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All obscure, arcane, and complex is it? That's usually the claim. If it's any good, it's straightforward. If it's ineffably enchantingly dumbfoundinge...
February 24, 2017 at 13:38
Yes, that's what I mean, not you, him.
February 24, 2017 at 09:21
I knew it was irony, as Wayfarer just isn't the kind of guy to quote Crowley with veneration. He stole the quote from Augustine, and omitted the thing...
February 24, 2017 at 09:19
Mums the word.
February 24, 2017 at 07:20
I really like this angle, which I haven't pursued in depth, and need to. I think that this is a fruitful angle, that I'm going to explore more. Thanks...
February 24, 2017 at 06:29
If you want to talk about normalizing, and recruitment then lesbians are demolishing gay men. The numbers for men that have reported homosexual experi...
February 24, 2017 at 06:21
I'm highly sympathetic to this view, I think that most enticingly, it creates the largest window for novelty and innovation. The draw back is that wit...
February 23, 2017 at 16:14
I doubt that anyone suggests that homosexuals are incapable of celibacy, it's rather that just like a heterosexual person, they don't consciously deci...
February 23, 2017 at 15:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz7Fyl6aU8w
February 22, 2017 at 19:37
Pretty bad at its job though... to be a bomb that is sent on the enemy that can be easily persuaded to come back and blow you up instead.
February 22, 2017 at 08:14
I dunno... bomb seemed pretty gullible to me.
February 22, 2017 at 08:10
You could prevent the bomb from exploding with zeno's paradox, convincing it that it has to actually count an infinite string of numbers before it can...
February 22, 2017 at 08:06
I'd be all like "saw that you were alone besides 'false data' apparently... look only the precise content can be doubted, but whether things look, sou...
February 22, 2017 at 05:04
Speaking of thirdness, that's Kant's right there. The transcendental illusions, the three transcendental objects that we can't help but posit, but can...
February 21, 2017 at 23:29
The wosret is many things.
February 21, 2017 at 21:58
To further expand, what's implied in the way you're talking is that Ariel is really thoughts in people's head, pictures, pixels on screens, words on p...
February 21, 2017 at 00:44
She only can't speak because of a magic spell, not because she's fictional. That's like saying that a hypothetical 100 pound weight is actually weight...
February 21, 2017 at 00:29
You're going to have to expand on this "grrreat" concept.
February 21, 2017 at 00:07
Now that said... weirdo reclusive defiant hoarder with only animal friends with no consideration at all whatsoever for others. Isn't tricked or anythi...
February 20, 2017 at 22:45
To insert some Hegel here, we can say that an essence is both limited, and finite. It is limited in the sense of physical constrains, but also finite ...
February 20, 2017 at 22:36
Probably the same place those comedians are.
February 20, 2017 at 03:58
Maybe conservatives just never get sarcasm...
February 20, 2017 at 03:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJ9v__NyR0
February 19, 2017 at 16:43
Not to labor it, but I can't help myself... the age of anger has me! I suppose that I was primed because of a cracked article I read (I swear those gu...
February 19, 2017 at 15:40
I am 42 minutes in, he's starting to talk about graphic violence... I can't even go on facebook anymore without having dead babies shoved in my face, ...
February 19, 2017 at 14:57
We love thinking everyone that disagrees with us is an idiot, evil piece of shit. Not many people can take someone not agreeing with them for more tha...
February 19, 2017 at 13:49
Peirce strikes me as less than interesting. Most significantly, he doesn't actually explain in any way how objects constrain their signs. I also don't...
February 19, 2017 at 13:20
I was just playing around. I don't know if we would have a name for it at all. I imagine that nothing actually would be visible without contrast, qual...
February 19, 2017 at 02:09
Opposites are different than negatives though. Like the opposite of up is down, but the negation of "up" is just "not up" but could be any arbitrary d...
February 19, 2017 at 01:15
Well, right, left, up down are all positive things. "not-me", "not-us" and "not-shit" are not, and could really conceivably be anything at all except ...
February 19, 2017 at 00:51
I've still going to have to think about what you've said more, do a little reading on the subject before I get back to you. Probably tomorrow, I've be...
February 19, 2017 at 00:48
It's moronic because it insinuates that I'm some naive idiot, particularly when I'm being sarcastic. Besides that, "winning someone over" is just anot...
February 19, 2017 at 00:44
Thanks a lot for the post, gonna have to give it more thought.
February 18, 2017 at 22:34
I feel like we could never truly understand each other if that were the case, and I find that too tragic...
February 18, 2017 at 18:35
Oh, I don't know what's what. I'm just saying ideas and positions I like more, or find more satisfying. Definitely not claiming to know what I'm talki...
February 18, 2017 at 18:19
Yeah, it's all part of its meaning. They definitely form each other's meaning relationally, but the relation itself is abstract, and applicable to man...
February 18, 2017 at 18:07
Hemispheres are not really distinquishable besides through their specific features, and orientations. I mean, the polarity could shift, and the south ...
February 18, 2017 at 17:14
Thing is though, that a comparison for difference and similarity has to be crisp in my view. Can't be simply a heuristic, as if the thing in question ...
February 18, 2017 at 17:11
You don't have much of a bastion between quotes and rhetoric do you?
February 18, 2017 at 16:41
Just sounds like perspectivism. Universals would have to be immanent, maybe something like exemplars, and similarity reduced to a historical track of ...
February 18, 2017 at 16:31
They do indeed, but I think that a proper explanation outlines how they interact and form one and others, like the length and width of a rectangle for...
February 18, 2017 at 15:36
All of these choices of words are psychological terms. A "difference that makes a difference" suggests a difference that matters, a significant differ...
February 18, 2017 at 15:34
What does "a difference which makes a difference" mean other than "a difference that matters"? Which is, again, a disposition. I don't see much import...
February 18, 2017 at 14:55
Significance is also a psychological disposition. At best these must be metapors or analogies for some third thing which must be of the same kind of t...
February 18, 2017 at 14:33
"Indifference" seems too anthropomorphic to me, too steeped in intentional emotional states. I do think that intention or emotion is ubiquitous with l...
February 18, 2017 at 13:59
Though SLX doesn't seem to be suggesting that things begin with difference, but indifference, which is a disposition... a neutral disposition. I'll ha...
February 18, 2017 at 13:51
How does it develop from radical alterity? In what form precisely?
February 18, 2017 at 13:47
I repeatly suggested the need for a standard ("with respect to" doesn't sound too different from that), and of course everything can't be reduced to a...
February 18, 2017 at 13:40
Normativity, though you may think solves the problem because it is "performed" or something doesn't. Because in order to judge something normative, th...
February 18, 2017 at 13:22
See, you don't like that idea either, so you try to smuggle universality back in.
February 18, 2017 at 13:11