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It's good exercise but not a lot of meat on those bones. Others find it filling.

No. Is it her view that "feelings are narratives"? That doesn't have the ring of precision to me, no matter how you parse it.

I'll leave that to Janus. I can see an a-priori-a-posteriori-esque tack surfacing. Or a (likely idiosyncratic) codification of degrees of certainty. A...

Fromm contra instinctivism - Lorenz's and others'.

Fromm spends a good deal of time and space dressing down On Aggression by Conrad Lorenz: Fromm's thesis: Malignant aggression..."is due to social, pol...

This definition or rule is fine - it's the beginning and end of your argument. @"Janus"'s view is fine too. You're ignoring Janus's view in favor of y...

So.... I can be certain 2+2=4. I can feel certain the sun will rise in the morning. Is that what you had in mind?

Yes, you're wrong. Here's how: I am certain the sun will rise in the morning. But I could be wrong.

Feelings are narratives? That doesn't seem right. You might say feelings play a role in the construction of narratives...

So we might say: Thank god there's so many idiots about. :smile:

Filing away.

You shouldn't be surprised as it's a fact-based assessment. Like when you started a thread called The Idiot's Argument and called all comers who didn'...

Completely agree with Janus here.

Are there degrees of certainty? Cuz it seems that would solve the problem. Colloquially: mostly sure, 90-99% sure, 100% sure.... Or is certainty alway...

Both work fine.

I agree the fact of higher intelligence makes this kind of behavior seem more cruel, and more reprehensible, when perpetrated by a human.

Fromm's position is that malignant aggression, as exhibited by humans, is "virtually non-existent" in the animal kingdom. I accept your example of cat...

This is theology. Not what this thread is for. Take care. :smile:

That's John's opinion. It isn't a fact that the Revelation is ununderstandable.

Would you say this dog and this cat were being cruel?

Would you say these wolves are being cruel?

My aim here is to take a deeper look at Fromm's The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. Possibly because this sort of aggression: ...doesn't seem to fal...

Thank you. :smile: A fresh slant, I hope, on this astonishing poem. I'm not shy.

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This is far from a post-fascist world.

Saving for later

I'd say that's a worthy cause.

Cool, there's a controversy.... As usual

Yeah, it's a clowncar of absurd self-serving slogans. That's why I only drop in for the occasional disparagement. :smile:

Will do. :cool:

Common to mistakenly include epistemology within metaphysics, it seems. From the wiki on metaphysics. Topics of metaphysical investigation include exi...

You may be right. I'm no expert. But I see plenty of room to draw a line between epistemology and metaphysics, as do others. https://medium.com/the-ph...

My understanding is that epistemology is about the nature of knowledge and metaphysics is about the nature of reality. The scientific method as method...

I've seen other prominent posters point out the fact that the scientific method is a methodology not an ontology but is often mistaken for the latter....

Not interested. Take care. :smile:

In the stomach and the soul.

Snug in one's castle one can unself for a spell.

Prayer as a solitary expression of or contemplation of true love: X, please keep her safe for me. X, please keep me safe for her. :fire: :heart: :fire...

I interpret the word god metaphorically as needed. That's easy; god is a mysterious word.

:up: Glad you found it interesting.

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Thanks for dropping in. I'm not interested in a hermaneutic agon. I'm interested in sharing something I found useful with other people who might find ...

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Him that overcometh...I will write upon him my new name.

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

People change their lives for all kinds of reasons.

It's not accurate to call what is useful empty.

Except when a baby or adult requests help from an unknown source. Nothing supernatural in that equation. The source qua unknown could just as well be ...

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To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man know...