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Nazis were genocidal oppressors and Jews et al were the oppressed and mostly slaughtered by Nazis. I'm consistent, BC – no matter how bestial the oppr...

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Hypotheses (your tv example) are propositional; however, conceptual suppositions, or interpretations, are not propositional, Bob, insofar as matters o...

Of course not. The oppressor (group B) is more morally reprehensible than the oppressed (group A).

So ... acting without fear (i.e. "fearless") and acting despite fear (i.e. "brave") seems to correspond to self-deception and lucidity, respectively.

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Our descendants' lab-grown steaks sausages & chicken tenders will be too convenient and taste too good to fret about obsolete barbaric practices.

No. IMO, none will not care – even remember – once industrial meat has been completely replaced by lab-grown meat.

I was raised Catholic and educated for twelve years by Franciscans & Jesuits; most, if not all, of the "doctrines" I had "internalized" stopped making...

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Your learned incorrigibility embarrasses you again, Wayfarer. Carry on ...

:up: More or less my own objection to the "p-zombie" construct.

As @"Janus" was first to point out, sir, you clearly do not understand what Spinoza says quite clearly in his Ethics. :kiss:

Such as – ? The prospective rewards seem to me more than worth the un/foreseeable risks.

I'm afraid, sir, nothing you've said here demonstrates you've read anything more than an online high schooler's notes lifted from Spinoza for Dummies....

There are also "books which explore the links between" and . Take Janus's recommendation, Wayf, and actually (re)read Spinoza on his own anti-transcen...

I consider Spinoza an ecstatic rationalist. :fire: And this means what? Not 'seeking union with a transcendent being/reality' (because Spinoza, in eff...

Spinoza says philosophy seeks understanding and that our freedom expands as our understanding deepens. Probably because the very young Spinoza wouldn'...

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Again, you've lost me, Jack. Tell me what you may find problematic about the answers I gave to your question.

With respect to (subpersonal) "life" in general, except conatus (i.e. "to persist in being" ~Spinoza), there is not any "purpose". As for "human life"...

And your philosophical question / aporia is – ?

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Simplistic, I know – Iran has used Hamas to open the slaughterhouse-trap door and Israel is raging through it like a bull bristling with US/NATO arms ...

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@"Jack Cummins" it's also not clear to me (Epicurean-Spinozist by day & absurdist bluesman by night ... mostly) what you're asking in the OP.

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I know the notion is quite ancient but Nietzsche conceives of 're-experiencing – consciously re-living – one's exact same life eternally' as a psychol...

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Demonstrating ...

Given the complexity of the human brain, comprehending it theoretically and thereby eliminating dysfunctions produced by the brain's organic defects p...

None of that amounts to a cultural "taboo" as the growing pervasiveness of various Western "New Age" subcultures since the 1950s shows. "Reincarnation...

Why do you believe it's "taboo"?

Maybe not. Why would we rationally want that?

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Apparently.

I am not (consciously) "anthropocentric" at all. I'm also not "misanthropic" at all. You're special pleading conflates difference of degree with (an u...

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Jenna Ellis, domino number 4 out 18 (3rd MAGA lawyer in five days) drops – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/24/jenna-ellis-plea-deal-trump...

FWIW, I found your meaning perfectly clear. :up: Reread the preceding two-thirds of the sentence in question in order to grok the last third. We "crea...

It was just fine without human beings during the 13.8 billion years prior to a quarter million years ago so I suspect – consistent with the mediocrity...

Maybe the following clarifies the point I tried to make here ... Your proposed "optimistic technopaganism", Bret, seems suitable for maximizing (A) & ...

So some impersonal entity, not me (i.e. not mine-ness), "gets reincarnated"? If that's the case, then I need not care about "the soul" and live as I l...

How collectivist of you ... :mask:

Some (@"Wayfarer") might say you're already on the "enlightened" path ...

Given that sound arguments cannot be raised on the following basis, does it ever make sense to 'speculatively interpret' (i.e. philosophically, or cat...

It seems horror (i.e. cruelty-betrayal, oppression, dispossession, murder) breeds terror (i.e. anxiety-trauma, vengence, resistance, despair). In many...

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