No, I don't think living in crazy-land is a good thing. My point was that no matter how you frame it, excluding insane people from political discourse...
I had intended this thread, not as a discussion about the merits and failings of the orange clown, but as a discussion over the threat psychiatry is t...
I think this can be interpreted as saying it is fair to poison the well by suggesting a person is unqualified without any qualifications yourself. Not...
I am reading Wilfred Cantwell Smith's The Meaning and End of Religion, for reference. The central thesis is that religion in its "corporate", either/o...
1.) All winged horses are horses. 2.) All winged horses have wings. 3.) Therefore, some horses have wings. This is not quite valid since it is missing...
Well, just confirmed we are not talking about epistemic content yet, but is this logically fallacious? Is the "existential fallacy" really a logical f...
No, I don't think so. There is a difference between logical validity and soundness. Having valid syllogisms doesn't make you any closer to reality, no...
But that's exactly my point about interpretation, hermeneutics. You can't simply assume that what Paul meant by religion is what modern westerners mea...
Well, both of us are just asserting things. I don't think Christianity as a determinant "thing" existed for as long as you do. This is partly an empir...
I don't want to derail this discussion, and I was going to make a separate thread related to this later anyway. But a major idea here is that the port...
These things don't just appear out of nowhere. They take time to develop, but as you are probably aware, the Enlightenment and the scientific revoluti...
True, I should have said that it was at least partially a result, or was influenced dramatically by the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution. A...
No, I'm not saying we should ignore the atrocities committed by organized religion. My point was that organized religion is at least in part a reactio...
"Religion" is a term of abuse, more often than not applied externally by other people who wish to have a ready-made strawman to win a silly debate. Sc...
This is a non-sequitur, as this is only a problem for affirmative moral realism, i.e. a morality that never intersects life. If life is (objectively) ...
I agree. It has been my conviction for a while now that philosophy is, fundamentally, an individualistic enterprise. I think that philosophy may not b...
Well, we both presumably agree that what is the case is not the same thing as what could be the case. If I order a cup of coffee with no cream, there ...
As a retort: but this is false: if an evil demon does in fact deceive you, then it is impossible that you are actually seeing your hands. Thus, the re...
I'm with you on this. Somehow I get sucked into arguing without argument and I always leave disappointed and with ruffled feathers. I tend to take per...
How do you not fear death? I'm going off of my experiences. From my experiences, death is scary and most people, myself included, run away from it. Th...
Thus begins the descent into point-for-point responding. "Noooo, you're wrong!" "Nuh-uh, you're wrong!", ad nauseum. One of these days the ennui is go...
I agree. One argument I have presented before and here now is that humans are out of balance with nature by their very nature. We're too intelligent, ...
Well, the point of bringing up pessimism is mostly to get people to recognize the negative structure of life, with the "ultimate" end being abstention...
The pessimist mantra may indeed be that life is not worth living, but that does not mean certain moments of life at such-and-such time and place aren'...
Yes, good addition. Pain is not intra-worldly. Pain is Being. To exist as Dasein means to suffer through the terminality of Being, the condemnation to...
This is an example of what someone like Cabrera, and myself, call "second-order ethics". Probability? Estimation? Determining what is right and what i...
My response was more focused on apo specifically, but to answer your query: How do you feel about this being used as an argument for antinatalism? Tha...
You missed the point of my exposition by a full mile and a half. I'm tired of not being taken seriously, having my entire argumentative essay reduced ...
Interesting, I like this sentiment. The fervor that people can have defending their views can only be described as fanatical and zealous. Calling peop...
One of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9gOAFa7bnk "Funeral planet, dead black asteroid Mausoleum, this world is a tomb Human zombi...
A mixed bag? Generally all right? Which one is it? The question the structural pessimist asks if the value of being as such. Not the value of living n...
It's great you are having a good time and continue to find enjoyment in living. You, like most everyone else, do not want to die. That's what so tragi...
The Platonistic idea is that universals, or eidos (ideas) are the "most real" things that are. All material, concrete phenomena are but mere shadows, ...
This is a straw man of philosophical pessimism, I think. (Philosophical) pessimism does not claim someone cannot feel good at such-and-such time and p...
I see life as a continual shifting of the weight from one "arm" to another. Positive experiences happen when this weight is temporarily lifted - for i...
If both of you are reasonable and tolerant, you will go your separate ways and not think too poorly of the other person. Different premises entail dif...
I think the mark of an intellectual is to be well-acquainted with your own ignorance, and to always be striving to deepen one's understanding. A "true...
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