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Yes. Some beliefs are more significant to people than others. This remark says nothing about the phenomenology of revealed truth.

If someone sees a duck or a rabbit, and there are no lines on the page, they are wrong. Yes. The same goes for any claim, do you mean to suggest no cl...

I'm still watching and judging. I've always been curious about revealed truth and faith. There's definitely a phenomenological angle you can take on i...

I just want to blame all of you for my search algorithm thinking I'm having a crisis of faith. @"Leontiskos" @"Count Timothy von Icarus"

Unlikely. Almost everyone I speak with. Lots, but only in the name of change and a bright future. No one. No one can help. Yes. Though requiring every...

I don't see how metaphysical optimism is relevant. I wasn't trying to say that we live in the best of all possible worlds with that offhand remark, I ...

Yes. Telling people that they must do more to do enough, when we already can't do enough, doesn't work. Answers to the problem aren't really about wha...

This post is just clarification. I am saying that. Though I imagine it can appear that I am saying something different since I see the flavour of agen...

Why'd you all have to keep pooping everywhere, gods.

My attitude toward us and our duties is that, by and large, we fulfil our duties. And I think to @"Count Timothy von Icarus"' point, our duties as we ...

They're stuck in my head as Christian hippies. But an attempt to live by a moral code, like they do, makes me respect them more than I would a hippie ...

I've read this post while scrolling three times now. Each time I misread this as "lasagna-related wife" and scroll back.

There can't be one. The forum back end doesn't allow it.

I used to live with a Fransiscan nun who did lots of outreach work. I'm thus quite fond of Fransiscans. I enjoyed their commitment to the inherent bea...

Under what conditions would you say someone is really compelled to do something vs if they merely feel compelled to do so something?

I believe I do, thanks for clarifying.

Both. I often think things that I find sad.

I find this quite sad. You wouldn't want to imagine a better world just for the people in it? No more than usual. I already have rid myself of that re...

I'm not a believer and have no interest in eschatology. Well that's a lie, I like eschatology. Good sir, I believe this is cope.

You're all good.

Nah I'm going back to the Society of St. Francis. I suppose more precisely I'm saying something like: There are things which will not improve without ...

I'm not trying to say that only acts of supererogation improve things, I'm saying that some acts of supererogation are required to improve things and ...

Alright. Do you imagine that the world would become a better place without some people behaving in an exemplary fashion?

Yes, they are saints who want to bring about a better world. The rub I was pointing at is that such actions are necessary to bring it about.

Now I get to derail threads and be ornery. It's great.

I don't care I'm not a mod any more. I thought @"Banno" tagged me for chitchat reasons.

Reactionary Mind from Corey Robin?

Oh I thought this was the shoutbox, my bad.

My heart remains Christian, alas.

My passing heralds the end of days.

@"Leontiskos" - Yes, that is what I was getting at. The rough idea I was playing with is as follows, there's a big asymmetry between obligation and su...

Alright. You take what someone has said and try to represent their argument in your own terms. You do so in a manner which tries to make the best of t...

You're probably not used to arguing formally, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. When you say something like this, you need to distinguish rig...

Yes. A reason to care, in the context of a philosophical discussion, is an argument. You expressed a personal preference here, without argument. And h...

You can call anyone rigid when they disagree with you. Absolutely pointless argument strategy. How're you going to re-evaluate all the values with thi...

You're providing no reason for anyone else to care about what you're saying. Which speaks to a misunderstanding of how normativity and morality couple...

Why?

The nature of things is perceived as true because it alone is the yardstick by which every judgement is measured. Unfortunately whenever one has perce...

You have 604 unclear terms in your OP. A physical what? The physical what? But they are indexible by distinct time points t1 and t2 by the presumption...

Thank you! It has happened a few times. Luckily my anger is quite milquetoast. It's sufficiently British online that it counts as a barbed comment or ...

I didn't step down because of burnout.

The Chaos. Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I wil...

A dream isn't a distinct and inconsistent reality, it's a phenomenology with different patterns of content and association of content typified in it. ...

It takes a lot of effort for someone to watch a thread and keep it strictly on topic with mod powers. It would also be hard to police the boundary in ...

The thing I'd want most is for people to be able to state a reason why posts are reported. As much as this would help remove perceived trolls from dis...

For general AI, for now it's a boring problem that a Bay Area cargo cult popularised in order to dupe donations from impressionable software nerds.

By a big deal I mean it's a big deal to me if I put on my philosophy hat. Though I'm under no illusions that idealism could be convincingly refuted to...

And it shall never be.

@"Wayfarer" knows how I feel about idealism very well. We argued about it for years!

If people were doing idealism from the perspective of plants and egg yolks I'd be game though.