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Flatulence.

Childless myself, the only reason to procreate is there is no reason, just urges and her prerogative. :up: :clap: :100: Can't spooge in a cup any more...

They each have non-religious sects or schools; as far as "metaphysical hinge commitments", those are matters of aesthetic taste (i.e. "the absolute" i...

I prefer the stories where Prometheus is freed by Heracles and is the only Titan worshipped in Classical times beside Athena & Hephaestus. :fire:

He is immortal – agony & ecstasy never ends for him. :smirk: :up:

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At our best we strive to be worthy of calling ourselves "Promethean". I can't imagine a more ethical struggle than stealing fire from heaven. As for "...

Ok. I think it's more than that, Constance. Time is the structure of co-existence, or the commons, and I've sketched that. My response deliberately ca...

:death: :flower: Well, okay, then let's talk "ultimate reality". Whatever it is, or that is, I think "ultimate reality" is unknowable in the way rando...

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Damn. Thought we was homies, comrade. :mask:

Sorry I don't see a "paradox". I once had a big afro and now I'm bald. No paradox. With g/G. Without g/G. What paradox? (I think 'agnosticism' is para...

Ah, er, um ... No. :confused:

I don't think I've stated anything different than this in expounding on Spinoza (regardless of my own orthoganal diversions). If so, point me to the p...

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I didn't mean to give that impression. I took Philosophy my senior year since I was able to opt out of the mandatory fourth year of Religious Studies ...

Whitehead. Thales. Feuerbach. :roll:

(For future reference, when citing from the Ethics include the section as well as the definition, axiom, proposition, scholium, etc e.g. IIp13schol. f...

I'm suggesting only that I (and others) disagree with what you believe your 'sources' are claiming about, or how they're interpreting, Spinoza. No "ly...

No it doesn't. Cite Spinoza. You made a statement that attributes a claim to Spinoza himself and not to a 'Spinoza scholar'. Cite, for instance, a pag...

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Citation please. Thanks. Sub specie aeternitatis Spinoza's "worldview" is most consistent with acosmism (vide Maimon, Hegel ... Deleuze); otherwise, s...

Sorry but, with all due respect, that's fatuous nonsense. It's like saying ... 'before Mt. Sinai the long wandering ancient Hebrew tribes stayed toget...

Yw.

They didn't let a nun – old or not – teach philosophy at my Catholic high school back in the day; maybe because they were less ponderous and more prac...

I'd first read Nishida's An Inquiry Into the Good in the mid-1980s after I had briefly studied Zen Buddhism a few years earlier which helped reorient ...

The vaccines have not been Approved by the US FDA; they are merely (politically) Authorized For Emergency Use. I'm not terminal/end-stage anything and...

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Perhaps. I won't quarrel with his better, even brilliant, moments; Heidi's output, though, was mostly obscurant, deliberately cryptic & oracular, anac...

Yeah, that seems ... well, in my own terms, I conceive of 'relativism' denoting incommensurable perspectives from which to interpret X (i.e. subjectiv...

This is, no doubt, derivative of Schopenhauer's will ] of which 'individuals' are merely masks/maya.

To a rube like me, anyone (and their ilk) who proclaims without satire or ribaldry that "Das Nichts selbst nichtet" (The Nothing itself noths) fundame...

"Every kairos is a chronos, but not every chronos is a kairos." ~Hippocrates Kairos (??????) time rather than chronological time or la durée:

Yes. Non-religious "theories" that come to mind: Hellenic Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Pyrrhonism ... Chinese Dàoji? ... Indian (non-Vedic) ?rama...

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I would take the pill as long as its "immortality" does not prevent me from killing myself (i.e. voluntarily refusing to regenerate, or recuperate fro...

I live in the US and I won't take any Covid-19 vaccine until there is a version which receives APPROVAL from the FDA. Wearing a mask, social distancin...

No doubt you're right about formative influences (e.g. readings, music, etc). I read both Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus & Russell's The ABC of Relativit...

:cool: (Btw, born & raise in NYC, I've lived in Atlanta on & off over nine years ... though for not much longer, I hope, coronavirus permitting.)

:up: As far as Jung goes, both the philosophical symbolism of Ernst Cassirer / Susanne Langer and theological noncognitivism of Don Cupitt (or Paul Ti...

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Thanks! I've only ever listened to Ray Charles' version.

Pardon but ... By 'weak emergence' I understand properties reducible to some 'configuration of simples' (e.g. rainfall from convection of water vapor)...

https://youtu.be/HTxUrDtoPP0 "Little Green" (3:28) Blue, 1971 Joni Mitchell

A reminder to cumpari for whom believing is seeing (... "und denken ist dank"). :roll:

Unfortunately true. :sweat: :up: :100: :clap:

:smirk: For the wicked thrill of schadenfreude, baby!

I'm only against fatuous mystagogues, unapologetic nazi-sympathizers & (their) incorrigible apologists. :shade:

:up: :up: The ethical void (re: Destruktion ... das Man .. die Kehre) at the heart of Heidi's philosophy was/is susceptible to being filled unapologet...

This damn thread is :fire: