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In: I want to read many books but life is short  — view comment
Without books life wouldn't be short enough.
August 14, 2020 at 10:03
In: Is philosophy a curse?  — view comment
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy. Philosophers have no good news for you at this level. I believe t...
August 14, 2020 at 08:35
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/UbkqE4fpvdI "Chameleon" (15:45) - Herbie Hancock Headhunters (1973)
August 14, 2020 at 08:03
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself." ~W.F. https://youtu.be/m5FCcDEA6mY "Southern Man" (5:31) - Neil Young...
August 14, 2020 at 07:38
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/wHGAMjwr_j8 "Strange Fruit" (3:22) Sung by Billie Holiday (1939) Lyrics by Abel Meeropol (1937)
August 14, 2020 at 07:13
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/zu7KdactSdc "Blues" (5:22) - Wynton Marsalis Black Codes (From The Underground), 1985
August 14, 2020 at 06:56
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
:cry: :lol:
August 14, 2020 at 06:47
In: Ontology, metaphysics. Sciences? Of what, exactly?  — view comment
:fire: (emphasis is mine) Of course, pace Hume (contra the "Fork" and therefore the "Guillotine" too) ... In order to make post-Aristotlean (Copernica...
August 14, 2020 at 06:37
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
hey, MAGAts - finally the whole truth and nothing but the truth... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6coWUDWF5w8 :mask:
August 14, 2020 at 02:32
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
August 14, 2020 at 02:17
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
August 13, 2020 at 14:47
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
I can't answer my own question because my question does not apply to my position on theism - UNLIKE YOU, I am not claiming to be an agnostic - and, in...
August 13, 2020 at 14:08
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Okay. Just checking. You're only able to repeat yourself like a dumb parrot and thereby, also like a dumb parrot, unable to explain whatever that is y...
August 13, 2020 at 11:38
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
:up:
August 13, 2020 at 05:56
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
In honor of our future Madam Vice President (her side-hustle paid off!) She said, "Hello, HEY JOE, You wanna give it a go?" https://youtu.be/ku7W0BZcx...
August 13, 2020 at 01:42
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
Agreed.
August 13, 2020 at 01:26
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Oh, you're talking about folks subjectively feeling "progressive" and I'm talking about support for and political agents of progressive public policie...
August 13, 2020 at 00:59
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
I understand what you've written over and over ad nauseam, Frank. I'm asking a straight-forward question which you either can or can't answer (or will...
August 13, 2020 at 00:28
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Is there an objective - more-or-other-than-subjective - correlate, or formulation, of your agnosticism?
August 12, 2020 at 11:15
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
:up:
August 12, 2020 at 08:36
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Is "being black" even a sign of "progressiveness"? Obama. Clyburn. Scott (R-SC). Not at all. Biden's a "centrist" who picked a "centrist" (who styles ...
August 12, 2020 at 08:33
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
Yeah, grad school in the 90s! Another primary win for The Squad. :victory:
August 12, 2020 at 06:20
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
Ah yeah - identity politics only if "those people" do it, not when "we" do it - like terrorism. :ok:
August 12, 2020 at 06:15
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
It's a referendum on the incumbent and not a choice election, remember? re: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" blah blah blah .....
August 12, 2020 at 05:35
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
:mask:
August 12, 2020 at 04:27
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Yeah. The last thing this imploding republic needs is 'more politrickster sizzle & less governing steak' in the WH. Perhaps the senator would have mad...
August 12, 2020 at 00:16
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Sen. Kamala Harris D-CA ??? • not progressive or liberal • not an experienced executive or legistlator • not a midwesterner or southerner WTF :vomit: ...
August 11, 2020 at 21:54
In: Biden vs. Trump (Poll)  — view comment
:vomit:
August 11, 2020 at 21:21
In: Confusion as to what philosophy is  — view comment
Naming TPF names isn't really necessary, is it?
August 10, 2020 at 12:06
In: Confusion as to what philosophy is  — view comment
I side with Schopenhauer (pace Nietzsche) against this emphatically Hegelian nostrum.
August 09, 2020 at 01:00
In: Confusion as to what philosophy is  — view comment
Kantian, but still ... :up:
August 09, 2020 at 00:46
In: Confusion as to what philosophy is  — view comment
:up: :up: Especially online, philosophy (or, rather, philosophizing) seems medicine for the healthy (i.e. dialectical ones) and poison for the unhealt...
August 09, 2020 at 00:30
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up: :rofl:
August 08, 2020 at 22:46
In: Vague substances.  — view comment
:smirk:
August 08, 2020 at 12:17
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was." ~Keith Richards :cool:
August 08, 2020 at 12:14
In: Vague substances.  — view comment
Typo. Corrected now re: methodological. Referring to 'materialism as a methological (or metaphysical) position' I wrote "worst except, of course, for ...
August 08, 2020 at 10:01
In: Will pessimism eventually lead some people to suicide?  — view comment
No. Acute depression (due to XYZ) or unbearable, interminable pain or both will lead some to commit suicide. The switch does not flip itself. Pessimis...
August 08, 2020 at 08:53
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:point: Shitz-n-giggles.
August 08, 2020 at 00:13
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:yawn:
August 07, 2020 at 17:25
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:lol: :cry:
August 07, 2020 at 15:17
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
That would be irrelevant since "to quote scripture" does not corroborate the claims of scripture. Whoa. :yikes: I gave you waaaaay too much intellectu...
August 07, 2020 at 15:02
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
If it is "known", then provide or indicate evidence which corroborates the claims of the Christian Bible. Nothing and no one ever has in over nineteen...
August 07, 2020 at 14:41
In: Vague substances.  — view comment
:up: (If I'd read more than the OP I wouldn't have bothered posting because your position - glad I'd found Ryle back in the day too! - essentially con...
August 07, 2020 at 08:28
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
You've misread me. I stated the Luke "embellished and amended" Mark's Gospel but not that Luke added to that document. In other words, the Gospel of L...
August 07, 2020 at 07:59
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
IIRC, the zealot Saul of Tarsus' secretary ("holy ghost writer") and hagiographer (apologist) Luke embellished and amended the so-called Gospel of Mar...
August 07, 2020 at 07:01
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Of course you don't, lil troll - that's why you wrote that false premise. :roll: Hint: More or less like the selections of canonical NT scriptures, Th...
August 07, 2020 at 02:47
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up:
August 07, 2020 at 02:25
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Invalid because your first premise is false.
August 06, 2020 at 23:15
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"No one understands the human heart at all who does not recognize how vast is its capacity for illusions, even when these are contrary to its interest...
August 05, 2020 at 23:31
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Explain how you know this - inexplicable occulting - to be the case, that it's our human cognitive predicament.
August 05, 2020 at 06:57
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