T_Clark

In 15 years I will probably be dead.

The subject on the table is whether the source of human values is based on reason. You say yes. I say no. The articles you linked to have nothing to s...

I took a quick look. I didn't see anything applicable to the questions we are discussing. We're not getting anywhere. I think we've carried this discu...

Now you're just being silly.

I have gone back through all of your posts in this thread and I didn't find any reference to specific sources or references which would provide eviden...

In my experience, values are not conceptual understandings at all. As @"Tom Storm" points out, we can talk about them rationally, but that doesn't mea...

Where did I say I don't agree with it? I'm confused by your whole post. All I said is that Enlightenment values are not Romantic values.

In your first response you say that our primary motivations are not based on reason. In the next one, you say you value the things you do because you ...

This is an appropriate subject for a thread of its own. There have been many on the forum. You apparently believe that our primary motivations are bas...

Perhaps that was your deal, but you are not the original poster. I think my post was in the spirit of the original post. I also think it's reasonable ...

Let's take a look at these: Humans are generated by natural processes with reason (logic, rationality, conceptual faculty) being their means of surviv...

Agreed. That's why quantum mechanics gives people fits, even 117 years after it started out. It is anti-intuitive. As for "Sometimes particle, sometim...

As I said, the fact that you can't understand it doesn't mean it isn't true. To be fair, it's a hard idea to get ahold of. Did you read the Wikipedia ...

She is an.... acquired taste.

Hey, L. Ron Hubbard, who was a pretty good old-style science fiction writer in the 1950s, started Scientology.

Are those Romantic values? I don't think so. You were very clear, but I don't think the only two choices are Romanticism and technocracy.

For what it's worth, that was from the 90s. We Amuricans are much more sophistimicated now.

Look her up. You'll be interested. She was a.... unique person. Besides being an anti-communist philosopher, she wrote the worst science fiction book ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pGT8Q_tjk

As @"Janus" noted, reality does not always follow what we think of as common sense. You can't overthrow more than100 years of physics just because it ...

And speaking of brussels sprouts, they are very good pickled. My son made some. I do like some of the exotic kinds of mustard, but sometimes, especial...

Thanks for reminding me. I have a bag of bussels sprouts in the refrigerator. Love them. Everyone seems to like them sauteed or roasted these days, bu...

Everything you say is no doubt right. That's where the word "balkanization" came from. But, as I noted, a lot of innocent lives were saved.

Good post.

Perhaps Bosnia and Kosovo. A lot of innocent lives were probably saved at a relatively low cost.

You and @"schopenhauer1" are really pitiful. You resent anyone who isn't as miserable as you are. You can't even imagine there are people satisfied wi...

As Einstein told us; mass and energy, e.g. electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light; are equivalent. Light doesn't have mass, but it has momentum.

A basic metaphysical principle would be that “No two contradictory statements in the same sentence can both be true”. Light is a wave phenomenon and l...

I don't think experiencing God is any different from any other experience, keeping in mind, of course, that I never have had that experience.

Left some out:

Let's check:

I went back and checked all my posts in this thread. In not a single one did I express any indignation. You on the other hand... Let's leave it there.

I rarely watch television or movies, or listen to music. Fantasize? Worry maybe sometimes. I do read, fiction and non-fiction. I participate on the fo...

Javi speaks English as a second language. Spanish is his primary tongue. We don't have any trouble understanding what he writes and he has valuable th...

I don't think this is true. I think lots of people experience God. That doesn't mean I agree with Joe Mello on the things he's written.

You provided no examples, no evidence. no reason, no logic, no philosophy. Just insults and unsupported claims. All you've provided is bragging, ponti...

Here's how unconditional love works - I offer you my love and friendship with no need or expectation that you will accept or return it. Unconditional ...

Although his way of seeing the world is different from mine, I have no trouble with him making these assertions. My problem is that he has not justifi...

I went through the thread and pulled out many of the statements Joe Mello has made with no attempt to provide justification or even explanation. Here ...

I've just started Lin Yutang's translation of the Tao Te Ching. I downloaded a pdf version from the web. After each verse, he includes relevant verses...

Again, if you won't accept my own statement about my own experience of my own self, there's nothing more for us to talk about.

We're not getting anywhere. I say something about myself and you don't believe it. Do you think I'm lying? Deluded? If so, there's nowhere to go from ...

QED, or as Perry Mason used to say, "I rest my case, no further questions."

I'm ridiculous because I disagree with you? Because I experience things differently than you do? I don't get it. I don't keep myself busy. Beyond the ...

I'm with alan1000. I don't think the existence of objective truth is obvious. Perhaps. Or perhaps reality is timeless, i.e. time is a local phenomenon...

It has always been clear that you and I have very different understandings of human motivation and behavior. You have always seemed unable to see that...

I am speaking to you and for myself. Nothing you have written so far rises to the level that requires moderator involvement and I didn't imply that it...

I said I am never bored, not that I am always busy.

This makes sense to me. You know a lot more about 17th century cultural history than I do.

That certainly isn't true of me or most of the people I know. Again, you seem to be projecting your own feelings onto others.