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In: POLL: Short Story Competition Proposal  — view comment
Challenge accepted! :smirk:
June 23, 2021 at 20:54
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
I disagree, but appreciate why this view is (still) dominant. Ethics in the West, I think, developed in contrast to, or despite, Biblical theology (th...
June 23, 2021 at 20:53
In: POLL: Is morality - objective, subjective or relative?  — view comment
... "for nothing" surely.
June 23, 2021 at 20:48
In: How do you think we should approach living with mentally lazy/weak people?  — view comment
"Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference." ~Seneca Furthermore, be mindful of :fire:
June 23, 2021 at 20:46
In: POLL: Short Story Competition Proposal  — view comment
:up:
June 23, 2021 at 19:45
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
Who said "most of the world's morality"? I'm referring to which includes ethics.
June 23, 2021 at 18:27
In: POLL: Short Story Competition Proposal  — view comment
Just an idea: how about having the contest twice a year, at the December and June solstices? And the writer polled "first place" cannot enter the next...
June 23, 2021 at 18:22
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
:up: NT aka "Platonism for the masses" – really? :chin: Not the Torah (re: Hillel the Elder's "golden rule")? Not the Nicomachean Ethics? Not Epicurus...
June 23, 2021 at 17:58
In: A holey theory  — view comment
'Materiality' is full of holes (wholly holey). Atomic structures are 99.99% empty. Some ancients say 'atoms swerving in void'. Yes, :ok: is an aspect ...
June 23, 2021 at 17:32
In: Survey of philosophers  — view comment
So we agree then?
June 23, 2021 at 17:18
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
:up:
June 23, 2021 at 17:17
In: POLL: Is morality - objective, subjective or relative?  — view comment
You lost me again.
June 23, 2021 at 17:16
In: POLL: Is morality - objective, subjective or relative?  — view comment
I can't make the case (succinctly) any clearer than I did with my first post on p.1.
June 23, 2021 at 17:15
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
:up: E.g. Witty's TLP. Beckett's Trilogy (or "Godot"). Miles Davis' "Shhhhh/Peaceful" ...
June 23, 2021 at 08:04
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
:snicker:
June 23, 2021 at 06:32
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
Philosophy? What you call "mysteries" I refer to as intractable perplexities (i.e. miseries); and OCD-like they keep recurring, like itching that need...
June 23, 2021 at 05:42
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
What? :lol:
June 23, 2021 at 05:35
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
First, physicalism is a methodology and not a scientific theory (explanation). Second, it's demonstrably more useful than any non/anti-physicalist alt...
June 23, 2021 at 05:34
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
Dude. You quote me but clearly you don't read what I write for comprehension, only to score points in your head it seems. From now on I won't repeat m...
June 23, 2021 at 05:23
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
Parse some more, Fool, the "relationship" is explicitly stated : Alzheimer's, for instance, consists, in part, in plaque deposits in the brain that in...
June 23, 2021 at 04:40
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
Atheism is not the negation of theism, so your objection is incoherent, Fool. Sodomy is a sexual position whereas celibacy is abstinence from sex; lik...
June 23, 2021 at 04:11
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
Apparently, you didn't take enough time to process what I clearly wrote ...
June 23, 2021 at 04:03
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
Clearly you didn't understand my previous analogy, Fool. Here's another: sodomy : theism :: celibacy : atheism.
June 23, 2021 at 03:55
In: Mind & Physicalism  — view comment
Um ... wtf. :nerd:
June 23, 2021 at 03:50
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
Try this analogy on for size: watching "Star Trek" : theism :: not watching tv : atheism.
June 23, 2021 at 03:19
In: Does Being Know Itself Through Us?  — view comment
Re: Schop's "value system" – Check out WWR, vol 1, books 3 & 4. (Summaries are found here.)
June 23, 2021 at 00:24
In: Survey of philosophers  — view comment
Yes. I'm a brain in a skull in a body in a social ecosystem in a natural ecosystem in a planetary biosphere ... Too much unnecessary detail for a sim.
