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In: What's the point of reading dark philosophers?  — view comment
:cry: :up:
July 26, 2020 at 09:49
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
What do you believe "explains our origins" requires or entails?
July 26, 2020 at 09:40
In: Collecting God arguments  — view comment
You've not given any reason for your request, Spigot, or proposed a related question yet; first thing, however, that comes to my mind is the Appendix ...
July 26, 2020 at 08:10
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up:
July 26, 2020 at 06:19
In: Aliens!  — view comment
What's "silly" is your assumption that "they" are a biological species, thereby territorial expansionist "colonizers" like us, and not intelligent mac...
July 25, 2020 at 18:48
In: Aliens!  — view comment
"Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature." ~Schroeder's Law Explain why "it would make no sense" for an interstellar t...
July 25, 2020 at 17:05
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:sweat: :ok: Try to "reason", Frank, then you might "know or "see" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/391861
July 25, 2020 at 16:27
In: Aliens!  — view comment
@OP - Moot. :up:
July 25, 2020 at 01:13
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
We've already discussed it for months now. We don't even disagree actually because your assertions are incoherent (not even false) and don't address m...
July 25, 2020 at 00:56
In: Neglect of Context  — view comment
I don't conceive of these "roles" as "opposed" to one another but as complementaries of theory (i.e. 'how best to think') and practice (i.e. 'how best...
July 24, 2020 at 22:53
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
But you already have! Thanks, Frank. :smirk:
July 24, 2020 at 22:30
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Thanks! :up: Well, in so far as the universe's earliest measurable era had a planck radius and was an acausal quantum event (i.e. a random vacuum fluc...
July 24, 2020 at 19:59
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Just (say) three will do. Don't be coy, Frank, do tell.
July 24, 2020 at 18:01
In: Neglect of Context  — view comment
I don't think philosophy is 'nothing but' abstraction; I understand it to consist of complementary aspects: (a) reflective inquiry into ab/mis/uses of...
July 23, 2020 at 03:53
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
We must be doing something right then ... And I concur as I've pointed out here. 'Adieu' if you must go (please take a few trolls with you). :death: :...
July 22, 2020 at 04:27
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
You like to argue with words you've put in my mouth rather than with those I actually use. Troll is as troll does, I guess. TAKE YOUR MEDS. :shade:
July 21, 2020 at 21:20
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:up:
July 21, 2020 at 07:13
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:clap: :up:
July 21, 2020 at 07:08
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
GFY. :mask: :death: :flower: edit: More troll bait :shade: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/352403 (re: a prolegomena of a prolegomen...
July 20, 2020 at 22:17
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Asked and answered many months ago. Stop trolling. :yawn:
July 20, 2020 at 18:32
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:up:
July 20, 2020 at 12:03
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up:
July 19, 2020 at 13:20
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Sweet bleeding Jesus! I'm not the only one. :sweat: :rofl: :pray:
July 19, 2020 at 06:35
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
Ditto :smirk:
July 19, 2020 at 00:02
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up:
July 18, 2020 at 16:34
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
For most ex-Catholic atheists, it seems, doubt began in grade school or early high school 'bible study' without or, for some, years before reading The...
July 18, 2020 at 02:07
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
:up:
July 18, 2020 at 00:21
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
You asked me "what about the Will is not metaphysical" and I replied I've never claimed or implied anything about "the Will", so why did you ask in th...
July 18, 2020 at 00:19
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
Your question (1) isn't relevant to our exchange - I never claimed or implied anything about "the Will" - and (2) it also doesn't make sense to me for...
July 17, 2020 at 20:49
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
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July 17, 2020 at 19:54
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
Who said it isn't? (Besides, only statements (or concepts) are or are not "metaphysical" so the question doesn't make (much) sense.)
July 17, 2020 at 19:52
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
Cognitive Neuroscience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Cultural Anthropology. Ethnolinguistics. Sociology of Religion. Embodied Cognition. Scientific m...
July 17, 2020 at 18:38
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
It's a pseudo-question, in effect, posing as - impersonating so to speak - a metaphysical question. Categorical "why"-questions presuppose intentional...
July 17, 2020 at 16:57
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
I gave the only reasonable, two-part (complementary) "answer" I've found to date:
July 17, 2020 at 16:00
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
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July 17, 2020 at 15:04
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
It's a "with humor" response, as per the OP. Taken literally misses the joke.
July 17, 2020 at 14:46
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"In your ruins I find shelter." ~Samuel Beckett, from letter to Emil Cioran
July 17, 2020 at 13:54
In: Why is there something rather than nothing?  — view comment
(because) • Stupid questions like this can't be asked unless there are fools to ask or answer them. (o___0) • There is nothing to stop "anything at al...
July 17, 2020 at 07:58
In: Ethical Egoism  — view comment
Egoism prioritizes self-interest and minimizes, or avoids, selfish conduct which fails to promote one's self-interest. Ethical Egoism, I surmise, deno...
July 17, 2020 at 01:13
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
July 16, 2020 at 14:40
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
Apparently a more informed - better read - "opinion" than that of most Heideggerians (on this thread).
July 16, 2020 at 11:23
In: Black Lives Matter-What does it mean and why do so many people continue to have a problem with it?  — view comment
Tell 'em, comrade. :fire: Even though your words bounce off of their indoctrinated 'Privilege'. :up:
July 14, 2020 at 05:19
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:clap: Welcome to TPF!
July 14, 2020 at 05:05
In: Heraclitus Weeps For Us, Democritus Laughs At Us  — view comment
:up:
July 14, 2020 at 03:16
In: Heraclitus Weeps For Us, Democritus Laughs At Us  — view comment
Not exhaustive by any means, just a sketch. Also this. We don't know what "the Democritean idea" per se was but, like fish in the sea, all of our live...
July 14, 2020 at 00:22
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
:cool: Monday, July 13th - for the homies who ain't here ... https://youtu.be/wVyvrAhRx1Y :death: :flower:
July 13, 2020 at 18:14
In: Bannings  — view comment
:lol: :up:
July 13, 2020 at 16:32
In: Heraclitus Weeps For Us, Democritus Laughs At Us  — view comment
This old post.
July 13, 2020 at 12:13
In: Heraclitus Weeps For Us, Democritus Laughs At Us  — view comment
A congenital defect, which I name foolery, to recover from and learn to live with soberly (lucidly-absurdly) through foolosophy praxis.
July 13, 2020 at 04:08
In: The Objectification Of Women  — view comment
"You lovely ladies in your leather and lace A thousand lips I would love to taste" ~The Glimmer Twins, '74 :razz:
July 12, 2020 at 20:52
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