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In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:up:
September 11, 2020 at 02:00
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
MAGA troll is as MAGA does. :mask:
September 11, 2020 at 01:57
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
:lol:
September 11, 2020 at 01:12
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
september readings: • Adorno and Existence, Peter Gordon • The Struggle for Recognition, Axel Honneth • Afropessimism, Frank Wilderson III * "Fear is ...
September 10, 2020 at 07:35
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
Willfully negligent mass murder? :shade: FOX Noise: fu45 to Bob Woodward, 2.7.20 https://youtu.be/5Z8nV10dFcw
September 10, 2020 at 05:16
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
FOX Noise: fu45 to Bob Woodward, 2.7.20 https://youtu.be/5Z8nV10dFcw "Trump knew in February. He knew that Covid-19 virus passed through the air. He k...
September 10, 2020 at 05:11
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
FOX Noise: fu45 to Bob Woodward, 2.7.20 https://youtu.be/5Z8nV10dFcw "Donald Trump knew. He lied to us for months. And while a deadly disease ripped t...
September 10, 2020 at 05:10
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
FOX Noise: fu45 to Bob Woodward, 2.7.20 https://youtu.be/5Z8nV10dFcw
September 10, 2020 at 05:07
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
:mask:
September 09, 2020 at 23:54
In: Natural Evil Explained  — view comment
:up:
September 09, 2020 at 23:25
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
:clap:
September 09, 2020 at 23:17
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Everyone is prejudiced (re: the human condition); however, only Whites (& their Nonwhite 'racial apologists') - overwhelmingly in control of governmen...
September 09, 2020 at 12:27
In: Natural Evil Explained  — view comment
As I'd prefaced my quotation of "The Riddle of Epicurus", I'd used it to show how ancients / pre-scholastics call into question 'divine providence' an...
September 09, 2020 at 06:37
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
Labor Day, 2020. “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not fi...
September 08, 2020 at 18:05
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
I.e. hold 13% of the senior agenda-setting, investment & employment decision-making positions in American governments & businesses. Regurgitating more...
September 08, 2020 at 17:39
In: Is Atheism the negation of Theism?  — view comment
Welcome to TPF, Isabel! Agreed. Perhaps, but this formulation is incoherent; atheism, rather, is a second-order claim that theistic Tokens - theistic ...
September 08, 2020 at 16:55
In: What can we know for sure?  — view comment
:smirk:
September 08, 2020 at 00:45
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
No. I'm not "opposed" to them because they are not even answers. Avowals, at most, not propositions. So does astrology. (1) The only answer to the fun...
September 07, 2020 at 20:23
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
In so far as "god" is a/the "mystery" ("of all mysteries" or some such), as an "answer" it's an appeal to ignorance - otherwise, merely begs the quest...
September 07, 2020 at 18:57
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:clap: :100:
September 07, 2020 at 16:36
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
So I have heard.
September 07, 2020 at 00:26
In: What happens after you no longer fear death? What comes next?  — view comment
Sleep. In my late twenties I lost any shred of ambition I'd had and for no reason other than I felt like I was wasting time today (mostly) 'living for...
September 07, 2020 at 00:20
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
:clap: :100:
September 06, 2020 at 22:09
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Police stopped Kizee for "riding a bicycle in violation of vehicular codes". Riding a bicycle. I don't know any White person who recalls ever being st...
September 06, 2020 at 14:32
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
While contemplating the 5× draft dodging LOSER Pvt. "Bone Spurs'" (aka COWARD-in-Chief's) latest butthurt ... :victory: :shade: https://youtu.be/Jk-tb...
September 06, 2020 at 01:43
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Putin's Orange Crush is so effin' butthurt :rofl:
September 06, 2020 at 00:43
In: Two Ways of Putting On Socks  — view comment
:lol:
September 06, 2020 at 00:34
In: Buddhism vs Cynicism vs nihilism  — view comment
Maybe, but I don't agree. Nihilist: Nothing matters. Cynic: "Nothing matters" also doesn't matter. Buddhist: Nothing lasts, except nothing.
