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In: The Indictment  — view comment
:100: :up:
June 13, 2023 at 05:50
In: What's the implications of this E.M. Cioran quote?  — view comment
"The problem" is suffering (Buddha, Epicurus, Epictetus, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Zapffe ... Cioran ...), that is, how we use our minds (i.e. metacognitive...
June 13, 2023 at 04:53
In: What's the implications of this E.M. Cioran quote?  — view comment
Amor fati. :death: :flower:
June 13, 2023 at 04:35
In: The Indictment  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/814765
June 12, 2023 at 23:56
In: Defining Features of being Human  — view comment
Well, I do not believe I'm trans-phobic. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/336888
June 12, 2023 at 18:44
In: What's the implications of this E.M. Cioran quote?  — view comment
Which is not an option open to anyone who's already-born. Preventing new births likewise accomplishes nothing because the already-born continue to suf...
June 12, 2023 at 16:30
In: Defining Features of being Human  — view comment
I used both terms because they reflect divergent(?) yet IMO valid interpretations. For the record, I'm pro-euthanasia, pro-abortion (i.e. pro-woman), ...
June 12, 2023 at 16:16
In: Defining Features of being Human  — view comment
Did they ever "consent" in the first place? AFAIK, no one "consents" to be born; one can only "consent" to destroy (or mutilate / modify) oneself.
June 12, 2023 at 15:37
In: Defining Features of being Human  — view comment
Might work for AGI machines (like Asimov's "Law of Robotics") but we're primates, first and foremost, driven by territorial, hierarchical, reproductiv...
June 12, 2023 at 14:59
In: UFOs  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/814458 So are my "UFO" speculations implausible?
June 12, 2023 at 14:27
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:mask:
June 12, 2023 at 03:57
In: US Election 2024 (All general discussion)  — view comment
:cool: :up:
June 12, 2023 at 02:41
In: US Election 2024 (All general discussion)  — view comment
"31 counts of Violating The Espionage Act ..." :shade: No longer "pending" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/814066 https://thephi...
June 12, 2023 at 02:38
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
From inside the MAGA circus-tent: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/11/bill-barr-donald-trump-classified-documents-indictment/70310...
June 12, 2023 at 02:24
In: A Case for Analytic Idealism  — view comment
I don't disagree with anything because you haven't explicated anything. Your claim, Rogue, is opaque to me for the reason given previously.
June 11, 2023 at 20:12
In: Defining Features of being Human  — view comment
Yes.
June 11, 2023 at 20:08
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:100:
June 11, 2023 at 17:37
In: Science as Metaphysics  — view comment
"The First Cause" .... "just is". :roll: It's far more parsimonious and reasonable to posit that the cosmos "just is" (i.e. eternal, though changing),...
June 11, 2023 at 17:10
In: Which is worse Boredom or Sadness?  — view comment
You're playing trivial word games which bore me.
June 11, 2023 at 16:43
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
I'm confident the CIA, NSA, etc and foreign intel allies have already begun finding those correlations but such findings are highly classified so they...
June 11, 2023 at 16:36
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Only 'Trump supporters' are stupider than Trump himself. There are millions of MAGA morons who love to be lied to – lying to themselves – and many who...
June 11, 2023 at 16:21
In: Which is worse Boredom or Sadness?  — view comment
For me, 'hope' is synonymous with wishful thinking and/or lacking courage.
June 11, 2023 at 16:10
In: A Case for Analytic Idealism  — view comment
I'm no longer interested in Chalmers. You can't answer my question, so your statement remains meaningless to me.
June 11, 2023 at 16:07
In: A Case for Analytic Idealism  — view comment
I didn't ask you to evaluate the claim only for the meaning of "illusions" in your statement. What you're reply says is nothing but 'I don't like the ...
June 11, 2023 at 15:31
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
This thread's been a zombie for the last 11/12 pages.
June 11, 2023 at 07:53
In: Science as Metaphysics  — view comment
Well done as usual ... Re: @"Gnomon" (handwaving wankery)
June 11, 2023 at 07:12
In: Žižek as Philosopher  — view comment
:up:
June 11, 2023 at 06:57
In: Which is worse Boredom or Sadness?  — view comment
Hope is worse than either boredom or sadness.
June 11, 2023 at 06:02
In: A Case for Analytic Idealism  — view comment
What is meant here by "illusions"?
June 11, 2023 at 06:00
In: Defining Features of being Human  — view comment
So my first post makes no sense to you or misses the point of your OP?
June 11, 2023 at 05:23
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
:lol:
June 11, 2023 at 05:19
In: A Case for Analytic Idealism  — view comment
I can't help thinking that (e.g.) asylums, ashrams, seminaries, cult communes, (sectarian) kindergartens, wall-to-wall video gaming (plus 24/7 social ...
June 11, 2023 at 05:17
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
Whatever, man.
June 11, 2023 at 04:51
In: UFOs  — view comment
If UFOs are "alien spacecraft", I suspect that they are AI-machine probes and that their parent species are either extinct or postbiological. In this ...
June 10, 2023 at 22:54
In: The beginning and ending of self  — view comment
:fire:
June 10, 2023 at 21:54
In: Gods and Angels  — view comment
:100: The cards are dealt: play your hand as best you can, or not. No. "God" is only a word (i.e. an empty name).
June 10, 2023 at 21:47
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Fuck the traitor! Putin's Bitch gets arraigned on Tuesday, 13 June. "Be there, will be wild." :clap: :party: @"NOS4A2"
June 10, 2023 at 21:30
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
:up: If it makes my initial point any clearer for you, @"Janus", I reiterate that your equating "anti-theism to theism" is as much a false equivalence...
June 10, 2023 at 10:49
In: The Modern ‘Luddite’  — view comment
:up: In 1965, Frank Herbert called it "The Butlerian Jihad".
June 10, 2023 at 07:35
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:eyes: :rofl:
June 09, 2023 at 21:52
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Link to unsealed Federal indictment ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/814066
June 09, 2023 at 20:58
In: Žižek as Philosopher  — view comment
:up:
June 09, 2023 at 12:21
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
:smirk:
June 09, 2023 at 12:19
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
Which are dogma? :chin: (A) Show me evidence that g/G is true, or more likely true than not true. (B) True or not true, I believe in g/G. (C) It is us...
June 09, 2023 at 04:13
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:up:
June 09, 2023 at 03:38
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:cool: 2 down and 2 to go in 2023 ... 2. Miami, Federal indictment 8Jun23 :up: re: 37 counts "Mishandling Documents, Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, V...
June 09, 2023 at 02:03
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
:up:
June 09, 2023 at 01:30
In: US Election 2024 (All general discussion)  — view comment
https://youtu.be/6WCj1t8NK0Y "America ... threatened by the scumbaggery of a man and his family...." update: Putin's Bitch was indicted by the US DoJ ...
June 09, 2023 at 01:27
In: Žižek as Philosopher  — view comment
Both. :smirk: Maybe for 'idealists in analysis' ... Lacanian-Hegelian Marxist (and so on and so on...) I don't think Žižek is p0m0 at all. For me, his...
June 08, 2023 at 09:30
In: Atheist Dogma.  — view comment
I'll take that change of subject as your concession of my point. Thanks. :up:
June 08, 2023 at 08:47
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