June 23, 2021 at 00:18
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:rofl:
June 23, 2021 at 00:11
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
I'm surprised to find a number of old posts of mine about "The Bible" since I do not consider it particularly germaine with respect to discussing thei...
June 23, 2021 at 00:09
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
I'm sure @"Baden" thinks so. :smirk:
June 22, 2021 at 22:08
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Whoops, I mean to write @Baden. :up:
June 22, 2021 at 22:05
In: Idealism and Materialism, what are the important consequences of both.  — view comment
Idealism conflates – confuses – epistemology (maps) and ontology (territory) which is why it's useless except as self-flattering belief system. For in...
June 22, 2021 at 22:05
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
Recently had a debate on this very question that was DOA. I'm at a truck-stop near Salt Lake City for gas and grub, not really conducive to making my ...
June 22, 2021 at 21:26
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Mein Gott is right! :yikes: :sweat: Maybe I'll drop some old scribbles in a PM when I get off the road; I should be home by the weekend. Like every fr...
June 22, 2021 at 21:17
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
You can believe in a 'creator deity' that does not 'intervene' in the world but 'creating the world' amounts to a claim which can be evaluated in term...
June 22, 2021 at 20:25
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
Read your "sacred scriptures". All attributed ("revealed") theistic claims are within (our) light cone.
June 22, 2021 at 18:35
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Decades ago, I vaguely recall a boozy writer friend said to me "If you want to write from a 'woman's point of view' with emotional truth, stay away fr...
June 22, 2021 at 18:33
In: A holey theory  — view comment
This Quinean criterion for 'ontological commitment' only refers to objects that 'exist' within given discourses (e.g. geometry, topology, etc) and doe...
June 22, 2021 at 17:22
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:up: I needed to listen to this one, it'd been too long ... :cool:
June 22, 2021 at 17:09
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
By my logic, agnosticism with respect to any 'theistic deity' is incoherent (as pointed out here).
June 22, 2021 at 17:03
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
:fire:
June 22, 2021 at 16:46
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://vimeo.com/429488927 Blue (35:41) Joni Mitchell, 1971 https://www.cbc.ca/musicinteractives/features/joni-mitchell-blue-turns-50
June 22, 2021 at 07:42
In: A holey theory  — view comment
Assholes definitely exist.
June 22, 2021 at 07:30
In: War & Peace, Chaos & Order, The Zebra Paradox!  — view comment
Unfashionable sense for the cogniscenti, my friend. Void = symmetry-free. Randomness = symmetry-free. Void = randomness. Google, SEP, wikipedia are at...
June 22, 2021 at 07:24
In: Bannings  — view comment
As a former NYC bouncer myself, I commend the TPF staff for your incredible restraint tossing out the douches & the rowdies. Back in the day, my crew ...
June 22, 2021 at 05:55
In: War & Peace, Chaos & Order, The Zebra Paradox!  — view comment
Void is non-orientation (non-asymmetrical). Randomness is incompressibility (non-asymmetrical). Complementary ways of describing the non-asymmetrical ...
June 22, 2021 at 05:43
In: Bannings  — view comment
Read my link. I'm an anarch if I'm anybody at all. (Btw, pardon me, but eff Joe Manchin. That cunt claims he wants to "protect the rights of the minor...
June 22, 2021 at 01:42
In: Bannings  — view comment
From a few weeks ago ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/544736 As the old saying goes: "It's often better to ask for forgiveness th...
June 22, 2021 at 01:35
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
Good on ya, Bertie. :up: Reminds me of Hitchens' Razor. It suffices in general conversation but 'weak atheism' doesn't satisfy me philosophically (has...
June 21, 2021 at 21:49
In: Does Being Know Itself Through Us?  — view comment
Well, my take on 'the Great Will' is that it is 'self-reproducing by self-devouring' insofar as it manifests 'individuated' beings (i.e. predators-pre...
June 21, 2021 at 21:35
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