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So you barely assert...

Critics say that Musk is riding on the wave of investment. By all accounts Tesla has never gone anywhere near meeting projected production, and yet is...

I'm not convinced it could be as simple as you make it sound...but carry on anyway...we need advocates for all potential solutions, and geothermal cou...

Actually you do; frozen water will always consist in a discrete chunk. For that matter even bodies of water, parts of which might freeze are generally...

Sounds like you would need a massive rapid conversion of infrastructure, and an unprecedented level of transport, which prior to the ability to use th...

Have you actually extensively researched the viability of geothermal? If so, can you point me to some papers, as most of what I have been able to find...

Give me an account of what you understand individualism to consists in, and I'll tell you what parts I agree with (if any) and what parts I don't (if ...

:up: You sure got them mirror neurones firing there dude!

You seem to be speaking from the perspective of eternity, or something like that. I was speaking from the perspective of the individual, which is all ...

The context of an ism, of its workability and applicability, is not isms. Even if it were, per absurdum, any ism would thereby be merely another ism, ...

No, it's an observation that isms are relevant only within their respective contexts, and that even their meanings are open to interpretation. How cou...

Not at all; I don't have to be anti-isms to make an observation about their limited natures.

I don't see why. It would simply be the acknowledgement that there is no reason to believe any ism to be overarching.

Depends on what you mean by "reject". The purported overarching status of any ism can be rejected without that rejection being an ism, but rather just...

For the individual the prospect of Nirvana must be either some kind of afterlife of bliss or complete extinction, no? If consciousness survives the bo...

Good point about the contrasting statuses of health and attitude between the two! From that perspective they can indeed be seen as mirror opposites. I...

Nietzsche also, by most accounts, withdrew from social activities. Both were elitists enamored with what they saw as their own superiority. Contra Way...

Isms are paradigms appropriate within their worlds or fields; they are the thought-out conclusions of particular premises within contexts. There is no...

I don't deny that in relation to health. but in relation to morals I think we've had plenty of time to figure out the broad picture in relation to mos...

I think you're missing the point. If it is natural for humans generally to value or disvalue particular things then that fact does tell about their va...

As I already said the only guide is opinion. If everybody thinks a particular thing is good or bad, what better guide could there be? As an example it...

So, do you treat alleged sexual abusers the same as you treat sexual abusers?

Perhaps you missed this then: In any case you still haven't explained what you think the relevance of the Open Question Argument to what we have been ...

Right, I can only assume you didn't forget then; which is even worse.

Sure it's logically possible, but seems to me extremely unlikely. I'm not seeing the relevance of Moore's views.

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Manipulative leaders might get some small, credulous percentage of the populace to think it is a good idea to commit suicide, but even then not by con...

The reality, though, is that only a vanishingly small percentage of humankind thinks that; so I'm not sure what your point is. If everyone felt life w...

I understand scientism to be metaphysical naturalism, not methodological naturalism; the latter is just science. Are you wanting to make a distinction...

It seems that I misinterpreted this then: I had thought we were discussing metaphysical positions such as supernaturalism, not "hypotheical physical p...

You forgot to include the word "allegedly".

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Not at all; I'm only saying that it would be right in the sense that everyone agrees with it, and that there could be no more encompassing criterion f...

You are conflating methodological naturalism with metaphysical naturalism. As I pointed out there is no other way to do science (that we currently kno...

We are discussing moral values, not arithmetic.To say that a value is right for a person is not necessarily to say it is true for that person; the per...

I didn't say values are true or false, but rather right or wrong. What other criteria for the rightness or wrongness of values could there be than hum...

Straightforwardly circular I would say in regard to the first two. And the second two are based on an invalid inference, as I pointed out. science thi...

If every human agreed about a moral value, how could it be wrong? Values are just human values; my values are right according to me, but may be wrong ...

I was just pointing out the circular (and hence pretty much useless) nature of the definitions you sourced is all.

The first really says nothing; how can we exclude the supernatural if the definition of the natural is given in terms of excluding the supernatural? I...

"There's no escape from isms"- Ism there?

I wonder is it really possible to see beyond mental/ cultural constructs? In any case you must believe it is to make following the Buddhist path worth...

I certainly agree with that, but I wasn't thinking in terms of 'morally wrong', but rather 'wrong for purpose'. So, I'm not convinced any path, whethe...

I guess an approach could be inappropriate; say someone seeking spiritual growth joins the Nazi Party. How would you determine that some approach is w...

I think your experience in this matter can only justifiably speak for yourself and others you may know well enough. In my view there are as many appro...

Right, the terminology doesn't matter; it's the freedom that counts!

I am not saying the "who you are" is real (actual), but rather potential. For me the criterion is freedom; the ability to live, which as a social bein...

Who am I conversing with if there is no you? I agree with you about there being many ways to become more free from neurosis and anxiety; different way...

It depends on your feeling, I suppose; for me there is nothing more attractive or interesting than the struggle to overcome fears and neuroses, and al...

This is untrue about some forms of Buddhism. (Edit: I see @"Apollodorus" has already corrected you on this).