/uploads/resized/files/k5/y2g5ezie84ohbqpa.png Each dot is a country. If I told you the y axis was number of mass shootings and the x axis was number ...
In China, about a dozen seemingly random attacks on schoolchildren killed 25 people between 2010 and 2012. Most used knives; none used a gun. By contr...
On the contrary, it’s the go-to argument of the NRA-owned GOP. It also happens to be completely bogus. In fact some research suggests that mental illn...
Once we get guns into everyone’s hands, as the gun manufacturers want, then at long last gun violence will be solved. We’ll finally reach the lower le...
Mass murders that wouldn’t happen without powerful weapons. Japan, Italy, Brazil, Britain, France, China…all have people with depression, anxiety, des...
True, but also: it’s laughable to say people who want to do something WILL do something, and that having easy access to particular means is irrelevant...
It’s hard to imagine continuing to hold beliefs that lead to laughable conclusions, over and over again. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”...
Indeed. Gun worshippers have no real argument. So don’t expect much except motivated reasoning. Anyway - we require licenses and training to drive a c...
Mental health problems exist all over the world. Rates are not higher in the United States than elsewhere. The reason we’re an outlier in mass shootin...
But being as constant presence isn’t a modern idea really. It goes back to the Greeks. I think he’s quite clear about that. Ousia, etc. Maybe I’m misu...
I think this is the subject/object thing again. I don’t think it’s either. There’s simply being in the world. However, once in a present-at-hand mode ...
Another mass shooting. Good time to point out, once more: 1) it’s the guns. 2) the Republican Party will continue to block any solutions, because they...
This is interesting. I’ve always taken “presence” to be connected with presence-at-hand — i.e., the mode of being we’re in when contemplating things, ...
I think it’s exactly that. Especially among people who already thought he was a charlatan or too obscure. Now they can dismiss it all easily. One of m...
It’s not a sense of community. The “they” can be thought as something like Freud’s superego— the sense of what “they” think and “they” believe. The ma...
So imagine substituting “jews” for “they” in B&T. Would that make any sense whatsoever? No. It’d be completely incoherent. I think it’s worthwhile to ...
Not that exact wording, but something like it yes. If not, who cares? Plenty of thinkers — and artists, and scientists — were fairly nasty people. If ...
No, I don’t think it’s uncharitable. You make interesting points. I just don’t see much in the text itself — you mentioned “blood” and “soil,” but whe...
Being and Time was published in 1927, well before Nazis came to power. There’s nothing in there about Nazism. There’s a long analysis about the questi...
MAGA nation seems riled up. Lots of Twitter posts, oh no! All because their criminal hero is throwing a toddler tantrum over (maybe) being held accoun...
One consequence of fighting inflation, as Powell has stated, is that ordinary Americans will have to go through some "pain." We know what this means. ...
All this talk of inflation during a time of unprecedented wealth and prosperity. Soaring profits, massive taxpayer handouts to Boeing and Lockheed Mar...
All these best picture winners of the 80s I never saw until recently — Chariots of Fire, Ghandi, Out of Africa, the Last Emperor, etc— have such simil...
Depends on what we mean by “world,” of course. If we restrict world to linguistic, perceptual or abstract entities, then sure. But he says consciousne...
Yes. Rocks are part of the world, right? So no world, no rocks. Rocks are not conscious, but they are still “things” — they are still beings in that s...
This is comical. Do you really doubt this claim? Are you implying that Aristotle wouldn’t say that a rock is a being? Rocks are beings. Are rocks sent...
Yes indeed. In this thread I believe Wayfarer is saying that Jung’s use of being is more in line with sentience, but I still don’t see how. In that ca...
Yeah— maybe you can take it from here. It’s not off topic, in my view, but wasn’t what I wanted to get into the weeds about myself. I was more interes...
But he “is,” and has a preontological understanding of being (a Heidegger phrase) or pre-theoretical concept of being. He may not have a great concept...
All of this seems confused. Consciousness is not simply sensation, and being is not simply an abstraction — any more than life is an abstraction. But ...
I think he’s repeating Descartes. Descartes’ dualistic ontology is fairly standard, I’d say. Even on the forum. Thanks for putting the time in to writ...
In that case the Tao is being as a whole — existence. The individuated beings (things) that we differentiate in perception have as much existence an a...
As I’ve stated many times before, I’m not using “being” in the sense of sentient beings. Beings, in my usage, means “things,” or “entities.” It’s anyt...
Well wakefulness ceases anyway. The “self” is too loaded a term to say anything useful about, in my view. Yeah…although now I realize Jung may have me...
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