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To live between ("the best" & "second best") extremes :point: Maybe so, but I agree with Camus: There are no optimists (or pessimists) in foxholes; on...

We're relying on incommensurable sources so it's pointless to contest our respective interpretation and procede any further with this discussion. My f...

It's simply not dire or exigent enough for natalists (or conscientious antinatalists) to advocate wholesale human extinction.

Antinatalism as a personal stance, like euthanasia or abortion, can be ethical, or a matter of conscience. I consider myself a conscientious antinatal...

This question makes no sense. Like everyone, the skeptic does not "adopt the custom and conventions of the country where he lives" any more than she "...

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I never know he could be so soulful ... this is what I need while we wait for an acquittal to break our hearts. :eyes: https://youtu.be/RjyO4vnINTI Th...

There aren't usually any grounds to doubt (or disbelieve) most customs & conventions (i.e. social norms, ritual observances) which makes them, for ata...

It's also not "a unanimous view" that mankind landed on the moon in '69 or that the Earth is round. :roll: Big whup. Absolutely :fire:

Spinoza was not a sage. He never professed "special access to knowledge" or cultivated disciples like a guru whom he could initate into the/his "myste...

:sparkle: :smirk: What about the "nothingness" that preceded your thingyness? I can't imagine "no life before birth" troubles you. "Reincarnation", yo...

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:up: They're an awkward fit like sophists, dogmatists and charlatans. Well, sure, if that's what he calls it. But on what grounds should we believe hi...

Here's my own fallibilistic taxonomy: My understanding of skepticism, as you can see, Amalac, differs considerably from Hume's et al, perhaps due to b...

I suppose John Wheeler would agree.

No. I'm saying 'nature inherently lacks significance, therefore natural creatures inherently lack significance, and human beings are cognizant of this...

De nada. Y tu, mi amigo.

:smirk: "Look out kid It's somethin' you did God knows when But you're doing it again" Amor fati, Bob! :victory: :

Sorry, I can't say it better or more succinctly than I have already. I mentioned four philosophers of the pragmatist-fallibilist school and provided a...

Humans, being natural beings, feel 'insignificant' because the natural systems within which we are imbedded-nested and together live out our entire li...

In philosophy I/we refer to horizons rather than "the mysterious"; it's not to be "solved" but to be contemplated while I/we think work create love & ...

It's only a problem in so far as your epistemology is justificatory. Otherwise, pragmatic – falsifiabilist – knowledge is not viciously circular or qu...

Also, I think I know that there are (at least) three kinds of people – (1) those who know what they don't know (2) those who don't know that they don'...

50 years ago the Stones dropped this juvenile piece of nasty work, which nonetheless is a Rock-n-Roll masterpiece (covered by Little Richard no less)....

It's like this – meditate : contemplate mantra : meta breath : rhythm silence : melody cycle : spiral labyrinth : maze waterfall : ocean eclipse : sta...

"Just intensities of sublimation". (Cool funk punk jazz band name :smirk:)

:rofl: Exactly!

And such tribal deities it's exceedingly easy to demonstrate are fictions (or more likely than not just (fetishistic) shadows & empty names); thus, th...

Yes, of course there is no "sin" because there is no g/G to disobey, therefore the actual world is, in fact, a "sinless world" (pace Camus). And civil...

:up: Why do so many (on these fora) fail to understand this?

:death: :flower: It's the witching hour here in Hotlanta, breaking out of my lockdown/quarantine tonight and rollin' up to da club on a deep cut like ...

His "will be done", choir boy, and we're doing it by "authoring sin"; thus, according to this "theodicy", we may be guilty of "sin" but He is ultimate...

Always been a favorite of mine. She did neither. So much for "grace".

I find Ms. Weil's writings quite insightful and occasionally moving; they, however, belong to a historical moment even darker and more despairing than...

If you scroll down the wiki article there is a section titled "Correction" that discusses whether or not the bias can be suppressed or eliminated thro...

A haunting reply to "All You Need is Love" almost exactly a year later ... https://youtu.be/yp5elOxcT34 "Long, Long, Long" (3:04) The Beatles, 1968 wr...

Very similiar to how I use terms like grateful & gratitude as a stance but not an address to some invisible sky daddy.

Reflection examines/problematizes ideas and concepts, dis/beliefs and doubts, ignorance and biases; that is, it's an attempt to think clearly-attentiv...

I'll remember that. So what do you mean when you use the word "grace"? I use it to express 'calm attentive poise' (as in, for example, grace under pre...

Introspection is psychological (re: folk). Reflection (i.e. reflective thinking), contra introspection, is philosophical.

I know that uncertainty is frustrating and certainty is foolish. Maybe. (and what Laozi says)

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." ~Seneca, tutor & advisor to a Caesar Funny isn...

Ah, but no link to the last track, finished at the last session, on the last album: https://youtu.be/wyuUn-JKaGU :victory: "I, Me, Mine" (2:26) Let It...

Okay, then it's as I concluded above: Aquinas' "First Way" is just vacuous scholastic twaddle. (Btw, me and Prof. Kaufmann have been 'old drinkin' bud...

You can hurt both, for instance, by "creating a household" (i.e. existence) that not only puts, but also keeps, them in opposition. :shade: Again:

Excerpt from an old post: In other words, what kind of "all-powerful" (i.e. ultimately responsible) entity "creates" us sick and then "commands" us to...

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https://youtu.be/5ZqXVhePy-Y String Quartets no. 1-6 (151:26) Béla Bartók (composer), 1909-1939