T_Clark

Your post was a response to this from Universeness. It's not much of an argument, but it is in response to anti-natalists position, not their psycholo...

You know that analyzing a person's motivation is not a legitimate criticism of a philosophical position.

Funny, I was about to respond to Baden, ironically, that now I have to worry about a "Metaphysics Sucks" thread where all my brilliant insights will g...

I remain skeptical of your sincerity.

"Ideology" is another name for a philosophy you don't like. I appreciate your response.

Perhaps that is the policy, but it certainly isn't the practice. As I noted in my first post on this subject, it is uncommon for moderators to consoli...

I didn't mean literally that the past doesn't exist. It's my experience of the past that has changed.

I was certain of that. My message was to you and @"Baden", not to him. It's rotten and unfair and it's bad philosophy. Prejudice and censorship agains...

There are an infinite number of true descriptions of the world.

There are an infinite number of possible descriptions of the world. This just seems like a trick to get people who are afraid to have an actual opinio...

There have been times on the forum when there were three threads on free will or consciousness going at the same time. Last week there were two thread...

When my brother retired, he got heavily involved in volunteer work with old people. I respect him for that and he really enjoys it. I don't have any i...

Within the past 10 years I've noticed that my life has telescoped. It feels a bit like I'm living all of my life at once. Things that happened 50 year...

One of the things I like about the Billy Collins poem @"mcdoodle" posted is its everydayness. Low key, straightforward, not trying too hard, but with ...

Sesame bagels Cream cheese with chives and onions Cleaning rags and soap See, now it's a haiku.

A good OP and an interesting topic. One I've thought about quite a bit recently. I've experienced this since I retired three years ago. Cyclic time wi...

The silly marks are there for grammatical, not philosophical, purposes. I was referring to the concept of reality, not reality itself.

First thought - a different poem if it ended at: until I had passed through the electric doors, where I stopped to realize, as I turned the list over,...

What edit?

I like to nail things down before I make a foray out into the playground of philosophical discussion. I've been noticing recently that sometimes makes...

Not me.

No need to go around this again.

You have misstated my position. I have said several times in this thread that "real" and "reality" are metaphysical concepts and are not subject to em...

But the concepts of "real" and "reality" were created by humans for use by humans to describe a world of human experiences. They only have meaning in ...

What is the status of the apple when I pick it up and take a bite?

I have argued against the idea of objective reality in the past. Even so, I think it is reasonable to believe, or at least to act as though, there is ...

Yes, it is definitely limited. Intentionally so. I think this sets a lower limit on what usages of "real" and "reality" can be considered meaningful. ...

I was thinking more about my previous response to you. I wasn't really satisfied that I had said what I meant. I think the bolded text in this respons...

Thanks and you're welcome. I've really enjoyed it too.

If you twist my arm, I will say yes, itches are real. It's just that when I talk about reality I'm usually thinking about material things. That was th...

Where in Japan is Knut Hamsun from?

As I noted previously:

I haven't really taken a position on which specific phenomena I consider real and which I don't except for apples. I guess I tend to think of reality ...

??? Ever been bit by a dead bee?

I intended my comment to be complimentary, even if my characterization of your post was inaccurate. I found it very helpful.

It's nasty, snotty comments like these that make me avoid your posts.

Yes, the version I have has the notes, although I haven't read them. I will. Thanks.

Well, my post was intended as tongue-in-cheek. I doubt Banno sees me as particularly rational. As for me, I can be rational, but I'm often not, althou...

Sure, but it's clear @"Banno" sees his responses as relevant, so I have no objection to his bringing them up, I just don't understand how they are. I ...

If you don't analyze my motivations, I won't analyze yours.

Are you implying that I'm the most ruthlessly rational figure on the forum?

The guy works one day a year. Best job ever.

It is not unusual that you and I don't see eye to eye on this type of issue. I don't see how your or Austin's formulations contribute to my understand...

No, I don't think I can. I think we're both in the same situation. Neither of us has shown we really understand the others position. Our arguments hav...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

As I noted when you first brought this up earlier in the thread, I don't think it necessarily contradicts what I've written. It think it deals with a ...

With your inspiration, I just read "The Wasteland" too. To paraphrase Charles Montgomery Burns - I don't know poetry, but I know what I hate, and I do...

I don't get it. Is his penis red? Is his nose red and the fact that he has his pants down irrelevant? Maybe his physique reminds her of Rudolph Nureye...

I assume you are talking about our exchanges in the "Does quantum physics say nothing is real?" thread. You have misstated my positions and put words ...

The words "existence," "being," and "reality," are valuable to me. I don't want to get rid of them. There is a world I live in everyday. It exists. It...