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In: Natural Evil Explained  — view comment
The only theistic g/G consistent with this world - ravaged by gratuitous suffering (i.e. deformities, deprivations, laments/griefs, disasters) that's ...
October 12, 2020 at 23:36
In: Atheism: A Story of Teenage Anguish  — view comment
:shade: You made the claim of "proof" so I'm asking you to show that your claim is warranted. Until then it's unwarranted, or not true (i.e. bible-thu...
October 12, 2020 at 03:52
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
This is what nonsense looks like: :shade: To wit:
October 12, 2020 at 03:42
In: Atheism: A Story of Teenage Anguish  — view comment
"Proof" such as? (Caveat: Of course, such "proof" must consist in an account that cannot be attributed to, or is indistinguishable from, natural event...
October 12, 2020 at 02:26
In: Is Buddhism A Philosophy Or A Religion?  — view comment
Life (i.e. biomes, ecosystems, technospecies), however, is somewhat more disorderly (i.e. complex and complexifying (e.g. erosion, oxidation, anthropi...
October 11, 2020 at 23:15
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Almost, should be, but not quite there yet.
October 11, 2020 at 21:06
In: Does ontology matter?  — view comment
Wilkommen zu das Lichtung (aka "TPF"). :mask:
October 11, 2020 at 18:39
In: Does ontology matter?  — view comment
@OP - "Does ontology matter?" Is there a difference between reflecting and explicating and problematizing the fundamental presuppositions of - concept...
October 11, 2020 at 13:59
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
Tough tits, man. You're already born. Either kill yourself now or carry on defiantly affirming (not helplessly "accepting") your/our pitiless conditio...
October 11, 2020 at 13:39
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
Uncharitable reading to say the least. Taken out of the context of my preamble and absent the other quotes, you evade rather than engage. Ok. Let's ta...
October 11, 2020 at 13:12
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
(B) I guess. Well, it's not. Whatever happens to a tree is not "caused" by planting the seed from which it grew.
October 11, 2020 at 13:06
In: Is Buddhism A Philosophy Or A Religion?  — view comment
:up: :chin: Marxist-Communism? Psychoanalysis? Reformed Judaism? Christian Atheism? Gnostic Christianity? Apophatic theism(s)? Advaita Vedanta? Therav...
October 11, 2020 at 13:02
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ~Benedict de Spinoza
October 11, 2020 at 11:39
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
:death: :flower: I understand Camus' "must be happy" as Sisyphus (every human's proxy) deriving dignity from rebelling - striving - against, or opposi...
October 11, 2020 at 11:36
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Some "deep"-ish (old sko0l) lyrics from an old post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/384134
October 11, 2020 at 11:04
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
More nonsense. 'A causes B' iff BOTH necessary AND sufficient conditions are met. For example, 'leading a jackass to water' may be a necessary conditi...
October 11, 2020 at 10:49
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
Nonsense. Acorns don't cause e.g. forest fires or logging.
October 11, 2020 at 07:57
In: Breaking down Romantic Love  — view comment
:up: :smirk:
October 11, 2020 at 06:21
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
Is that (A) "I don't know why" or (B) "I think it's self-evident why"?
October 10, 2020 at 23:19
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
Tell me/us why 'procreation' ought to be "justified".
October 10, 2020 at 19:11
In: Who are You?  — view comment
"Who?" Outis.
October 10, 2020 at 11:47
In: Is Pain a Good?  — view comment
:up:
October 10, 2020 at 10:58
In: Who are You?  — view comment
:up: "Goo goo g'joob!"
October 10, 2020 at 10:43
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
t-minus 23 days :mask:
October 10, 2020 at 10:13
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
T-minus 25 days. :mask: "Il Duce" Cheeto Trumpolini is attacking his own self-appointed "hunters" for not finding any WITCHES in three MAGA-Infowars c...
October 09, 2020 at 21:49
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:rofl: :lol:
October 09, 2020 at 20:43
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
:clap: Amen!
October 09, 2020 at 16:34
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
irie, mon :fire:
October 09, 2020 at 16:33
In: What is the purpose of philosophy?  — view comment
Agreed. Other than 'showing the fly how to get out of the fly-bottle', proposing ("self help" or "utopian") plans recipes & rituals for ("successfully...
October 09, 2020 at 16:13
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
OTD 80 years ago John Lennon was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. More than missing him (his lively presence on this dying planet - I didn'...
October 09, 2020 at 09:51
In: The Minds Of Conjoined Twins  — view comment
:up:
October 09, 2020 at 06:58
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
I get the joke, but in what way are "movies" time? They aren't even clocks.
October 09, 2020 at 06:15
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
October 09, 2020 at 06:08
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
Exhibit zero: "Il Duce" Cheeto Trumpolini.
October 09, 2020 at 05:09
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Speculative or not, still :cool:
October 09, 2020 at 04:58
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:100:
October 09, 2020 at 04:54
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
Natality (kinship) providing the seeds of love, friendship (co-solitudes) is the highest form of love, as I understand it, and solidarity (just commun...
October 09, 2020 at 04:50
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
october readings: • There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire, Michael Gaddis :up: • The Awkward B...
October 09, 2020 at 03:58
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
Gotta call bullshit. :mask: 1. "Clinical death" =! irreversible brain death. 2. Memories only can be formed (i.e. encoded in traces of stimuli-reconfi...
October 08, 2020 at 18:40
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
And yet: so what? "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." :fire:
October 08, 2020 at 10:52
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
October 08, 2020 at 07:40
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:fire: :death: :flower:
October 08, 2020 at 07:35
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
If you say so. Like Einstein et al, for me (something like) "the god of Spinoza" suffices.
October 08, 2020 at 07:14
In: Which philosophy do you ascribe to and why?  — view comment
:chin: Mostly, I suspect ... • absurdism • anarchism • immanentism Agency (re: how to optimize it - like how e.g. yoga, tai chi, aikido, rock climbing...
October 08, 2020 at 07:11
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:up: :meh: :rofl:
October 08, 2020 at 06:18
In: Afterlife Ideas.  — view comment
Like "life before birth"? Or "north of the north pole"? No. I'm partial to this view of 'after birth'. There must be some way to make life ... "worth ...
October 08, 2020 at 05:55
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Eddie Van Halen 1955-2020 https://youtu.be/sI7XiJgt0vY (just a sample)
October 07, 2020 at 09:05
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
(1) I see no reason to doubt (non-fringe) media reports that the covIDIOT-in-Chief was infected at the Amy Coney Barrett super spreader event at the W...
October 06, 2020 at 06:45
In: What is the purpose of philosophy?  — view comment
:up: From an old thread, and to paraphrase the Mayor, this is 'the purpose of my philosophy':
October 05, 2020 at 15:02
In: is it worth studying philosophy?  — view comment
Yeeeeesssss :groan:
October 05, 2020 at 00:57
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