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Not me. You're safer inside of a mob than outside of it lol. It's probably more about whether or not a person's actions can or should be reduced to go...
August 29, 2020 at 22:12
In: Uproar  — view comment
You understand this is a philosophy site, yes? Not a place for children, physically or mentally, to scribble on yes? Profanity doesn't convey anything...
August 29, 2020 at 03:44
Behaviorism = Nurture vs. Nature? (nurture being more relevant- ie. a pitbull will be either as friendly or hostile as you raise it to be) Functionali...
August 29, 2020 at 02:30
In: Privilege  — view comment
Guy. If you're so right and he's so wrong why do you feel the need to insult and degrade everybody who disagrees with you? It's just toxic dude. You'r...
August 28, 2020 at 00:17
You want to convince as many people of things you believe will help them/others sure. But unless you're doing so politically/religiously that's not of...
August 28, 2020 at 00:03
To be fair, homelessness and frigid, subzero cold don't mix together too well. I've heard good things about Finland though. Knew someone from there. C...
August 27, 2020 at 22:01
So by this understanding or fact, the entire OP is something of an autobiography. How could it not be? Hm? Well... I dunno stop doing that and actuall...
August 27, 2020 at 01:17
Uh, do you know what CERN is? Lol. Let's just hope it's a contained one instead of a planet destroying one.
August 26, 2020 at 22:38
What is ideology but a belief you stand by? Even anti-ideology is an ideology in and of itself. Lol. Is it not? Sure, that's a point I like to make of...
August 26, 2020 at 20:29
My point is I think you're wrong and you don't. That's it- we're done. Name one thing that's wrong. Dare ya. Someone commits an atrocity toward one gr...
August 26, 2020 at 19:44
Like what? Solipsism? Lol. I do doubt it completely but technically .. technically .. we don't absolutely know with omniscient certainty that say we'r...
August 26, 2020 at 19:26
Without politics we have war and bloodshed. Or more of it at least. Without ideology we have emotion run amok coupled with odd, disjointed beliefs bir...
August 26, 2020 at 18:34
See edit. You big winner, you. The question was can it be defined sans theological background. Nothing more. Perception of justice =/= justice. You're...
August 26, 2020 at 18:18
Well that's just silly. However, OP, yes. It is possible to define justice as an atheist. Now, is there any reason to abide by it when nobody is looki...
August 26, 2020 at 17:27
Not really a theory, mate. According to Marx as well it would seem...
August 25, 2020 at 23:27
Erm.. I mean I'm the first one to encourage skepticism of mainstream history but.. pretty sure at least most of it happened lol. Kinda graduates past ...
August 25, 2020 at 22:38
I'd like to state for the record -- deep down -- I'm not intrinsically for or against any one socioeconomic system. Eh. Suppose it's a bit of cowardic...
August 24, 2020 at 20:44
Hmm... so, in the pursuit of identifying and disproving "fatalistic, all or nothing arguments" as well as "cult-minded-thinking" ... why does one pers...
August 24, 2020 at 20:14
I do believe there's wisdom in words from the masters- even those I may not particularly agree with. This is hard to refute. Earth elements can make a...
August 24, 2020 at 16:23
Well now that I'm sure you know neither I suppose we can focus more on the questions in your OP. Which largely are akin to asking "why does one need a...
August 24, 2020 at 02:25
So esteemed physicists arguing for the idea of universes where everything that can or could have happened did didn't flag your radar. But me saying dr...
August 22, 2020 at 04:14
Right, I meant it's a front-seat interactive, controlled experience as opposed to a backseat immersive one. Probably goes without saying. Nothing abou...
August 22, 2020 at 04:06
In general I'd like to request clarification on what it exactly means to "rather be doing" something that you really can't experience in any way shape...
August 19, 2020 at 10:15
In: Bannings  — view comment
To be fair after sampling a few of his posts I get the impression that English is not his first language. Though snarkiness may be. Which is a tad wor...
