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March 12, 2022 at 19:34
I mean, do you disagree?
March 12, 2022 at 19:32
Yeah it is creepy for sure
March 12, 2022 at 19:29
Oh sure, women can objectify, though that doesn't necessarily mean that objectification is natural. These women are female but living within the confi...
March 12, 2022 at 18:42
Indeed, the pure simplicity and tranquility associated with oblivion makes one wonder why god felt the need to change it by creation. The only theolog...
March 11, 2022 at 00:13
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly
March 05, 2022 at 18:15
IMO, "misunderstanding" Heidegger isn't possible because there really isn't anything to understand that hasn't already been said more clearly elsewher...
March 01, 2022 at 02:08
Democracy for the Few, Michael Parenti North, Céline
March 01, 2022 at 01:19
:fire: Life always dies, eventually. While continuing one's life may be good, the anxiety associated with losing one's life, is not good. In my view, ...
February 24, 2022 at 05:14
From an open-minded (and perhaps naive) perspective, the use of philosophy in religion can be seen as a method of acquainting someone with religious c...
February 18, 2022 at 03:27
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Peter Kropotkin Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller
February 12, 2022 at 22:38
If the proposition "nothing is ruled out" is true, then the proposition "nothing is ruled out" is an exception to this. "Nothing ruled out except the ...
February 09, 2022 at 04:42
Same here! :100:
February 07, 2022 at 02:38
Ending a moral evil that is happening right now is obviously more important than preventing a moral evil that might happen in the future. You're basic...
February 07, 2022 at 02:10
Average member of an internet debate about antinatalism: https://c.tenor.com/nZcqVc2ys5wAAAAd/avarage-fan.gif
February 04, 2022 at 02:58
The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
February 01, 2022 at 04:04
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February 01, 2022 at 02:31
Yes, there is evidence to suggest that hunter-gatherers were much more well-rounded and capable than modern domesticated humans (the same can be said ...
January 31, 2022 at 03:55
Elaborate on this. How do you know that the past does not extend infinitely in the same way that the future does? I think we are like waves in an ocea...
January 31, 2022 at 03:48
So parasitism?
January 30, 2022 at 04:15
I would say it would be a necessary but not sufficient condition for being one, or at least a great one.
January 26, 2022 at 02:33
Just my opinion but I think you usually have to be dead to be a great philosopher. Someone's thought cannot be given enough judgement within the short...
January 26, 2022 at 01:00
Money and Power, Jacques Ellul
January 25, 2022 at 03:32
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher Browning Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofst...
January 22, 2022 at 17:50
Natalism: it's okay to procreate if most people are happy with their lives. Capitalism: it's okay to exploit workers if most people are well-off and m...
January 18, 2022 at 19:44
Apologies, I was busy this weekend. I had a few of things in mind when writing this piece. One is that logic can be cruel even if it seems irrefutable...
January 17, 2022 at 19:58
Quite correct, though the barons understand the technology even less than the technicians that create it. Technology has taken on a reality of its own...
January 14, 2022 at 03:38
You are correct, glad you enjoyed it :cool:
January 14, 2022 at 03:27
January 13, 2022 at 02:36
Thanks, I needed that extension, busy weekend
January 10, 2022 at 04:38
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Wendy Lower
January 09, 2022 at 19:21
Thanks!
January 06, 2022 at 05:40
I am a programmer. I can send you my resume if you like, I'm looking for a new job :sweat: I mean, idk I think there is satisfaction that can be deriv...
January 05, 2022 at 05:15
As someone who works in the computer industry I feel confident saying that the technology is not well-known amongst the engineers that are thought to ...
January 04, 2022 at 01:42
Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman
January 03, 2022 at 21:37
Being self-sufficient seems like it is an important quality of a mature human being. It seems to me that there is something fundamentally repulsive (p...
January 03, 2022 at 21:33
Put both on my to-reads, they look interesting.
January 02, 2022 at 20:02
Well, except for this claim of his, I guess :yawn:
January 01, 2022 at 16:56
My 2021 readings in no particular order, though there are some omissions that I don't remember at the moment. Favorites are in bold: Fiction: Of Mice ...
January 01, 2022 at 00:32
Funny and irreverent. Grammatical structure and the anti-hero protagonist reminded me of Céline.
December 27, 2021 at 01:41
Did a bit of digging, found this: https://plushforums.com/pre-sales Dunno if there's a straightforward way of getting all of your data, aside from 's ...
December 26, 2021 at 20:09
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Yitzhak Arad
December 26, 2021 at 05:13
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Strong black coffee in the morning, usually half a pot. An IPA or two in the evening. Both paired with a book. Larger amounts of alcohol make me sleep...
December 22, 2021 at 19:49
But it's already been identified, more times than can be counted. At this point it's just shuffling papers around, a temporary catharsis. I am skeptic...
December 22, 2021 at 17:31
Capitalism has already been mentioned, and this should be obvious (identifying the problem is a lot easier than solving it). In addition to this, or m...
December 22, 2021 at 02:50
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, Gitta Sereny
December 19, 2021 at 19:56
I think you're probably right that a lot of philosophy is the LARPing of ideas. Often it seems like philosophy is studied in a way that detaches itsel...
December 17, 2021 at 17:36
Treblinka was unbelievably good. Holy fuck
December 15, 2021 at 05:30
It may be depressing to you because you sense that hope and optimism, while advantageous in the short term, ultimately prolongs unpleasant things unne...
December 13, 2021 at 02:16