Suffering is "subjective or arbitrary"? That living things (species) with complex nervous systems involuntarily react to-recoil from and adaptively av...
(e.g. Wayfarer) :up: Ok. Seems arbitrary, or merely subjective. Elaborate. I don't see how this follows. Careful reading of my initial post shows that...
From an old thread "Is anyone here a moral objectivist?" Secular, naturalistic, this-worldly (an Epicurus, Spinoza & Philippa Foot love-child). Though...
By the eleventh year of my dozen year long parochial school catechismic indoctrination (edification), the conspicuous failure of my teachers - highly ...
From my post history, it's clear I'm neither shocked nor surprised by police complicity with white vigilante-terrorists. It's the American Way. Permis...
:up: Thanks for the invite, I actually considered emigrating to one Nordic country or another more than a few times in the 90s & the aughts. Staying p...
Domestic terrorism. As old as the Slave Codes (1667). As old as white settlers and military genocides of Indigeous Peoples. As old as the NYC Draft ri...
Given several months of doggedly refusing to directly or indirectly corroborate your claim that 'all positions for or against "gods" are "blind guesse...
On paper they do. There certainly aren't any career penalties for violating RoE policy where there aren't any for police violating the criminal code. ...
Because American police are confident (with good reason) they won't be prosecuted for killing nonwhite (& poor) citizens. "We" don't hold our police a...
No, the usages of words, not words alone, have meaning or not. Read e.g. Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty, both by Ludwig Wittgenstein. M...
Just in time and made to order to kick-off the G_ang O_f P_utin's M_oscow A_ss(et) G_overns A_merica hatefest: Jacob Blake. https://amp-theatlantic-co...
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." ~MLK, Jr Not even the Covid d...
As I point out in the second half of that post, "the crux of the matter" comes down to the grounds, or reasons, given to warrant any position taken on...
I usually find definitions - talk about and use - of a/the deity wholly arbitrary and subjective, barely or not at all related to traditional religiou...
I really enjoyed living in Chelsea (23rd & 8th) and "Hells Kitchen" (52nd between 9th & 10th). Old haunts like Columbus Circle, Chelsea Pier & Meatpac...
Good. I think drawing a conceptual analogy from SUPER-natural to HIGHER dimensional and thereby that lower dimensions are nested within higher dimensi...
How do you know this? Why do you define "supernatural" this way? Maybe all that "super-natural" means is higher dimensional e.g. 3-d sphere in relatio...
elaborating: Despair ... (i.e. shock of "God is dead" (radical Mediocrity Principle) + the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics + ubiquitous fantasy & stupidity ...
:mask: Not from the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign. Not from the DNC or party operatives Not from either The Lincoln Project or Republican Voters Against ...
Yep, again you've no clue WTF you're talking about. At least from 1791 to 1965 non-white citizens of the United States effectively had no "free speech...
All well and good, Frank, but your mantra in no way is incompatible with, or even invalidates, the claim "I am certain that I do know " the very same ...
Res ipsa loquitur (or, more your speed, "it is what it is" re: your remarks). You doth protest too much - with ahistorical and banal rhetoric of privi...
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