August 19, 2020 at 06:38
Reality in this context is little more than an environment that follows scientific laws. It's about how we- instead of being restricted by these confi...
August 18, 2020 at 21:26
Reminds me of an earlier thread here about the Trial of Socrates. He was sentenced to death or exile I think. He chose one or the other but made some ...
August 18, 2020 at 20:42
To the eager child everything is true, until it's not. To the aged skeptic everything is false, until it's not. Both can believe and share mistruths w...
August 18, 2020 at 06:00
Oh come now, lighten up. Have you seen this guys posts? Dude is a living personification of Johnathon Swift's "A Modest Proposal". It's funny. At leas...
August 18, 2020 at 05:22
What does wealth have to do with anything? The world is a shifty place no matter your income. Excluding those poor from a result of explicit theft, as...
August 18, 2020 at 05:13
I'd say the differences between one who lives to avoid death and one who dies to avoid life are infinitesimal at best. Of course, last I checked I was...
August 17, 2020 at 03:20
Rash judgement has been known to create an environment ripe for mistakes. Take the Alamo, for example. When sorely needed reinforcements arrived in th...
August 16, 2020 at 04:17
Ontology = pragmatism? = that which can be proven. Metaphysics = that which can not necessarily be proven here. Science = applied ontology/pragmatism?...
August 14, 2020 at 16:41
Doesn't he? We're still talking about him. Children who have yet to be born will continue to know and learn about him for the foreseeable future. Perh...
August 14, 2020 at 14:55
Oh God. Not this again. "I only do things to benefit me". Eh. Don't want to seem trolly or hostile but... yeah. Exactly. Don't live life with your han...
August 14, 2020 at 12:56
Know/knowledge and criterion. We all "know" (right?) what these words mean. But they can hold meanings some support and others think are either overly...
August 13, 2020 at 13:02
Hi @"TheMadFool" just to simplify a few things for those who haven't been following closely or are otherwise pleasantly dizzy, few questions or statem...
August 13, 2020 at 11:50
Then you could never have two "twos" either. Math is math. Acknowledge his mathematical disinclination and move on. lol
August 12, 2020 at 16:57
Someone who say I don't know cured cancer or saved a monastery of devout monks from barbarians deserves a place to lay his heroic head. And perhaps hi...
August 12, 2020 at 16:12
If the opportunity is not present it's simply not present. There's really nothing to go on about. Separate the art from the artist. You don't make the...
August 12, 2020 at 15:40
Do you mean vocally? Or simple incoherence? If it's incoherent verbally it'd be incoherent mentally. Otherwise you could just write it down. Edit: Thr...
August 12, 2020 at 13:30
Does anything differentiate what is real from the imagined? How could it... after all, meaning is imaginary. Perhaps you simply meant you consider oth...
August 12, 2020 at 11:21
The Scientific Method can determine or rather differentiate between what is more likely to be true and what is more likely to be false. Based on curre...
August 12, 2020 at 11:19
Ignoring the math bit... (I hope you'll forgive me I was never any good at that), Strictly from the I'm going to assume typical method of assessing pa...
August 12, 2020 at 05:13
United we stand...
August 11, 2020 at 06:04
Mistakes were made. Same time, I understand how blind faith in something (allegedly, hopefully the right thing) can be non-conducive to philosophical ...
August 11, 2020 at 05:49
Erm.. how about 'welcome to the forum'? Lol. See this is classic core belief being challenged. Aside from making not only himself but by association l...
August 11, 2020 at 04:51
We shouldn't go that far now. Here. Watch this. https://youtu.be/77ueTRaYTwg Life isn't perfect or constantly tolerable. And that's precisely why it i...
August 11, 2020 at 04:31
There are people who can- and you should listen. Based on your premise of there being no evidence of another life, this would be the only time we can....
August 11, 2020 at 04:03
I was itching to post something like this. :grin:
August 11, 2020 at 01:14
Done by human action using their free will... somewhere down the line there's some guy doing what he wanted to just because. The guy who created the l...
August 11, 2020 at 00:02