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Only time will tell.

I tried to make a similar point here.

So despite me going through all that effort to show you why the report is not particularly strong support for remembering past lives, you don't care, ...

If you take Google Scholar citations for math papers as a directed graph then use some measure of centrality (like an Erdos number), you'd get a measu...

Just to prove to you that my rejection of these reports 'suggesting' that remembrance from past lives is not based on blind prejudice, or scientific o...

Can I take credit for this? Pretty please.

You could interpret it that way, being 'suggestive' of it. But notice that being suggestive does not mean that belief in what is suggested is warrante...

Seriously? The existence of data on a topic gives validity to conclusions made from the data? It doesn't.

There just aren't enough reports with enough accuracy to make past life memories plausible over unspecified random mechanisms associating categories w...

:up: Twitter didn't create Scruton's views, or their social context. The method here is more like discovering a septic spot then squeezing it than giv...

All that deep learning stuff on your posting habits is to map you onto a consumer identity (commodified personhood), this is why social media synergis...

Social media = social life and discourse = politics make sense in a political system where individuals cannot influence all, or at least the most impo...

I don't think it's a threat to democracy, it rarely leads to disruptions in anything, or political movements. What is a continuing threat to democracy...

We all float down here, already.

For a second I would like to defend the impulse to castigate Scruton. There are Scruton's ideas about sex being an interpersonal relationship between ...

The SEP article on Hegel's dialectics has a long section describing the Being and Nothing relationship.

If you want 'elite' content, make it, and ignore anyone who doesn't live up to your standards.

Axiom of restricted comprehension sorts that out. You can't form sets out of arbitrary predicates, the only time you can form a set using a predicate ...

But it hurts so good. I don't know of Mark Fisher, but Douglas Lain's definitely got a way with words.

Aye. I was definitely hoping that someone else was up to the task. Which is selfish of me.

But he's absolutely a central figure for popular conservative opinion.

Most of the regular posters who talk about politics here are decidedly left. We've got no traditional conservatives, and almost no one who can respond...

Yeah, I didn't intend my statement to actually be supporting Scruton's moralism about sex. What I actually wanted to convey was... The image of Scruto...

Pinned it.

Incredibly tiring and thorough research, I imagine.

Yes. Though, I'd love to see a conservative response longing for a return to the conditions soon after the sexual revolution, rather than what can see...

While I largely agree with you, I'm amused that critiquing someone's morality can now mean telling them how to fuck better.

Make a thread of it if you can be bothered. I fondly remember when North Star dropped it. A: "He's right, we need to show solidarity regardless of pet...

Of course. I meant to convey that it, predictably, lead to a schism among witch hunt leftists and another witch hunt. Edit: though, you don't actually...

The only comment I have on the article is that despite its great content it actually gets used as a device to bash 'witch hunt' leftists on the head w...

Advise anyone interested in Heidegger to read it, it was very good and well written.

In case anyone wasn't aware of the reference, it's an excellent article. Though it's definitely pitched at people who are already very leftist.

Merged duplicate threads.

Grice's maxims are useful. Quantity 1 Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange). 2 Do not make y...

For you, my ghost. My sister haunts the servers among the early dead Each photograph reposted, lost, it should remain unsaid That a spectacle of grief...

Fair. :up:

Yeah he's definitely not trying to portray history in all its gory details and banalities, he's a lot more concerned with (his idiosyncratic notion of...

Thanks. I don't know much about the distinction between art and techne in the later Heidegger, but at least the metaphysical side of your question in ...

Ok. Can you please tell me how Colingwood uses the terms you referenced? I'm not your enemy, I promise. Nor am I trying to troll.

Are there any quotes you can give from the text you are referencing that might help?

Yes, apparently. Now simmer down. If you have issues with how you have been moderated in this discussion feel free to start a complaint thread about m...

There is moderation. The question Terrapin asked of you was fine. You have not characterised 'functional or 'creative'. Seeing as they are technical t...

Do you actually attribute this belief to me, based on what I've written, or are you speaking hypothetically?

You know, it's funny, a lot of the discussion here is precisely disagreeing on what the 'normal meaning' of the phrase is. Your suspicion's right, I t...

Honestly? That we've done just fine supplying relevant contexts to the phrase to interpret it without all the theoretical machinery planting seeds of ...

I don't see much relation to the terms in the thread, I can see how you've substituted the general concepts in, into which house, flower, and turns in...

I would actually be interested in you applying these ideas to the OP to see what happens. I'm sorry for my earlier hostilities too. It's not really yo...

That's the key question really. You can see the different interpretations of 'houses are turning into flowers' as ways of ascribing a notion of possib...

I wasn't. My intuition was to turn the phrase into a truth by supplying the context of a poem. In that regard I understood the phrase 'houses are turn...

Trying to study things rigorously when on marijuana doesn't work so well, usually. I tried. A lot. It probably depends on the strength of it too, if y...