September 05, 2020 at 16:30
In: Buddhism vs Cynicism vs nihilism  — view comment
What?
September 05, 2020 at 14:44
In: Buddhism vs Cynicism vs nihilism  — view comment
The Cynicism of Diogenes of Sinope & co is, I've always thought, a reaction against and active subversion of 'the nihilism' (i.e. unjustifiable arbitr...
September 05, 2020 at 14:36
In: Two Ways of Putting On Socks  — view comment
"Sock and a Sock" (Archie) or "Sock and a Shoe" (Meathead)? https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk :smirk:
September 05, 2020 at 13:48
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:smirk:
September 05, 2020 at 13:32
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
:death: :flower:
September 05, 2020 at 02:12
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Even FOX News confirms reporting that the COWARD-in-Chief disparages and disrespects U.S. Military Veterans & Active Service Personnel (re: wounded, d...
September 05, 2020 at 01:24
In: How to gain knowledge and pleasure from philosophy forums  — view comment
:fire: Well said, comrade.
September 04, 2020 at 21:53
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Will 46 pardon or (karmicly appoint HRC to) prosecute 45 and his junta? :pray: I prefer toetags all around to monogrammed orange jumpsuits. :mask:
September 04, 2020 at 20:51
In: David Graeber - Introduction to Mutual Aid  — view comment
:up:
September 04, 2020 at 11:55
In: How to gain knowledge and pleasure from philosophy forums  — view comment
What "g/G" means, as Witty would say, is the role - function - the term plays in (our) discourse as I've already pointed out: Of course, your interloc...
September 04, 2020 at 05:35
In: How to gain knowledge and pleasure from philosophy forums  — view comment
:up: :scream: How could it not be? Either one's 'ontological commitments' include or exclude an 'ultimate intentional agency' - explicitly as g/G or i...
September 04, 2020 at 03:43
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
Daniel Prude, a black man, 41, murdered by Rochester, NY police: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54007884 Dijon Kizee, a black man, 29, profi...
September 04, 2020 at 03:00
In: How to gain knowledge and pleasure from philosophy forums  — view comment
Spinoza isn't a "serious thinker"? or Leibniz? or Hume? Kant? Hegel? Kierkegaard? Feuerbach? Nietzsche? Peirce? Wittgenstein? Buber? Levinas? Jaspers?...
September 04, 2020 at 02:36
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
Did watch the youtube short "singularity"? :smirk: Here's an excerpt from an old post on an old thread Purpose of Humans is to create God on Earth: (F...
September 04, 2020 at 00:56
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
"Deus vult"? "Inshallah"? Amor fati ... :sweat: If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily, but after long reflection: Christianity, Woo-Woo, etc w...
September 03, 2020 at 23:32
In: The Secret Of The Universe Has Been Revealed  — view comment
:death: :flower:
September 03, 2020 at 23:18
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
More like a dingleberry of tru(ism).
September 03, 2020 at 23:13
In: What is "real?"  — view comment
Probably, the practical need for an invariant standard - measure (ratio) - lead to a 'speculative' search for a guarantee for all 'values' and 'limits...
September 03, 2020 at 22:06
In: Case against Christianity  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/448923 Why does it (still) matter whether Yeshua ben Yosef was a historical figure or not, when, in ...
September 03, 2020 at 20:07
In: Is Objective Morality Even Possible from a Secular Framework?  — view comment
:up: Neither do I. Won't waste any more of your time, Ram, or my own.
September 03, 2020 at 11:06
In: The Secret Of The Universe Has Been Revealed  — view comment
:smirk:
September 03, 2020 at 07:48
In: Is Objective Morality Even Possible from a Secular Framework?  — view comment
Why? What do you mean by "I believe in"? An 'article of faith'? In the sense that you "believe in", how does "an underlying natural law" differ from f...
September 03, 2020 at 07:42
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