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The statements each say something different, but the bigger difference comes from what they don't say - the undefined context. The first one fits into...

Trump's contribution to the US is disenchantment. We've been headed toward some Orwellian dystopia for a long time. The first step of recovery is neve...

The narrative itself is one way to tell we aren't really like that. Personally, I've found it really therapeutic to simply drop the premise that peopl...

You're projecting all the sass. The point has to do with off-limit trivialities stifling broader discussion. I do understand that you don't see my poi...

I still don't feel victimized. Not sure why you want me to be/feel victimized. What about the hypothetical I gave. What if you had to bet on it? You'd...

I don't feel victimized at all. Don't get worked up. You're right that I don't think the assertion requires much argument to support it - it's plainly...

Insofar as generalizations are truth-apt, the claim that men are generally superior to women at sports is true. If there were a sports competition (sp...

That men are generally superior to women at sports. Even though you said this wasn't true I wasn't convinced you believed yourself and didn't take you...

Not everything is OK to say, no. Anyway, I just think there's something interesting about the systematic denial of trivial truth. Symptomatic of somet...

I asked whether it's OK to say it, not whether it's true. But your position is that men are inferior to women at sports? Or that they're exactly equal...

Women are inferior to men at sports. Is it OK to say that?

You completely missed my point. Exercise is not the good stuff of life, it's one of the proper ways to "spend suffering". I consider the endorphins (s...

Nope, don't buy that one. Please don't reward anyone.

Well, I'm with you in that I find anyone in camp 1 suspect. Suffering is a fundamental part of life. I tend to view suffering in two basic categories:...

I think most people are sympathetic to the notion that life sucks. But, sure, it's a topic that can attract defensiveness. It's a visceral topic. Howe...

Autistic version of an answer nobody has given. There's a pretty enormous gap in these positions that you should acknowledge if you want to move past ...

I had something closer to an existential double entry accounting system in mind, but yeah the trinity might be a religious analog. I don't pretend to ...

Try love. You suffer all the time. Go suffer for other people, say for 1 month, and see how you feel. Suffering is a resource and you're spending it o...

If 2 "brute facts" co-arose from nothing, each contingent upon and sustained by the other, would they be brute facts?

I think if time were simply change, neither of us would be as interested in it as we are. Indeed, you've given a remarkably uninteresting account of i...

Anyway, you said you were interested in time. Would it have meant the same thing (to you) if you said you were interested in change? What is it about ...

Sure, which supports my position that time is a specific type of change. Squares are rectangles, but squares and rectangles aren't the same thing.

I think words are whatever we want them to be insofar as they facilitate effective idea sharing. So, I don't like time=change because I find it limiti...

The part you're not saying anything about is the interesting part - the extent to which time is something about us. To me, that's more or less the dis...

I think about time a lot too. Do you really think it's identical to change? If we were totally indifferent to change, would time still elapse?

Are there non-speculative metaphysics? In a nutshell, I just don't see the distinction between cause and correlation as crisply as I used to. I have t...

I'm with Andrewk on this. He's not merely being pedantic. I believe he has something coherent in mind, a perspective from which the concept is a distr...

It's not that my inner world is more lucid than the external world. I'm saying I have experience (as I think most people do) with both kinds of inner ...

Schop, do you ever have days where you don't feel this way? It's been really striking to me just how primary the 'way I feel' is. It seems to be what ...

'everything' is a word.

You're looking for someone to make the case that we should create more people purely for their own good, that good being the fuzzy notion of self-actu...

Sure, they want to have kids for any number of reasons. To experience the pleasant intensity of fatherly/motherly love, as one example.

The default position probably doesn't involve a positive reason for procreating. All things being equal, people will have sex. So, the absence of a co...

That the issue is framed as a pro-life/pro-choice dichotomy is already a sneaky move. The default position is of course to defer to the actual people ...