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That's ok. The feeling is mutual.
June 07, 2017 at 11:23
I am not sure whether there is a masochistic perfection to loving someone when you are down (and you are down all the time), but I hardly this this is...
June 07, 2017 at 11:18
I do retract my comment of his idiocy; I spent today in a profoundly draining conference and typing on my phone is not that easy. But, one could perha...
June 07, 2017 at 10:50
Perhaps as an impetus that transforms one to consciousness, hence “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." When he beca...
June 07, 2017 at 06:01
It is incorrect of you to say that his decision was right when he himself is conscious of it being wrong and thus you are injecting a level of your ow...
June 07, 2017 at 04:30
Again, this is merely an unrealistic idealization particularly of Kierkegaard considering that you assume his greatness that therefore means his love ...
June 07, 2017 at 01:42
This is precisely it, the humanity and very actuality of the situation. He was haunted by his decision to abandon her and likely his approach and trea...
June 07, 2017 at 00:46
There is nothing wrong with such emotions, on the contrary I - like Kierkegaard - know that whilst it is compelling intellectually, an absence of love...
June 06, 2017 at 20:34
When one transcends love they by definition abandon it as was closely stated earlier by Cavs, only Kierkegaard came to realise it much later. Indeed, ...
June 06, 2017 at 20:17
This is the deception that drove her to suffering and thus contrary to his moral obligations and perhaps his behaviour towards her enabled a temporary...
June 06, 2017 at 11:15
Holy moly. :-O Can it be?
June 06, 2017 at 10:52
God still enabled Abraham to keep his son and to embrace the joy in love, that when there is an authenticity in this love between two people, one coul...
June 06, 2017 at 10:41
There remains nothing that would have enabled him to believe that his decision to reject her was justifiable, and this is where his subjective battle ...
June 06, 2017 at 10:10
Look, my place with Kant does stop at that point viz., compassion as I too personally agree that there is more to self-actualisation than what reason ...
June 06, 2017 at 09:47
What a fallacious scenario. Kant' philosophy is about objective morality and compassion is merely a subjective experience irrelevant to our relations ...
June 05, 2017 at 12:19
Ok, so now, comparatively speaking, let us look at this abovementioned problem with the following statement: The phenomenon of violent radicalisation ...
June 05, 2017 at 11:53
So, you are saying that the problem of violence caused by men is on the decline because we can rationally attempt to apply solutions to what is often ...
June 05, 2017 at 11:21
Oh, ok. And what was the solution to this? Ah, because one with weapons is culturally 'superior'?
June 05, 2017 at 11:12
Sarcasm is underlying hostility disguised as humour, a way to ward off someone who has historically failed to 'get it'. This 'realisation' that emerge...
June 05, 2017 at 11:02
Yeah, sarcasm over, creepy crust. :s Define fellow-feeling?
June 05, 2017 at 10:09
Causal connection? Men create religions, they imagine political ideologies, the global homicide rates reflect a clear aggregate in findings that show ...
June 05, 2017 at 10:04
Is that how you define compassion?
June 05, 2017 at 09:47
Bet you can't wait to get married to your virginal, submissive, obedient, quiet, catholic girl born with no sense of taste or a personality?
June 05, 2017 at 09:43
Well isn't that just peachy, sweet cheeks. An illusion is the belief that your feelings within this metaphysical realm is somehow free from the articu...
June 05, 2017 at 09:40
That's nice, dear. And where do you think compassion is derived?
June 05, 2017 at 09:31
As a former contemporary dancer, I can actually understand this, but I hardly think the philosophical world would. I can just imagine Chalmers with hi...
June 05, 2017 at 09:27
I hardly think working in contrast to rational processes will enable us to get any closer to solving the problem of consciousness. Exactly what did yo...
June 04, 2017 at 12:07
In: Choice  — view comment
I was, at the time, enjoying a hearty breakfast. Then, I moved on to writing. Now, I am about to have lunch, but I realised that there is nothing in m...
June 04, 2017 at 02:34
In: Choice  — view comment
Not necessarily. You are hungry, but why? Physically, you are in need of sustenance to enable the energy to function adequately. You are a human being...
June 04, 2017 at 02:28
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First of all, I am writing so you can't hear me talk. Secondly, I am not hiding my words, you just fail to understand. And who is 'us'?
June 03, 2017 at 23:12
In: Choice  — view comment
Nothing rational took place because it was instinctual. Your decision was propelled by an impulse but a rational choice to eat foods that contains the...
June 03, 2017 at 21:17
This is why we need the face-palm emoticon. And it was the woman of the apocalypse that crushed the serpent under her heel. One minute you have a girl...
June 02, 2017 at 21:48
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A 'choice' must be rational, thus cats and dogs are not capable of choice but are purely instinctual. The decision to act with reason irrelevant to th...
June 02, 2017 at 21:26
Baking requires a calculated precision and to create something new by learning the behaviour of each ingredient under particular temperatures, or when...
June 02, 2017 at 21:18
You often do this. No, we only have two. One is to choose to be a rational, autonomous agent, to believe in yourself and take responsibility for your ...
June 02, 2017 at 20:59
Responsibility of autonomous decision-making, zurechnung, an accountability one holds as a moral agent to themselves.
June 02, 2017 at 12:56
Without authenticity, this so-called 'separate and distinct' you refer to is an illusory concept that enables one to believe that they are making inde...
June 02, 2017 at 12:43
What a load of codswallop. People who are afraid to educate themselves are afraid of breaking from the determined simplicity formed as part of their i...
June 02, 2017 at 12:14
Independence was not a choice for me, I need to work in a fixed, secure job in order to survive and I am scared as hell and have been for a long time....
June 02, 2017 at 11:46
I don't really want to go down your slippery slope, but I think the whole world should shut the fuck up for a change and maybe start listening to them...
June 02, 2017 at 11:35
:s
June 02, 2017 at 11:32
In: Choice  — view comment
A choice can perhaps be a decision that contains an absence of an impulse or instinctual drive that mechanically pulls us to act without reason in ord...
June 02, 2017 at 11:31
Make your brownies, but before baking, beat 250g of cream cheese, one egg, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence, and dollop on top. Heidegge...
June 02, 2017 at 11:19
Not really. I would my prefer my brain to function without the intoxicated influence of drugs and alcohol but would rather face-off reality. It's bori...
June 02, 2017 at 11:14
Yes. I add cheese.
June 02, 2017 at 11:03
I am brownie queen, amateur child of chocolate.
June 02, 2017 at 10:57
You are good at baking brownies, but are you really good at baking brownies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXi09kRdrM
June 02, 2017 at 10:53
"Applied philosophy considers as a single generative matrix the discursive praxis and its validation in a real object." Baking, I can assure you, is h...
June 02, 2017 at 10:49
Mary Berry rocks. I auditioned for the Aussie Bake Off, got to third round. My vegetarian shepherds pie was awesome but I wasn't interesting enough to...
June 02, 2017 at 10:38
I cannot see how considering that the former addition of 'likes' is gone and indeed there are no personal picture posting. It is nice to indulge in so...
June 01, 2017 at 12:38