@"Harry Hindu" @"VagabondSpectre" @"Hallucinogen" @"NOS4A2" @"I Like Sushi" ... Not that this will prevent anyone from taking out of context or strawm...
:roll: There you go again, Harry, taking my name in vain ... ... and, of course, proving my point (re: you not reading what I - or anyone else it seem...
Making art seems (the) way we human beings share with - not only, or necessarily, communicate to - each other how one's subjectivity feels while playi...
Believing the unbelievable (all-too-often, even) in order to defend of the indefensible. In the millennial wake of religious wars, pogroms, inquisitio...
:cool: Once I'd learned (enough of) how the 'magic trick' was/is done - after 10 years of parochial school 'bible study, church history & altarboy ser...
Quite evocative, well said ... :cool: I'm the mirror image gazing into this glass darkly: immanence and ecstasy ... grounded by solidarity in sisyphus...
• A History of the Bible, John Barton NB: Any history of a religion (and its scriptures) is very much like seeing how a magic trick is done. Most don'...
I already have explained what needs explaining, man, and you've not done so validly. Misread my objection to your heart's content. (The (oral) Torah d...
And again, Bartricks, this doesn't follow, at the least, for the "Be fruitful & multiply" JCI religious (as well as irreligious) procreators. Which is...
The PoE, however, doesn't imply that procreators do not exist, so I don't see how it's relevant. Since "Be fruitful & multiply" theists handwave away ...
In the OP two tangentally related questions are raised: What is aesthetics? and What is beauty? In my own terms, my take: "La beauté n'est que la prom...
(PSA) :meh: Paraphrasing the late great Albert Murray: To fight dragons is heroic; to protest the existence of dragons is naïve. Likewise, to wit: Ant...
:up: Thanks. I'm a cheerful pessimist (i.e. sarcastic absurdist) - philosophizing has helped me for decades to grind & polish daily the lense(s) throu...
This probably contributes a fair amount to you reading me (or others on this thread) so poorly, VS. I see I can't win for losing with you either: on a...
Pay attention, Wayf! For tim wood's sake I've already moved on from placebo analogy to fetish analogy. Surely a rattle shaker like you has got some gl...
:cool: My position has definitely been inspired by Parfit's conception of personal identity but more informed by Thomas Metzinger's phenomenal self-mo...
No problem! And no oxymorons allowed either. A placebo that's "curative" is not a placebo, it's medicine. Anyway, how about fetish instead? God is the...
Not so. I even replied to you previously, VS, that it's a symptom treated - when it's even addressed - by e.g. "affirmative action", which is not "non...
Yes, but a negative consequentialist approach that prioritizes foreseeable harm (i.e. deprivation misery fear etc) reduction & mitigation over all oth...
How can any "g/G give meaning" to anything that matters to you beyond "self-interest" when, apparently, you yourself don't "give meaning" to anything ...
I have not claimed or implied anything about "genetics" anywhere on this thread. Read what I actually wrote to find out what I've said is "racist". As...
"... count as evidence ... in my book" I wrote: not an "argument" at all, merely an as far as I know aside. My use of 'placebo' is analogical not lite...
Yep. And nonwhites in western developed rich countries, if they're smart about surviving, worry about how white fellas expect to use "race" to gain / ...
:up: Placebos work roughly a third(?) of the time and never treat (or cure!) underlying ailments just the symptoms. And they definitely count as evide...
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