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That depends on the nature of the oppression, and before we can know how to fix it we must do what Peterson is telling us not to do, we must look into...
August 24, 2020 at 23:34
You mean this is an objective category? Because there are people who are able to get the right nutrients, rest, have the genes for it, etc Socially aw...
August 24, 2020 at 23:26
? No, I am not in the habit of consciously striving to put forth "meaningless," "pathetic" and "shallow" responses. If I saw this I would refrain from...
August 24, 2020 at 23:13
I suppose emotions could transcend narratives, but it's damn unlikely, and certainly not the way to achieve the optimum of this result. You will not c...
August 24, 2020 at 23:03
We have already done this and continue to do this, and in so many cases it has helped us to pass more intelligent civil laws. Your reason for not doin...
August 24, 2020 at 22:59
"One of the debates, we might say, between early Christianity and the late Roman Empire was whether or not an emperor could be God, literally to be de...
August 24, 2020 at 22:51
I'm pretty sure I do, but I'm not quite clear on what you mean by opposite?
August 24, 2020 at 22:27
Well then, Newton was mortal. There you have a rational argument. If you want to attack it you must go after the integrity of the premises. (I must al...
August 24, 2020 at 22:26
Do you agree that Newton was a man?
August 24, 2020 at 22:20
Well friend, you made the charge, which is all fine and well, but you may mean something very different by it, which is what I suspect. Here we have a...
August 24, 2020 at 22:15
"The body of law is something that you act out; that’s why it’s a body of law. That’s why, if you’re a good citizen, you act out the body of law." Jor...
August 24, 2020 at 22:09
That's all fine and well, but if he admits there's a problem, which he does, he even validates the word "oppression," what caused it? Is his approach ...
August 24, 2020 at 22:04
I watched the recommended section. The problem is that you are part of your culture, just like slaves were part of theirs. They didn't see anything wr...
August 24, 2020 at 21:51
Come now, you can do better than this. You just tried to give a rebuke on arguments. I assume you don't think this is one, further, from your own word...
August 24, 2020 at 21:46
This is an important point, because if we were to engage with such a person, they would, as they always seem to do, simply argue that their experience...
August 24, 2020 at 21:39
It does indeed, but it is greater than this. It has the capacity to transcend narratives, even to correct itself.
August 24, 2020 at 21:37
Since this is the foundation of your complaint, I am happy to probe it with you. What makes an argument actual?
August 24, 2020 at 21:35
With all due respect friend, you have much more educating to do. How do you think geniuses are made? Through genes? Where do you think people get skil...
August 24, 2020 at 21:33
Superb qualification my friend! Pity, I really don't think the objectors will be able to comprehend it.
August 24, 2020 at 19:24
Yes there is research to prove this, but as I understand it, and I am not a neurobiologist, some of our ideas of innate cognitive modules are being ch...
August 24, 2020 at 19:22
Marx's theories are comprehensive, they span the species, there is massive and profound legal theory associated with Marx. He tried to think about the...
August 24, 2020 at 19:05
Yes, genes play a role, they can offer potential or the lack thereof, but environment is the earth that determines what genes will become and what gen...
August 24, 2020 at 18:55
Please tell me I am living a nightmare from which I will soon awake. Sir, did you just assert that will and strength are a product of some notion of "...
August 24, 2020 at 18:49
David Mo has already addressed these kind of fatalistic, all or nothing arguments, which seem to be the foundation of all cult-minded-thinking. The le...
August 24, 2020 at 18:41
This is a false analogy. While you are right about thought having a very bland and pathetic dimension to it, in contrast to the ever shifting idea of ...
August 24, 2020 at 18:27
It doesn't matter if the Pope says it, this is not in Hegel. Citation please? See Hegel Myths and Legends by Jon Stewart.
August 24, 2020 at 18:23
This is true, but tragically his fallacious and emotional approach to this topic is probably the approach of most people, at least in America. I under...
August 24, 2020 at 03:49
"Thing" is a word used by humans to demarcate objects of being. Further, the word 'thing" is itself insufficient to encompass the reality of being, th...
August 24, 2020 at 02:09
Here I am simply using the Neoliberal schema, thus reflected back in on itself.
August 24, 2020 at 00:13
These arise for many reasons, but when you are talking about belief in the imaginary, unless you are talking about Deism, which could be leveraged tho...
August 23, 2020 at 22:38
Can't help it, makes me think of Viagra. Hard rock for real men. :lol: :lol: :lol:
August 23, 2020 at 22:27
You have to first know how to do it before you can perform it. What you are engaged in IS NOT criticism, it is simply a form of confirmation bias.
August 23, 2020 at 22:22
You might also watch the Chomsky Foucault exchange on youtube. I am so damn impressed with Foucault's foresight in that exchange. He seemed to exactly...
August 23, 2020 at 22:18
Conformity. Submission as opposed to thought's resistance. Here we have a serious thinker without species consciousness? Here we have a serious thinke...
August 23, 2020 at 22:10
Yes, of course, one can do whatever they so like in the domain of ideas. I have never said and would never say that everything Peterson says is wrong ...
August 23, 2020 at 21:58
VERY IMPORTANT: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis has nothing to do with Hegel's position. This is a distortion and gross simplification of his philoso...
August 23, 2020 at 21:41
Spot on friend. Tragic that so many have swallowed Pinker uncritically. There is a deeper social problem which I believe has to do with rational instr...
August 23, 2020 at 21:28
This is just a shallow poisoning of the well, the fallacy of guilt by association as well as a stawman. Is anyone on this thread advocating or defendi...
August 23, 2020 at 21:25
Even if he's not I can assure you that you are a socialist, and would never pack up your goods and move to a purely capitalist country. American is ac...
August 23, 2020 at 21:21
Here here, friend. Exactly the case, and because of this we all, as thinkers, if we are serious, must examine ourselves for this bias as much as we po...
August 23, 2020 at 21:11
Identity is exactly dependent on a human being drawing a distinction, this takes place in every instance of identity. There is great confusion in your...
August 23, 2020 at 20:54
If you're trying to claim a kind of genetic determinism, specifically social Darwinism, friend you have it all wrong. Your personality structure, whic...
August 23, 2020 at 07:53
What you have here stated summarizes so very swiftly the way capitalist ideology functions. They often pretend to be champions of reason and truth, th...
August 23, 2020 at 07:30
"Don't-be-melodramatic: Marx-didn't-want-to-kill-an-entire-class." This is just hilarious, you have me cracking up David. Sad that this even needs to ...
August 23, 2020 at 07:16
Does the culture one is born into affect their view of reality? What about one's economic status?
August 23, 2020 at 06:53
I am more than happy to engage with intelligent, thoughtful replies on this thread, but some of the replies here are so inept that I will not do it. I...
August 23, 2020 at 06:47
You might try thinking about what David Mo is saying instead of blurting out a barrage of convictions.
August 23, 2020 at 06:30
Thought. Not sure how that wasn't clear?
August 23, 2020 at 06:26
Not at all.
August 23, 2020 at 06:22
I seriously applaud you! A true seeker after wisdom and knowledge! This is rare.
August 23, 2020 at 04:02