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As a counselor-psychotherapist in training, I'm glad NOS4A2 is around. It's a rare opportunity to probe the mind of a monster. Vampires - anti-logical...

That's good advice. :smile:

It's clear it's all he's got. His pie-in-the-sky over-abstractification is tantamount to dehumanization. Strange twist, that. "People help the homeles...

This seems more accurate to me: X needs doing. Y is the only way to do X. That's a justification for Y.

Also monstrous. Monstrous corroboration.

Something only a monster would say. Take care.

You may be right. I've called him a monster above, and I stand by that. What you see as my charity aligns neatly with Nietzsche's caveat: "Beware that...

While I agree he's a fuck, I think ignorance is at the heart of it. He wholeheartedly hates the state. That's correct, to my view. If he would pick up...

Exactly. NOS is (willfully?) confused about the power hierarchy of the modern world. Horns for the state and halos for the corporations. What a mess o...

Exactly. Laissez faire takes us back to the jungle. I fear laissez faire because........ there are people like NOS4A2. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yep, utter contempt for the unskilled laborer. "Fuck those parasites."

Yes it is. Monstrous.

NOS4A2's view in a nutshell. Compassionless. Classic Randianism. Fuck the looters and moochers. "I made a company. It's mine. If you don't like your s...

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Here you belittle the sufferings of the common laborer. That's what monsters do. Here you whitewash the cultural significance of the dehumanization of...

I made no comparison.* The accumulated crimes of state and big business can't be teased apart and rubricized. State and big business - those are nearl...

There's gold in them thar hills. How does it feel to draw a line between violations of human rights you care about and violations of human rights you ...

Yeah, good point. He may be over-abstractifying and, in a manner of speaking, depeopling the state. That the folks who run the United States are age-o...

I would list the names of every common laborer maimed or killed without recompense in a factory or slaughterhouse accident from the incipience of the ...

Interesting. The more you know... I'm no expert, but I've read enough history to know NOS4A2 hasn't. Yep, labor has lost its power. The left has lost ...

Our cardinal consolations are not to be sneezed at: literature, music, visual art, mythology, meditation, stoicism, dialectic, philosophy... But no, n...

No, the left is just as nutty as the right. It wouldn't surprise me if Sting got it right: there is no political solution.

It's just an intro-post. You'll have to fill in the blanks with your own research. From United Fruit to Rex Tillerson (read: Exxon) et al, big busines...

Re the "revolving door" linking big business and government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics) "This theory gained a new level o...

Why is this forum at its beautifullest when at its silentest?

I have the facts. You have the fantasy. Enjoy.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Read a fucking book. Here we have a ludicrous, ad hoc leap of unreason. Have a nice wank.

The wealthy ARE the state. Read War is a Racket by Major General Smedley Butler to dispel some of this naivete. "I spent most of my being a high class...

Of course it has. It's the law of the jungle.

1. Human rights include the right to life. 2. Life requires food. 3... You love to play the fool. But you only fool yourself. Remember the Enlightenme...

It must be the will of the people to live in an oligarchy peopled preponderantly by Morlocks and their masters.

It is. You must have missed the word "hopelessly," above.

This is hopelessly naive. Human rights are (obviously) deeply interlinked with economic dynamics. What are human rights and civil liberties, to your v...

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I asked a yes-or-no question. Is the answer yes or no?

Good. Imagine: Tomorrow when you wake up you look at the political leaders of your country and it's all quadrupeds. Tomorrow when you wake up you turn...

You concede you have the experience of being a biped. When you look down you see two legs. By the same token, though you do not concede it, you have t...

There's no challenge, just a thought experiment and a discussion. Contrary to forum mores, philosophy, the love of wisdom, is the obverse of warfare.

This philosophical inquiry centers on how a word should be defined.

Thanks :smile:

The intellectual approach is misguided here. Either one has had the experience of the sacred or one has not. As to a definition: It's like porn. You k...

The experience of the sacred is clear; there is nothing clearer. Clarity par excellence.

What is bipedal experience?

No, Gilgamesh lied. By the time the Bible hit it was misinformation.

"Group solipsism" is a contradiction in terms. Solipsism is the philosophical position that only one mind exists.

Is it possible you misinterpreted my words and drew an erroneous conclusion? Or are you infallible AND judgmental?

So to your view being judgmental is in some sense superior to being a self-righteous twat. Good.

This is misworded. I asked if he knows what it feels like to be a person. This isn't a judgment. It's a step in a philosophical argument. His answer w...

You're not addressing my argument.