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I've been increasingly impressed by Cioran. Reading him sometimes feels like ripping a band-aid off. It's like, y'oww, I was not prepared for that but...

Sure but it's probably better than self-medicating with alcohol or some kind of substance.

I've wondered if I have schizophrenia myself. I have been diagnosed with moderate OCD, mostly mental obsessions as well as depression but I notice in ...

I've found suicidal thoughts are easier to tolerate if I usually have them. It might be easier to live life without suicidal thoughts but it's a lot h...

No.

Believe it or not it actually did kinda fall into my lap.

I'm not violating copyright law simply by reading what someone else has uploaded. If they hadn't uploaded it, I probably would not have read it.

David Benatar - The Human Predicament

Better-than is not equivalent to good. That's it.

yeah probably he's smart af when it comes to biology

damn it's been too long since I've heard the word symmetry, I had no idea how much I needed it until now

hey, apo's back, nice

I don't see why we should view the Sun as sacred. We aren't throwing garbage into it, we are putting a satellite into orbit that will eventually be co...

Does the Sun care what gets tossed into it?

My autobiography. by me of course

Your namesake would have made the distinction between essential, or natural, pursuits and artificial pursuits. Natural pursuits being those like acqui...

I think anyone who devalues getting intoxicated by alcohol or some other substance might not have experienced the things that typically motivate getti...

Weltschmerz by Frederick C. Beiser

I'll pay you

Hey can someone please do my programming assignment for me

Buddhist reincarnation isn't really like re-starting anew but with the same "ego", it's more like the transferal of the flame from one candle to anoth...

I think any "religious" view of science stems from a misunderstanding of what science is and an ignorance of its methodology and limits. The average p...

So, you're a "nihilist" in the sense that there is no meaning "out there", but not a "nihilist" in the sense that there is no meaning whatsoever? Beca...

Welcome. What do you mean by "leap of faith"? Soren Kierkegaard would have seen science as requiring a leap of faith itself. I'm not sure what you mea...

Because I'd like to be able to see something like this.

I'm cool with space exploration, hell, if I had the opportunity I'd fucking go to the moon! Space colonization is what is nauseating. I'd like to be a...

Don't get me started on my aversion to expansion into space. It's delusional to think that we'll fare any better on another planet when we can't even ...

I agree. I'm increasingly vexed and nauseated by the large amount of different worldviews that all seem to be saying the same thing but which fail to ...

Basically just any sort of feeling of belonging in the world or serving a higher purpose that is not immediately concrete and accessible but rather ov...

To be devoid of spirituality is to be homeless. At least that's what it seems to me.

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Right, affirmative ethics eschews harm and manipulation of other people but fails to account for the single instance of harm and manipulation that mak...

No, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I prefer not to identify myself with any "schools" or "movements". It smells too much of dogmatic traditionalism. The map is confused for the territor...

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I'd wonder if I really was immortal. What if there was something that could kill me? How could I ever know I really was immortal unless I were God?

You might be interested in the work of Colin Feltham. He's a psychologist and counselor who is working in the field of depressive realism, with an emp...

I think you are correct that most of life is a repetition of boring events. We go through the motions of life out of habit and inertia. In my own expe...

Are you sure that they don't refer to anything? How can we coherently talk about something without having a representation of it in our minds? How can...

Yes, I have read Haack and am in a lot of agreement with her. However I have found from my own reading that she calls science a loosely-organized fede...

It can be the axiological foundation of a consequentialist theory that would take the value of a population as more important than the value of an ind...

There can't be scientism if there isn't any science! >:O

But how do you explain the fact that we can think about impossibilities? Do these acts of thinking not really exist?

No, at least not necessarily. There's a difference between saying taking pleasure in killing people is good for the person doing the killing, to sayin...

But why does this reason exist? And why does the reason that this reason exist also exist? If something is necessarily existent - why is it necessaril...

I'm only speculating, but it seems to me that if we try to label, describe, or otherwise identify something as "brute", we have only pushed the explan...

Exactly. Just because some things are designed does not make all things designed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiO_7LhPZFM

Or maybe the coherency of Hume's arguments is a reason for Academia's leftist/atheist "bias"?

Just a stab in the dark, but does anyone know of any philosophical work on the essence of science fiction? I'm particularly interested in the common t...