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The 'autonomy of art', if I'm not mistaken, is the raison d'être of the whole of modernist art. Well then, my friend, you're still shadowboxing with t...
May 18, 2021 at 22:53
You blindly, deceitfully, talk of Hamas while you willfully ignore pleas for mercy on behalf of the Palestinian people. That sling's only Goliath's ex...
May 18, 2021 at 22:05
You're so much smarter than me, I have no fucking idea what you're jibber-jabbering about. From the few used tissue shreds of sense you do make, BC, c...
May 18, 2021 at 16:45
For me the arts are autonomous (Bataille, I think, says "sovereign") and have no need of science. Morality, rather than art, is what needs to be coupl...
May 18, 2021 at 16:41
Science is not about "truth" per se; it's about reasoning to the best, unfalsified, good explanations of phenomena. And "art", by the way, is studied ...
May 18, 2021 at 16:20
As Neil deGrasse Tyson says nature "is under no obligation to make sense to you" or Steven Weinberg says "The more the universe seems comprehensible, ...
May 18, 2021 at 15:13
"Israelis ... they don't want to know." ~Gideon Levy Thanks for the link.
May 18, 2021 at 14:12
:100: Everybody's ancestors were fucking slaves at some time. Go suck on that. Just 3-4 generations ago my ancestors were slaves AND, the mulatto ones...
May 18, 2021 at 13:45
The Philosophy Forum :smirk:
May 18, 2021 at 13:09
It's hard for me to imagine a scenario where the US disappears as a significant political entity (while other nations / hegemons remain viable and fun...
May 18, 2021 at 08:35
Conclude whatever you like, Fool, I need extraordinary evidence in order to accept as true the extraordinary claim of "teleology" in evolution (i.e. "...
May 18, 2021 at 08:23
"Random" (like mystery) = "god did it" in the back of most thick skulls. TMF just refuses to learn how the concept is used (and differs from "chance",...
May 18, 2021 at 05:00
:cool:
May 18, 2021 at 04:03
Nope. Posted without even reading your reply. Now that I have, however, I see that that previous reply (like all the rest of your posts on this topic,...
May 18, 2021 at 04:02
Welcome to TPF.
May 17, 2021 at 23:04
@"BitconnectCarlos" :100: :fire: Stupid or deceitful or both.
May 17, 2021 at 22:59
:fire: :clap: :party: Love that old jam! (but you forgot the link to the song)
May 17, 2021 at 22:57
:point:
May 17, 2021 at 22:56
:up: Apparently, you're still fairly unacquainted with the history of cognitive science and the "schools" of contemporary nonreductive (supervenient, ...
May 17, 2021 at 22:47
Natural selection. :cry:
May 17, 2021 at 20:45
Strawman, , again. "David" is the dispossssed and oppressed Palestinian people and not Hamas (which is merely the goddamn "sling"). Quit appropriating...
May 17, 2021 at 20:40
:naughty: :fire: :point: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rG6b8gjMEkw "La Grange" (3:51) Tres Hombres, 1973 ZZ Top
May 17, 2021 at 20:19
That's easy, : on the same side he'd always been on his entire life: David's, and not Goliath's (who, in this case, is the apartheid, ethnic cleansing...
May 17, 2021 at 16:18
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iDoSFljWTHg "Tales of Brave Ulysses" Live (3:56) written by E. Clapton & M. Sharp, 1967 performed by Cream, 1968 https:/...
May 17, 2021 at 09:32
:rofl:
May 17, 2021 at 05:05
Yes, in the pre-'67 tradition of e.g. Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel. Again, you've made no point, BC, because your moral vacuity deprives you of on...
May 17, 2021 at 00:39
How about 'if God = the universe if I = virtual wavicle of the universe then I = virtual wavicle of God' or, in other words, each of us is just one, a...
May 17, 2021 at 00:36
The moral rot is evident. :shade: (Emphasis is mine.)
May 17, 2021 at 00:09
No, just my/ourselves.
May 16, 2021 at 21:55
Buzzkill. S/he only just got here, fella. :smirk:
May 16, 2021 at 21:41
"Spirit" (breath) is rhythm & melody (dancing & singing), child's play (laughter) & imagining "And to see you're really only very small And life flows...
May 16, 2021 at 21:35
:up: 'What exists' is unambiguously distinguishable from 'what does not exist', otherwise there are no grounds to accept or claim (it) exists. I can't...
May 16, 2021 at 20:55
Yeah, in that ballpark. From the cheap seats, the practical terms look to me something like this https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/536...
May 16, 2021 at 20:08
Stop being so lazy! That's what Google, wiki & SEP are for. Pro tip, Fool: search "random" "chance" "chaos" "natural selection" "intelligence" & "mind...
May 16, 2021 at 19:46
Ah, well. I guess confession is good for the soul, as they say. Or for anatta. So hollow, all you've offered are vacuous echoes. I get it now: there's...
May 16, 2021 at 19:36
:up: “Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.” ~H.L. Mencken "With...
May 16, 2021 at 11:47
Clearly, you don't have an adequate conception of 'random' (or randomness). Big whup. "Somehow" is not grounds for doubting what I've said. "Your "ref...
May 16, 2021 at 11:14
The atheist rejects theism (maybe even deism too if she is consistently inclusive), or what theists claim about (their) g/G because those claims are e...
May 16, 2021 at 11:09
:cool: Looking forward to reading it.
May 16, 2021 at 10:29
Minor quibbles aside, very much works for me. :clap:
May 16, 2021 at 10:26
:100: :fire: :lol: :clap:
May 16, 2021 at 10:09
This is ignorance. Random events are not repeatable, yet DNA is a discernible pattern of repeatable nucleic events. Hasty generalization. Cite evidenc...
May 16, 2021 at 10:00
Natural selection, like other chaotic systems, is not random. "Survival of the fittest" applies to species broadly and population groups narrowly, and...
May 16, 2021 at 06:01
I'd made 12 posts way back in 2015, then life kept me away until fall 2019. I'd been a very active member on the previous site since 2003 and burnt ou...
May 16, 2021 at 05:39
:100: It's a thing of sheer groin-aching beauty compared to the latest historical atrocity unfolding in real-time which many here are grappling with. ...
May 16, 2021 at 04:59
Well, apparently, it's written in very old magic books that some do. And plenty of folks are under the infantilizing spell of such magic books. So muc...
May 16, 2021 at 04:44
:up:
May 16, 2021 at 01:13
May 16, 2021 at 01:12
I only ever mention my cog. psych. master's to counter fatuous asides like this one and ad hominem insinuations such as "fear" as a motive for holding...
May 16, 2021 at 00:59
:100: Ethnic cleansing is even worse than slavery. It cannot be "justified" by either politics or religion. Clowns like BitconnectCarlos et al keep th...
May 15, 2021 at 22:50