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"Some are more equal than others" (i.e. "first among equals") is a very conservative value too.

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The latter sentence contradicts the former. There's no question at all – self, as I said, is nonlinear (i.e. a process that always integrates "our lat...

Only 1 submission per member for the 7/25 contest?

A melody, for instance, isn't fully realized until its song ends. Same as "self". Both are nonlinear and reflexive. Just listen ...

It's good enough for me.

As a leftist, that's news to me. How do you know this?

I'm 57 and consider myself quite lucky in both physical and psychological health given three plus decades of driving myself through life like somebody...

Most of the far (and not so far) left has been conned into working inside the system to change – no, reform :shade: – the system, that is, just rattli...

Do you have evidence of state, church or economic discrimination – which in the US is in principle illegal by statute – against whites by nonwhites or...

Same here. Self-defense isn't a "hole" in the golden rule unless its an excuse for active, gratuitous aggression. Btw, many circumstances force on us ...

Oh yeah, decades ago and thought Ellul was merely a very sophisticated luddite à la Heidegger but since the '90s I've come to appreciate his insights ...

Point out the "hole" in the golden rule below, I can't find one. "That which is hateful to you, do not do to anyone." ~Hillel the Elder Btw, Confucius...

Except to ourselves (which is our biggest problem). Yeah. And at a more radical (reductio?) level, R. Scott Bakker refers to this as the (coming?) "se...

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:up: If this is the case, it's not caused by anti-white exploitation-discrimination, ethnic cleansing or genocide of whites by non-whites at any time ...

I'd add these: MC (instead of "Arbiter" or "Moderator") List of topic-relevant key terms with agreed upon definitions (terms with definitions not agre...

Violence is natural; however, organized, logistical violence aka "war" is cultural (i.e. but for exapted language-gaming / discursive reasoning, "war"...

I don't actively try to stay "current" anymore, certainly not in the last 5-6 years. That said, I lean heavily on • Public libraries (periodicals, jou...

I'm not interested in going down rabbit holes. Glean (charitably, I hope) what you can from the context of my post – contrasting 'natural' with 'ideol...

I'm sorry, but you're strawman is "awfully reductive". I've neither stated nor implied a cause or mechanism for violence. If you have a point, Josh, i...

And your point? Since "the old guard" set up their regimes doing to others "for profit & glory" what they themselves found hateful to others and thus ...

H. sapiens, like all mammals, are born sufferers. Sooner or later every action produces or reduces suffering. Being is gratuitous; beings are gratuito...

H. sapien violence is natural (thus, the species-wide adaptation of eusocial risk-sharing). Racism, however, is ideological (and maladaptive in the lo...

Like mud. :sweat:

lol :sad: :up: Also this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house Certainly not news after the fiasc...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwk7Oj-A5u0 "Never Can Say Goodbye" (2:58) A-side single, 1971 writer Clifton Davis, 1970 The Jackson 5

Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, Basque country, Spain (emulated in the US at Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi (of all places!))

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Indeed.

I don't see even an apparent paradox. E.g. children don't want to take unpleasant medicines yet the ones who recover from illnesses do. No paradox. WT...

Gaussian distribution of large sample sizes.

Peirce & Dewey, Popper & Witty, for example, don't equate 'useful' with 'truth' (that's a vulgar form of pragmatism associated with William James or R...

Reread my post before my last on this thread. You only seem to understand the part you'd quoted. Sure? No, just more reasonable than your line of thou...

Antisocial, free-riders are outnumbered over 8-to-1 by eusocial, cooperators; otherwise, h sapiens would not have achieved any viable social arrangeme...

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"That which is hateful to you, do not do to anyone." ~Hillel the Elder Easy enough to understand.

:smirk: No paradox, just an outdated premise.

Good luck. :up: I recommend these introductions: (if only these two were available when I'd started out ...) • The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium...

:100: :up: "Vanity of vanities" of small differences.

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Such as?

"Self" is nothing but an idea reiterated moment to moment like frames in a movie reel (continuity) projecting an illusion of "self-identity" that is a...

Nobody wants to labor. Everybody, however, needs to be financially independent, that is, no matter the work they (need to) do (vide Hannah Arendt re: ...

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I've never heard of improving on a flashback or hallucination. It'd be quite interesting to know how you'd eliminated either or both highly probable i...

Given the goal (i.e. highest good) is "the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people", by definition this is inconsistent with "pleasure for...

There are different species in nature, not different "races" except as bureaucratic categories (castes).

Using a hammer appropriately does not reflect on the user's sentience (or lack thereof). Using another person in any way, however, does. I fail to see...