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Is this not the type-token distinction?

First of all, let's try to keep the inflammatory commentary to a minimum. Second, simply because we do not relate to a computer as well as we do to ot...

I am going to go on a hunch here and concur that if a person is ignorant of a specific topic (such as the morality/rationality of child birth), insofa...

And that's all that matters! :D

The context would be life. What goal is life itself, the chemical reactions itself, leading towards? There is no goal. Life is without a goal and with...

I think the issue that Schopenhauer1 is bringing up is not necessarily that life is always a burden, but rather when analyzed from an objective third ...

The lack of contentedness seems to be more of a problem of modern day society rather than an unsolvable paradox.

This is a good point. I have never understood how the ascetic is supposed to forget the reason they are being an ascetic in the first place. Case in p...

They represent Depression, Aspergers, and Loneliness. ;) I was a weird kid.

Hell yeah it is.

Greenland

That, or we could make unconscious artifical humans so some of the people here could finally get laid ;) /s

Yeah, I don't know about the Falkland Island flag. Very strange.

Interesting thoughts about thieves hiding behind national flags. When I was younger and weirder, I made my own little micronation. You can see the fla...

Be well.

Causation already is a contentious subject in metaphysics, even though it is taken for granted in much of science. Aristotle thought that objects (not...

This is basically the idea of the Aristotelian telos, which I don't really find convincing. It asks us to think of causation as "pulling" versus "push...

Gary pisses me off. He makes good points, though, and that's why he pisses me off even more because he makes far more idiotic points than decent ones,...

YouTube isn't much better, haha. The way I look at it, you can't lose something if you don't have it. A fetus does not have a "will", a "telos", to li...

Stay the hell away from some of those subreddits. They are toxic and filled with extraordinarily narrow-sighted people. I think I had maybe one or two...

Yep. Cool.

Would you agree that metaphysics is primarily focused on the analysis of the phenomenology of the world as it appears to us?

Perhaps "non-natalism" would be a better term? Interesting discussion. I'm with you on the weak-version; birth is usually merely unnecessary (and over...

What does this esotericism mean? No, I would teach a man to fish. Prove it. So why are you not suicidal again?

The term "American" is definitely a tricky one to define, since the country is such a melting pot of cultures. It's almost as if, in the case of not b...

This is a very large sweeping claim. How do you know this? This is why you teach a man to fish. Or even better teach him to be a vegetarian. You get t...

When did I say this? (hint, I never did) I'm an anti-natalist because of the existence of things like suffering, although I don't dwell on the fact of...

Meh. Help the starving, it will make you feel good, or at least more than complaining will. And a wonderful one at that. You misunderstand me. When we...

Biologically speaking, your life does revolve around eating. That's what life is: the transfer of energy in a very compact and efficient manner. It ac...

I don't need heroin to keep living, so I don't know what you're going on about in terms of that. Perhaps if we were wild animals without access to a s...

So I think the real question here that we ought to discuss is whether or not the state of the world is bad enough to warrant suicide.

Agustino, I want to add something on to what I said previously about happiness. Like I said before, I still believe happiness to be synonymous with co...

What is the excruciating pain that you speak of? And given that you have internet access, I would assume you have the means to obtain sufficient nutri...

It's a choice so long as one isn't suffering from a psychological problem.

What is your definition of happy? Seems to me that if you pay too much attention to yourself, you end up unfulfilled and grouchy.

The flight to neverland was cancelled because of all the snow. :P Most likely.

And why should we believe this claim about the Dalai Lama? LOL you might not be happy. And many of us have more important things to do than demean oth...

(I think) I have some good news. Lately I have been feeling, psychologically speaking, more positive and upbeat. This is a tricky time for me right no...

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

Perhaps faith is not the blind fideism we typically attribute it as but rather a rational confidence.

That is an interesting point. If we had unfallible arguments for the existence of a god, faith would not be a requirement. I suppose these arguments c...

Apparently, if you need to get something done and you are planning on doing it, you shouldn't tell other people that you are going to do it until you ...

Just thought I'd point out that you can quote other people on this board by highlighting the text.

I'm super stoked for these kinds of celestial events. If you have a decent pair of binoculars, you should be able to see a fuzzy Jupiter or Saturn, th...

Anyone ever heard of Philipp Mainländer? Guy needed some SSRIs or at least some alcohol. His cosmological myth is perversely intriguing, though. Food ...

Already done. Life has its ups and downs, with or without medication.

Oh, no doubt, I saw some of your advice. It's just that some of us aren't exactly "normal" when it comes to neurobiology and have problems with severe...

Easier said than done, unfortunately. :(

Basically, what I posted previously is a culmination of a shit ton of thoughts mulling around my mind that required a catharsis to relieve the tension...

I seem to recall reading something like this. Are you over at Reddit?