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The Abyss

['Member']Joined: January 28, 2020 at 21:20Last active: April 04, 2020 at 12:063 discussions9 comments

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An existentialist, a humanist, a skeptic - but primarily an interlocutor in a wider discussion I am still discovering.

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In: Brexit  — view comment
I don't support Brexit, though I think the way in which it has been carried out is perhaps just as large an issue as the operation itself. A good deal...
February 01, 2020 at 18:20
Thoughts do indeed require an original thinker. Nothing can come from nothing. One can not have absolute clarity regarding the identity of such a 'thi...
January 30, 2020 at 22:40
The idea I was trying to convey is as follows: since defining art is an elusive task, the more valuable question should be 'what is good art?' Any num...
January 30, 2020 at 22:25
A computer can produce art, but without emotion, it will forever lack that which can be deemed 'creativity'. It will have merely completed a series of...
January 30, 2020 at 22:11
Art can be seen an expression of the self and of the environment from whence it originated, though it can also exist as its own mouthpiece. It is reco...
January 30, 2020 at 22:01
How can one rebel against the premises of life if one still continues to live? By living one is accepting, it is purely a matter of how content one ca...
January 30, 2020 at 19:22
I am prone to agree with you. The vagueness of the term ‘human nature’ was merely to provoke a little extra thought amongst interlocutors. Personally,...
January 30, 2020 at 18:15
"My way to truth is asking the right questions," says Socrates in Plato's Protagoras. For those who claim never to have come into contact with philoso...
January 28, 2020 at 22:12
The premises of life: an ever ambiguous concept. However, they have plagued humanity for centuries. Firstly, I think it highly important to question w...
January 28, 2020 at 21:48