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I completely agree. I think the new film would have been a near perfect one if it only had a more original story. They definitely went a little overbo...

It is a good film, a great one in my opinion, but that may just be because I'm a Star Wars nerd.

Yes, sir, I was pleasantly surprised with how well they pulled off the new movie. We're living in the new age of Star Wars, haha.

Pretty much me as well. I worry that I'll slip off the edge and become an alcoholic or drug addict to deal with my anxiety. Not a pretty picture.

I feel you when it comes to the obsessions. I can be a fun person to hang out with, but as soon as I get an obsession I tend to lose a lot of my vital...

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of this whole "anxiety" thing. It is very irrational, circular, and debilitating. I'm in the middle of an obsessive compulsion...

An emotional argument stems from emotions, not logic.

I'm not sure if that's possible.

In which case, so what? So what if the commonly-accepted form of god is showing him as benevolent? That doesn't change the fact that this god would be...

Welcome to the forum, Reformed Nihilist! I'd say that as much as these so-called "New Atheists" claim to be logical and rational, they are merely usin...

Bleh the airports were a disastrous mess. Gotta love that holiday/new years cheer people give you when they elbow you out of the metro. :-}

In some ways the computer-brain analogy may be extended to incoherency. But it's worth noting that the parallelism of many modern day computers is com...

Got a source for that? I don't doubt you but I'd like to have an actual citation.

Is it? I don't have any sources on this and given the background of Aristippus it seems like he would be referencing the human condition more than pol...

Gotcha, my mistake.

I think you're a little confused on the Realism vs Anti-Realism debate. A Realist believes that it is possible, even if it is difficult, to obtain tru...

I think the "citizen of the world" tends to be existentially motivated than specifically politically motivated. I suppose this might be true of some. ...

We're talking political identity, not existential identity.

Sure. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all humans (and presumably animals as well) belong to a single global community, with shared values, morals, et...

I think individuals that have caused paradigm shifts would fall under the category of "genius". People like Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Curi...

Do you think there is anything wrong with acting purely in one's self-interest? Huemer's thought experiment comes to mind. Say you are an egoist and a...

But why are a and b thought of as red while c is not?

a and b are similar but different to c. What makes this so? The redness of a and b, they are similar to each other. That's not to say that the realist...

Remember, it's not that you stink...it's that everyone else stinks. Don't conform. Don't assimilate.

Did anyone get any cool things for the holidays? This year was especially nice for me, I received four books on philosophy and a book on world mytholo...

I agree with Agustino. I classic Buddhist response to why a monk doesn't kill themselves (to get rid of suffering) would be that it also means there i...

From the IEP: "As tidy as this seems, it too suffers from problems. To see this, we need to realize that concepts can be misapplied in some cases, suc...

Excellent. I can't be the only one who is sick of seeing these petty pissing contests.

Edgy.

We really ought to make another thread if you three can't play nice.

I thought I might never see the day in which we agree on something. Sarcasm aside, I'm with you on your aesthetic appreciation of brutalism. I enjoy i...

*Grudgingly raises hand*

Found a very interesting article, about twenty pages in total, regarding the metaphilosophical question of what even is a philosophical question. Can ...

Popper argued that a government should operate under the negative utilitarian approach, that is, an anti-frustrationist, prioritarian method. Smart la...

I most definitely have a problem with people assuming their idiosyncratic feelings are universals. Just because someone is depressed does not mean eve...

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Maybe a different approach might help: Do we invent technology, or do we discover technology, or both? Meaning, of course we invent technology (it wou...

Derek Parfit's "Why anything? Why this?" Part 1: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-this Part 2: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n03/...

That's very true, technology could be used in a poor way. In fact, given our history, it seems like nothing will change. All the philosophy in the wor...

This is a problem that, ideally, needs to be solved within this generation. I find it unethical to continue to breed if there is the potential to suff...

Also, Schop, I'd like to add, the human condition is not a scientific concept. It's a philosophical one, and psychology has a history of being a bridg...

Well said BC. What's the conversion rate between pesos and pfennigs?

The winter wonderland ahh feeling lasts for a few minutes, until you realize you have to shovel your porch, crank up the heat (and your heating bill),...

I'm not entirely sure if I agree with Maslow's hierarchy, but what I do notice is that the negative experiences are on the bottom, while the positive ...

It usually happens every other year or so. I believe I got snow last year. Gives me a good reason to stay off the roads.

I believe I'm getting snow this year, we'll see.

It's not that certain individuals are spoiled. It's that it is natural (i.e. the state we exist in without any conscious will to not be in) to hold de...

I'd like to share something I found to be truly beautiful. It's a video of a man playing piano in public in an airport in Paris, when suddenly a stran...

I agree with you BC. Although we are most definitely separated by age and experience in politics and life in general, I think the current political si...

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