting/entertaining).

Recommend an essay, collection, book whatever by Michael Hudson which elaborates on US complicity in directly fragmenting Europe and thereby creating ...

No doubt one of our resident physicists will come along and correct me/us shortly, but until then I'm sticking to my (high school physics) story: Just...

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A prefrontal lobotomy works too. (Consciousness, not living itself, is the problem.)

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Yes yes. And yet among the self-immiserated there are degrees from (A) the more miserable to baseline, or ordinary, misery to (Z) the very least miser...

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Given that the apartheid-ethnic cleasing State of Israel is the pre-90s South Africa or Rhodesia of the Middle East, the BDS movement has long been as...

And "objective reality" presupposes ...

Silly. That's like asking which sacred scriptures were concerned with abortion or secularism? :up:

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Pandeism is a religion? Since when?

This is the basis of pandeism: the deity annihilates itself by becoming the universe in order to experience not being the deity. The end of time, maxi...

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This makes no sense; in fact, it's contradictory. According to thermodynamics: order is DISorganization ... DISorder is organization. :chin: