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Marcus Aurelius speaks clearer to me: "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." :wink: There is no future bu...

I'll preface my reply with this e.g. this old 'anti-optimist' rant :point: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/346349 and an excerpt fro...

:100: (i.e. neoliberal 'deregulatory + disinvestment' policies) Prospect of 'acceptable deaths' in pursuit of COVID-19 "herd mentality" in the US - in...

:chin: Prospect of 'acceptable deaths' in pursuit of COVID-19 "herd mentality" in the US - in order "not to panic" Wall Street by "keeping the economy...

Who needs Occam's, right? I ... don't even ... :zip: :roll: :shade:

Agreed. I dropped some names previously, and there are quite a few more - e.g. Galileo, Rosset, Nietzsche, Cioran, Lucretius, Diogenes of Sinope, Sext...

I reject "optimism". Courage is my preferred adaptive stance (rehearsed-reinforced daily via sisyphusian reflective, cognitive, ethical & existential ...

If you haven't already, read Tears and Saints by E.M. Cioran.

Too pollyannaish, Fool. Philosophy problematizes how rationally or not 'maps are read, made or revised'; religion is just one irrational, or fantasy, ...

Sure. As per the mediocrity principle. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: global disorder (i.e. complexity, proximity-to-maximum-equilibrium) never dec...

I think that depends on whether (y/our) expectations are realistic or not (e.g. idealistic). 'Reality' isn't anthropic or even biophilic. (Local) Real...

'Systemic Racism denial' is nothing but 'Holocaust denial' redux. Orwell warns of doublethink like the tRumpy trolling by Harry Hindu, NOS4A2, et al.

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Quite interested in both philosopher and novelist. Your thoughts on the book will be appreciated.

The encompassing of reason that necessarily cannot itself be encompassed by reasoning. Undescribed reality. It always already calls us (into question)...

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Expand on "post-theist" especially how you differentiate its concept from "atheist" or (my preferred designation) "antitheist". Thanks.

(In the Biercean terms below) apparently, the very nature of the latter facilitates it being "hijacked" by the likes of the former, so what can be don...

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"... for good people to do evil - that takes religion." It'd be really weird if it wasn't. The "Christ Cult", canonized and creedally begat down massa...

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Grading on a curve, that's generous. (re: movie, not novel)

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"That's how the light gets in."

Yes. :mask: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/450980

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What would such "transcendence" entail? What does a "god" do that's different in kind from what any 'immanent non-god' does (or must do)?

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Rodeo clownin' mostly. There's a lot of pseudo-whatever bulls*** that calls for naming & shaming, diverting & subverting in order to protect "riders &...

:100: :up: I gave more response than your response to my post merits.

What "everyone knows" is just prejudicial bullshit. Thinking, not merely believing, is what's called for here; and if that's too difficult or inconven...

"Cui bono?" Racism (again for the slow fuckers way in the back) denotes color/ethnic prejudice plus POWER of a dominant community (color/ethnic in-gro...

True. :death: :flower:

Ok, got me on the first "organic" option. I actually prefer the "digital" (which I believe is plausible).

Strawman. Address what I wrote, Hindu, like you're not a disingenous tRumpy troll. Easier to argue with your own bullshit rather than mine, isn't it? ...

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I'm for "immortality" but only under the following conditions: • voluntary "shapeshifting" control of bodily features from the cosmetic (e.g. facial &...

English, apparently, isn't your first or second language. Yanks (Canucks & Brits) will get my meanings.

Many Whites like to tell Blacks to "get over slavery" & Jim Crow when, in fact, they haven't gotten over their Confederate ancestors losing their slav...

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Americans killed by *al-Qaeda terrorists* on '9/11" - 2,977 (COVID-19 - Hold my MF beer, tRumpkins! :point: ) Americans killed by *tRump neglected* CO...

"Skim" a cup of sea water from the tide and then guess (conclude?), because it contains no sharks, "there are no sharks in the sea". :roll:

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I've been leery of reading this book for the issues you raise which I'd gleaned from reviews, etc. Orlando Patterson's work on 'historical slavery' - ...