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:clap: Grazie. STFD and stop projecting.

:up: :up: :smirk: Let's agree to disagree on the historicity of the Torah and provenance of Mosaic Law; it's a minor aside which distracts from my poi...

:clap: Great précis – especially underscoring disposable time (now I recall where I must have gotten the idea decades ago that productivity increases ...

Another assertion without argument. A caricature (i.e. mere sophistry).

I see... Ok.

I beg to differ. A cursory glance at wikipedia shows that though both Genesis & Exodus were compiled and "canonized" in 6th - 5th centuries BCE during...

True, but if and only if Mr X & Mr X are entangled entities ... which classically they definitely cannot be (1); to wit: affecting one does not instan...

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Minor quibble: I think "psychedelic" indicates a social or (counter)cultural affect distinct from hallucinogens which are the substances at issue.

All that you've asked me has been answered, Fool. Read in context, for the purpose of this discussion topic, my meanings are plain and not cryptic. I ...

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Delusion denotes persistent belief that a demonstable falsehood is true. Reifying ideas (or images) is fallacious, that is, interpreting abstractions ...

Welcome to TPF. Spinoza (especially his three kinds of knowledge). Or Susan Haack (re: foundherentism). Good luck.

Again, you didn't reread my answer given previously.

:sweat: I'll give it a go: 'Natural' pertains to nature. Nature consists in event-patterns (regularities) that are explainable – even if only in princ...

You didn't reread my answer given previously.

Probably to call attention to the fact that the status quo is "Man's Day" every day all year long except(?) "Woman's Day". A symbolic form a protest t...

:up: So you really think it's more probable than less that any group of human beings sustained itself for generations without, more often than not, (6...

You didn't read my answer given previously.

Well, ok. I choose(?) 'perpetuating the superstructure" – the human species – over "negative evaluations" ... So what? Or the reverse. Again, so what?...

No worries. Context, like timing, is everything.

Embodied psychological continuity (Locke, Parfit ...); different discontinuous brains-bodies, different discontinuous continuities (i.e. divergent sel...

No. He had no grounds, or reasons, to "doubt everything". Proof: he couldn't even doubt that he was doubting ... which, not entailing, presupposes (on...

Stacey Abrams (and Covid-19 – waiting for either (1) a fully (rather than merely "emergency use") authorized vaccine or (2) a year of vaccinations sho...

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The physical state-2 of Mary "waking up" is a direct consequence of, or change from, the physical state-1 of Mary "going to sleep" (re Ship of Theseus...

Premoderns built empires of slavery & caste and eradicated conquored peoples of like-minded 'perennial mythologies' who would not be subjugated. Bronz...

Don't evade the issue: contemporary life is a nihilistic dumpster-fire and yet shouldn't be if "inherent meaning", or something like providential g/G ...

Well, if we can, and yet obviously do not (re: nihilistic dumpster-fire of contemporary western life), then "inherent meaning" e.g. dao logos, dharma ...

There may be "inherent meaning" in the real but it's not knowable by human beings (Zapffe, Camus, Rosset et al). If it were, like mathematics or funda...

:up: That's just your prejudice and bias.

As my member page says: there is no godot but Death, and Sleep is her prophet :death: :flower:

:up: "God" is just a psychosocial (i.e. sheep-corraling) placebo-fetish, or drug-dependency of choice. Like a drunk's "happiness", which is drink. Why...

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:mask: ... love in the time of corona (For Fuck's Sake!) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/08/meghan-and-prince-harry-oprah-winfrey-intervi...

If presented with sufficient grounds for doubt or valid counter-arguments, then of course.

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Yeah, so?

Stupidity. And entropy.

Ok. But the question in the OP isn't which do I "enjoy" more? or which is more "pleasant"?

Noli me tangere. :flower:

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Asked and answered ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/507157

Perfection? Non sequitur, Fool. Your tangent's not ... interesting.

Could I be mistaken? I haven't been given reasons to doubt my position on "beauty" (or aesthetics) yet.

:up: Yep. :smirk:

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"Is the distinction between" sensation and trauma "an illusion"? :roll: