Hegel expands pretty good on Kant's notion of disinterest (which I'm alluding to), in his notions of the for itself, and the for us. I'm making a ridi...
"Tell me what it is you cherish most, so that I may have the pleasure of taking it away" - Sephiroth "I pity you. You just don't get it at all. There ...
You can think you're done and perfect, it's everyone else that's the problem, and you can let your guard down, but that's when it gets you. At the ver...
I like to tell my family that we all have a competitive animal in us, trying to dominate, and gain the throne. That world religions are usually about ...
Essences, categories and such attempt to explain how words which are always general, can possibly consistently apply to things, which are always parti...
"This is just between you and me, but when I was fourteen, I saw a UFO. That UFO telepathically told me this prophecy: "When you grow up, you will dir...
God never claims to be omnibenevolent, but the ultimate cause of all things " I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I ...
You know that you couldn't turn your head in ancient Greece without seeing a dick? Dick art, dick jewelry, dick dicks. The heart shape also comes from...
Yeah, someone called me "420 Jesus" the other day as a passive aggressive aside. I thought it was funny, and it's an obvious flaw that people can use ...
Not at first! I of course started out in the lowest class (such is my life), but then worked my way up! It was nearly impossible to do, and you'd neve...
Three hundred years ago, I could legally kill anyone I wanted using the institution of dueling (I'm great at dueling), and three hundred years before ...
Helping and saving others usually isn;t considered "gain", but cost, if one isn't getting paid. That's why people don't do that kind of thing truly se...
Denounce them hopefully. Rehumanize whose that are dehumanized, help those that are harmed, speak out. I think most importantly though, never make it ...
I would complicate things and distinguish between primary sensuous emotions, and secondary aesthetic, or rational judgments. The only way to deal with...
You know what people miss about Jesus, which makes him a good parallel for Socrates? It wasn't that he was the only healer, or teacher going around. I...
That the consequential fearmongering is not to be taken literally, but understood to just be emotional manipulation on its face? As I already admitted...
And you did for the trends of violence, the only thing I have disputed? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_i...
Pinker most famously, because it's hard to get anything other than terrible news out -- but it is statistically and archaeologically supported, and no...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGh0EMmMC8 Couldn't actually have "form-fitting" armor anyway, it would have more edges, and possibility of ripping y...
Are you suggesting that there is more violence today? This is not reasonably disputable. There might be different kinds, and trends, but way less over...
As I attempted to explain to KoolCat, I am not making a claim to the actual explanation of global trends, I imagine there to be many many factors that...
Further, I don't think that the reasoning even follows, and is better accounted for by what I've already suggested. When people think that we're "mere...
I've heard that kind of thing a lot, but again, when it doesn't actually pan onto what's going on in the world, it can't be true. For it to be true, a...
I will grant one sense in which it is true. People are psychologically or emotionally more brutal than ever, I think. A consequence of a lack of physi...
People sure love to respond with a lot of rhetoric, and zero content. Just like this post, notice how it's mocking and accusatory, and not a single wo...
So people are more brutal now than ever before, and brutality has increased in the world? Where? In what senses? I'm sure that it appears to be so if ...
Which is equally manifestly the opposite of the truth. A good analog for the brain is a bee hive. Bees do two things when they're doing their dance, w...
My claim was to the notion that modern materialistic, and secular trends will lead to more violence. Firstly by noting that it actually hasn't, but ha...
With our minds we can care about everything equally and infinitely, but not in real life. It actually is a calculus where things get hierarchically or...
Metaphysics never really matter beyond their content as capital, like everything else. Just don't make shit up, as if you can re-invent a wheel 2,500 ...
It's difficult to turn a military indiscriminately against its own populace. It would have to isolate a particular group, and then individual dissente...
I think that it's obviously what I suggested. When you look up the ethical concerns of progressives, and conservatives, you'll see that the godless on...
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