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Follow my link for 'Harm' which I argue is objective (i.e. non-subjective). Harm (I posited that answer to my question).

Memento mori, memento vivere ... Solitaire et solidaire. :death: :flower:

Answer: Harm. Question: What is - do I/we find - "hateful"? and then strive to live by the ancient maxim: :death: :flower:

Plato (428? - 348? BCE) nihilistic position — only the abstract (i.e. super-sensible/super-natural re: 'The Form of the Good' (i.e. universals, the ab...

:clap: :fire: 99.999...% of every 'something' (and between somethings) is, in effect, no-thing; so rather, it's impossible for there to be only nothin...

Sketches from a 'causa sui' fairytale:

"Our nada, who art in nada, ..."

xmas 2020 ... "No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide." ~Cesare Pavese

Nonsense does not negate, or exclude, meaningful expression, and my previous post does not claim or imply it does so (re: "apophatics (& poets)" ...)

The apophatics (& poets) have it right — whenever we eff the ineffable we talk nonsense (e.g. babytalk, glossalalia, ...).

My top three "Spinoza" recommendations (frankly, not academically fashionable - more philosophical studies than applied uses of / deconstructive polem...

The typical conflation-confusion, by idealists (e.g. Plato's misplaced concreteness - reification - of "forms" ... or Berkeley's compositional fallacy...

(real tight now; this one's for the homies who didn't make it outta 2020 ...) https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5oAvw7DV7UjqKqcA3Fmft12RFXO0S_5 S...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dD51O1j4NAg Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane (37:37) side one “Ruby, My Dear” “Trinkle, Tinkle” “Off Minor ” side two “...

(next up) https://youtu.be/J2Uf5FkeD3s Empyrean Isles (35:20) side one 1."One Finger Snap" 2."Oliloqui Valley" side two 3."Cantaloupe Island" 4."The E...

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB52202568D57088E Moanin' (40:16) side one 1."Moanin'" 2."Are You Real" 3."Along Came Betty" side two 1."The Drum T...

https://youtu.be/rI87xvv-OJE Heavy Weather (37:39) side one 1. "Birdland" 2. "A Remark You Made" 3. "Teen Town" 4. "Harlequin" side two 1. "Rumba Mamá...

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Why not? It seems to me selfishness (i.e. ego(centr)ism), not self-interestedness (i.e. conatus), is the opposite of altruism, which benefits the altr...

Agreed.

Here's an attempt at defining 'beauty' excerpted from an old post on thread about 'aesthetics' —

I disagree re: Kant. Otherwise, even if Anselm's OA is valid, it's clearly not sound. @"Kakarrott" The only (medieval) scholastics I've taken interest...

Subjective Prescriptivism.

https://youtu.be/Nk2YpWo2_Zs "Mack The Knife" (3:26) Live in London, UK performed by Louis Armstrong & co, 1956 written by Kurt Weill & Bertrolt Brech...

Remember that every frozen corpse on Mt. Everest was once a highly motivated optimist. :death: :flower:

(December 8, 2020) "The children of the 21st century will be listening to the Beatles." ~Brian Epstein, interview with Larry Kane, 1964

december reading: • Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton • The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War, Jonathan...

A high school senior on December 8, 1980 hanging out with friends late on a Monday night in NYC, my best friend J-P sped off and then suddenly squeale...

They never do - well-established laws (e.g. Newtonian gravity, Torricellian vacuum), however, have been, and will again be, extended by new discoverie...

:point: reply on more recent thread Aliens ... Well, are you assuming that GR & QFT, our two most predictive physical theories, are fundamental and (t...

Damn, dude, such astute commentary; locals like me (& Hanover) could suspect you're hoboing around Georgia lately.

In honor of "America's Mayor" getting COVID-19, I'm giving that corrupt, senile, old bitch the finger ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_MgIEKfG0LE "R...

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:up: Darwin Awards (& complimentary presidential pardons) for MAGA-sheeple.

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Av? Imper?tor, morit?r? t? sal?tant. :mask: If you think, Mr GOP, that Moscow Mitch's obstruction & court-packing - in the midst of an already-catastr...

E=mc^2 ... Anyway, the question is incoherent, or is begged, since any "where" (or when) - spacetime - is inseparable from "matter ... energy". To be ...

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body ..." ~Spinoza "The human body is the best picture of the human soul." ~Wittgenstein "C...

Same as that which happens when an orchestra (e.g. a brain) stops playing and its members (e.g. neurons) irreversibly-irreparably disband, namely, "wh...

:chin: "Fuck the Police" "Abolish the Police" "Defund the Police" A more precise mantra (maybe): 'PROTECT US FROM COPS AND CRIMINALS' :mask:

2021.

"A black GI stood by the door (I never saw a black before) He'll set me free before I die, I thought, he must be the Messiah." ~Sonia Weitz, poet and ...

:fire: Black folks in America have always been anti-fascists (Antifa!), such as during WWII and, especially black women, in 2018-2020 mobilized agains...

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Apparently your psyche is untroubled - informed - by non-subjective (non-psychological) "content" like evidence or sound inference ... or prescribed m...

:clap: :100: The Greeks, as I'm sure you know, apo, had a word for 'speaking (and trying to live in society) as if freedoms are context-free': idi?t?s...

Unlike some forms of madness, there's no vaccine or cure for stupid. Never has been, never will be - it's a congenital species defect. Many cognitive,...

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Spinoza, first and foremost ... According to Nietzsche, like Spinoza, there is no "beyond" ... only after. G.K. Chesterton's essay collection Heretics...