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In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
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May 24, 2020 at 20:45
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
M_oscow A_ss(et)monkey G_overns A_merica :mask: :100: Amen, brother!
May 24, 2020 at 20:36
In: Re writing a book on philosophy  — view comment
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May 24, 2020 at 16:38
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:mask: reality check: May 23, 2020, Memorial Day Weekend … U.S. confirmed Covid-19 cases - c1.65m (i.e. c13% tested positive) U.S. confirmed Covid-19 ...
May 23, 2020 at 19:46
In: Which comes first the individual or the state?  — view comment
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May 23, 2020 at 10:01
In: Is 'information' a thing?  — view comment
Atomism - pre-Hobbes, Gassendi, La Mettrie, d'Holbach, Feuerbach ... "materialism" - includes 'void' as well as 'atoms'. Besides, the intractable inco...
May 22, 2020 at 22:39
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
addendum Murder accomplice arrested - https://www.npr.org/2020/05/21/860593300/georgia-authorities-arrest-third-man-in-ahmaud-arbery-killing
May 21, 2020 at 23:41
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
:lol: :up: Even though I'm an old sk0ol Trekkie ... to my geek mind, I'd say tRump is the "Death Star" and Biden is "R2D2" because that lil rust bucke...
May 21, 2020 at 19:44
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
addendum :mask: 36,000+ NEEDLESS DEATHS. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/12/coronavirus-epidemiologist-were-just-second-inning-qa-opini...
May 21, 2020 at 19:24
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
:up: Right on! - eff this Biden/tRump false equivalence.
May 21, 2020 at 18:40
In: What is certain in philosophy?  — view comment
Every (philosophical) statement which is a (formal, performative, or pragmatic) contradiction to - or lacks grounds for - doubt, no? Also, the presupp...
May 20, 2020 at 22:26
In: What is certain in philosophy?  — view comment
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May 20, 2020 at 21:59
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
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May 20, 2020 at 20:04
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Hobson's choice. :shade: In the American context, with respect to safe state voters (who deliberately or inadvertantly fail to vote for 3rd party cand...
May 20, 2020 at 20:00
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
'Lesser-evil voting' (in close, competitive, elections) is the only option when subject to a schlerotic, ossified, colluding duopoly such as the curre...
May 20, 2020 at 19:51
In: What is certain in philosophy?  — view comment
Well first, what do you mean by "undubitable" "indubitable"? Only sophistry (vide Plato's early-middle dialogues, or scholastic & utopian apologias, (...
May 20, 2020 at 18:18
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
The last Democratic candidate for president who won Georgia (with a plurality and not a majority) was a southerner & former Arkansas governor, Bill Cl...
May 20, 2020 at 16:05
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
My response to your reply to Ciceronianus the White consists of rhetorical questions, not "riddles".
May 20, 2020 at 15:04
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
You've confused me with someone else or not read my posts on voting in 3-4 relevant threads ... e.g.
May 20, 2020 at 14:53
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
Well, what makes object-discourse different from meta-discourse? suppositions different from presuppositions? judgments different from criteria? knowi...
May 19, 2020 at 16:47
In: Love & Water  — view comment
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May 19, 2020 at 15:00
In: Love & Water  — view comment
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky So ... no ékstasis ... no anatta ... no moksha ...?
May 19, 2020 at 14:43
In: Love & Water  — view comment
I wonder if either "love" or "water" here refers to g/G. What a lonely oasis :smirk: ...
May 19, 2020 at 07:37
In: Schopenhauer's "Will to Life": is it driven by a biological imperative or something more profound  — view comment
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May 19, 2020 at 06:11
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Hell yeah! - praise jeezus :halo: :pray:
May 19, 2020 at 06:06
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
So our "morbidly obese" Commander-in-Bleach is daily dosing hydroxychloroquine ... IF TRUE, goooood. :mask: vs :death:
May 19, 2020 at 04:31
In: Schopenhauer's "Will to Life": is it driven by a biological imperative or something more profound  — view comment
Conatus, I think, is the speculative source of Schop's 'Ding an sich'.
May 19, 2020 at 04:13
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
As an intensively reflective exercise, I practice philosophy more as a martial art (or public health regimen) than as a medicinal / psychological ther...
May 19, 2020 at 03:07
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
... or rather Susan Rice. :wink:
May 18, 2020 at 13:54
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
:up: A lot of folks are still - after 2016's swing state turnout debacle - missing the forest for the trees ... :roll: Anyway, my short list for Biden...
May 18, 2020 at 12:55
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
But insofar as "science" presupposes "being", "the science of being", at best, begs the question, no? I agree that the real (i.e. MEon, or other-than-...
May 18, 2020 at 11:19
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
What We Can Never Know, David Gamez Thanks for your OP (re: this book), jorndoe.
May 17, 2020 at 13:38
In: In Another Person’s Shoes  — view comment
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May 17, 2020 at 11:18
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:up: :up: :100:
May 17, 2020 at 04:58
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
Clarify both definitions so I/we can evaluate them.
May 17, 2020 at 04:36
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
:shade: :up: :point: Well, i believe it's being nonwhite, born raised living & dying, in a "prison" of White Privilege (i.e. structural inequalities p...
May 16, 2020 at 21:23
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
I agree, and understand this insight in spinozist terms: Human Being both presupposes Being itself and implies (a/the prospect of) Well-Being aka euda...
May 16, 2020 at 19:08
In: Natural Rights  — view comment
That's the gist of it for me as well.
May 16, 2020 at 18:07
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
The perps lied in their statements to police about the killing. Attempted cover-up is circumstantial evidence of consciousness of guilt. I'm not attri...
May 16, 2020 at 17:18
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
Second degree murder.
May 16, 2020 at 11:34
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
Non fuckin' sequitur. :shade: The overwhelming majority of murders are "same race" killings - Whites kill Whites & Blacks kill Blacks. And even when B...
May 16, 2020 at 04:23
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
I reckon it does.
May 16, 2020 at 02:28
In: Ahmaud Arbery: How common is it?  — view comment
As a Black, native New Yorker, now living in Georgia (formerly resident of Arizona, Minnesota, Washington DC, Virginia & California), I've observed si...
May 15, 2020 at 17:15
In: Is it possible certain forms of philosophy are harmful?  — view comment
What makes an object (i.e. project) either a tool or weapon - medicine or poison - is the way we use it on ourselves, others or the world. Nothing is ...
May 14, 2020 at 04:49
In: A Theologico-Political Treatise by Spinoza  — view comment
It's your own logic you're not following, which has nothing to do not with mine or Spinoza's. "Everything that exists is the substance ..." is not wha...
May 14, 2020 at 04:30
In: Ethics of Vegetarianism/Meat Eating  — view comment
From an old post on the same topic:
May 14, 2020 at 04:08
In: Something From Nothing  — view comment
Certainly, "uncaused things" are contingent.
May 14, 2020 at 03:58
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
tRump 2,020 deaths per day ... Timeline
May 12, 2020 at 11:30
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:mask: Biden 2020 (re: November 3rd referendum on the incumbent) Steve Schmidt, former GOP senior campaign advisor, from a television interview April ...
May 11, 2020 at 23:20
In: A Theologico-Political Treatise by Spinoza  — view comment
NB: Spinoza's formula is Deus, sive natura and not 'natura deus est'. :point: Yeah, I know, and I respectfully disagree with Prof. Melamed's 'pantheis...
May 10, 2020 at 01:20
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