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I compared naturalism to idealism, not "dualism". Also, I did not mention "common sense as a factor in theory creation".

I don't think Hume is a dualist (or Cartesian), do you?

This is true only of someone who, IME, hasn't already studied e.g. Laozi-Zhuangzi, Epicurus-Lucretius, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Karl Jaspe...

Sensations are nervous system-dependent.

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Yes, but this concept is not new (except as a cryptic formulation by Heidegger). Read e.g. the Daoists, Confucians, Epicureans, Stoics ... Spinozists,...

For the sake of this discussion, by nature I mean the universe. For consistency and coherence sakes, methodological naturalism (i.e. using aspects of ...

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IME, stupidity, or maladaptive habits which incorrigibly undermine oneself, is the only "sin".

Yeah, ok. FWIW. The paragraph in my previous post that follows your quote, however, clarifies my meaning and why I took issue with the premise of your...

Don't forget laissez-faire libertarians (aka "neoliberals" & "Randroids") too.

Atoms are particles. Neutrons protons, and electrons are also particles. So are quarks. As far as I know, their respective volumes do not consist of "...

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Don't forget that 99.999% of baryonic "matter" also consists of empty space. Classical atomism, after all, is grossly consistent with modern particle ...

:pray: :lol: The culprit here is the autocratic mindset, usually, though not exclusively, the predominant attribute of conservative & reactionary ideo...

'Field excitations' are events, I think, not "acts" (i.e. intentional agency). Brahman. Dao. Democritus' "void". Plotinus' "the one". Ein Sof. Spinoza...

Same here. Since my late teens I've opposed all forms of autocracy (e.g. theocracy, plutocracy, mobocracy) and especially laissez-faire (democracy-in-...

Flowers wilt, life declines. A day in the sun is the joy, no? Memento mori et memento vivere. :fire:

Hello, Paul. :cool: "Mom." The 20 year old has more of a chance, no matter how minute, outside the shelter than an 80 year old woman. I can live easie...

More to the point: what is outside of reality?

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IME, conservatism seeks to conserve (i.e. propagandize, police) the social-political-economic status quo ante, and thereby, in practice, rationalizes ...

:up: :eyes: Well, sir, "alien abduction" videos are more my jam; "haunted house" "astral projection" "reincarnation" or "perpetual motion machine" You...

Poltical hatred – autocracy vs democracy? There's nothing new in this at least since Magna Carta began rolling back monarchy in 1215. Apparently roili...

Two thoughts: Perhaps 'the purpose of existence' is for existents to recognize that existence itself cannot provide existents with "purpose" thereby e...

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No doubt they were.

The issue l addressed is the questionable merits of Christ's preachings and not "his tendencies" (whatever they were) or "the oppressive ... status qu...

Well, for my shekels, I prefer the Nazarene's contemporary Seneca's good teachings for how to live as superior in every way to the "Sermon on the Moun...

Maybe these links make my position a little clearer: (& ).

:eyes: Putin's Bitch was engaged in a cover-up of 2016 crimes while squatting in the Oval Office by signing reimbursement checks to his fixer in 2017....

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:... experience-based goals (i.e. hypothetical imperatives). :up: Some "goals" are moral and some are not; how do we tell the difference?

Because of his brown face – yeah I do. Everyday, still. :mask:

As I see it, though the former implies the latter, the latter neither presupposes nor implies the former.

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Yup. :up: 'Superceding indictments' for felonies related to State Campaign Finance Fraud and State Tax Fraud (and maybe Grand Jury Witness Tampering (...

This. :up: A pithy distinction (à la sophistry / dialectics) that better illuminates for me a seemingly intractable family dispute.

Why ask if you've already answered for yourself contra every extant, religious-"god" tradition?

:clap: Brilliant quote. (I miss his work and interviews.) It's the same place where e.g. Musak, juice bars and horoscopes belong. Same as sugar. Eliti...

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I don't think so. For instance, Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef is reported to have taught support of "evil" by not resisting "evil-doers" (re: "turn the other...

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The timeline of MAGA Loser #1's legal reckoning for his 2016-2023 crime spree (excluding potentially ruinous civil lawsuits) is taking a definite shap...