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February 03, 2017 at 18:21
What exactly are they trying to aim for then if they hold this view of human nature? Human perfectibility? Are you saying, in light of: That conservat...
February 03, 2017 at 17:53
Bertrand Russell (L) “There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortab...
February 01, 2017 at 11:48
Nice! John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday forever awesome. But above all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2...
January 31, 2017 at 09:49
My belief is that only through self-reflection and the attainment of an authentic, moral consciousness are we able to understand how to love. You quot...
January 30, 2017 at 15:30
Yes. It was pretty clear. He loves her genuinely, that was the point. He defies the "80% biological and 20% environmental" insipidness by following hi...
January 30, 2017 at 15:14
(Y)
January 30, 2017 at 10:42
“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abas...
January 30, 2017 at 10:20
An ‘unthinking advocate’ are the kinds that are uncompromising apologists defending that moron and the conservatives as a whole by justifying the most...
January 30, 2017 at 10:14
Probably because I have been entertained by so many irrational dopes as you call them :D and though the predictability of such characters eventually l...
January 30, 2017 at 09:34
Give what a go?
January 29, 2017 at 11:19
There are a plethora of reasons for the refugee crises, the historical, access to weapons, foreign factious interference and your uneducated generalis...
January 29, 2017 at 10:18
Dude, what are you talking about?
January 29, 2017 at 09:49
Why would an external agency be unable to reconcile emergentism with downward causation?Schrödinger equation? Quantum descriptions may contain princip...
January 29, 2017 at 08:55
"They do say that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork i...
January 29, 2017 at 08:02
So you're 28. :P
January 28, 2017 at 03:31
I don't know you. How can I tell whether you decided to pursue objectivism because you met someone that had decided the same thing and you liked this ...
January 28, 2017 at 03:18
I understand that you initially thought it was spot-on but an Islamic fundamentalist believes it is spot-on to kill in the name of religion so that he...
January 26, 2017 at 10:48
Social and environmental factors play a significant role more so than receptors vis-a-vis a woman' capacity to undertake philosophical study. I work w...
January 26, 2017 at 10:11
Because she is the Queen and one must always celebrate majesty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDBrpCL5Qk
January 25, 2017 at 21:44
I think the problem isn't objectivism per se - though I myself am not keen on the subject - but rather your absolutist need to follow the philosophy. ...
January 25, 2017 at 21:02
All good, the thread has reached its end. And I liked the video :D
January 23, 2017 at 10:23
I would not have replied but I felt a worried this great subject matter may go wandering alone down the rabbit hole and so I will give my two very bri...
January 23, 2017 at 10:12
While I am annoyed at the sudden digress from the OP, for what it is worth I think you are both on the wrong side of the extreme. A good marriage is t...
January 23, 2017 at 09:49
It sounds interesting, though I have always had doubts with ethnographic research in cultural anthropology, mostly because fieldwork can quite easily ...
January 23, 2017 at 09:43
You would have a field day in Australia. Even I don't understand half the things that are said here. If we were at an Amazonian village, why would the...
January 22, 2017 at 10:44
Yes, I do have the unfortunate tendency to be compelled to epsilon semi-morons when the person I need is right in front of me. :-# There really is not...
January 22, 2017 at 10:35
It is great deconstructing why I am compelled to certain music as I never interpreted Dream Brother as you have and perhaps the morality behind the ly...
January 22, 2017 at 10:06
It appears that TS is refusing to listen to the question, which is about deconstructing the assignment itself, the reasons for the initial decisions a...
January 21, 2017 at 22:08
(Y) ;)
January 21, 2017 at 21:59
The bias of your assumptions on the possible reactions of our Amazonian group is seriously challenging the anthropological position of cultural relati...
January 21, 2017 at 21:56
You are still scraping the surface; the question is about how or why this meaning is assigned and the influence underlying the decision.
January 21, 2017 at 21:35
Training in what way? Instrumental? Because not everyone can play an instrument and regarding what would happen if we take Mozart to an unmet tribe in...
January 21, 2017 at 21:17
This aspect of the eternal properties was precisely my initial enquiry, however I disagree that it is merely butchering reality, on the contrary the d...
January 21, 2017 at 21:01
Alright, gosh, this is the question and TP, I would much prefer an argument than a whole General Melchett "If nothing else works, a total pig-headed u...
January 21, 2017 at 20:39
Philosophy is also a language, so would that make it the highest music?
January 21, 2017 at 20:31
What has Jesus got to do with your cognitive limitations?
January 21, 2017 at 20:23
Nah, ill be hangin’ in the desert of the real. 8-)
January 21, 2017 at 15:53
I just want to add, if you think about Dream Brother by Buckley, it actually is honest, he is talking to his friend who intended to run away from his ...
January 21, 2017 at 06:36
The Greater Perfect System and the diatonic scale is interesting, but the metaphysics is lacklustre at best. The existence of natural mathematical law...
January 21, 2017 at 06:31
Whilst I appreciate your obdurate tone, the conveyance of aesthetic value and the meaning of the referent “authentic” though clearly ambiguous neverth...
January 21, 2017 at 06:14
Oi, what happened to Homer Simpson, eh? :-O You cunningly modest thang you. If we take out the forcibly and if we create the right atmosphere that wil...
January 20, 2017 at 11:31
I am not sure about unjustified fictions, but if we take Anderson' view of imagined communities, it is clear that our idea of society or concepts like...
January 20, 2017 at 10:09
It is good to be back, almost symbolic as I overcome certain things one step at a time. As said by Schopenhauer, "I believe that if a woman succeeds i...
January 16, 2017 at 19:46
Ah sorry old horse, I haven't been in a forum for a while. What I meant is that your proposition of a truly functioning community fails to consider ti...
January 16, 2017 at 19:22
If happiness is merely an externalisation or a quantitative multiplicity that represents spatial influences and that quantifies the very fibre of our ...
January 16, 2017 at 12:11
Ah, would that be so even if your wife prostitutes herself but she is beautiful or your family - in the Kafka 'Metamorphosis' sense - only "love" you ...
January 16, 2017 at 11:43
It depends on your view as to whether a community is a collection of individuals or whether it is subject to the sum of its own parts, where as you su...
January 16, 2017 at 11:30
Not sure about the phrasing mortal existence, ‘tis somewhat Highlanderish what with our mortal sins n’all, but nevertheless I tend to view the idea of...
January 15, 2017 at 11:40