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'Not procreating' does not "prevent all suffering" because this abstinence does not prevent the suffering of the already born (for most of whom, 'deny...
May 09, 2020 at 21:56
So ecstatic - "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!" :death: :flower:
May 09, 2020 at 19:43
:roll: :scream: :rofl:
May 08, 2020 at 23:13
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May 08, 2020 at 23:11
:up: Agreed. And you're not "the only one" :sweat: (below is an excerpt of a post from an old thread):
May 08, 2020 at 22:53
No - especially this question. :yawn:
May 08, 2020 at 22:17
:cool: A band name or song title? :smirk: :up:
May 08, 2020 at 22:11
When faced with expressions of 'mysticism' I've found it helps to remember that they are (almost always and entirely) 'non-inferential, dispositional ...
May 08, 2020 at 15:20
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May 08, 2020 at 05:35
:eyes: No doubt ...
May 08, 2020 at 05:31
Democritus Siddhartha Gautama Diogenes of Sinope Epicurus Pyrrho of Elis Seneca Epictetus Montaigne Spinoza Hume Peter Wessel Zapffe Bertrand Russell ...
May 07, 2020 at 22:05
Believe whatever you want. Flynn cooperated with the Mueller Investigation AND plead guilty twice for lying to the FBI (along with admitting to other ...
May 07, 2020 at 21:32
My guess: Judge Sullivan won't accept this politicized move by DOJ and will give the WH the finger by giving General Flynn more prison time than the s...
May 07, 2020 at 21:15
:cool:
May 07, 2020 at 12:34
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May 07, 2020 at 10:03
??? :mask:
May 07, 2020 at 09:52
So you cannot define what you mean by 'happiness'?
May 06, 2020 at 21:29
Well, minimize =/= eliminate, so ...
May 06, 2020 at 21:27
Define what you mean by 'happiness'.
May 06, 2020 at 21:24
:chin: Rather: Investigate all claims corroborated by physical, circumstantial & non-hearsay testimonial evidence. :mask:
May 06, 2020 at 13:21
Memento mori et memento vivere. Solitaire et solidaire. My positive emotions say 'stick with Epicurus, Spinoza, Zapffe, ... Philippa Foot & Albert Mur...
May 06, 2020 at 13:01
O Conatus, baby! :up: :clap: Welcome to TPF, QA.
May 06, 2020 at 12:33
Acosmist.
May 06, 2020 at 01:47
a Never-tRumpers' Reaganite appeal to Independents "Mourning in America" (Ad video) :eyes:
May 06, 2020 at 01:18
May 5, 2020 - SARS-2 (Covid-19) update: c72,000 U.S. reported deaths c1,250,000 U.S. reported infections Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower c...
May 06, 2020 at 00:19
:lol: :victory:
May 05, 2020 at 10:50
Ras! Me nah know you cool dat way, breddah Francis. Irie, mon! :cool:
May 05, 2020 at 04:23
If, as you say, "the physical world is contingent" - and I agree it is - then, it seems to follow, "the physical world" coming-to-be was uncaused, it ...
May 05, 2020 at 02:17
"Afterlife?" Like asking 'where the flame goes when it's blown out?' (Buddha, et al) :point: :up: :up: :clap: There's no guarantee you'll live to the ...
May 05, 2020 at 01:42
Or else wane literal. :zip:
May 04, 2020 at 08:03
Apparently, foolosophers like us need a place - an agora - to conceptually chase (spin) our promiscuously speculative tails (tales). My interest: I wo...
May 04, 2020 at 07:51
jkg20 beat me to it ... Bingo! :up:
May 03, 2020 at 23:27
How about 'first person impersonal' (e.g. Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Russell ... Nussbaum, Meillassoux, et al)? Less 'systemic...
May 03, 2020 at 11:47
Worth repeating @"Gnomon" :up:
May 03, 2020 at 10:54
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May 03, 2020 at 10:45
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May 02, 2020 at 11:28
Given that all extant cosmological evidence indicates that it had a planck radius at "the beginning", the universe is a very-far-from-equilibrium "mac...
May 02, 2020 at 11:10
:up:
May 02, 2020 at 10:35
may readings • The Transhuman Wager, Zoltan Istvan still reading • The Žižek Dictionary, ed. Rex Butler (plus tics, sniffles, obscene jokes, etc) • Go...
May 02, 2020 at 02:30
:up: :fear:
May 02, 2020 at 01:00
May Day 2020 :point: U.S. SARS-2 (Covid-19) casualities aka "tRump Pandemic-Depression" update: U.S.Capitol physician reports to Senate leadership tha...
May 02, 2020 at 00:54
:cool:
May 01, 2020 at 12:55
:up: A worthy challenge, @"Pfhorrest"! “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~S.B.
April 30, 2020 at 06:49
:clap: :up: :death: :flower:
April 30, 2020 at 06:21
Take a university class, son. :shade: :100:
April 30, 2020 at 06:03
Exhibit "A". Exhibit "B" :scream: Exhibit "C" In 2020 to date SARS-2 (Covid-19) is reported to have infected over 3.1 million people resulting so far ...
April 30, 2020 at 01:31
I'm waiting for the addressee of my question to answer. Then, maybe, I'll get back to you.
April 29, 2020 at 09:56
Order is only that 'bit' of chaos we happen to be interested in - can make use of - for some interval.
April 29, 2020 at 08:54
How so? But do you think?
April 29, 2020 at 06:20
I very much agree. :up: Yes. And I've always interpreted the combinatorial aspect of 'Swirling & Swerving-Atoms-In/(Of?)-Void' as information, or the ...
April 28, 2020 at 21:37